Posts Tagged ‘video’
Incredible Images of our Amazing Star: 5 Years & 2,600 Terabytes
By Ben | science, spaceNASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is celebrating its fifth year of continuously observing the Sun. [&hellip
Flying through the Solar System at the speed of light
By Ben | science, spaceIt turns out the solar system is really, really big. From the video description: "In [&hellip
Animation: Pollution is never a local issue
By Ben | environment, maps, science, weather[Researchers] found that pollution from China affects cloud development in the North Pacific and strengthens [&hellip
Animated World Cup 2014 highlight reel
By Ben | art, sportsThis is pretty. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLphIufs8_4] Richard Swarbrick has done all sorts of these types of [&hellip
Literally Visualizing Sound
By Ben | photography, scienceUsing a tricksy method called Schlieren imaging, it is possible to record differences in air [&hellip
Antarctica Condition 1 Weather
By Ben | weatherAs I write this, it's snowing hard. We're under a Winter Storm Warning with 1-2" [&hellip
This is Water
By Ben | inspirational, literatureThough I had been aware of its existence, I hadn't watched or read David Foster [&hellip
Magnet + FAT Copper Pipe = "Anti-Gravity"
By Ben | scienceOK, so it's not anti-gravity, but rather Lenz's Law. As the magnet's magnetic field moves [&hellip
Timelapse from a Shanghai Apartment
By Ben | photographyTaken from the 23rd floor apartment in Shanghai taken over a two year period. by [&hellip
Perseverance: Mouse vs. Cookie
By Ben | animals, funny, inspirationalShown to my HS students right before taking a quiz. They really enjoyed it. by Павел [&hellip
What happens when you pour molten aluminum into an anthill?
By Ben | animals, art, scienceThe results are amazing and beautiful. They'd fit in beautifully in a sculpture garden. Next [&hellip
Fitting In
By Ben | culture, inspirationalI know this feel: Neatorama, later mentioning the above video posted a link to this [&hellip
Whales Almost (Accidentally) Eat Divers
By Ben | animals, natureNote: When you suddenly find yourself surrounded by a school of panicked tiny fish, you're [&hellip
Landfill Harmonic: An Orchestra from Trash
By Ben | amazing tales, film, inspirational, music"Landfill Harmonic reveals a mind-boggling, inventive effort to change that - musical instruments made from [&hellip
Caught on Camera: The Pitch Has Dropped
By Ben | scienceAs previously covered in these pages, the Pitch Drop experiment involves setting up a funnel [&hellip
Disco Lava: Lava poured on ice
By Ben | art, sciencePart volcanology research, part performance art, in 2010 & 2011, the Syracuse Lava Project melted [&hellip
50 foot long bead chain seems to defy gravity
By Ben | scienceThe video looks completely fake, but don't worry, it's just physics. They explain what's happening [&hellip
Audri's Rube Goldberg Monster Trap
By Ben | education, inspirational[UPDATE: My related post widget tells me that I posted this same video in March [&hellip
Holy Grail of Baseball Cards: The T-206 Honus Wagner
By Ben | amazing tales, history, sportshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_3BtIUSmbk "Starting from January 1909, the [American Tabacco Company] sought authorization from baseball players for [&hellip
Motion Amplification Reveals Invisible Motion
By Ben | science, technologyFrom the Bits blog at the NYTimes: "The amplification process is called Eulerian Video Magnification, and [&hellip
See-through Brains
By Ben | science"Scientists have come up with a way to make whole brains transparent, so they can [&hellip
World's Longest Book Domino Chain
By Ben | cleverWhat do you get when you add: 2,131 books + 27 volunteers + 112 slices [&hellip
Visualizing Bach, Beethoven, & Stravinsky
By Ben | art, musicWhilst cruising through posts over at allhomosapienswelcome, I came across this impressive visualization of J.S. [&hellip
Atomic Scale Stop Motion (now with witty comments)
By Ben | scienceEver wonder what nanophysicists do for fun? Make stop-motion films where the pixels are individual [&hellip
Wringing out Water from a Washcloth in Zero G
By Ben | science, space[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TssbmY-GM] My initial thoughts on what would happen were pretty wrong- though once I [&hellip
Incredible Wingsuit Flight Through a Narrow Cave
By Ben | adventure, sports"Wingsuit / BASE-jump athlete Alexander Polli does the never before done—a tactical flight through a [&hellip
A Child-Eating Sasquatch Explains Dopamine
By Ben | art, scienceFrom the video's description: "A Rutgers Neuroscience graduate student briefly elaborates on dopamine in terms [&hellip
Opening Day! Who's on First? (Kinetic Typography)
By Ben | funny, sportsIn honor of the Detroit Tigers 2013 Season Opener (and the return of all everyday, [&hellip
Rap Quotes Street Signs in NYC
By Ben | art, musicArtist Jay Shells "created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific [&hellip