Could you eat one? Would you eat one? I ask those questions first because it seems quite clear to me that should you find yourself owning one of the world’s largest Gummy Bears and incredibly silly thing to do would be to shoot it twice, freeze it with liquid nitrogen and then blow it apart […]
Turning soda cans into swords
Some geeks are brave. As much as this video is cool I’m not sure I’d be up for working with such high temperatures in such casual conditions. Would you? What would you make? The King of Random is typically impressive; pulling a Zelda like sword from the sands after using his home-made foundry to melt […]
Music meets Science in Cymatics
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.
