Video: Why Can't We Walk Straight?

Loose sight of your goals and you'll do this with your life. I guess it what makes us human.

A Mystery: Why Can't We Walk Straight? from NPR on Vimeo.

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Technology: Strandbeest

Strandbeest are simply stunning and a little creepy. I want to see one of these in action up close. Brilliant Theo!

Animaris Umerus walking - June '09 from Strandbeest on Vimeo.

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Back to the Future Hoverboard

If there was ever a gift, I wish I could have asked for when I was a kid. A floating hoverboard would be in the top three.

HOVERBOARD - NILS GUADAGNIN from nils guadagnin on Vimeo.

"Using electromagnets embedded in the podium and a laser system to measure its position, artist Nils Guadagnin has managed to keep a familiar-looking pink plank aloft, a full five years and five months before the real deal supposedly sees common use." -- engadget.com


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Keep It Short: "powers of ten"

To think about this is amazing. Simply amazing. Sometimes science leaves me speechless.

powers of ten :: charles and ray eames from bacteriasleep on Vimeo.

The Penny Shooter

This Penny Shooter is pretty slick and is probably one of the coolest little gadgets I have ever seen. Would have loved this thing in my dorm room to shoot girls in towels with.


Penny Shooter Business Card



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Snowmageddon

I can't believe this winter weather. Simply amazing.

Snowlapse 2010.wmv


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If the sun didn't set...

After the first couple of days I would think it was cool. Soon crazy would set it.

Never Ending Sun - Avi Hochberg


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The History of Auto Tune

I love auto tune and I hate it but seriously this really opened my eyes to the magic of the studio. Yeah oil!

"Weird Al" Yankovic Helps Explain Auto Tune (Know Your Meme)


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Happy Time With Bobby

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

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Al Gore invented the internet?

History of the Internet


Wow, I'm sure there are classes you can take in computer history but seriously my brain started to freeze. Basically the internet is just a gigantic network of computers, built because of the threat of war. And it looks like a universe within a universe.

Still a great animation though.

Science Is Cool: Sticks & Stones

Life can be so simple sometimes... actually most of the time.

STONEHENGE SOLVED?

For hundreds, maybe thousands of years, people have been trying to figure out how primitive people could build huge structures such as Stonehenge and the pyramids out of stone blocks weighing thousands of pounds. Scientists have been stumped.

Then along comes a normal guy - a retired construction worker – and he says well, I would do it like this. And he does. This guy uses the simplest tools known to man and shows how simple and easy it would have been to create Stonehenge. This is a really great video clip. Amazing how this guy could figure out something that has confounded scholars for centuries. And not only figures it out, but demonstrates it! And this guy could build a replica of Stonehenge single-handedly, while a committee of 20 or 30 Civil Engineering professors from leading universities would be debating how it might be done.


Building Stonehenge - This Man Can Move Anything

Science Is Cool - Simple Quantum Physics

Imagining the Tenth Dimension - Rob Bryanton [FULL CLIP]


Seriously, after watching this my brain started to hurt, but it makes so much sense. Very well done. In a way its proves that there is a god, sorta.

Thanks GOOD for the find.

Anyone else freaked out...?

Goodbye to Alex a gifted parrot


Actually...this reminds me of my thesis.

Science Is Cool: The LHC

No its not some cool secret club or new pop band BUT it is a huge billion dollar laser gun that man built because he could. I know nothing about it and I don't see any reason for it. Besides if it has the ability to destroy the world then WHY play God? Whatever, I will let my main man, Sxephil do the talkin.

The LHC- The WORLD ENDS on Wednesday!


"Large Hadron Collider - is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons.... Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics."
Large Hadron Collider - Wikipedia

The Truth About Time Travel

I often look back at my life and review all the mistakes that I have made in my life. Most of them I needed to make, some of them I really didn't need to repeat. (haha) Well imagine being able to really go back in time or maybe just even being able to send something back in time, like that Denzel movie. A find like that would be Earth shattering and its kind of scary that we figured out how to do it on paper.

Ronald Mallett: The World's First Time Machine


Also there should be a movie coming out in a few years base off his life...I'm really looking forward to it.

"Spike Lee will co-write and direct an adaptation of Ronald Mallett’s memoir Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality. Spike Lee describes Time Traveler as a 'fantastic story on many levels (and) also a father and son saga of loss and love.'"
Spike Lee’s Time Traveler--Slashfilm.com

So I built a time machine...

What I love about the internet is finding all the weird projects you can build that if someone tried to explain it to you face to face, it would make them sound crazy. Well you can build this thing called "The Time Fountain" which is freaking cool. I don't have the time or the energy to build one but if you have or do in the near future. Let me know. I want to see one of these in REAL life. The video below is pretty cool. Basically with light and droplets of water you can make it look like your speeding up, slowing down or freezing a drop of water in real time. It's an optical illusion but it should freak out any 7 year old and that's always fun.

Time Fountain - Optical Illusion

German Child Corrects Nasa...wtf?

This is one of those stories that makes you think that just maybe all those scientist are exaggerating and the end might be closer then we think. (insert dramatic music here)


"Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam (AIP) to calculate that there was a 1 in 450 chance that the Apophis asteroid will collide with Earth, the Potsdamer Neuerster Nachrichten reported. NASA had previously estimated the chances at only 1 in 45,000 but told its sister organization, the European Space Agency (ESA), that the young whizz kid had got it right."
German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures--Yahoo NEWS