Primitive Technology: Water Bellows smelt
AdultsCreativityEducationNature...I 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.
Groundbreaking chemist defines all of life in 2 words | Lee Cronin
AdultsLifePhilosophyScience...What is life, really? Despite our scientific advancements, we still don’t really know.
How do bulletproof vests work? - Max G. Levy
AdultsConstructionScienceChemistry...Explore the chemistry behind what makes kevlar so strong, and how this essential synthetic fiber was invented.
The Species That Broke Evolution?
AdultsHealthHistoryScience...The ancestors of gars, horseshoe crabs and coelacanths looked almost the same as their modern relatives. Darwin called species like these “living fossils'' because they seem like they are evolutionarily frozen in time. But Darwin was wrong.
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes
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The Fastest Ant on Earth | Earth's Great Seasons | BBC Earth
AdultsAnimalsLifeNature...With extra long legs to raise their bodies above the hot ground and silver hair to reflect the sun, silver ants are built for life in the desert. But even they have limits, and being the fastest ant on Earth comes in handy when you have to race to beat the heat.
5 Ways CRISPR Is About to Change Everything
AdultsBiologyBiotechnologyHuman...CRISPR-based gene therapies are already changing healthcare for things like sickle cell disease. But CRISPR is bigger than just medicine, and it could revolutionize everything from food and agriculture to green energy fuels to plastics.
These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone
AdultsEducationMusicScience...A big thank you to Titus Grenyer over at Pep Organ for showing us around the Sydney Town Hall Organ, to Dr. Diana Deutsch for providing her illusions and insight into the field, to Casey Connor for advice on building sound illusions, and to Dr. Michael Bach for providing the motion-bounce illusion.
Fallout's Cold Fusion Problem
AdultsEducationScienceTechnology...Was #Fallout’s “artifact” really worth transporting a severed head across the wasteland?