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I cook a lot of onions, and I make YouTube videos about stuff that interests me!
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A tan from a tablet? 100% real, 100% terrible idea #science #tanning #health
youtube.com/shorts/sM92D...
A tan from a tablet? 100% real, 100% terrible idea #science #tanning #health
YouTube video by I'm Going Somewhere With This
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November 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Stephen King: I've got a new idea for a book

Editor: oh god. what's it about?

Stephen King: a woman

Editor: oh- oh yeah? What kind of woman?

Stephen King: just a normal woman

Editor [breathing sigh of relief]: awesome, so nothing curse-

Stephen King: but her hat is a demon
November 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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#Wisdom is back!
The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Nearly time for a new video! #bees
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is the documentation for a #well and at first I was like, this is insane, it's all scribbled cursive, I can't even work out what they were drilling for?
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The sheer emotions this gives me
Minnesota really out here with snow in the second week of November to remind you that winter will soon be here and someday you will die
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Guaranteed to be spicy
Later on I’ll be showing you how to make a LOVELY risotto with all those unused fireworks
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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How a 'swimming cap' could transform care for brain-injured babies.

"Light sensors monitor changes in oxygen around the surface of the brain & the functional ultrasound allows us to image the small blood vessels deep in the brain."

🧪🧠👶🏼
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cambridge 'swimming cap' brings hope for brain-injured babies
Researchers are trialling a new technique to monitor brain function in newborns.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Super excited to release this virtual field / lab experience called "VRmivora":
davetoews.com/vrmivora/

It's free to download via SideQuest for a Meta VR headset:
sidequestvr.com/app/44760/vr...

Thanks to all involved, especially the Center for Immersive Experiences: immersive.psu.edu
🦉🧪
VRmivora
This VR experience—created by Penn State and the National Science Foundation—drops you into a young forest to find wood-warblers. Explore the landscape as you find and identify wood-warblers, which…
davetoews.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I’ll be honest I didn’t expect a spring release of #GTAVI, I thought ‘fall’ was much more likely. If I’m honest I’d guess 2027 final release date now. #gta6
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
My current favourite Japanese woodblock print (ukiyo-e): Heian Shrine by Kawase Hasui #japan #art
November 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Accidentally made this very trippy looking optical illusion in #blender - the orange shapes are squares! #opticalillusion
November 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
There’s something really funny to me about making a thing that references video games, an almost exclusively digital art form, and then putting an analog clock in it. #videogames
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Wordle 1,594 5/6

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A very weird #wordle today, guessed 4 letters and then failed trying to get it off of that!
October 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Absolutely wonderful to see. It’s exactly as you’d see in a film, but the knowledge that it’s real makes it so much more!
INTERNATIONAL #ROSETTA MISSION

Comet 67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO

7 Feb 2016
Distance to target: 47.5km
OSIRIS NAC 50x orange + blue filters.

ESA/ROSETTA/OSIRIS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA/j. Roger
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A tan from a tablet? 100% real, 100% terrible idea #science #tanning #health
youtube.com/shorts/sM92D...
A tan from a tablet? 100% real, 100% terrible idea #science #tanning #health
YouTube video by I'm Going Somewhere With This
youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
NASA SVS website informing the user that due the US government shutdown, NASA has stopped updating it.

I know this isn't the biggest impact of the government shutdown in the US, but it is sad to see #nasa #governmentshutdown #science
October 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Bugger! had to choose between 2 words and I guessed wrong #wordle
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New video! Red squirrels in the UK vs poxvirus 🧪

#science #squirrels

Why the UK has the wrong colour squirrels
youtu.be/jG0IuUrGg40
Why the UK has the wrong colour squirrels
YouTube video by I'm Going Somewhere With This
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October 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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This digital guide I made to go together with my new Tree ID pin badge is available for free at canopyrobin.com/uktrees/ as a personal/educational resource.
Enjoy!
#SciArt🌳🧪🌍
October 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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#NASA's #Mars #Perseverance rover

Sol 1651 Oct. 12, 2025: Left Navigation Camera (Navcam)

mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mul...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger
October 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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An epic double eruption from opposite ends of the Sun this week! Truly beautiful.
September 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
3 things about how whales echolocate so I can get them out of my brain #science #whales #technology
September 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
New video! I found out they’re dropping tags on to whales from drones and it led me down a rabbit hole:

youtu.be/sxB-ygjt55Q
Dropping tiny computers onto whales from drones - for SCIENCE?!
YouTube video by I'm Going Somewhere With This
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September 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM