Primitive Technology: Water Bellows smelt
Adults CreativityI tested the water bellows with a smelt and it produced a small amount of iron from the ore. The concept has a lot of potential but is having some issues.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows (uses water instead of leather)
Adults CreativityI built a Water Bellows. It’s an upside-down clay pot with an inlet valve and an outlet spout. The inlet valve is simply a hole in the pot with a leaf plastered to the inside with wet clay so that it forms a one-way flap valve.
Primitive Technology: Polynesian Arrowroot Hashbrown
Adults CreativityI made a hashbrown from Polynesian arrowroot. A hashbrown is typically made from potatoes where it is mashed and baked on a pan.
What Speakers That Cost $370,000 Sound Like | WIRED
Adults CreativityWhat does it sound like when you listen to a speaker that’s roughly the price of the home you put it in?
Primitive Technology: Making Charcoal in a Closed Pot
Adults CreativityI made charcoal in a clay pot by putting wood in it and heat the pot externally effectively making it like a retort.
Primitive Technology: Geopolymer Cement (Ash and Clay)
Adults CreativityI have made wood ash cement before under the assumption that it was the calcium in the ash that gave it its cementitious properties...
What Makes Kurzgesagt So Special?
Adults CreativityWe're finally revealing the secret sauce behind kurzgesagt videos.
Primitive Technology: Wet Season Destroys Thatched Workshop
Adults CreativityThe thatched workshop where I produce bricks, pottery, cement and charcoal for various projects was destroyed by prolonged rain from the wet season.
Does Fallout's "Rule of Thumb" Work?
Adults CreativityIs #fallout 's famous Vault Boy actually hiding some accurate nuclear blast survival tactics?
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
Adults CreativityI tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?
Adults CreativityMany crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. That’s sort of like what happens with YouTube videos.
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
Adults CreativityI tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
How This Guy Runs a 5 and a Half Minute Mile...Backwards | WIRED
Adults CreativityEver tried running backwards? Meet Aaron Yoder, one of the world's fastest backward runners who can complete a reverse mile in five and a half minutes.
Chandigarh a perfectly planned city?
Adults CreativityExplore the construction of the futurist city Chandigarh, a project of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and planned by Le Corbusier.
Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time
Adults CreativityIs your future already written? Do your past, present, and future all exist right now? Surprisingly, the answer could be yes.
Primitive Technology: Crab and Fish Trap
Adults CreativityI made a fish trap from cane and tested it over the course of a year catching various aquatic animals.
How This Guy Makes the World's Best Puzzle Boxes | Obsessed | WIRED
Adults CreativityKagen Sound is an artisan of remarkable skill, engineering and constructing incredibly intricate puzzle boxes made entirely of wood.
Inside Japan’s Earthquake Simulator
Adults CreativityThis is the world’s largest earthquake simulator, here’s how it works.
Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Red-Headed League - Alex Rosenthal
Adults CreativityOne day in the fall, you called upon your friend, Sherlock Holmes, and found him in conversation with Jabez Wilson. Wilson had been working for the mysterious League of Red-Headed Men.
The Power of Unconventional Thinking | David McWilliams | TED
Adults CreativityFrom World War II to the 2008 economic collapse and beyond, history shows that economists don’t always see the future as clearly as they think they do, says David McWilliams.
Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower
Adults CreativityI made a volute shaped blower where the housing for the fan is volute shaped, that is to say a widening spiral to test the effectiveness of a one way spinning impeller.