I found this video about the Ocracoke dialect, very interesting I thought!

Darude "Sandstorm" - The making of a dance anthem

A classic of course so obviously I clicked to watch. Found out that:

1) Music was always an interest of his but he never realised that making music himself was an option until one day he had his eureka moment
2) He's super committed to his interests clearly cos dude bro basically did statistics for fun just to figure out music secrets
3) The song was successful for lots of reasons and great that he chooses to play it live at events instead of just playing a recording of it

Saw a documentary the other day (in French though unfortunately) about a town in France called Monton. This show is usually about vibes and food and this time it really was perfect. It seems that Monton is basically Superior Nice™ but smaller (and less expensive???).

Anyway, the main lesson is that the climate there is incredible and everything from almost everywhere can grow there - and its got mountains, rivers, and is also by the sea! Time to pack my suitcase I guess!

@Noa1500 Monton is very charming!

New theories about Ötzi the Iceman's fate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pht_xK4nV3I

Biggest Science Mysteries of the 21st Century | Free Documentary
This documentary is fascinating look into modern scientific puzzles, from dark matter to consciousness, still baffling researchers today. It's entertaining to watch and full with interesting facts about the modern era.

@Johnny_Bravo told me the name of the audio mixing effect that allows for the throbbing volume changes in some modern music- sidechain compression.
@vesko_sims3 posted a phonk track here:
https://modthesims.info/showthread....140#post6001140
I show the waveform here:
https://modthesims.info/showthread....327#post6001327

I found this article that explains applications for sidechaining:
https://audiouniversityonline.com/what-is-sidechaining/

Interesting I thought, thanks Johnny_Bravo and to vesko_sims3!

One day, while I was scrolling through IG Reels, I found an interesting video that briefly explained the bitcrushing effect. This effect was used decades ago in game consoles, children's toys, and similar devices.

In short, bitcrushing is a process of intentionally reducing the bit depth and the sample rate of an audio, which lowers audio resolution and quality. This was often done in the past to reduce data size due to limited storage space. Here's a video that explains bitcrushing in depth:



Here is an example of a song that was widely used in children's toys, features this effect:



...and here's the original "normal" version of this song :



Today, storage space is no longer an issue, and we have devices with powerful hardware capable of handling high-quality audio. However, bitcrushing is still used to evoke a sense of nostalgia.

Here's a link to the IG video I was inspired : https://www.instagram.com/p/DDN9k6EsOU3/

Watching videos of experts answering random qs about their specialisation. This particular episode is about cheating at the casino

Mostly so far it seems to be about 11/10 sneaky skills plus 12/10 maths and focus. Still pretty impressive

Ever wonder how those 'Magic Eye' pictures work? LGR has this covered!

In September 2012, I was eagerly following the news that the possible remains of King Richard III of England had been found. Permission was obtained to excavate a car park, and the first 2m excavation was made in an area pinpointed by a member of the Richard III Society, purely on the basis that she 'had a strange feeling' and that the letter R was painted on the tarmac in that spot. And her feeling was correct! Here's the story for those who don't remember it, and also a video from Leicester University about how they determined that the skeleton was most likely that of Richard III.

I've watched a few documenetaries recently:

1) A very grim 3 part documentary about relatively recent history. It was really well put together as a documentrary but the topic as very heavy so I felt really sad for a few days after. I think it's important to learn/ talk about these sorts of topics, but I'm not sure if I should share the title here?

2) A very fun documentary that I thought I psoted here already but seem to have missed. It was about the Great Wall of China being much greater than anyone was expecting. Turns out not only is it much larger in person and it's a much much larger set of walls crossing a far wider area than expected and that certain parts of it are significantly older than the most recognisable parts. The documentary was supposedly called Trekking the Great Wall of China (National Geographic) but the clips on youtube I seem to be finding a different version that is missing parts I 100% am certain I saw (also I didn't watch it in English). Based on what I saw of the ones I did find? Not as fun anda lot more cringe

Yes, please do! You can stick things behind a spoiler if you are worried.

