In this video, we explore the fascinating story of the Brennan Monorail, an innovative train from the early 1900s designed by Louis Brennan. This monorail defied conventional physics by balancing on a... continue reading
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Odd how often those tasked with enforcing the law break them. 18 U.S. Code § 700 - Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties (1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 10 months 2 weeks ago • 23 views • 59 secsYouTube description: Adam Savage visits one of the world's most joyful places: Jim Henson's Creature Shop! While there, veteran puppeteers John Tartaglia and Donna Kimball use Gobo and Mokey Fraggle... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 11 months 1 week ago • 133 views • 21:30What If you took the celestial bodies that have elements names for them (Mercury, Ceres, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), and made them entirely composed of those elements? Minute physics animates and presents... continue reading
posted by noims 1 year 8 months ago • 29 views • 3:41I show you what the delayed choice experiment looks like in real life
posted by newtboy 1 year 9 months ago • 75 views • 5:40What's a "seal" anyway? You know, it's really unclear. Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:48 What Are Seals? 1:38 Where Can We Find Them? 2:05 Species of Seals 3:09 The Three Families 3:22 Odobenidae ... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 6 months 1 week ago • 345 views • 25:39From Youtube, "A general solution to the cubic equation was long considered impossible until we gave up the requirement that math reflects reality. Thanks to Dr. Amir Alexander, Dr. Alexander Kontorovich,... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 68 views • 23:29How does a uniform cable beneath a helicopter hang? The story of a controversial physics question on the qualifying exam for the 2014 US Physics Olympiad team.
posted by eric3579 2 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 262 views • 12:59When a theory makes a prediction that disagrees with an experimental test, sometimes it means we should throw the theory away. But what if that theory has otherwise produced the most successful predictions... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months ago • 436 views • 12:36Metals have a crystal structure. But they're not one big crystal, they're lots of small crystals called grains. The size of the grains affects the physical properties of the metal, like hardness, toughness,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 135 views • 8:45From Youtube, "Bowling has been reinvented many times over the past seven thousand years but especially in the last 30. This is the fascinating physics of balls, oil, lane and pins. Huge thanks to... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 8 months ago • 485 views • 28:01"Olympic sports are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. They are Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. Besides, there are two more Olympics. They are Special Olympics and Paralympics.... continue reading
posted by ant 2 years 9 months ago • 15 views • 2:40The multiverse hypothesis or theory holds that a group of multiple universes (possibly infinite universes) comprise everything that exists: The entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 143 views • 10:03This video is about how physics dictates the design of modern windmills - why they are so big, have so few blades, and have such skinny blades.
posted by eric3579 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 361 views • 3:27https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 930 views • 7:59Createk third-arm : Supernumerary robotic arm powered by magnetorheological clutches and an hydrostatic transmission. Fast enough to compensate for human motions while being safe for physical human-robot interaction. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months 1 week ago • 123 views • 2:51From Youtube, "At this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life and death. You probably don’t feel it, but there is an incredible amount of activity going on inside you. And this activity... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 1 week ago • 560 views • 11:31YouTube description: This video demonstrate how differently the air spreads when coughing. This visualizes the high importance of the World Health Organization's behavioral recommendations for protection... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months ago • 427 views • 1:09