This is short video of James Orgill of The Action Lab presenting a video from his more internet attention span appropriate channel Action Lab Shorts, featuring him repeatedly cutting water droplets in half with a razor blade that’s been treated with a superhydrophobic coating. Pretty neat, but *unsheathing blade, swinging
This is a video of the biochemist behind Youtube channel NileRed Shorts (previously: dissolving a penny in nitric acid) discussing why white phosphorus is so dangerous, in a very watchable 50 seconds. So, why is white phosphorus so dangerous? Because it reacts with oxygen and likes to GET LIT and
Presumably not found heads-up on the sidewalk for good luck, this is a video of Youtuber NileRed Shorts completely dissolving a penny in nitric acid. As the penny dissolves, it produces noxious nitrogen dioxide gas, and, after about ten minutes, you’re left with nothing but a beaker full of dark
Science: it’s best done at home in front of your webcam. Case in point: Cody here of Youtube channel Cody’sLab first inhaling dense gas sulfur hexaflouride and talking so we can hear what that sounds like, then inhaling some perfluorobutane (a gas almost twice as dense as sulfur hexaflouride) and
Because scientists have to eat too, this is a video of a group of researchers atop the currently active Geldingardalsgos volcano in Fagradalsfjall, Iceland cooking some wieners and toasting some buns on a hardening lava flow. So, do you think the hot dogs taste like volcano? “What does volcano taste
Ever wonder what’s in the Big Mac you’re eating? Of course not, that’s exactly what you try not to do when you’re eating fast food. But to ruin that for you is this Fast Food Chemistry clip from Insider, where a Big Mac is recreated using all 54 ingredients that
Because going nowhere fast is a real thing that happens, this is a video of glider pilot Brent Davidson traveling at 46 knots (~53MPH) in an equal headwind of 46 knots created by an air wave lifted by a mountain range below, causing the glider to just float stationary in
52-year old Englishman David Morris was taking a leisurely stroll along the shore of Gillan in Cornwall (presumably on the lookout for mermaids) when he spotted a floating ship. “A ghost-pirate ship?!” I think an oil tanker. Some more info about the phenomenon while I blow a coworker’s mind with
