Strange Attractor

Strange Attractor

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  • Episode 3: Little Timmy is never going to start driving a 3D train
    How does the internet work?
    • hmm...this says it all really - "How does the internet work?" (Stanford University)
    • What is iPhone Personal Hotspot? (Apple)
    • What is a wifi dongle? (Telstra)
    • What is a computer network? (Wikipedia)
    • How computers talk to each other - Communications protocols (Wikipedia)
    • Communications protocol definition (Webopedia)
    • Network protocol definition (About.com)
    • Egyptian heiroglyphs (Wikipedia)
    • Sumerian language (Ancient History Encyclopedia)
    • Ancient languages that haven't been figured out (mental_floss)
    • How to speak like a Russian spy (TV Tropes)
    • What is computer handshaking? (Wikipedia)
    • Handshaking definition (Webopedia)
    • A dial up modem handshaking (YouTube)
    • A fax machine handshaking (YouTube)
    • ADSL definition (Webopedia)
    • ADSL doesn't use voice telephone call frequencies, it's like a quiet handshake (Wikipedia)
    • Myspace (Wikipedia)
    • The OSI model's 7 layers of networking (Wikipedia)
    • The OSI model's 7 layers of networking (Webopedia)
    • Packet definition (Webopedia)
    • Network packet (Wikipedia)
    • How the internet sends packets & stuff - Internet protocol suite (Wikipedia)
    • TCP/IP definition (Webopedia)
    • How to make French onion soup (BBC goodfood)
    • Different ways to cut carrots (the Kitchn)
    • DARPA & the invention of the internet (DARPA)
    • History of the internet (Wikipedia)
    • How to make a string & cup telephone (Science Kids)
    • ISP definition (Webopedia)
    • What is an Internet Service Provider? (Wikipedia)
    • There are a few very big 'Tier 1' ISPs who control the most internet (Wikipedia)
    • The main 'highways' - The internet backbone (Wikipedia)
    • The internet map
    • "Beautiful, intriguing and illegal ways to map the internet" (Wired)
    • Melways maps
    • Which way should we go on the internet? - Routing (Wikipedia)
    • A visualisation of routing paths (Wikipedia)
    • The submarine cable map (TeleGeography)
    • "10 facts about the internet's undersea cables" (mental_floss)
    • Trans-Pacific internet cables - Southern Cross Cables (Wikipedia)
    • Trans-Atlantic internet cables (Wikipedia)
    • List of international submarine communications cables (Wikipedia)
    • "The internet's undersea world" (The Guardian)
    • How a ship lays fibre optic cables (YouTube)
    • Data travels at pretty much the speed of light through a fibre optic cable (Extreme Tech)
    • The Mariana Trench (Wikipedia)
    • "The worldwide internet backbone map" (Tianjin University of Technology)
    • "Georgian woman cuts off web access to whole of Armenia" (The Guardian)
    • "Ship's anchor accidentally slices internet cable cutting off access in six African countries" (Daily Mail Australia)
    • What is a web server? (Wikipedia)
    • A photo of the world's first web server (Wikipedia)
    • What is a content delivery network? (Wikipedia)
    • "Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers" (StreamingMediaBlog)
    • "Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place" (StreamingMediaBlog)
    • What is a cache? (Wikipedia)
    • What is time to live? (Wikipedia)
    • What are point-to-point telecommunications? (Wikipedia)
    • DouglasAdams.com
    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Wikipedia)
    • Sub-Etha Communications from the Hitchhiker's Guide (Wikipedia)
    • The internet was once called ARPANET (Wikipedia)
    • What is an Ethernet cable? (About.com)
    • Cables are usually made out of copper or glass - Physical media (Wikipedia)
    • "Why is fibre optic technology 'faster' than copper?" (ABC)
    • One way people found stuff on the early web - The Gopher protocol (Wikipedia)
    • The internet is an 'INTERconnected computer NETwork' (Wikipedia)
    • The World Wide Web is what we 'see' on the internet (Wikipedia)
    • History of the graphical user interface (Wikipedia)
    • Pictures of what screens used to look like (Nathan's Toasty Technology page)
    • The first ever web page! (CERN)
    • The man who invented the World Wide Web and hyperlinks (Wikipedia)
    • What is a hyperlink? (Wikipedia)
    • What is FTP? (Wikipedia)
    • "The web is dead. Long live the internet" (Wired)
    • "Is the Web Dying? It Doesn’t Look That Way" (The New York Times)
    • What is Chrome? (Google)
    • What is Safari? (Apple)
    • Responsive web design means content adapts to any device (Wikipedia)
    • App making software products (TopTen reviews)
    • What are Apple Developer tools? (Apple)
    • What is an app? (Wikipedia)
    • Skype is more than 10 years old (Skype)
    • Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Wikipedia)
    • What was Hotmail Messenger? (YouTube)
    • Skype Instant Messenger explained by a guy in a grey t-shirt (YouTube)
    • Did people REALLY used to chat to each other in the olden days? (LinkedIn)
    • HumphreyBogart.com
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        • 54 min
      • Episode 2: I'm awfully conscious of sounding like Deepak Chopra
        How does light work?
