Tag: science

May 22, 2015 at 1:17 pm

Lighting Candle Smoke in Super Slow Motion

Lighting Candle Smoke in Super Slow Motion

If you’ve ever relit a candle by igniting the smoke, this is what it looks like in super slow motion. Oh yeah, and a brief explanation why 🙂

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May 11, 2015 at 6:02 pm

Doctor Uses Robot to Stitch a Grape Back Together

Doctor Uses Robot to Stitch a Grape Back Together

Watch a doctor use the da Vinci Surgical System to stitch a grape back together. The robotic technology is designed to help surgeons perform delicate, minimally invasive surgeries.

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May 1, 2015 at 12:14 pm

You Can’t Ride This Backwards Bicycle

You Can't Ride This Backwards Bicycle

How learning to ride a backwards bicycle teaches us about knowledge, understanding, bias and neuralplasticity.

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April 29, 2015 at 5:29 pm

How To Control Someone Else’s Arm With Your Brain

How To Control Someone Else's Arm With Your Brain

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…

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April 24, 2015 at 12:09 pm

Fire vs Water

Fire vs Water

It’s a giant water cannon versus a giant flame thrower, need I say more?

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April 15, 2015 at 2:10 pm

The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Can

The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Can

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…

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April 10, 2015 at 4:07 pm

SpaceX Rocket Launches in 4K Ultra HD

SpaceX Rocket Launches in 4K Ultra HD

Check out this compilation of SpaceX rocket launches in glorious 4K. If your connection is slow, toggle to 1080 HD for smoother playback.

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April 6, 2015 at 4:54 pm

This Moving Assembly Line of Machines Installs Railroad Tracks in Real Time

This Moving Assembly Line of Machines Installs Railroad Tracks in Real Time

What a brilliant feat of engineering! Watch this moving assembly line of machines install railroad tracks in real time.

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April 4, 2015 at 10:20 am

This Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein Vision Test Can Quickly Tell If you Need Glasses

This Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein Vision Test Can Quickly Tell If you Need Glasses

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,…

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March 16, 2015 at 11:29 am

Robotic Progression Set to Awesome Montage Music

Robotic Progression Set to Awesome Montage Music

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 🙂

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