Ball-Zee - UK Finest Beatbox
Adults Creativity MusicBALL-ZEE Aka Patrick Hirst is the UK beatbox champion 2011. Conjuring everything from deep, dirty bass lines, heavy hitting drum beats and amazingly realistic sound fx using only the power of his vocal chords and mouth!
Birds-of-Paradise Project
Adults Animals NatureThis fall, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Geographic are bringing the Birds-of-Paradise Project to the public. Get an advance look now...and witness diverse strategies of evolution at work and experience one of nature's extraordinary wonders - up close.
How Linux is Built
Adults Programming Software EngineeringWhile Linux is running our phones, friend requests, tweets, financial trades, ATMs and more, most of us don't know how it's actually built. This short video takes you inside the process by which the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing is organized.
Screen Grab - Simon's Cat
Adults Creativity FilmWe have just launched the NEW FILM! Let us know what you think of 'Screen Grab'.
Human Chair Scare Prank - Hidden Man
Adults Creativity HumorMagician Rich Ferguson is up to his pranks mixed with magic again as the hidden man in the chair prank!
How Liquipel Will Make Your Phone Waterproof
Adults Physics TechnologyWe check in with the team at Liquipel, a company that impressed us last year with its water-resistent nano-coating for smartphones. Dunking an iPhone into a tub of water and watching it still work perfectly is still amazing and something our brains struggle to comprehend.
Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps - Smarter Every Day
Adults Physics ScienceBeing able to calculate the failure front velocity of a Prince Rupert's drop is a pretty big deal. For years this was a scientific mystery. High speed camera technology is only recently fast enough to provide data like this. Thanks to Vision Research for letting me use the V1610 to try to unravel this mystery for the public in general.