Happy arbitrarily selected new calendar year!!! But seriously, warm wishes for the new year from the whole gang here at The Thought Emporium. We’re firing on all cylinders to bring you guys all the horrors we can think of, and not just via video! Yes, we’re putting the finishing touches on a couple bio kits that we are super excited to showcase. The exact launch date hasn’t been nailed down yet, but we’re aiming for later this month to align with our next video release.
So over the past few months we’ve talked a lot about starting up a new channel, it’s finally coming together, again no firm release date but we’re starting to film content specifically for it this week. It took us a long time to settle on a format we could execute without delaying the primary channel’s video pipeline. Over the past year we focused on growing the team, and we now hope to be able to deliver more horrors in more places!
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In our WIFI camera video, we encountered friction. Let’s go with that description of what happened. This is a great example of a science experiment being extremely hard to replicate. Literally replicating our own work proved to be a challenge. The video covers enough of our tribulations for you all to get the gist of the issues we encountered, but there was more, oh so many more little stumbling blocks. Little things like the greased bearing seizing when we attempted to run the little XJ-9 outside, turns out it's cold in late fall in Montreal! Not a problem for the summer project this was meant to be.
Usually we’d do a deep dive on an aspect of the video or pick an interesting tidbit of information that we couldn’t cover and expand upon it, but here we’ll cover why we’re revisiting the Wifi Camera. Essentially, only measuring returns is a way to trace sources of radiation and important reflections of the wavelength we’re looking for, but it’s not quite what we picture in common parlance as a camera. What we’ve got is essentially a boom mic for radio waves, akin to a passive sonar system, and we’d planned on using it like one to map radio emissions around Montreal by taking multiple readings from various locations. The other planned test was to try and replicate a paper where we’d use a known emitter to illuminate and take panoramic radio pictures. There has also been a lot of recent work in these forms of passive radar tracking and mapping, and we want in on this madness. So stay tuned as we iron out the kinks and put Jenny through her paces.
In The Works
Like we mentioned earlier, we’ve got a lot of stuff coming together to bring a horror’s packed year! Jerry is getting the royal treatment in January and Jerry’s already surprising us. Some of you may recall that Multi Channel Systems loaned us one of their Multi Electrode System and well they’ve let us keep it a little longer to test some truly weird stuff. Justin’s been deep in genetic design these past few months and we’ve received most of the DNA. The tests are all positive, and so it’s time to film and document all of this. There’s more ridiculous X-ray shenanigans coming up as we top the last video and hopefully we get even cooler imagery. We’re of course working on the Neurons, a project like this one is intensive but also takes the time it takes.
Neat Finds
Ants superior to humans in group problem-solving maze?
A team from Weizmann Institute of Science put humans to the test against ANTS! In this specific experimental context, we did not come out on top.
Interactions between humpback whales and mammal eating killer whales have shown Humpback whales attacking orcas that are predating on other species in apparent attempts to provide aid.
