Tag: science

August 30, 2018 at 4:03 pm

So a Gyro Stabilizer on a Boat is Pretty Cool…

So a Gyro Stabilizer on a Boat is Pretty Cool...

A powerful (and expensive) gyroscope can be quite effective at eliminating boat roll

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August 28, 2018 at 12:19 pm

Hedgehog Skeleton is 🔥

Hedgehog Skeleton is 🔥

Taxidermist and osteologist Margaret Seagull shows us what a hedgehog skeleton looks like

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August 23, 2018 at 4:46 pm

Russian Cosmonaut Takes You on a Tour of the Longest Route Possible on the ISS

Russian Cosmonaut Takes You on a Tour of the Longest Route Possible on the ISS

Oleg Artemyev gives you a 1st-person POV from the Japanese storage module to the Russian cargo module

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August 15, 2018 at 12:37 pm

The RNLI’s Newest All-Weather Lifeboat is an Engineering Marvel

The RNLI's Newest All-Weather Lifeboat is an Engineering Marvel

It’s the first RNLI lifeboat designed and built entirely in-house

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August 3, 2018 at 4:13 pm

A 1960s Reporter Asks People in Sydney If There’s Life on Other Planets

A 1960s Reporter Asks People in Sydney If There's Life on Other Planets

In an ABC News segment from Aug 31, 1962, Ray Taylor asks an eclectic mix of Sydneysiders, “Is there life on other planets?”

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July 23, 2018 at 4:56 pm

What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb in the Marianas Trench?

What If You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb in the Marianas Trench?

Inspired by an XKCD comic and made by Kurzgesagt in response to a viral video full of lies

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July 19, 2018 at 11:27 am

Rocket Creates Sky Ripples When It Passes Through Ice Crystals in a Cirrus Cloud

Rocket Creates Sky Ripples When It Passes Through Ice Crystals in a Cirrus Cloud

Just a ripple in the space-time continuum

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July 13, 2018 at 4:53 pm

Timelapse Shows 10 Billion Tons of Ice Calving Off a Glacier in Greenland

Timelapse Shows 10 Billion Tons of Ice Calving Off a Glacier in Greenland

An iceberg the size of Manhattan calves off the Helheim Glacier over a period of 30 minutes

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July 9, 2018 at 10:51 am

Audio Illusions That Will Leave Your Ears Feeling Betrayed

Audio Illusions That Will Leave Your Ears Feeling Betrayed

Some of these are really weird

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July 8, 2018 at 3:09 pm

The Percent of Air Per Bag of Chips (Infographic)

The Percent of Air Per Bag of Chips (Infographic)

The ‘air’ is actually nitrogen, which helps prevent the oil in the chips from spoiling

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