Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
July 2, 1776 – The vote for independency
An evening pause: From the movie 1776 (1972). The actual vote and signing of the Declaration of Independence took place 235 years ago today, on July 2nd, not July 4th. We celebrate the Fourth of July because that was the date put on the Declaration itself when it was made public.
Tim Minchin – Some people have it worse than I
Quebe Sisters – It’s a sin to tell a lie
Richard Feynman talks about light
Desert View at the Grand Canyon
Ray Lynch – Celestial Soda Pop
Mary Black – A song for Ireland
An evening pause:
Dreaming in the night
I saw a land where no man had to fight.
Waking in your dawn
I saw you crying in the morning light
Lying where falcons fly
And twist and turn in your fair blue sky.
Living on your western shore,
Saw some sunsets, asked for more.
I stood by your Atlantic sea
And I sang a song for Ireland.
Dolores Keane singing Caledonia
An engineer’s guide to cat yodeling
New Texas Giant roller-coaster
Cockpit view of 747 takeoff
An evening pause: Note how long it takes for the 747 to get off the ground. The plane is big and heavy.
Joe Hisaishi Live – Summer ( from Kikujiro )
Flying over Mars
Deep well inspection
An evening pause: Let’s take a strange journey, down 275 feet deep into a well. No sound, but fascinating nonetheless.
Ray Stevens – Obama budget plan
Eddi Reader with Boo Hewerdine – Footsteps Fall
Milk changing color – cool science experiment
SDO – March 30, 2010 Solar Eruption
An evening pause: As it appears these events are likely going to become less and less likely, let’s enjoy them while we can.
Note that the height of this eruption was almost twenty times the diameter of the Earth.
Loretta Lynn and the Muppets – One’s on the way
Luckiest people alive
Windows XP error music
Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Ted Baxter School of Broadcasting
An evening pause: A scene from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, “Ted Baxter’s Famous Broadcasters School”, originally broadcast February 22, 1975. One of behindtheblack’s regular readers was reminded of this episode by my press conference experience on Wednesday.
Balancing act
Flight Of The Conchords – The Humans Are Dead
When galaxies collide
An evening pause: a beautiful simulation of galaxy collision. Hat tip: Sky and Telescope.
D-Day
Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs
An evening pause: Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs, from a 1972 television performance.
What an astronaut’s camera sees
An evening pause: More here.