All Blog Posts Tagged 'awesome' (471)

Ever thought of how cool it would be control Mother Nature? Stop its destructive force? Could we stop a tornado with micro waves? Harness the winds of a tornado? Suck all of the water out of a hurricane? Turn off a storm?

Then if you're in the states, you should try checking out a show called Hacking the Planet on the Weather Channel. It explores all the crazy ideas to control the weather, stop…

In case you missed it Barack Obama just told John "Don't Forget To Be Awesome" today during a live feed from the White House. Here is a poster he really should have used way back when. …

https://www.youtube.com/user/NurdRage

I call upon the power of nerdfighteria. Green brothers hear my prayer. The channel of awesome called nurdrage is close to its end. If we do nothing it will die.

Nurdrage is a channel full of chemistry experiments and the power of science. Please everyone watch a few of his videos and donate to his indigogo if you are so inclined. It will be a tragedy if youtube loses nurdrage, we cannot…

I met Megan Whitmer on twitter a short time ago and we hit it off over her love of John's novels. She was an aspiring YA novelist and shared my passion for John's works (her favorite is Katherine's). She is a great person, and long story short, she found out yesterday her book is getting published. John, as you know, there is no more exciting news (other than "honey I'm pregnant) than finding out you got a book deal. She announced her news via a video that is saturated with joy and will…

Wow, what a sweet story. Slightly reminiscent of Dear Enemy but unique in and of it's own right. For a novella to bring about that much change in fate and emotion in so few pages, it deserves to be applauded. I was quite glad.



Solena, a young orphaned girl raised by the High Prophet of her people, is known for having a generous heart along with her…

I posted this to my facebook a few days ago and wanted to add it here. It makes me so happy.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4081660048180

Yay Project for Awesome! This is my first time participating as a vlogger, and if you could take the time to watch, I'd really appreciate it. Being in music programs has shaped much of my life, which is why for this year's video, I talk about VH1's Save the Music Foundation.

Anyone who loves physical books really needs to take a look at Better World Books!

As a general rule, any book you purchase though BWB, one book gets donated to children who cannot otherwise obtain books. A portion of each book you purchase goes toward funding literacy programs around the world(you can even see the specific organizations which will receive your money next to each book in your cart)! But what is so great about right now?

Every book you buy,…

so this is going to be short I think it would be quite productive of us as a community to gather educational videos and what not and collect them all into a virtual library that is sorted by subject and in order you should watch them, this would include channels like Crash course, some Vsauce, minutephysics, and more ! I think this would be a great idea because if something like this was available to everyone we could do things like help home schooled kids and their parents or help the…

Hi Ning, and youtube!

I'm looking for some resources, mainly skills that I myself haven't got!

Firstly, I am looking for someone with some photoshopskills to help me design a cover for the youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/NonSparkly) that I am running! If you are interested in giving me a few hours of your precious time, let me know at my email below!

Secondly! I need someone to help me…

  As you guys probably know, domestic abuse is a huge problem that is often ignored, as it's viewed as quite taboo, and something people don't really want to think about. However it's something that really gets me, so a group of teens and I from The Challenge decided to hold a sponsored 'Deadly Stroll For Undead Violence' to raise awareness and funding for the charity SDASPS (…

I'm going to keep this public, and cross off and add new ones as I think of them.

Justice- Cross

Nicolas Jaar- Space is Only Noise

Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam or Meriwether Post Pavilion

Fiona Apple- The Idler Wheel…

Torche- Harmonicraft

Ab Soul- Control System

Beach House- Teen Dream or…

1. Spend the night outside

2. Sleep for more than 12 hours

3. Attempt to stay awake as long as possible

4. Dance in the middle of the street

5. Swim in ocean

6. Go skinny dipping

7. Get lost

8. Bake cookies

9. Finish 5 books

10. Go to a convention

11. Catch a frog

12. Make a new friend

13. LOTR drinking game

14. Find a …

In which John discusses his Vidcon experience, thanks his brother, and announces that you (yes, you!) need to read Part I of Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451 by next Tuesday to prepare for our discussion in the Nerdfighter Book Club. (if you've read the book before, I encourage you to try reading it again with us!)

Vidcon was amazing. Thanks to everyone who was there,…

On June 24th 1995, I was born. 

I was given the name Kiera Emily Jean Sands. 

Now more important things! My walls! I shall now start listing the amazing things featured on my wall...

A painting I made of a pink squid flying through space which also features a TARDIS, Gandalf and Dumbledore, as well as Nyan Cat. I also have pictures of Tom Milsom(Signed), Alex Day and FLuffee(signed). I have Ghostbusters, Doctor Who, Die Hard, Predator, One Piece and Robocop posters. 2…

I decided I should share a poem with my fellow nerdfighters. I hope you all like it, to those who see it. I love writing poetry and this one goes out to all the nerdfighters:

Always Alone

They play together in their own little tune.

Leaving me behind, way too soon.

They call out to one another.

Leaving me behind, like the others.

A person unknown,

Someone who is always…

***Fahrenheit 451: http://dft.ba/-montag - read along or else quite a few of our videos won't make any sense this summer!***

In which Hank talks about Flinch (http://dft.ba/-flinch) and Foo Camp and takes a very VERY cold shower.

This video, I admit, isn't terribly well held together, I go…

Hi I like gardening. Its a lame hobby for a 14 year old but who cares. Anyway I'd like to start a mini project where people would grow gardens. Project Grow A Garden. If you already have a garden or even a vegetable or fruit plant in your house please send an awesome pic of them. Ill be posting images of my garden every week until its time for harvesting. I don't have a large one this year because my garden box I normally use isn't available but I'll try to add more plants) Anyways ill try…

Submerged in a link about Skylons vs SLS that Vertigo_One put in a discussion the other day was this:

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org

It's a website by an engineer named Dan who seems to have figured out how to build The Enterprise spaceship using existing technology.  He thinks it can be done in 20 years with a mere $1 trillion,  and of course, it would take…

It's Hanko de Mayo! We all know Hank loves the James Webb Space Telescope, so hopefully he'll like our gift. In addition to his gift, nerdfighteria is celebrating Hank's birthday by letting our elected officials know that Increasing Awesome through scientific exploration is important to us. You'll find the email I wrote my congressperson and senators below. You can copy it,…