https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading
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YouTube description: Inventor Manu Prakash thinks you can’t understand Earth’s big problems without looking at the (really) tiny things. So he created Foldscope: an origami microscope that brings... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 138 views • 2:56There’s a saying in the sea, 'If it’s a cone, leave it alone'. Although they look pretty harmless cone nails are pretty deadly. They're a chemical making factory that travels around an a giant sticky... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 6 months ago • 790 views • 3:48For this project you need cardboard, cutting knife, battery, electric motor, small nut and glue. The most important part - to measure needed coins and cut right holes :) This machine is very effective,... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 218 views • 4:59A lot of people are arguing over the correct answer to this algebra problem involving horses, horseshoes, and boots. A Facebook post with this problem has over 500,000 comments. Can you figure it out?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 826 views • 2:51Please excuse any mistakes in the translation. Neither of the languages is my native one. :) "In China you don't have letters when writing. Instead you use characters, and each character is a word.... continue reading
posted by WaterDweller 1 decade 9 months 2 weeks ago • 173 views • 2:00Happy October, Month of the Hexaflexagon! Oct. 21st is the annual Celebration of Mind, in honor of Martin Gardner. Maybe you'd like to host or attend a flexagon party sometime around then, or learn about... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 2,201 views • 4:45YouTube Description: Gathering dust (and beer cans) under a tree at CERN - it's Gargamelle. This experiment played a key role in Nobel Prize-winning research into the weak force. It's now on public... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago • 499 views • 5:29YouTube Description: This is dedicated to Vihart - she may be the only person who can solve this.LYRICS:Vihart, Vihart,You won, my heartWith a spirally spiralling videoAnd now I@m writing this to let... continue reading
posted by nanrod 1 decade 1 year 9 months 1 week ago • 807 views • 3:29YouTube Description: A quickly-made muse on the foreword of anthropologist Edmund Snow Carpenter's They "Became What They Beheld," and how it relates to Youtube. This book is out of print. If you're interested,... continue reading
posted by seltar 1 decade 1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 2,738 views • 5:44From YouTube: Accuracy not guaranteed. Get Audacity and play! http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Correction: it is the "Basilar" membrane, which is what I say, but somehow between recording the script... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 2 years 8 months 1 week ago • 2,162 views • 12:49Professor Mike Merrifield talks about how all the stars of a galaxy move around at the same speed, which would make the the pretty spiral pattern impossible. He explains the "winding paradox" and how then... continue reading
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