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 2 weeks ago • 299 views • 4:02Videos (78) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,726 views • 3:13YouTube description: John Reber had a plan: to dam the San Francisco Bay. He convinced some politicians - and it took the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bay Model they built in Sausalito, to prove... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months ago • 1,416 views • 4:34I teamed up with Cody, from Cody’s Lab, to experiment and see what would happen if Sodium Metal got flushed down the toilet.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 28 views • 5:20YouTube description: Pit stops have been a part of motor racing since the very early days. Together with our friends at GoPro we go right into the thick of the action of a F1 pit stop. 18 Team members,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 301 views • 2:16Via YouTube: A new study led by the U.K.’s Queen Mary University has found that even relatively simple animals like bumblebees can teach other how to perform somewhat complex tasks such as pulling a... continue reading
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 595 views • 1:11When Dr. John Reid, Chairman of the Trimontium Trust, contacted us and asked for our help in order to shed some light on an ancient mystery, we immediately agreed! Dr. Reid and his team did some excavations... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 344 views • 29:38As your country's top spy, you must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil syndicate, find the secret control panel, and deactivate their death ray. But your reconnaissance team is spotty, and you have... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 279 views • 4:01YouTube description: Sometimes flight recorders are the only way the victims' families will know what happened to the plane. Immediately following an airplane crash anywhere in US territory, the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 229 views • 5:31From YT: Captain Disillusion teams up with Beakman of' Beakman's World' to examine some free energy claims on YouTube, in the most '90s way possible. [The honest to god Beakman... Beakman was sort... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 783 views • 12:07YT: 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 2 weeks 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 12 months ago • 30 views • 7:57YouTube: Using sensitive sound equipment the team try to find out how an owl can fly so silently compared to other birds.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 week ago • 526 views • 4:14YouTube: Erick Greene and his team employ "roboraptors"—taxidermied hawks and owls with robotic moving parts— to learn about how birds communicate with alarm calls when a predator is nearby.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 920 views • 2:13Inspiring talk about the first Response Team at the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy.
posted by luxury_pie 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 900 views • 44:56Pilot training in Idaho for relief teams going to isolated areas.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 671 views • 7:57The team at kurzgesagt explain black holes, or at least, as much as we know about them... the mysterious, weird, terrifying bastards they are!
posted by ChaosEngine 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 228 views • 5:56YT "Bill shows the world's smallest atomic clock and then describes how the first one made in the 1950s worked. He describes in detail the use of cesium vapor to create a feedback or control loop to control... continue reading
posted by blackfox42 8 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 544 views • 4:33'Someone/thing' could use a chill pill. YouTube: Happy World Oceans Day! We've teamed up with the SpongeBob SquarePants team to delve a little deeper into the oceans and find out what plankton has done... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months ago • 124 views • 2:43I love the sound of breaking glass. YouTube: A special thank you to Dr. John Skinner, who is part of the Smarter Every Day Research team via Patreon for helping come up with the "tree explanation" of... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,993 views • 8:51