From Youtube, "The sun. Smooth and round and peaceful. Except when it suddenly vomits radiation and plasma in random directions. These solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs can hit earth and... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 months 2 weeks ago • 133 views • 9:43

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 10 months 1 week ago • 869 views • 3:16

Source: SmarterEveryDay

posted by b4rringt0n 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,345 views • 16:13

Using foundational computer science theories, Colin Morris focuses on understanding trends in popular music. Borrowing from the areas of bioinformatics and compression algorithms, he shows that the lyrics... continue reading

posted by notarobot 1 year 7 months 1 week ago • 129 views • 14:23

YouTube 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) 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 1,724 views • 5:07

YouTube description: Hi there! I'm (finally!) back with a new video explaining what is swing, a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. The amazing... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago • 459 views • 2:01

https://youtu.be/cECsj2Bznig The Global Vehicle Target is the new standard for testing autonomous driving and crash test systems. To cameras and radar, it looks like a car: but if you hit it, it'll... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 1 month 1 week ago • 842 views • 4:33

A 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.

YouTube description: What happens when you fire a Civil War mortar at a caravan? We invited YouTuber Tom Scott to find out. The mortar used is a replica of Roaring Meg, which destroyed large parts... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 544 views • 7:11

The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers co-ordinated through... continue reading

posted by nanrod 2 years 2 months 1 week ago • 621 views • 2:50

YouTube description: It’s an 1980s pop music cliche that dates back to 1910. If you listen to the first few seconds of Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” (hint: listen to the Cardi B remix) you’ll hear... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 592 views • 9:26

YouTube 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) 2 years 8 months 1 week ago • 724 views • 3:34

"... Ever since Macauley Culkin smashed his hands against his face and screamed, audiences have loved the film HOME ALONE. It has become a Christmas classic; played along side other holiday pictures that... continue reading

posted by ant 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 18 views • 14:01

YouTube description: The fade out is underrated. It should come back. The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today's hits it's much... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 490 views • 7:42

YouTube description: At the University of Manchester's High Voltage Laboratory, we see what happens when a DJI Phantom 3 drone gets hit with an electrical impulse of 1.4MV - basically, a lightning strike.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 333 views • 5:31

It takes less acceleration to get to other stars than our own sun. Crazy, huh?

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,860 views • 3:13

Damn! I didn't learn this essential Life Lesson until halfway through Architecture School in University. That lesson hit me hard and I cursed that I wasted so much time and effort beforehand. Just do... continue reading

posted by oblio70 4 years 1 month ago • 1,970 views • 3:48

YouTube description: The song “American Woman” by The Guess Who wasn't ever supposed to happen. It wasn't planned, staged or pre-meditated. Yet you all know the iconic riff. Sometimes all it takes... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,835 views • 3:02

There are cosmic snipers firing at random into the unvierse. What are they and what happens if they hit us?

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 312 views • 7:14