In news that shouldn’t surprise anyone who wants no part of whatever the hell is going on in the photo above, researchers have discovered that painting large eyespots on cow asses helps deters predation from large carnivores. Some more info from the recently published Communications Biology article while I paint
This is a short gif (below) of the 88-milligram RoBeetle developed by a research team experimenting with the use of methanol to help power artificial muscles in robotics. Some more info about the tiny crawler while I sweep my office for bugs because *lowering voice* igBay otherBray isyay everywhereyay. In
Because Germans sure love their sausages, this is a short video of German Youtuber patricks world demonstrating his electric circuit based ‘Bockworst Piano’. Simple enough. So, you think he ate all those sausages afterward? I’d hate to know they all went to waste. Regardless, I think we can all agree–
Because a lot of people take the wheels on the bus going round and round for granted, this is a video from Warped Perception (like most people have), who mounted a GoPro to the rim inside a car tire to see what it looks like inside as it’s driven around
Note: Keep your volume in check, my dogs still went crazy. This is a video from a group of scuba divers in the Bahamas as they repeatedly get pinged by a nearby Arleigh Burke-class destroyer’s sonar. That doesn’t sound like a very pleasant experience. And imagine how the mermaids must
This is the Sony Reon Pocket, a ~$170 smartphone operated personal air conditioner worn in a pocket in the back of a special $20 undershirt so it can make contact with your skin and cool your surrounding body up to 23-degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, and warm it up to
This is a video of chemical engineer James Orgill of The Action Lab producing what he’s dubbed dry slime — slime that has been mixed with fumed silica (available on Amazon — often used as a thickener and anticaking agent) so it forms strings that don’t want to stick to
This is a video from the Liceu Opera House in Barcelona, Spain, which recently reopened and held a concert for 2,292 potted plants. That’s, uh, that’s something. I bet the plants are extra happy though because I think I read somewhere that it’s good to play music for your plants.