YouTube description: Did you play with glow in the dark toys as a kid? They’re super cool, but kind of mysterious. How do they glow after all? Hank explains the phenomenon in this quick question. ... continue reading
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posted by ant 7 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 8 views • 1:45So. Are you your body? And if so, how exactly does this work? Lets explore lots of confusing questions. -yt Watch CGPs - You Are Two http://videosift.com/video/CGP-Grey-You-Are-Two-Brains
posted by eric3579 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,202 views • 6:28YouTube description: Thanks for watching! Sorry the audio is a little off in this video. Currently trying to cut back on my expenses and had to move into a new apartment with shitty acoustics. Patreon: ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 533 views • 3:58Destin goes to talk to a company manufacturing magnets that are indistinguishable from magic. How the eff does this work? Update: Reddit AMA with the company that makes these magnets: Correlated... continue reading
posted by iaui 8 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,293 views • 10:17YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months ago • 493 views • 4:02YouTube: Sodium pentothal, the so-called ‘truth serum,’ is real! But does it work? Find out what ‘truth serums’ do, and how your brain lets you tell lies.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months ago • 718 views • 3:54This master craftsman does a hell of a job with a rotary hammer. Imagine how much work he'll do when he figures out what the cord is for!
posted by newtboy 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,154 views • 52 secsUsing Schlieren optics to show sound waves. How it works and setup at- http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16940&pageid=icb.page93268&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent221620&state=maximize&view... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 769 views • 2:32Not only can the SR-71's engines push it to speeds above mach 3, but it can sustain those speeds for extended periods of time, at high efficiency. This is how it does it.
posted by Sylvester_Ink 9 years 7 months 1 week ago • 2,405 views • 5:56It was the change that no-one saw coming: the idea that we could take a book, a painting or a song and send it through cables and wires and even thin air to the other end of the world - and it would be... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 10 months ago • 653 views • 5:43How does economy work?
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 month 4 weeks ago • 209 views • 7:41A sticky situation explained by Hank.
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 month 4 weeks ago • 202 views • 2:01A bug in Google Chrome allows malicious websites to turn users’ computers into clandestine listening devices, a programmer discovered. Tal Atler, a web developer in Israel, discovered that once you... continue reading
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 3 months 1 week ago • 47 views • 4:06YouTube Description: Guest Star: Elsie the cat. Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and from http://www.audionetwork.com FLAVOR NETWORK ARTICLE (the cool food network graphs): http://www.nature.com/srep... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 3 months 2 weeks ago • 270 views • 10:13"To be a great artist, one must be ready to fail," is just some of the advice offered up by performance artist, Marina Abramović in this recent interview. This idea of failure echoes Samuel Beckett... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 6 months 2 weeks ago • 456 views • 8:46From YT: How does a transistor work? Our lives depend on this device. When I mentioned to people that I was doing a video on transistors, they would say "as in a transistor radio?" Yes! That's exactly... continue reading
posted by mxxcon 1 decade 9 months 3 weeks ago • 55 views • 6:00YouTube Description: How does a transistor work? And when will Moore's Law break down? Supported by TechNYou - check out their great series on the scientific method: http://bit.ly/19bBX5G Thanks... continue reading
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