        • Easy Cheese (Wikipedia)
        • The Golden Plains festival (GPX March 12-14, 2016)
        • What does X mean? - Roman Numerals Chart (Roman-Numerals.org)
        • The Golden Plains X-shaped lights - Aunty Meredith (flickr)
        • The Pink Flamingo Bar at Golden Plains (GPX March 12-14, 2016)
        • D batteries - Actually you can still buy them (Wikipedia)
        • 1980s bicyle lights (eBay)
        • Old school light bulbs - Incandescent lighting (Edison Tech Center)
        • What’s inside a torch? (Energizer)
        • Light bulb V1 - Gas lamp lighting (Wikipedia)
        • Sodium lamps (Edison Tech Center)
        • Copper wires and heat (Wikipedia)
        • Superconductivity (Wikipedia)
        • Thomas Edison and the electric light (Wikipedia)
        • How Edison Invented the Light Bulb - And Lots of Myths About Himself (Time)
        • Who invented electricity? - War of currents (Wikipedia)
        • Old light bulbs wasted a lot of heat - Incandescent light bulb (Wikipedia)
        • Old light bulbs had different shapes, some had reflective coatings - Physical characteristics, Incandescent light bulb (Wikipedia)
        • Incandescent light bulb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        • Tungsten and Tungsten Wire History (MidWest Tungsten Service)
        • Why do light bulbs burn out just as they’re turned on? (io9)
        • How long can a computer continuously run for? - Epic uptime achievement unlocked (ars technica)
        • Old people should keep moving - Benefits of exercise (NIH Senior Health)
        • Is there any point in turning light bulbs off? - When to turn off your lights (energy.gov)
        • Is there any point turning your engine off? - Does turning my engine off in traffic really save fuel? (This is MONEY)
        • Power brakes (Wikipedia)
        • Fly-by-wire (Wikipedia)
        • The skeptics’ guide to the universe
        • Hipsters now use vintage light bulbs (Edison light globes)
        • Neon lights work by a current ionising gas in the tube - Neon lighting (Wikipedia)
        • Fluorescent lights work by a current doing some stuff that causes a phosphor coating on the inside of the tube to glow - Fluorescent lamp (Wikipedia)
        • The noble gases (Wikipedia)
        • How do neon lights work? (Scientific American)
        • Curly fries (Recipe 4 Living)
        • The first halogen bulbs looked like curly fries - Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs (Wikipedia)
        • duh…what’s a halogen? - Halogen elements (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
        • Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) (Wikipedia)
        • Solid-state electronics (Wikipedia)
        • What is a diode? (Wikipedia)
        • And then came halogen lights (Wikipedia)
        • Halogen pop-in bulbs got hot and tended to explode - Disadvantages, Multifaceted reflector (Wikipedia)
        • How energy-efficient light bulbs compare with traditional incandescents (energy.gov)
        • The newest bulbs are LEDs (energy.gov)
        • Top 8 Things You Didn’t Know About LEDs (energy.gov)
        • Red LEDs came first, in 1962 - LEDs and OLEDs (Edison Tech Centre)
        • Photodiodes are involved in CDs, DVDs, and Blu Rays - Laser and optics (Wikipedia)
        • Blue LEDs didn’t come until 1992-93 - Blue LEDs (Wikipedia)
        • Blue LEDs didn’t come until 1992-93 - LEDs and OLEDs (Edison Tech Centre)
        • Blue LEDs Light The Way To Top Nobel Physics Prize (The skeptics’ guide to the universe)
        • Blu-Ray discs use ‘blue’ laser diodes - Laser and optics (Wikipedia)
        • You can make a white LED from red, green and blue - White LEDs and the Illumination breakthrough (Wikipedia)
        • LEDs and lasers are different (Opposing Views)
        • Newer iPhone flashes are a combination of white and amber LEDs (LEDinside)
        • New LED torches are very powerful - This Wickedly Bright Flashlight Can Cook an Egg (Wired)
        • New LED torches are very powerful - Scrambled Eggs (YouTube)
        • Size of Belgium (Wikipedia)
        • Mag-Lite
        • Edison invented the screw in (Wikipedia)
        • Then came the bayonet mount (Wikipedia)
