The Walking Water Mystery Solved!
AdultsFilmSciencePhysicsExperimentsSolving a 5 yr old personal mystery about "Why Water Walks on Water".
1st FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship
AdultsPhysicsSportsEntertainmentCheck out the Czech Dynamic 4 Way team "MAD RAVENS" performing their free routine at the 1st FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship 2015 in Prague.
Interactive Dynamic Video
AdultsFilmPhysicsTechnologyScienceImage-Space Modal Bases for Plausible Manipulation of Objects in Video" ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2015) by Abe Davis, Justin Chen, Fredo Durand
What Is Something?
AdultsPhysicsSpacePhilosophyScienceWhat is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?
How do we separate the inseparable?
AdultsPhysicsScienceTechnologyYour cell phone is mainly made of plastics and metals. It's easy to appreciate the process by which those elements add up to something so useful.
Smarter Every Day
AdultsTechnologyTransportationPhysicsScienceCan You Land A Helicopter Without Engine Power?
The invisible motion of still objects
AdultsPhysicsScienceMany of the inanimate objects around you probably seem perfectly still. But look deep into the atomic structure of any of them, and you'll see a world in constant flux - with stretching, contracting, springing, jittering, drifting atoms everywhere.
Mind-Blowing Magic Magnets
AdultsPhysicsScienceTechnologyBrace yourselves for some exciting new technology - "Polymagnets"!
Transporters and Quantum Teleportation
AdultsPhysicsTransportationScienceTechnologyHow Transporters and Quantum Teleportation Work
Do These Liquids Look Alive?
AdultsFoodPhysicsScienceExperimentsWhy do droplets of food coloring attract, repel, and chase each other?
Colorful Collapsing Magnets
AdultsInternet CulturePhysicsFunCreativitySo that was epic! These Magination magnets are way too much fun! Links below to find out more. Let me know what you guys think about this new format for Tidbits of Awesome. I'm hoping to post these more often in between my bigger releases.
Why Isn't It Faster To Fly West?
AdultsPhysicsTransportationWorldScienceIf the earth is spinning to the east at 1000 miles per hour... why can't we fly west more easily?
How do tornadoes form?
AdultsNaturePhysicsScienceWeatherNatural DisastersTornadoes are the most violent storms on Earth, with wind velocities that can exceed 200 miles per hour. How do these terrifying cyclones form? Meteorologist James Spann sheds light on the lifespan of tornadoes as they go from supercell thunderstorms to terrible twisters before eventually dissolving back into thin air.