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Anti-Gravity Wheel, A Video Exploring Gyroscopic Precession With a 42-Pound Spinning Wheel
Veritasium host Derek Muller attempts to lift a wheel weighing 42 pounds, and spinning at a few thousand rotations per minute thanks to some assistance…
Threadable, A Service Designed to Improve Traditional Group Mailing Lists
Threadable is a service from the company of the same name founded by Ian Baker, Nicole Aptekar, Jared Grippe, and Aaron Muszalski that’s specifically designed…
A Trilogy of Short Films That Imagine What Happens to Litter on the Streets of London When Nobody’s Looking
“Tiny Worlds” is a trilogy of short films from international video effects company Rushes that imagines literal tiny worlds on the streets of London. Specifically,…
Incredible Lifeforms That Are Now Extinct
The Brain Scoop host Emily Graslie guest hosts on Mental Floss to discuss a series of critters that are no longer around in “21 Mind-Blowing…
First Full Trailer for FX’s Television Adaptation of the Film ‘Fargo’ Offers a Small Glimpse at the Story
“You think this could be, like, an organized crime thing?” The first full trailer for the loosely connected television adaptation of the 1996 film Fargo…
Edward Snowden Speaks at the TED2014 Conference via a Telepresence Robot About the Internet and the NSA
Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor responsible for leaking a number of classified documents to media outlets in 2013, recently spoke via a…
What If Google Search Were a Real Person, Part 2
CollegeHumor once again imagines a world where Google’s search engine is actually a person that everyone consults. In this new video, Google must respond to…
Professor Demonstrates How to Extend the Range of a Car Key Fob Using His Brain and a Jug of Water
YouTube channel Sixty Symbols and Roger Bowley of the University of Nottingham explain how to extend the range of a car key fob using Bowley’s…
Mod Notebooks, A Service That Syncs Paper Notebooks to the Cloud
Mod Notebooks is a service from company Need/Want that provides a paper notebook the size of an iPad mini in plain, ruled, or dot-grid 120GSM…
LEGO Robot Solves Traditional Rubik’s Cube in a Record-Breaking 3.253 Seconds
In this short video, the CUBESTORMER 3 robot created by programmers Mike Dobson and David Gilday solves a traditional 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube puzzle in 3.253…