So it seems that the documentary only comes in French and German? I really thought I'd watched it in English but sometimes it really do be like that. Anyway I've attached a link to the French version - maybe its possible to get subtitles in another language?

Thanks @Noa1500 I am watching through TOR; I can have a 'multilingual' setting for the audio which gives English on the interview bits and German for the narration. Which is slightly easier for me to understand than the French dubbing.

Very interesting documentary, I remember the years leading up to the end of apartheid well, and those who opposed it were so very brave.

Where Did the Towers Go?
Evidence of Directed Free-energy Technology on 9/11
Judy Wood

Author's website: https://www.drjudywood.com/wp/
Free versions here: https://archive.org/details/where_did_the_towers_go

I'm about 200 pages into this 500 page book.
The author, who holds several engineering degrees, tries to explain the many anomalies surrounding the destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 11Sep01. Aside from the absurdity of the towers collapsing due to damage from the aircraft (including WTC 7, which wasn't even struck by an aircraft) the author argues that the various other "theories" put forth by the "Truther" movement, also do not reflect the evidence.
Teaser video that got me into reading the book: https://maryanngebauer.substack.com...y-of-controlled

Related videos:
Phenomenon: The Lost Archives S01E06 - Heavy Watergate: The War Against Cold Fusion: https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/478751/...nst-cold-fusion
The Hutchison Effect: https://www.youtube.com/results?sea...utchison+effect

I'm only a little way into looking at this, but right away I'm struck by this sentence: " I did not know how the towers were actually built, so I did not try to model that." Then the author proceeds to compare the collapse to that of concrete buildings in India, criticise the choices of the people who fell from the building, and compare the fire in the building to that of a kerosene heater- "But steel fireplace grills don’t collapse from fire". Also the apparent lack of debris is a dead giveaway, apparently!
I'm an engineer and if I'd written my thesis with this stuff in, I would have been laughed at. So for now I've decided she's a quack, but I'll read on when I get time to see if it gets better. I did skip forward a bit and saw that later she's comparing aluminium to steel, and captioning images such as 'this column is curled, but a gravity driven collapse would not do this' (a stupid comment, as the author does not seem to consider the material composition of that steel and what it was clad with, where in the building it came from, nor the temperatures/ conditions it has been subject to). Metallurgy is one of my specialities, as I've worked a lot with heat treatment and microscopic analysis of metals, as well as in welding and fabrication, and surface finishing too. So I will smell a rat if there is one!
Thanks for linking, very interesting videos too.

Well, this isn't the typical media for this thread, but lately I've been getting (back) into SB Mowing, a "lawn care meets community service" channel: every week, host Spencer goes around to different neighborhoods, cleaning up overgrown lawns, curbs, and sidewalks for free. Currently I'm watching him clear a sidewalk that the grass has grown onto, and my current favorite has him cleaning up a property that the city foreclosed on due to unpaid taxes, mainly for a few things that happened during the work.

@G-Mon Very cool channel, I was watching one that does similar in the UK a while back. They always make it easy, but I note they all have decent kit (I had to do mine with hand tools! )


This video studies the Chinese language, and word structure. Fascinating to me!

I love to watch this type of video content...it's really satisfying


...and here is something about the Cyrillic script...the thing I like most about Bulgarian and the other languages using the Cyrilic alphabet is that the words are being pronounced the same way as they are written...not like English or French.

A little bit about some of the architecture and history of my city:








What kind of architecture does your city have?

Two videos that amused me recently:




Also bad news for tea drinkers like me:
https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...arm-earthworms/

Swords were bendy and mostly for chopping then fancy armour became a thing so swords became less bendy and more pokey for better stabbing. Think machete to javelin transformation.

There's curved axes, curved axes, and like straight axes. Some are for certain types of chopping and some do it better - sometimes.

You gotta wear a hat (or several) under most helmets too. Cant remember which one I watched though

Iceland! And Trees!

In this video is explained everything about the impact of music on the brain and body. From listening to music to performing it, music can change our moods, and how it can actually change pathways in our brains.

They need to swap names with Greenland! :D