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.
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.
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.
Historian Breaks Down Napoleon's Battle Tactics | WIRED
Adults Creativity"Love him or hate him, Napoleon is a figure probably unrivaled in modern history." Today Jonathon Riley, a British General and historian, breaks down French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's most prominent battles and utilized war tactics.
Can you solve the secret assassin society riddle?
Adults CreativityYour agent has infiltrated a life or death poker game in a hidden back room of a grand casino.
Primitive Technology: Downdraft Kiln
Adults CreativityA Phoenix kiln is a type of downdraft kiln where the firebox is below the ware chamber.
Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Insulated Furnace
Adults CreativityI made a furnace insulated with wood ash to smelt iron in. Furnace insulation stops heat being lost from the walls of a furnace and so increases the heat within the furnace.
Primitive Technology: New Brick Kiln Design
Adults CreativityI cleared an area as a workspace for making bricks, trialed a new source of clay for brick making and tested a new kiln variant that uses fewer bricks than the previous design.
The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
Adults CreativityWelcome to Micromouse, the fastest maze-solving competition on Earth.
Primitive Technology: Roasted Ore and Shell Flux Smelt
Adults CreativityI tested 2 ways of improving iron smelts by treating the ore, roasting the ore and using snail shells as a flux. Then finally I recycled old slag to see if it would produce any more iron.