This video is a bit long but his Jer Thorp, a creative computer geek, keeps you pretty entertained the whole time and he has some really funky graphs making data quite aesthetic. I think it’s worth watching to the end to hear him make his point about how we need to put data in a [...]
Human achievement point! Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory campus of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have successfully produced the world’s first 100 Tesla non-destructive magnetic field. The achievement was decades in the making, involving a diverse team of scientists and engineers. The 100 Tesla mark was reached at approximately 3:30 p.m. on March 22, [...]
At Lake Nojiri in Shinano, Nagano Prefecture in Japan there was found over 50 years ago, the fossils of Naumann elephants. They have employed what is now called the “Lake Nojiri Method” to excavate the 83,000 fossils and other items they have found since: anyone can participate. Families with five-year-old children, troops of secondary school students, the [...]
Now 17, Taylor Wilson talks about how he believes that kids can change the world – citing the nuclear reactor he made in his parent’s garage when he was 14 years old! Dream big people. He wanted to make a star, and he created something amazing. You may not be able to build a nuclear [...]
If only I had seen this back in highschool…chemistry would have been so much more fun. [Via Facebook]
One of my Facebook friends posted this on their wall with the simple comment of “Troll Physics”:
I went to visit my Aunty the other day and when I walked into the house one of her young children, aged 11, announced, “Look Mum! I reached Level 7!” So I got curious, Level 7 on what? Then my Aunty launched into an explanation of this website – Lumosity. This site was built by [...]
There are places, in and around our great cities, where the natural world has all but disappeared. You can make out streets and sidewalks, autos, parking garages, advertising billboards, monuments of glass and steel, but not a tree or a blade of grass or any animal – besides, of course, the humans. There are lots [...]
Just got this from the guys at Glenn who are finalizing the new special edition DVD/BluRay version of Ascent:Commemorating Shuttle which this will be an extra on. The video is shot from the Solid Rocket Booster Perspective up and down with enhanced sound thanks to Ben Burtt’s son and the folks at Skywalker Sound. The [...]
From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn’t always look like this. Thanks to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon’s history. Learn more in this video! [NASAexplorer]
News that long-term space travel can risk causing damage to vision may dampen enthusiasm for future trips. The University of Texas Medical School in Houston has run MRI scans on 27 astronauts who’ve been on either the International Space Station (pictured), a NASA shuttle, or both. The scans found that: with nine astronauts, the cerebospinal [...]
For all you beer geeks out there… because beer = science! Where malt, water, yeast, and hops meet, magic happens. And since we’re already on the subject of beer, here’s a short video demonstrating a technique that will help you pour that perfect pint of Guinness you’re all looking after. And finally, here’s a video [...]
