Pi 'occurs' (actually almost never, but 'close enough' circles and ellipses are all over the place) in nature because as far as we know it is fundamentally built into the physics of our world. A point charge creates a spherically symmetric electric field. A point wave source creates a spherically propagating wave.

Phi is just the positive solution to X^2 - X - 1 = 0. It has nothing to do with symmetry, an altogether separate concept.

Of course it's a 'real' ratio (as opposed to i/2, which is an imaginary ratio), but then so is every other real number; there isn't anything mystical about ratios.

As for Da Vinci's discovery... the golden ratio is approximately 1.618; e (a much more important constant) is approx. 2.718; maybe the 'real' proportion is e - 1 (approx. 1.718)? I bet if I look hard enough, I could find e - 1 all over the place.

The entire golden ratio thing is like the Bible Code or people seeing the image of Elvis in burritos: there are so many possible measurements that can be made that it's possible to find any reasonable number anywhere, especially when 'rounding' is used.

Probably? I don't think I've ever seen a real news shows with those types of credits, so if it's fake, it's probably a clip from some fictional show (but I don't look too closely at news credits, so I could easily be wrong).

Additionally, that spark doesn't look right.

Actually, animal cruelty is often a criminal matter (depending upon where you live).

Eugenics isn't inherently wrong in the same sense that dictatorships aren't inherently bad governments (i.e., an omniscient, omnibenevolent dictator would be the best possible government). The problem with both is that in a world governed by humans, concentrated power is invariably abused.

This isn't as silly as you think. An important precursor for the synthesis of the explosive RDX is found in mayonnaise. During the cold war the government was stockpiling RDX based plastic explosives, so to keep their costs down they needed to reduce the demand for mayonnaise. Of course, they couldn't come right out and say this (or the communists would start doing the same, sparking yet another arms race), so they slyly discouraged consumption of mayonnaise through these PSAs. The more you know.

Maybe they're being raised as food for other animals? It does seem like they have too many to just be keeping them as an exhibit.

Don't let the intro fool you into playing this game; although it has a very promising beginning, the ending is so terrible you'll wish you never started it.

Fake but still funny.

I think it's actually the soundtrack from The Mummy (1999), although I could be mistaken.

Upvote on principle; not bad at all, and nowhere near bad enough to deserve -1 votes.

This is parody, right?

Look at the last part where it shows 'both' at the same time: it is obviously mirrored. You can also tell by the way the stripes in the tie are arranged in the knot: it is identical (after flipping) for 'both' Colberts. Also, watch his face expression as it flips: he maintains the facial expression of his 'opponent' for a split second after the flip. Changing the color of a tie is very easy to do digitally; the only difficulty is idenfying the tie so that the red in Colbert's face is not changed to blue.

I don't think they 'add' random squirts of water, that's just the result of the simulation. Undoubtedly they can tweak the parameters of the simulation, but it's not like there's a guy who goes around and manually adds each water squirt.

This puts every other linerider video to shame.

I don't see how having a dress code would've stopped the student from using the advanced "hiding things behind your back" technique.