Simulated tornado being generated by a supercomputer (Blue Waters) with 20,000 processing cores. I need a dictionary to figure out half of the terms used in the talk, but the simulations are stunning.
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an explanation and demonstrations of the explosive welding process
posted by newtboy 9 years 7 months 1 week ago • 401 views • 2:13Via Brainpickings. Part 1. All of history's greatest figures achieved success in almost exactly the same way. But rather than celebrating this part of the creative process we ignore it. This missing... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 10 months ago • 496 views • 5:49Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 11 months 1 week ago • 255 views • 43:41SciShow takes you down the deepest hole in the world -- Russia's Kola Superdeep Borehole -- explaining who dug it and why, and what we learned about Earth in the process. -yt
posted by eric3579 9 years 12 months ago • 1,400 views • 4:01"When a science-mad A.I. system (voiced by GLaDOS actress Ellen McLain) is installed at NASA, two hapless computer technicians learn the process behind nuclear fusion in the Sun, and how it differs from fission..." ... continue reading
posted by ant 1 decade 2 months ago • 84 views • 9:00“Now this is a very, very important point — to realize that the world is not an illusion, that the world simply happens to be an abstraction. Out of the process, please remember we are interested in... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 3 months 3 weeks ago • 72 views • 3:05YouTube Description: Lawrence Krauss describes quantum computing and the technical obstacles we need to overcome to realize this Holy Grail of processing.... continue reading
posted by aaronfr 1 decade 8 months 1 week ago • 1,192 views • 3:52YouTube Description: I visited a butterfly farm and left a different man. Video of the entire process from egg to wing Inflation!!
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 10 months 1 week ago • 92 views • 11:12Youtube Description: This 50 minutes long BBC documentary film is aired in the year 2011. The BBC film says it is the first and the most technological advance in the world, ancient chariot racing, the... continue reading
posted by oohlalasassoon 1 decade 1 year 3 weeks ago • 556 views • 48:32The different ways your brain processes different kinds of information.
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 3 months ago • 653 views • 4:41Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the... continue reading
posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 1 year 10 months 1 week ago • 985 views • 14:47An explanation of what temperature is as it relates to the energy of a molecule, and the process of how physicists use lasers to cool atoms of gas.
posted by reiwan 1 decade 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 3,506 viewsFor the first time ever, science levitates beer! In the interest of science, beer is levitated using magnetic levitation over a million times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field to see what would... continue reading
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