        • Definition of light (Wikipedia)
        • What is a ray of light made of (BBC earth)
        • The life of a photon (Central Arkansas Astronomical Society Observer)
        • To see light, it must interact with your retina (Wikipedia)
        • Stuff in our atmosphere does stuff to light - Atmospheric refraction (Wikipedia)
        • Stuff in our atmosphere does stuff to light - Optical atmospheric diffraction (Wikipedia)
        • Snooker table analogy (Wikipedia)
        • The moon has pretty much no atmosphere (NASA)
        • What is Earth's atmosphere made of? - Composition, Atmosphere of Earth (Wikipedia)
        • What happens when light hits our atmosphere? - Optical properties, Atmosphere of Earth (Wikipedia)
        • What is fire? (Science Learning Hub)
        • What is smoke? (Science Learning Hub)
        • Soot (Wikipedia)
        • Earth's atmospheric layers: The densest part extends 8-14.5 km above the surface (NASA )
        • Would light ever stop traveling if there were no objects to absorb the light? (UCSB ScienceLine)
        • Does light travel forever? (The Naked Scientists)
        • Visible and non-visible ‘light’ - Electromagnetic spectrum (Wikipedia)
        • Infrared (Wikipedia)
        • You are producing light right now - Humans glow in the dark (The Guardian)
        • Predator (Wikipedia)
        • Thermographic cameras (Wikipedia)
        • Ze goggles - Night vision (Wikipedia)
        • Can you catch fire in the electric chair? (NY Daily News)
        • Cooler fires burn redder, hotter fires burn bluer - Flame color (Wikipedia)
        • Why can we see fire? Hard to say really…Primates, Evolution of color vision (Wikipedia)
        • Telescopes are like big eyes (Wikipedia)
        • How long can light travel for? - “Oldest Light in the Universe" (The Daily Galaxy)
        • Hubble Space Telescope (Wikipedia)
        • Hubble Space Telescope (hubblesite)
        • James Webb Space Telescope: Will monitor long-wavelength visible light, through near-infrared to the mid-infrared (Wikipedia)
        • We put telescopes on mountains so it’s easier to see light from space - Mauna Kea Observatories (University of Hawaii)
        • Driest Place: Atacama Desert, Chile (Extreme Science)
        • Why do stars twinkle? (Cornell University)
        • Adaptive optics lets us see stars by de-twinkling them (CSIRO)
        • Deepak Chopra
        • Ionising radiation (World Health Organization)
        • Stopping alpha, beta and gamma nuclear radiation (BBC)
        • What makes the aurora borealis? (Wikipedia)
        • Radiation in space (NASA)
        • Lead is really dense (Wikipedia)
        • Scott Kelly was 2 inches taller when he arrived back on Earth - Twins study (NASA)
        • Mark Kelly (Wikipedia)
        • Light reflecting off things during the moon landing (Nerdist)
        • Why we only see one side of the moon - Tidal locking (Wikipedia)
        • The other side of the moon (Wikipedia)
        • The moon gets ‘Earthlight’ in the same way we get moonlight - (Wikipedia)
        • The moon and Earth rotate around their ‘barycentre’ (Wikipedia)
        • Sunrise & sunset on the moon (YouTube)
        • Earthrise from the moon - NASA (YouTube)
        • No one’s been to the moon since 1972 (BBC)
        • The space station sits at the edge of our atmosphere (Wikipedia)
        • Will we go back to the moon again? - Russia just announced it's going back to the moon (Techinsider)
        • The moon has pretty much no atmosphere, hence crazy temperature fluctuations - What is the Temperature on the Moon? (space.com)
        • Mars has a thin atmosphere, hence crazy temperature fluctuations - What is the Temperature on Mars? (space.com)
        • The atmosphere and oceans are linked - The Ocean-Atmosphere System (Tulane University)
        • Astronauts come back taller (NASA)
        • Astronauts lose muscle mass (NASA)
        • Could we mine the moon? - Billionaire teams up with NASA to mine the moon (CNBC)
        • Maltesers
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            • 1 hr 46 min
          • Episode 1: Kim Jong-il knows about my frog
            What's encryption, and why should you care?
