This track is from Nigel Stanford’s Solar Echoes. All the experiments you see in it are real. You get to see how sound interacts with items in a bunch of interesting ways. Also; fire.
Yep, there’s a gadget for that: Age of Electrotech review
The Age of Electrotech (Radiance House) is an expansion for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game system and seeks to stand technology alongside the more typical swords and magic of the fantasy RPG fare. Before I delve too deep, I want to take a moment to explain my focus for this review. I’m a systems geek. Most […]
The train set of quantum levitation
I think it will be a while before Hornby can sell anything like this train set. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ52X6wg0po We’ve been able to produce quantum levitation for a few years now and those of us outside the field get to catch up with progress now and then through demos. This demo is a great one. A Japanese […]
Common space myths – how many did you know?
Everything you thought you knew about space is wrong? This isn’t an attack on sci-fi movies – this is just a geeky reminder of how things work. You knew most of this stuff, if not all of it, despite what the pitch of the video is. It’s still fun to recap and remind ourselves. Here’s […]
How to make a paper airplane fly in an infinite loop
This video shows you how to create a paper airplane that will fly forever. The video also warns you not to try this at home. When you do try this at home let us know how it went. Leave a comment below or even a link to your own YouTube page. If you’re quick enough […]
What’s inside Play-Doh?
Have you ever taken a mouthful of Play-Doh? Do you let your kids eat it? A useful video from Wired! Are you surprised by any of the ingredients? If you would have taken a mouthful of Play-Doh before would you still take a mouthful now?
The Periodic Table of Middle Earth
This particular table of “elements” includes characters from the Lord of the Rings as well as the Hobbit. Other geeky Periodic Tables? Sure, we can do that. What about Syfy’s Periodic Table of the Empire Strikes Back or this one of Imaginary Elements? What about an actual periodic table? Via LOTRProject.
Life in our solar system according to 1930s science
These are images from the Fantastic Adventures magazine which ran from 1939 to 1953. It was published by Ziff Davis, the company which now owns IGN, UGO, 1UP and Geek.com. These features speculate what life on other planets and large moons might be like based on the knowledge of scientists at the time. Via Imgur.
Can science explain zombies?
Imagine that the world really had zombies but not magic. Could we explain the phenomena just with science? These two videos are from TED education and attempt to do just that. TED is a fantastic brand that produces some thoroughly high quality and interesting videos. IN this case we’ve some lessons worth sahring that are […]
Mad scientist builds working Tesla Gun
The mad scientist in question is Rob Flickenger. Dangerous Rob had help from Hazard Factory and Hackerbot Labs to make this gun – and it’s a real gun. Sure, it may look clunky and something out of a comic (actually, it’s out of The Five Fits of Science) but this device can shock at 20,000 […]
