This is a video of mathematician Ashley Christine (aka Modern Day Eratosthenes) explaining why wormhole style teleportation would be much preferred to Star Trek style beaming, although we’re technologically closer to the beaming. Basically, Star Trek teleportation involves scanning a body, disintegrating it, then reassembling it somewhere else with the

This is a video of The Epic Spaceman (aka Toby Lockerbie) trying his best to explain the scale of the Milky Way Galaxy, and our place in it. In order to help our feeble minds, “he shrunk the hazy cluster down to such smaller perspectives as the diameter of the

This is a video of science lover James Orgill of The Action Lab wrapping a bitchin’ Nissan Altima in Musou Black Fabric Kiwami, a fabric that absorbs 99.9% of light that hits it. I WILL REFLECT NOTHING. Obviously, this is the perfect cover for getaway cars, provided you’re trying to

The same reason anybody else dances: because they’re wasted. Or you can read this recently published long-winded academic paper detailing the physics involved in dancing beer nuts. Basically, as the beer degasses the bubbles adhere to the nuts, lifting them to the surface, the bubbles pop, and the nuts sink

Cast some 3,000 years ago (~1450 BC) in the Middle Bronze Age likely near what’s now Nördlingen, Germany, this bronze sword was recently unearthed in exceptional quality. Shoot, I’d still quest with it. Its preservation is due in part to the naturally antimicrobial copper salts in the sword, and the

This is a video of Slow Mo Guys Gav and Dan crashing extremely powerful neodymium magnets into one another, and capturing their destruction at 187,000 frames/second. It doesn’t even look real, it looks like the sort of CGI I’d expect to see in a Transformers movie in 20 years. Such

This is a video of science lover James Orgill from Youtube channel The Action Lab popping balloons in the loudest and quietest rooms at 3M’s Innovation Center. The loudest room is a reverberation chamber (is that what Darth Vader hung out in?) that reflects maximum sound waves, while the quietest

This is a video of GoPro Award recipient Emma Bryan being rewarded with a jet flight and a face melting 10G’s of acceleration. That means her body felt 10 times heavier than normal. If my body felt 10 times heavier than normal? I’d almost certainly form a black hole. Emma