YT: The International Phonetic Alphabet: one sound for each symbol, and one symbol for each sound. Except for the sounds we can't make. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

posted by Fantomas 2 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 883 views • 6:31

YT: The Byron Bay Railroad Company runs the world's first 100% solar-powered train. It wouldn't work everywhere - but in the bright sunshine of Australia, it might just be the right tool for the job. ... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 2 years 11 months ago • 347 views • 4:14

YT: Olds Engineering, a traditional workshop and foundry, sits in Maryborough, Australia. It's not the sort of place you'd expect to find a new industrial invention in the 21st century: and yet the Olds... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 458 views • 5:26

YT: Bill describes how the minimization of surface area and inertia compete to form droplets. He then shows how engineers use this knowledge to create precisely-sized droplets in a commercial inkjet printer... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 3 years ago • 726 views • 5:52

SUIT SUIT SUIT SUIT SUIT

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YT: The Forbes Pigment Collection, at the Harvard Art Museums, is a collection of pigments, binders, and other art materials for researchers to use as standards: so they can tell originals from restorations... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 3 years 2 months ago • 443 views • 5:13

YT: Video shown by The Professor (Martyn Poliakoff) during his presentation at launch UNESCO's International Year of the Periodic Table.

posted by Fantomas 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 991 views • 4:44

[YT] From January, every citizen of England and Wales will have a new social credit score. Advice from the Department for Community and Culture. ⏩ is a series of YouTube videos from a future. ... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 3 years 5 months 1 week ago • 225 views • 2:53

YT: The Tree That Owns Itself in Athens, Georgia is well known. The other Tree That Owns Itself in Eufaula, Alabama, really isn't. It's the same story in a different place. Why?

posted by Fantomas 3 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 418 views • 2:44

YT: In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they were funded by someone anonymous in 1980, perhaps as a message... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 3 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 399 views • 3:08

Cap D looks into the escherian stairwell viral video from the Rochester Institute of Technology from back in 2013, and how a hoax can endure long beyond it's debunking.

posted by Fantomas 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,289 views • 15:42

The second gameplay reveal from the Quakecon presentation of DOOM: Eternal. You can see the full presentation here: https://youtu.be/CGq8Ee2gOe4

posted by Fantomas 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 436 views • 6:43

Destin catches a small bird in his house and decides to film it taking of in slow motion.

posted by Fantomas 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 477 views • 4:22

YT: We're testing a 90-year-old piece of technology that was meant to be part of Britain's air defence. The Sound Mirrors, on Romney Marsh, were built in the late 1920s as a way to amplify the sound from... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 527 views • 3:28

YT: 90s VHS video filters are in fashion right now, and most producers are using the same filter as everyone else. Why does the filter look like it does? To answer that question, I went to talk to the... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 3 years 10 months ago • 430 views • 3:48

Researchers from NVIDIA, Aalto University, and MIT developed a deep learning based method that can fix photos by simply looking at examples of corrupted photos only. More info here: https://news.developer.nvidia.com/a... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,006 views • 1:25

You are what you eat.

posted by Fantomas 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 675 views • 2:07

Holly visits The Captain with a request to debunk a machine that miraculously sorts coloured marbles.

posted by Fantomas 3 years 11 months ago • 539 views • 11:03