Ed Helms tells Neal Brennan about his ADHD diagnosis, and how it affected his audition at The Daily Show and his portrayals of characters like Andy on The Office. From the Blocks Podcast w/ Neal Brennan. Full Episode: https://youtu.be/PeOg_vrVB5w Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Theme music by […]
One of the world’s foremost currencies has a stickman on the back – but why? “The euro (symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the […]
Neal Brennan interviews Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty) about the things that make him feel lonely, isolated, and like something’s wrong – and how he is persevering despite these blocks. ———————————————————- 00:00 Intro 3:10 Before ‘Community’ 4:37 Emotional Health headline 5:12 Thoughtlessness in Relationships 8:30 Emotional Origin Story 14:47 […]
Artificial intelligence seems to think hell is as scary as it’s made out to be. “Stable Diffusion is a machine learning, text-to-image model to generate digital images from natural language descriptions. The underlying approach was developed at LMU Munich and then extended by a collaboration of StabilityAI, LMU, and Runway […]
There’s no aircraft in the world quite like this one – because it’s too dangerous. “The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet is a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft primarily designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt. It is the only operational rocket-powered fighter aircraft in history as well as the first […]
You’ve seen the footage – but did you notice this strange figure? The FBI certainly did. “The “umbrella man”, is a figure who appears in several films and photographs of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. He was one of the closest bystanders to the president when […]
You’ve probably seen lots of prehistoric cave paintings – but have ever seen a human face depicted in them? “In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin. […]
Poland’s first encyclopedia is a pretty terrible encyclopedia, but it is funny! “Nowe Ateny (New Athens) is the abbreviated title of the first Polish-language encyclopedia, authored by the 18th-century Polish priest Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski. The first edition was published in 1745–1746 in Lwów (Lviv); the second edition was updated and […]
So you want someone dead, but they’re far away – thankfully a gun can solve this problem. But there are other problems people of the past have tried to solve with guns – like how can I let people know I disapprove of their religion? “The Puckle gun (also known […]
