Big boys and their toys!
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 12 months ago • 1,066 views • 9:14Videos (39) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: In Bremen, Germany, there's a tower more than a hundred metres high: it's called the Fallturm, or the Drop Tower. If you want a cost-effective way to test an experiment in microgravity... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 299 views • 4:02YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months ago • 658 views • 3:23Whew ... my mind read this as BLOOD Parasites! YouTube: What if you could just drop your kids off at someone else’s place and let them have the responsibility? Well, there are some animals that do... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 54 views • 3:53YT: Your sports team wins. The confetti drops. And suddenly, the video quality falls apart. Why? Let's talk about interframe compression, bitrate, and unnecessary green screen effects.
posted by Fantomas 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 168 views • 4:20"Drop, cover, hold on. " YouTube: Dr. Jones advises you keep plenty of water handy, even though you're more likely to be murdered in Los Angeles than die in an earthquake.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 30 views • 7:57I made a rough type of textile from bark fibre. This is the same tree I use for making cordage though I don’t know its name. It has been raining a lot here lately (the video also shows how well the hut... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 12 months ago • 639 views • 4:48YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT.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 4 months 3 weeks ago • 493 views • 4:02(yt description) 5 designs guaranteed to win 1st place or your money back. I hope you enjoy the video and learn something new like I did when I made it. Feel free to share with any one who likes to learn... continue reading
posted by Magicpants 8 years 11 months ago • 1,108 views • 9:49"What happens when you drop a perfectly balanced stack of balls? And how is the result like a supernova? The classic momentum transfer demonstration, at the next level..." From http://boingboing.net/2015/02/24/how-to-... continue reading
posted by ant 9 years 2 months ago • 1,125 views • 3:34"Now what other animal can you think of that makes its habitat more livable, drops everything to keep its neighborhood safe and has a bum that smells like dessert?"
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 9 months 1 week ago • 749 views • 4:27Neat demonstration of Newton's laws in slow motion, with music and a slinky. So cool how the bottom of the Slinky doesn't move until the top of the dropped Slinky arrives at it on the way down... I... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 1 decade 3 months 3 weeks ago • 808 views • 1:43When I don't have time to brew one I like to take a packet of Starbucks Via Mocha and add a few drops of peppermint oil ... yummmmmmm YouTube Description: The world's most consumed psychoactive drug... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 year 2 weeks ago • 612 views • 1:45A bit of glass made by dropping liquid glass into water is called a Prince Rupert's Drop. It has some very weird properties, including being nearly indestructible at one end, and super vulnerable at the... continue reading
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 1 month ago • 3,954 views • 6:39Water dropped onto pure sodium sizzles and then explodes. Part of a series of videos exploring chemical reactions at an insane 10,000+ frames per second.
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 2 months 4 weeks ago • 64 views • 5:43This is a really nice demonstration, and explanation of, what happens when you drop a magnet down a conducting non-magnetic tube. YouTube Description: Huge thanks to the Royal Institution, Professor... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 3 months 3 weeks ago • 228 views • 3:50The badass professors drop some science
posted by acidSpine 1 decade 2 years 9 months ago • 1,476 views • 11:54