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Chicken Head Tracking - Smarter Every Day

Adults Science
Chickens have a great ability to keep their heads stable. Our bodies use a gyro-like mechanism in our ears which has 3 mutually orthogonal inertial measurement devices. Modern motion processors use something called an Inertial Measurment Unit (IMU). These devices provide movement data which can be used to compensate for the movement. Chickens apparently have the same type mechanism only with a higher update rate.

Aurora Borealis from space

Adults Science
A minor geomagnetic storm caused the Aurora Australis. This is footage from the International Space Station.

Nasa crushes all scientific theories of the world ending

Adults Science
NASA scientist debunks 2012 end of the world doomsday scenarios.

Quantum Levitation

Adults Science
Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field.

The World We Dream- Hugh Herr Zeitgeist Americas 2012

Adults Science
Do you want to have your mind blown? Watch this. (This will cost you 13.5 minutes) Hugh Herr, Director of Biomechatronics at MIT University delivers an amazing talk that will touch your soul. I was in the audience. I was almost in the back row. For the opening few minutes of the talk, I couldn't see his feet. So imagine what happened when I finally stood up and saw his legs.