Swans on Tea

The Kaye Effect
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Present in shear-thinning fluids — when pouring it into a reservoir, a jet of fluid will occasionally emerge.
There’s an especially neat part at the end where the fluid is used as a light guide.

Fast Animals in Slow Motion
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I haven’t watched the late shows for some time, but discussion of the recent melodrama with Leno, Conan and NBC keeps popping up everywhere, so I am mildly aware of what’s going on. And I’ve seen a number of Downfall parodies. This one made me laugh.
Definitely not G-rated subtitles.
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But I’d watch wrestling like this
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A little kinetic sculpture for you
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Lara Croft vs Indiana Jones
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Examine the vast distances between planets in the solar system
This animation simulates a voyage from the sun past all nine planets. For convenience, the planets are lined up in the same direction. The animation shows each planet’s average distance from the sun.
At the speed of today’s fastest spacecraft (~20 km/second), it would take almost ten [...]

We recently got a delivery of some electronics (OK, it was a bunch of lasers. You can’t build a death ray without lasers. Oh, wait, did I say death ray? Forget that. I meant clock), and the packaging for each had both a shock sensor and a freeze sensor.
Naturally, I had [...]

Dot Physics has been assimilated by the Borg, but (unsurprisingly) Rhett, through his blood, sweat and tears, continues to post cool stuff. This time, it’s an angular momentum demo and explanation. I’ll post the video here as a teaser; go to the post for the explanation
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“It should remain airborne until until gravity overtakes it” is an awkward way of explaining. Gravity is always there, so the acceleration is always toward the earth. That’s why it slows down and eventually changes direction.
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Following the drops dancing on a water surface, I was sent a link to drops jumping around on a super-hydrophobic surface:
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A sphere is the minimum energy configuration, and this energy scales with surface/volume ratio; small spheres combining will represent a change in energy, and [...]