This is a March 2nd, 1979 clip from The Late Night Starring Johnny Carson with guest Carl Sagan discussing the original Star Wars movie, it’s scientific inaccuracies, human chauvinism, and incredible whiteness of all the human characters, particularly the ones in charge. Some of the exchange: Sagan: Star Wars starts

Gravity: I wish it wasn’t so strong on earth. But only for me, I wish it was doubly strong for everyone else. But enough daydreaming about me leapfrogging over everyone all day, this is a visualization created by planetary space scientist James O’Donoghue comparing the gravity on various bodies of

This is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill getting all sciencey on us and explaining why a dropped Slinky’s bottom portion appears to float in midair until the top catches up with it, at which point it starts falling. SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER: Magic. It’s as simple as that.

Visual learning: it’s way cooler than just reading a boring textbook and writing dirty words in the margins. And to prove that, this is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill sticking his hand in a vacuum chamber and sucking all the air out. His hand blows up like

This is a video of The Action Lab’s James Orgill demonstrating how to use a vacuum chamber to easily separate the filling from both sides of Oreo cookies. Don’t have a vacuum chamber? No worries, just dunk and stuff four Oreos in your mouth and eat them all at once

This is a video of the Backyard Scientist and friends (who I’m contacting my congressperson right now to verify have already been added to a government watch list for future supervillains) using a 20,000-volt capacitor to blow up a bunch of hot dogs and bananas. But I was going to

This is a video of Action Lab’s James Orgill dropping a steel ball and ping-pong ball on one of the world’s bounciest surfaces to see how long they’ll bounce for. James says the surface has a coefficient of restitution (the ratio of the final to initial relative velocity between two

This is another Action Lab Shorts video starring James Orgill, this time firing a Nerf projectile backwards from a moving car traveling forward the same speed forwards (around 55MPH) to see if the bullet will just fall to the ground. The answer? Yes. James also sounds pretty stoked he was