The Rubens’ Tube: Propane + Fire + Tube + Music = Awesome
While it’s not the first time I’ve seen a Rubens’ Tube in action, real-time sound visualization experiments such as this one never cease to amaze me. [Via Neatorama]
Category Archives: Science
Bill Gates: How I’m trying to change the world now
Yesterday at TED2009, Bill Gates made a passionate and funny case for solving the world’s problems by asking us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them. He even goes to the point of unleashing a swarm of mosquitoes upon his audience to make his point.
Inventing the next amazing thing
In the following video presentation, inventor Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions that treat sound in new ways, and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education. As he puts it: “Almost nothing has been invented yet.” So — what’s next?
Neil deGrasse Tyson Lectures us on Saturn V
There’s just something awesome about seeing the child-like glee in an adult that speaks about a subject that truly fascinates him. In the following video, Neil deGrasse Tyson receives a crate containing a replica of the Saturn V rocket. He then starts talking about what he considers as one of the seven wonders of America.
Feature – Have fun storming the castle: Mongo the Trebuchet
By Brian Boyko Contributing Writer, [GAS] Mark Winkler decided, in infinite wisdom, to spend six months building a full-scale trebuchet. In the next installment of Geeks Are Sexy’s series on crazy inventions and crazy inventors, we introduce Mark’s brainchild, “Mongo, the Trebuchet.” Mongo often launches watermelons, but the 25Gs of force put on the melon […]
Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics
In this unmissable look at the magic of comics, cartoonist Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions whiz through childhood fascinations and imagined futures that our eyes can hear and touch.
Attack of the Killer Asteroid
In the following video, astrophysicist Neal deGrasse Tyson predicts that Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid named after an evil demon in Egyptian mythology, may collide with Earth in April 2029, plunging into the Pacific, and creating a tsunami that would “ablates the entire coastline, wiping it clean of all traces of civilization.” Now, that’s a cheerful […]
Mmm! Scientist Explains “Umami,” the Mysterious “Fifth Taste”
By Will Sullivan Contributing Writer, [GAS] Ask serious gourmets or gourmands what humans can taste, and they’ll tell you: “Salt, Sweet, Sour and Bitter… oh, yeah, and then there’s ‘Umami,’ but it’s a mystery, no one really knows what it is…” “Umami” is Japanese for “delicious savory,” and until recently, it was a mysterious food […]