YouTube Description: And how it got its name. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO El Niño is a weather phenomenon that occurs irregularly in the eastern tropical Pacific every... continue reading
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My favorite insect in all the land! YouTube: The Dragonflies vision is so quick but will it detect the high speed pea?
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 119 views • 4:14YouTube: Gav shows you how insanely quick the inside of a DSLR camera moves when it takes a picture, by filming it at 10,000 fps
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 months 1 week ago • 389 views • 7:13This is the follow on to the first video---http://videosift.com/video/The-precision-repair-of-a-wooden-boat--- Here, he finishes off the bow of the boat. It's a beautiful piece of work, on a wooden... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 9 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 700 views • 3:45Not 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 • 5:56Derek discusses how the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. My brain hurts.
posted by nanrod 9 years 11 months 1 week ago • 793 views • 5:46YouTube Description: A new clip from Red Bull sees Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel explain the 2014 Formula One regulations -- which are arguably the most complex the sport has ever seen. At... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 month 3 weeks ago • 905 views • 3:28Using high-speed video, a pitcher explains the action of his arm and fingers for the different kinds of baseball pitches: fastball, cutter, two-seamer/sinker, slider, "reverse slider" (screwball), curveball,... continue reading
posted by Hastur 1 decade 4 months 1 week ago • 9,517 views • 18:00YouTube Description: While in the Rainforest we discovered a "Caterpillar Turbo Mode" How much faster can a group of caterpillars travel than an individual caterpillar on the same course?Here is the raw... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 11 months 1 week ago • 2,047 views • 5:04With a flexible spine and feet like tire treads, the cheetah is built not only for speed - but for unrivaled acceleration. -yt
posted by eric3579 1 decade 11 months 3 weeks ago • 3,438 views • 3:03Destin gives us the quick science on the best conditions for skipping stones: angle of stone relative to surface of the water: 20° angle of stone's path towards the surface: as low as possible ... continue reading
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 2 weeks ago • 136 views • 4:03Youtube 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 1 month ago • 556 views • 48:32A 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 2 weeks ago • 3,954 views • 6:39Compression of time during travel near the speed of light has some interesting and significant consequences.
posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 2 months ago • 446 views • 8:37YouTube Description: Firing a (very old) musket and filming with a (very new) high-speed camera. With thanks to Jim Gamble. Also discussed by Professor Martyn Poliakoff. Ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221185953... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 3 months ago • 296 views • 7:32Sixty Symbols looks into recent announcement that some scientist think they may have detected neutrinos going faster than the speed of light.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,732 views • 9:38Professor Mike Merrifield talks about how all the stars of a galaxy move around at the same speed, which would make the the pretty spiral pattern impossible. He explains the "winding paradox" and how then... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 2,236 views • 7:43From YT: It's the most famous science equation in history... but E=mc² is not technically correct.
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 5,254 viewsFind out some interesting bits of info about the largest planet in our solar system. Including how Jupiter was used to calculate the speed of light, different facts about Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto,... continue reading
posted by reiwan 1 decade 4 years 3 months ago • 1,073 views