Science Sunday!
I apologize for the crappy quality of this first video. But it is from 1967. I’m putting this here because it is something that I hope you will never ever see up close and personal, and this is the only video I know of.
“Burning and Extinguishing Characteristics of Plutonium Metal Fires”.
To steal a line from the late John Clark in Ignition! (affiliate link), “For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.”
Bonus #1: “Who Destroyed Three Mile Island?”. As I understand it, this is a presentation from the Lead Developer conference in Austin in 2018. “So like most things in Austin today, the problem with the microphone is South By’s fault.”
More to the point:
In addition to the science! part of it, I think there’s some good leadership stuff in here too.
(I have another video from Nickolas Means that I want to use in the near future: I didn’t use it today because it was closer to history than science. But sometime next week, probably…)
Bonus #2: Lasers! 8 o’clock! Day one!
“360 video tour of the world’s largest laser” from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Bonus #3: “The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained”.