"Repeat after us: ... The. Sun. Is. Not. Yellow. !!!!!! ..."
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Proudly Presenting: "Corporate Ping Pong" This engineered mechanical sculpture is a representation of the hum and haw and constant, slow churn of the big corporate machine. Jumping through hoops, creating... continue reading
posted by newtboy 10 months 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 6:35From YouTube, "The Earth is a gigantic ball of semi-molten rock, with a heart of iron as hot as the surface of the Sun. Titanic amounts of heat left over from its birth and the radioactive decay of trillions... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 11 months 2 weeks ago • 354 views • 11:59Metals have a crystal structure. But they're not one big crystal, they're lots of small crystals called grains. The size of the grains affects the physical properties of the metal, like hardness, toughness,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 135 views • 8:45From Youtube, "Bowling has been reinvented many times over the past seven thousand years but especially in the last 30. This is the fascinating physics of balls, oil, lane and pins. Huge thanks to... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years ago • 485 views • 28:01"What different clouds mean, explained for kids. Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids! If you’re standing outside and you look up, you’ll likely see something familiar above... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 3 weeks ago • 67 views • 8:03"It was so obvious! All I had to do was "Squeek squeeeken squeek!' ..."
posted by ant 4 years 2 months ago • 84 views • 5:11From Youtube, "I bought 10,000 shade balls and tried to swim in them. They appear to act like a non-Newtonian fluid: rigid under high shear stress, but they flow like a liquid under low shear."
posted by w1ndex 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 104 views • 10:42Source: SmarterEveryDay
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 1,355 views • 16:13YouTube description: How many tries does it take an average player to do what professional pool players do on the first try? Your Average Pool Player attempts Corey Deuel's famous 2004 US Open draw... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,732 views • 5:07A game of swingball in a pubic space that teaches you how to say iambic Pentameter. A famous Shakespearian text is on the lamp-post, people say two words each, hitting the ball on the accent only.
posted by harriet 6 years 1 month ago • 172 views • 1:09"Pill bugs. Doodle bugs. Potato bugs. Wood Shrimp. Whatever you call them, there’s something less creepy about these critters than other insects. Maybe it’s because they’re not insects at all..." ... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 519 views • 3:30YouTube description: In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 725 views • 3:34Calcium carbide and water are being mixed in the milk jugs, which react together to produce acetylene gas. Acetylene is very explosive and is what is being ignited on these cases.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months ago • 729 views • 5:27South Park is home to a surprising number of tempting foodstuffs. Granted, they're all subtly gross in one way or another, but that doesn't make Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls sound any less appealing. Especially... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 258 views • 9:33There’s no mammal in the world quite like the tree pangolin. Covered in reptilian-like scales that protect it from predators in the wild, the pangolin will curl into a ball when threatened. Unfortunately,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 2,218 views • 1:48This video, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey, shows how earthquake liquefaction can affect buildings and buried structures. The concept presented is elementary but will provide you a basic understanding... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 817 views • 1:14This is great!!!!
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