It’s nice to see this terrible tragedy hasn’t made them any less Japanese. (Thanks, Jim!)
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I’m not 100% sure that this is real, but if it is, holy shit! That’s amazing! (Thanks Jim)
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These complex structures weren’t created by single mind, but by a hive mind. Thanks ants… Thants.
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The researchers conclude that a male, 28-year-old Han Chinese man is the most typical person on the planet. There are 9 million of them. But there’s a lot more interesting stuff in this video than that.
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If the Earth were the size of a basketball and the moon a tennis ball, how far apart would they be? Diagrams that are not to scale make us think that they’re closer than they really are.
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Where science meets magic. Sciagic? Magence?
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What an amazing, intricate process. Human ingenuity is an incredible thing.
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Cats, when dropped under normal conditions, will invariably rotate their bodies longitudinally in mid-air and land on their feet. This automatic reflex action is almost completely lost when gravity is removed and you kick them into the ceiling.
This experiment also proves that weightless cats are, indeed, hilarious.
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This is on my short list of coolest science video I’ve ever come across.
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…and how they faked it
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A beautiful and inspiring fan-made NASA commercial, created with Carl Sagan’s narration.
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Here’s some rare footage of an experimental LSD session from a television program, circa 1956, about mental health issues.
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Try as you might, you can’t walk in a straight line without a visible guide point, like the Sun or a star. You might think you’re walking straight, but as NPR’s Robert Krulwich reports, a map of your route would reveal you are doomed to walk in circles.
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Part of an experiment to test a nuclear reactor’s wall’s strength.
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