A small collection of some really cool physics gadgets! Please note that all of these are available for purchase via the links below: 1. helicone 2. hypnogizmo 3. swinging sticks 4. maxwell’s wheel 5. euler’s disk 6. solids of constant width 7. vortex dome [brusspup]
Even if you don’t notice that your bread is fuzzy before you chow down, it’s not going to kill you… probably. [SciShow]
Watch as a bird takes off from the hand of Smarter Every Day host Destin Sandlin at 20,000 frames per second. Fascinating! [Smarter Every Day]
The human voice is capable of incredible variety and range. As we age, our bodies undergo two major changes which explore that range. So how exactly does our voice box work, and what causes these shifts in speech? Shaylin A. Schundler describes how and why our voices change when we get older. [TED Ed]
Are you losing brain cells, right now? Find out in this enlightening video from ASAP Science! [ASAP Science]
How do you pour a beer? Turns out, the most popular pouring method (The one that results in little to no foam) is completely wrong and could cause you stomach issues! You pour it down the sides with vigor and you’re breaking that co2 out. Granted people say that looks like a lot of foam, […]
What happens when you mix a large amount of super glue and a warm borax solution? A crazy reaction that’s what! [The King of Random]
There’s an organism that changed the world. It caused the first mass extinction in Earth’s history … and also paved the way for complex life. How? Anusuya Willis explains how cyanobacteria, simple organisms that don’t even have nuclei or any other organelles, wrote a pivotal chapter in the story of life on Earth. [TED Ed]
How likely is a 21st-century epidemic of the plague? Unlike other diseases, the plague is alive and well in some parts of the world, but scientists and doctors are continuing to develop better treatments. [SciShow]
The black hole at the center of the Milky Way has proven one of Albert Einstein’s key predictions is correct: light climbing out of a black hole is ‘stretched’ so that it turns red. The theory of general relativity addressed the issue of how photons would get out of a gravitational well such as a […]