Bombs Away
When he isn’t bad-mouthing Republicans for not funding science enough while politely wondering why Democrats don’t seem to fund science at all, the Bad Astronomer manages to present some great science.
Here is a great analysis (and is quite easy to read) on 1962’s Operation Starfish Prime. That sounds like a kid’s marionette show, but was really a fantastic and strange nuclear detonation done in space.
But topping even that is a small movie that shows, on a map of the world, every nuclear detonation performed on earth, on a consistent time scale. The sound effects are a little annoying but are totally unnecessary: turn your volume off and you can easily watch this wherever you are. And it is worth watching.
Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.