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Toast Time

2 July, 2009 (03:00) | Food, Tech, Video | No comments

Tim Allen has apparently rewired somebody’s toaster
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We Stab it with Our Steely Knives

1 July, 2009 (03:00) | Physics, Video | No comments

… but we just can’t kill the beast. Until the fourth try. Fortunately the failed attempts are kinda neat, too.
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My instinct to grab a pointy object to burst the bubble was misplaced, of course. The soap film isn’t a rigid object, [...]

(S)Poof!

27 June, 2009 (03:00) | Experiments, Food, Physics, Video | No comments

Another video, reminiscent of the viral popcorn-popped-with-a-cellphone video I discussed a while back
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And, in fact one of the response videos is with popcorn
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Also one involving toast
Objections: One is electrostatic. Matt has [...]

Doctor Incredible

25 June, 2009 (03:00) | Education, Science-general, Video | 2 comments

100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists

Jocks v Nerds

21 June, 2009 (10:19) | Humor, Politics, Satire, Science-general, Video | No comments

John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner
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That’s Just Super

20 June, 2009 (03:00) | Physics, Video | No comments

Maglev toy train
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I Can’t Believe it’s not Your Basement

17 June, 2009 (03:00) | Cool stuff, Video | No comments

But for the people walking, this looks like a model railroad setup.
Tilt-Shift Trains Switzerland
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On Second Thought, Let’s Not Go to Starbase 12

16 June, 2009 (03:00) | Silly, Video | No comments

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Bubbles, Man!

15 June, 2009 (03:00) | Physics, Video | No comments

Man when we was kids and we wanted bubbles we had to fart in the tub!
Billy Ray Valentine, Trading Places
Bubbles+Rings= Toroidal Funtime!
It’s a battle between surface tension and pressure. But all in all it bubbles operate on a fundamental principle: laziness. Bubbles form which ever shape minimizes their surface area. This is usually a sphere [...]

The Effect of Inflation

14 June, 2009 (03:00) | Physics, Video | No comments

Intellectual Ventures Lab: Quarter Shrinker
We found out that a local laboratory known as Hackerbot Labs had built a device which uses electromagnetic forming in order to shrink quarters down to the size of a dime. This device would be ideal for us to test our new highspeed video camera and other equipment, while collecting [...]

We Ames to Please

12 June, 2009 (03:00) | Illusions, Video | No comments

Ames’ Window
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Camera Envy

8 June, 2009 (03:00) | Other science, Physics, Video | No comments

Mentos and cola in UltraSlo motion @7000FPS. Seven-frikkin’-thousand!
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