clips
-
Why Meteors Light Up The Night Sky
Meteors have been seen since people first looked at the night sky. They are comprised of small pieces of debris, typically no larger than a grain of dust or sand, which continually crash into the Earth’s atmosphere.
-
Stop Motion Video Makes Marbles Look Like They Have A Mind Of Their Own
Video: This music video directed by Christophe Thockler for Victoria+Jean’s song Firecracker reminds me a little bit of staring inside a kaleidoscope. Only if the inside of that kaleidoscope was filled with mini-drones in the shape of marbles that move around as if they were controlled by one hive mind. My imagination aside, it’s pretty…
-
Video: Making Cast Iron Skillets The Old Fashioned Way Is Pretty Fun
Anthony Bourdain has a new show of sorts that explores the craftsmanship of certain items and the people behind them and the first episode focuses on Borough Furnace, a small metal casting workshop that makes hand-crafted cast iron skillets. You see a bit of the process of how they turn recycled iron into cookware.
-
Scientists Created A Transparent Eggshell To See How An Embryo Grows
Video: Damn, science. Researchers at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China have created a see through eggshell to keep track of how an embryo grows over time. The material is made from a soft, silicon-based organic polymer that maintains the shape of a real eggshell but is completely transparent.