From Veritasium: My friend Blake from InnoVinci emailed me with a cool idea for a video and footage of levitating balls in water streams. Initially it was tough to explain the physics of what was going on. The standard Bernoulli effect relies on the object being completely immersed in the upward-flowing fluid. But in this […]
From Mayim Bialik, Neuroscientist and actress on The Big Bang Theory: Here’s me discussing the beauty and complexity of DNA with an emphasis on seeing mine in my kids. We are all made of the same exact molecules and that’s amazing. [Mayim Bialik]
Whether you sop it up with bread or use it to boost your cooking, olive oil is awesome. But a lot of chemistry goes on in that bottle that can make or break a product. Take the “extra virgin” standard: Chemistry tells us that a higher free-fatty-acid content leads to a lower grade, less tasty […]
Since the days of Ancient Greece, philosophers and scientists have been wondering: What is space? Is the absence of things… a thing? These questions continued to fascinate physicists in the modern era, leading Isaac Newton, Ernst Mach, and Albert Einstein to wonder about the true nature of the fabric of the cosmos. The search for […]
Warning: This video can implant a false memory. [ASAPSCIENCE]
Check out this fun and enlightening video by Derek Muller from Veritasium showing a setup that will allow you to see the invisible at home: light, energy, and the constant chemical reactions around us everyday. I first saw a Schlieren imaging setup around ten years ago in Melbourne. I was immediately fascinated by the way […]
If everyone in the world became vegetarian today, what would the impact be? ASAP Science breaks down the fascinating outcomes in their new video. [ASAP Science]
You might think that hypnosis is just a fun gimmick for stage shows and plot twists, but it turns out, there’s a lot more to it than just that. Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity for response to suggestion. The term may also […]