The chefs at Chicago’s Alinea Restaurant have created this somewhat unconventional helium filled “delicacy” to please their client’s palates. Unfortunately, there’s no indication on how much they charge for these balloons in the video, but I’m pretty sure they must be fairly expensive considering the nature of the dessert. [Via Neatorama]
After seeing Freddiew’s video featuring a vomiting milkman superhero, Youtuber MinutePhysics wondered how much milk said milkman would have to vomit in order to propel himself from the ground and up into the air. The answer? 5 gallons of milk… per second! Yuck! [VomitPhysics MinutePhysics]
Youtuber C.G.P. Grey lists 8 common animal misconceptions that a lot of people believe to be true at one point or another in their lives. [C.G.P. Grey]
How does a laser really work? It’s Bose – Einstein statistics! (photons are bosons) [MinutePhysics]
Photo Credit: Andy After watching the first episode of The River, not to mention hearing real-life stories of flesh eating catfish, bugs that crawl up your urethra if you pee in the water, and, of course, the famous Piranha, I’m fairly sure I never, ever, want to step into the Amazon. At least until they […]
Here’s a quick video about the history of Thomas Edison in honor of the man’s 165th anniversary. Enjoy! [Via]
Something that looks very pretty when set to gentle acoustic guitars, apparently. In this video, a fuel droplet is set ablaze then quickly extinguished. Flames are spherical in low gravity since warm, buoyant air can’t rise to propel them. Thirty seconds later, a bright afterglow formed by a backlit vapour cloud spreads throughout the combustion […]
From Professor Gillian Griffiths: Cells of the immune system protect the body against pathogens. If cells in our bodies are infected by viruses, or become cancerous, then killer cells of the immune system identify and destroy the affected cells. Cytotoxic T cells are very precise and efficient killers. They are able to destroy infected or […]