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longest episode !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Kiss

Great #timelapse movies of #blizzard2016:
Snow piling up in VA

Timelapse video shows the snow piling up in Virginia during #blizzard2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_g5IAD_4Pg

Winter Wonderland in Manhattan’s Heart
http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000004165152/winter-wonderland-in-manhattans-heart.html Great time-lapse #movie of the progression of #blizzard2016

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Snowflakes started falling at Central Park on Friday night, forming a smooth white blanket that by Sunday would wrap the area in the pristine quiet of winter.
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Winter Wonderland in Manhattan’s Heart
http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000004165152/winter-wonderland-in-manhattans-heart.html Great time-lapse #movie of the progression of #blizzard2016

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Snowflakes started falling at Central Park on Friday night, forming a smooth white blanket that by Sunday would wrap the area in the pristine quiet of winter.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JAqrRnKFHo

Time-lapse: Scintillarishttp://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/09/12/time_lapse_scintillaris.html Great #movie showing someone apparently plucking stars out of sky

[Great movie of] Endangered Species in an Urban Setting, w/ animal images artfully illuminating the Empire State Bldg http://www.nytimes.com/video/movies/100000003832703/endangered-species-in-an-urban-setting.html

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“Against this Barnum-like theatricality, spontaneous gestures stand out. There’s a poignant scene in which Durst is found not guilty of his neighbor’s murder: he turns to his lawyer and says, uncertain, “Did they say ‘not’?” The most unsettling example comes in the fourth episode, when Jarecki suggests that he and Durst take a break from discussing his testimony in Texas. Durst has confirmed that his lawyers hinted that he could answer specific questions about the dismemberment with “I don’t know”; that way, he’d sound less coldhearted. As soon as the filmmaker leaves the room, Durst, who is still wired for audio, lowers his head and mutters a sentence to himself. “I did not knowingly, purposely lie,” he says, and then pauses, considering, to add a word: “I did not knowingly, purposely, intentionally lie. I did make mistakes.”

Durst was rehearsing the interview, the way one might rehearse one’s testimony—but does that make him seem more guilty or just more realistic about documentaries? His lawyer tells him that his microphone is hot. Durst is fascinatingly unconcerned. He says again, “I never intentionally, purposefully lied. I made mistakes.” Then, with the shrug of an honest man, he adds what might be the tagline for the series: “I did not tell the whole truth. Nobody tells the whole truth.”

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Robert Durst’s New Trial
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/what-about-bob

Related to the Jinx

Flies Evade…Targets by Executing Rapid…Banked Turns http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6180/172.abstract Amazing ultrafast #movies w/ 7.5K frames/sec & IR lighting

amazing movies in supplement

Tiny Internal Tornadoes Bring Drops to Life
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/science/tiny-internal-tornadoes-bring-drops-to-life.html Results from evaporation & surf. tension differences betw #water & PEG

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“The coloring turns out to be incidental. What is important is that food coloring contains propylene glycol. The combination of that fluid with water holds the droplets together and makes them move.

Water evaporates more quickly than propylene glycol and has greater surface tension. These differences result in continual movement inside a droplet. But the “little tornado inside” the drop reaches a balance that actually holds the droplet together, Dr. Prakash said.

The droplet moves when a change in relative humidity alters the tornado. Evaporated water from one droplet is a subtle but powerful signal, because it increases the humidity near another drop. That changes the second drop’s rate of evaporation, which disturbs the internal balance, and the dance begins.

By varying the percentages of the two fluids, the researchers were able to get droplets to move in ways that seemed mysterious — they sorted themselves according to their internal composition, formed a straight line and even climbed vertically.

The moving droplets could be useful. For instance, a mist might be used for cleaning surfaces, because the drops don’t leave any bit of themselves behind when they move.”

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Earth’s other moon [#Cruithne] & its crazy [horseshoe] orbit [explained in a great #movie] could reveal mysteries
http://theconversation.com/earths-other-moon-and-its-crazy-orbit-could-reveal-mysteries-of-the-solar-system-38010