Vsauce!
I’m Jake and I hope that you are healthy,
taking care of yourself, safe and keeping
in mind the safety of others.
We are currently experiencing, in our lifetimes
at least, an unprecedented event.
I actually made a video years ago about what
it would be like if a pandemic were to happen
in present day, it was based on the fictional
disease from The Last of Us, but what is happening
now is very real.
If you go to healthmap.org you can see a timelapse
of how COVID-19 spread and just how quickly
it did.
For an even more in depth look, The Systems
Science and Engineering department at John
Hopkins University created an interactive
map of the world where you can go country
by country and see the numbers of cases.
In the bottom right is a chart that represents
the exponential growth of COVID-19.
And if you’ve ever been curious about what
exponential growth means and how it pertains
to pandemics, I can not recommend highly enough
3blue1brown’s video on the topic.
It is incredibly informative and a wonderful
insight on what is currently happening.
But with so many of us staying at home I thought
it would be a good to bring back a series
that I haven’t done in years, one where
we adventure through the wonders of the internet
together...hopefully showing you some websites
to spend some time with, so sit back, relax
and let me show you some DONGs...things you
can do online now, guys.
Explore.org is a website that lets you experience
the world around you from the safety of your
own home.
Thanks to my mom for texting this to me.
It has a myriad of live webcams where you
can watch everything from kittens, to the
Santa Monica Beach here in California, an
Elephant Park in Africa, or some penguins.
After you’ve gotten your fill of wildlife,
get your fill of art at the Wolfman Museum
of Art.
This site is amazing.
It is a wonderful place to get lost and there
is so much to explore.
For example, why not venture into the Bob
Ross Arts and Crafts center.
There you can make some 8bit art or watch
every single episode The Joy of Painting.
Why not go into one of the art galleries.
Let’s try gallery 3.
They have an entire section of old radio broadcasts
or live radio.
I’d highly recommend checking Gallery 4
that has image collections from the MET and
the Art Institute of Chicago.
Wolfman Museum is part point and click adventure
part exploratory paradise.
But instead of just looking at other people’s
art, create your own with people all over
the world on
Malmal.io Here you can see what other users
across the globe have drawn, join in and draw
with them.
Or you can create your own drawing board and
theme it like this.
Now, that is art.
I wonder how much it would sell for at auction?
To get a sense for that play
The Auction Game.
It shows you an image of a piece of art that
was sold and you guess how much it was sold
for.
Let’s see….I’m gonna guess 1 million
dollars.
And I was incredibly wrong.
Ok, I’m feeling good about this one.
500,000!
I obviously have no understanding of the art
world so I’m going to switch creative careers
and try my hand at
Soundscape.world.
If you want to zone out or have some pleasant
ambient music playing in the background you
can create your own!
Click on the soundscape you want to start
with and then choose your rhythm, harmony,
bass, melody and extras until you create something
like this.
As you make your song, the background starts
to come to life.
Keep that new tune playing in the background
while we explore
Rockets of Earth.
You can browse by lift class, country, manufacturer,
active rockets, reusable rockets and rockets
rated for human travel.
Once you find what you’re looking for you
can find out details like it’s maximum lift
capacity to different orbits, how much the
rocket costs, it’s launch history, and photos
of said rocket.
There is also a really cool compare feature
to see how two different rockets stack up
next to each other.
Now if you’re really bored, why not learn
a useful skill like learning to speak backwards
with this phonetic reverser?
Type in what you want to say, reverse it and…..
I’m going to leave you with two more things,
if you’d like more info about COVID-19 and
what you
can do
to protect yourself, there’s no need for
me to make a video about it and be repetitive
because I’m going to link to two wonderful
YouTube videos down below.
One by In a Nutshell, and one from Mark Rober.