            • Tim Cook’s letter (Apple)
            • FAQs about Tim Cook’s letter (Apple)
            • For hard core nerds: Apple iOS 9.0 or later security document (Apple)
            • Apple explains exactly how secure iMessage really is (techcrunch)
            • FBI v. Apple (Wikipedia)
            • How secure is your smartphone (The Age)
            • The Wire (IMDb)
            • Wire tapping in Australia: Telephone recording laws, Australia (Wikipedia)
            • Mass surveillance in Australia (Wikipedia)
            • You couldn’t text on old mobiles: Analog cellular networks, 1G (Wikipedia)
            • WAP was crap: Wireless Application Protocol, 'WAP' (Wikipedia)
            • Analog television (Wikipedia)
            • Teletext was a way to hack an analogue TV to get a digital signal: Teletext (Wikipedia)
            • Ceefax (Wikipedia)
            • Teletext gallery: Teletext around the world (The Teletext Museum)
            • Teletext (Museum of Broadcast Communications)
            • Teletext in Europe: From the Analog to the Digital Era (Nordicom)
            • Picture tube inside an old TV (automaticwasher)
            • Overscan: You’re not seeing the whole picture on your TV (CNET)
            • Last of the Summer Wine (Wikipedia)
            • The Goodies (Wikipedia)
            • Old TV remotes had wires: Zenith remote ad (Television History, The First 75 Years)
            • Mud cups are nice (Mud Australia)
            • How come Americans didn’t seem to text as much as us? "Text messaging explodes in America" (CBS News)
            • What is a green text? "Short Message Service" (Wikipedia)
            • Mmmm…peas: Wasabi flavoured peas (My Asian Grocer)
            • Mmmm…beans: Spicy broad beans (My Asian Grocer)
            • How big is your packet? "Network packet" (Wikipedia)
            • Greenies vs. blueys: The difference between iMessage & regular text messaging (GottaBeMobile.com)
            • How to get a court order to read SMSs in Australia: "Why every text message & email you've ever sent is up for grabs" (news.com.au)
            • How to get a court order to read SMSs in America: "How the police get your phone records" (Gizmodo, Australia)
            • Scarby Chardy: Scarborough, Chardonnay (Scarborough Wine Co.)
            • How easy is it to hack an SMS? Nearly 1 billion phones can be hacked with 1 text (Fortune)
            • Sam Harris
            • The podcasts where he mentions encryption 1: Meat without murder (Sam Harris)
            • The podcasts where he mentions encryption 2: Throw open the gates (Sam Harris)
            • Kim Jong-il is Super Man: "Kim Jong-il" (Wikipedia)
            • Apple software was built on UNIX: Apple’s Operating System Guru Goes Back to His Roots (Wired)
            • iPhone fingerprint security: About Touch ID security on iPhone & iPad (Apple)
            • The $5 Indian phone: "World's cheapest smartphone costs $5 & doesn't seem terrible" (Sydney Morning Herald)
            • WhatsApp is also encrypted, kinda like iMessage (WhatsApp)
            • Telegram is also encrypted, kinda like iMessage (Telegram)
            • Bot hacking: "Internet bot" (Wikipedia)
            • Frogs with key hidey holes: Garden frog outdoor hide a key hider cast iron charming (Amazon)
            • Skynet (Wikipedia)
            • Blade Runner (Wikipedia)
            • iCloud back up is easy, why didn’t I do it 70 weeks ago? iCloud storage & backup overview (Apple)
            • Edward Snowdon documentary: "Citizenfour" (Wikipedia)
            • The ‘Perfect security’ podcast (99% Invisible)
            • Torture - yay or nay? "Torture" (Wikipedia)
            • What is ‘back door’ access to software? "Backdoor computing" (Wikipedia)
            • Quantum madness: "Quantum cryptography" (Wikipedia)
            • Blackadder (Wikipedia)
            • I’m moving to Mars if Trump gets elected: "10 Places To Move If Trump Wins Election" (Odyssey)
            • "Richard Branson unveils Virgin Galactic’s new spaceship named VSS UNITY by Professor Stephen Hawking" (Virgin Galactic)
            • Enigma encryption (Wikipedia)
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                • 59 min

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