May 1, 2015 at 12:14 pm
You Can’t Ride This Backwards Bicycle
How learning to ride a backwards bicycle teaches us about knowledge, understanding, bias and neuralplasticity.
How learning to ride a backwards bicycle teaches us about knowledge, understanding, bias and neuralplasticity.
Neuroscientist and TED Senior Fellow, Greg Gage, is on a mission to make brain science accessible to all. In this fun, kind of creepy demo, Gage uses a simple, inexpensive DIY kit to take away the free will of an audience member. It’s not a parlor trick; it actually works. You have to see…
It’s a giant water cannon versus a giant flame thrower, need I say more?
Watch Bill ‘the engineer guy‘ detail the engineering choices underlying the design of the common beverage can. Bill explains why it is cylindrical, outlines the manufacturing steps needed to created the can, notes why the can narrows near its lid, show close-ups of the double-seam that hold the lid on and details the complex…
Check out this compilation of SpaceX rocket launches in glorious 4K. If your connection is slow, toggle to 1080 HD for smoother playback.
What a brilliant feat of engineering! Watch this moving assembly line of machines install railroad tracks in real time.
Who do you see? MIT researcher and scientist Aude Oliva created this hybrid image made from the high spatial frequency components of a picture of Albert Einstein and the low spatial frequency components of a picture of Marilyn Monroe. From close up, Albert Einstein should be seen. At a greater distance or smaller size,…
Witness the amazing progression of the robotics programs at Boston Dynamics, set to the exhilarating montage music of Paul Engemann, whose song “Push it to the limit” was used in the popular gangster flick, Scarface. I embedded the original montage below for reference 🙂
Robert Downey Jr. and Albert Manero, the founder of Limbitless, surprise a very special child with a new bionic 3D printed arm at no cost to the family.
From the people who brought you, “fried shrimp in three seconds flat“, comes high velocity dumplings in an even more ambitious and elaborate setup. The live action demonstrations are spots for Japanese telecom, Docomo, as a memorable way to tout their high-speed LTE cellular network. I wonder what the next food will be? …
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