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Doodling in Math Class: Dragon Dungeons
Vi Hart goes bananas with dragons, fractals, notation and algorithms again. This time even more bananas than usual. Part II of the Dragon logarithm class. Could someone add a...
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Adam Savage's Ten Commandments of DIY
Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,...
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How to Make an "Anti-Peh" (Pop Shield or Pop Filter)
YT: Do you want to avoid annoying pop sounds when recording your beautiful voice? Then learn to make an Anti Peh! The actual howto starts at 2:16.
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Why A Dead Alkaline Battery Bounces!
YT: This test works equally well for AA, AAA, C, D and 9 Volt alkaline batteries. It is our understanding that the following chemical reactions occur and helps to explain our observations. A...
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What are those floaty things in your eye? (TED-Ed lesson)
YT: Sometimes, against a uniform, bright background such as a clear sky or a blank computer screen, you might see things floating across your field of vision. What are these moving objects, and how are...
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Daniel Kish: How I use sonar to navigate the world
YT: Daniel Kish has been blind since he was 13 months old, but has learned to "see" using a form of echolocation. He clicks his tongue and sends out flashes of sound that bounce off surfaces in the...
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Pull my finger! Scientists solve knuckle-cracking riddle
UAlberta: UAlberta research team uses MRI video to observe for the first time what happens inside joints when they crack. (Edmonton) “Pull my finger,” a phrase embraced by school-aged kids and...
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Steve Silberman: The forgotten history of autism
YT: Decades ago, few pediatricians had heard of autism. In 1975, 1 in 5,000 kids was estimated to have it. Today, 1 in 68 is on the autism spectrum. What caused this steep rise? Steve Silberman points...
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Scientists Show Conspiracy Theorists Will Believe Anything
Just like you can't distinguish between Homeopathy and Placebo, scientists find that Sarcasm and Conspiracy Theories may be indistinguishable. Transcript at...
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Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Video Series - Perception
..And this time it's P for Perception! YT: Following total atomic annihilation, the rebuilding of this great nation of ours may fall to you. That’s why Vault-Tec has prepared this educational video...
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Teenager wins $400,000 for video explaining Relativity
IFLScience: Still baffled by Einstein’s theory of relativity, or even the parts in the movie Interstellar when everyone experiences time differently? Well, this teenager’s explanation of special...
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Molten salt + Water = Explosion (full awesome version)
Exploding molten salt - what happens and why (probably, anyway) - this is the full video. :) From a YT comment: Clearly the explosion is down to the analogue imbalance transition within the hyperbolic...
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Triton artificial gill: BUSTED!
Triton is an underwater breathing apparatus that looks from a James Bond or Star Wars movie. Problem is - it cannot possibly work. Massive debunkage in the video. YT: So over the last couple of weeks I...
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Online Fact Checking - more important than ever!
metro.se: This is what the world looks like – with and without fact checking Swedish fact checker Viralgranskaren and The Internet Foundation In Sweden have released a guide about fact checking online....
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The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle
A math/physics puzzle with a beautiful (but unexpected) answer.
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Songs that skip a beat
YT: I look at songs that use a sudden bar of 3/4 to 'skip a beat', including '"Heart of Glass" by Blondie, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jet, "All You Need Is Love" by The Beatles, "Say A Little...
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Jimmy Kimmel, Samuel Jackson: Stay the Fuck at Home
One for the ages - Samuel L Jackson revisits an old classic with an important message - and reads "Stay the F*** at Home". YT: While Jimmy is in quarantine, he checks in with the great Samuel L....
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The world’s largest organism - Alex Rosenthal
YT: Discover the world’s largest organism: Pando, an enormous and ancient quaking aspen, and find out how it became so huge.
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Infosec Sea Chanty - Rachel Tobac
Fantastic Infosec sea chanty - how to secure your online presence. Twitter: To reach the ~youth~ we're going to have to make infosec sea shanties, aren't we? Guess so! Behold the tale of kid who reuses...
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