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Tag Archives: video
Video: Sideshow Car Stunts Stop Traffic on I-880 in Oakland
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There are lots of reasons why traffic stalls on Bay Area freeways. Now you can add car stunts to the list. Drivers who like to spin their cars in "sideshow" doughnuts apparently stopped traffic on Interstate 880 in Oakland over … Continue reading
Listen to Replay of SFJAZZ Center Opening Night Concert
Listen to the opening night concert SFJAZZ Center got off to a swinging start Wednesday night. The concert and new music hall got enthusiastic reviews. Here's the New York Times: The Miner auditorium, a steeply raked cube of a hall, … Continue reading
Watch 15 Minutes of San Francisco Fireworks in 34 Seconds
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Click play below to watch a time-lapse video of the 15-minute-long San Francisco New Year's Eve fireworks display, via Spectra Media Corp: If you have 15 minutes to spare, here is video of the entire show.
Photos and Video: King Tides May Give a Glimpse of Bay Area's Climate Change Future
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Want to know what the Bay Area coast will look like in years to come? Tides are rising to a their highest levels of the year Thursday and Friday. A rare juxtaposition of the sun and moon is pulling the … Continue reading
Watch Ridiculous Flying Machines Smash into San Francisco Bay
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Red Bull Flugtag, a contest of human-powered flying machines, made a big splash in San Francisco's McCovey Cove on Saturday. Ostensibly a competition for who can fly the farthest, long ago turned into a celebration of wackiness. Red Bull first … Continue reading
Video Appears to Offer Peek Inside HP Factory
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You may have wondered from time to time who made the device you are using to read this blog post. Now a video being circulated on the Internet apparently offers an unobstructed view. Nothing much happens in this video. AnteboyanROX, … Continue reading
Postcards from Mars: NASA Displays Images From the Curiosity Rover
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NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed successfully on Mars Sunday night, has started beaming back its first photos. The Ames center in Mountain View designed the robot's chemical and mineralogy (CheMin) instrument and made other key contributions. NASA engineers, who were … Continue reading
Ranked-Choice Voting Explained
In November San Franciscans choose their next mayor through an electoral process called ranked-choice voting (RCV). Also known as "instant run-off voting," voters will pick three candidates (instead of one), and rank them in order of preference, eliminating the need … Continue reading
Video: Public Radio Rap
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Two people have now sent me this. That in itself wouldn't necessarily dictate inclusion, but the fact is, it's really good. One of our producers here said this guy's about to get a free coffee mug from every public radio … Continue reading
Health Update: ConocoPhillips' Flaring
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KQED Climate Watch Senior Editor Craig Miller took this video Friday of the flaring at the ConocoPhillips refinery in Rodeo: The flaring, caused by equipment failure that forced the refinery's shutdown, has continued on and off over the past few … Continue reading

