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2021-Oct-17, Sunday 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI've seen some interesting video recently about different kinds of history.
Hair. This video explains how humans have kept their hair clean over time. Hint: It wasn't by washing hair daily. It's not a walk down all of human history, just recent European timespans, but it does cover all kinds of hair from silky to kinky. It's a good watch.
Television. This video examines how mass communications and culture both influence each other over time. It dives into two specific examples of USA shows, one from the 1970s ("Starsky and Hutch") where gay representation was very well done, and one from the 1980s ("Murder, She Wrote") where it literally disappeared from stories. It's a walk through USA history during that time of cultural change. It closes with the excellent example from 2019 ("Doom Patrol") that I previously brought to your attention.
Astronomy. This video explains solar flares, the Carrington Event from 1859, and other notable storms over the last 9000 years or so. Our sun is capable of an eruption 100x that historical 1859 flare, and he briefly mentions how it could potentially disrupt modern communication and power transmission systems. Bonus: We also get a lesson on how Carbon-14 is continuously formed on Earth, which is used in radiocarbon dating.
Hair. This video explains how humans have kept their hair clean over time. Hint: It wasn't by washing hair daily. It's not a walk down all of human history, just recent European timespans, but it does cover all kinds of hair from silky to kinky. It's a good watch.
Television. This video examines how mass communications and culture both influence each other over time. It dives into two specific examples of USA shows, one from the 1970s ("Starsky and Hutch") where gay representation was very well done, and one from the 1980s ("Murder, She Wrote") where it literally disappeared from stories. It's a walk through USA history during that time of cultural change. It closes with the excellent example from 2019 ("Doom Patrol") that I previously brought to your attention.
Astronomy. This video explains solar flares, the Carrington Event from 1859, and other notable storms over the last 9000 years or so. Our sun is capable of an eruption 100x that historical 1859 flare, and he briefly mentions how it could potentially disrupt modern communication and power transmission systems. Bonus: We also get a lesson on how Carbon-14 is continuously formed on Earth, which is used in radiocarbon dating.