wbeaty

Also see: http://amasci.com/new/Mysterious invisible forces affect a bottle of Whiteout. Non-intertial frames are being imposed on cardboard boxes!So... were some the original "Hutchison Effect" videos also a hoax? There were many eyewitnesses who saw weird things occur in Hutchison's first lab. But several of those videos were made much later, and they look very suspicious. Hmmmm. What if Hutchison couldn't reproduce the genuine antigrav effect in his new rebuilt lab? When you're looking for funding, it's tempting to make faked videos. After all, you "know" it's just a matter of time before you regain the ability to make real ones. It's easy to make magnets lift up and stand on end. Or make iron balls (or ice cream) fall upwards, if you can rotate an entire small room, camera and all! See http://amasci.com/weird.html for more weird physics.

wbeaty

Sometimes one driver can vastly improve trafficMain site: http://trafficwaves.org/On Seattle I-5, this left-hand exit lane is usually backed up during rush hour. The exit ramp leads into the high speed "Express Lanes" under the city. But if it's jammed, you'll lose more time than you gain. If you miss getting into that lane early, then you're screwed, since nobody in the mile-long row of cars will let you in. And while stuck in that lane, you have to sit in line for many minutes, driving like 2MPH.But if I let ten cars merge ahead of me as I approach the jam, like magic the whole thing evaporates.Unfortunately this video can't show you the view from above. You can't see behind me, so you can't see that my "hole" is the only one in a very long row of cars. Also you can't see the size of the reliable daily jam that was there on other days, or was there ahead of me before I arrived.Note that letting a few cars ahead of you is NOTHING. On a 30min congested commute at 65MPH, 2sec between cars, if you instead drove 5MPH slower than the rest, how many other cars would pass you? Seventy five! In other words, you're only a "Slow Driver" when huge numbers of cars pass you. On the same commute, letting ten cars ahead of you will slow you down insignificantly: by less than 1MPH. Ten cars one way or another is too small to matter.Conversely, if you want to drive faster than everyone else, then you need to pass fifty or one hundred other drivers. If you only managed to pass a few cars, that's called FAILURE, and your speed wasn't faster enough to matter.

wbeaty

See http://amasci.com/amateur/gravcam.htmlNASA's "Vomit Comet" transport plane flying parabolas? Too expensive! Instead, make a video using a camera in a box. Now throw the box into the air. It's on a genuine sub-orbital trajectory, so stuff floats around! (briefly!) I should add a GI-Joe doll. In an orange jumpsuit! (PS, view my other videos, another of my earlier ones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8pTio... is an improved "NASA gravity chamber" with onboard lighting.)

wbeaty

No chalkboard needed: dry ice with warm metal pressed against it. We automated the process with a gearmotor slowly turning a mixing bowl. The two bowls make great sounding boards (the noise was LOUD.) Hosted by the folks at http://www.911media.org/, http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/ monthly tech/art/DIY meetings.

wbeaty

see http://amasci.com/holo/ Scratch-holograms can be made on CD cases using a couple of thumbtacks poked through a stick. Or get fancy and use a professional compass and black painted polycarbonate. Or automate the process with a paperclip stuck into a motorized electric eraser.

wbeaty

Suspended steel filaments make three-dimensional magnetic fields visible. See http://amasci.com/electrom/statbotl.htmlI came up with this one for the Electronics exhibit at Museum of Science, but it ended up as a build-it device for science teachers.I also discovered that baby oil slowly pushes its way through glued plexiglas joints. If you build an 8" cube of thick plexiglas and fill it with baby oil, a few months later you notice that it's half empty! And the other half is soaked into all the books on the shelf below! AND IT'S A SHELF IN A COLLEAGUE'S OFFICE!!! :)

wbeaty

Between "Genuine danger" and "Raving Safety Paranoia" there must be some sensible middle ground. Dry ice is fun. Figure out a way to handle it safely.Buy dry ice from suppliers listed in your yellow pages phone book for about $1 per pound. Or in Seattle, get it from QFC grocery, in the seafood section.

wbeaty

http://amasci.com/coilgen/ Build this ultra-simple AC electric generator from magnets, wire, and cardboard. (And a big nail!) Light a small lightbulb, or flash a red LED.This demonstrates how generators work. Now if you want a more useful device, use a small DC motor as a generator, since it has much better magnetics design. All motors are generators. Figure out how to spin a motor's shaft, and you can make a small powerful generator. Or... figure out how to convert the cardboard generator into a motor!

wbeaty

From http://amasci.com/brain/ website: Childhood Brain Modification. Instructions on valuable skills: how to cross just one eye, and how to speak with an echo.

wbeaty

http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/airth... Invisible filaments of high voltage "electric wind" are seen to disturb a thin fog layer made with warm water and dry ice. Get the HV power supply from http://amasci.com/emotor/negion.html

wbeaty

DANGEROUS DEMO! Can't get liquid nitrogen? Then make your own version by using Dry Ice. Note that this demonstration involves several major safety hazards, and should only be performed by skilled professionals.Note that dry ice comes from companies listed in your local yellow pages. Some welder supply stores carry it. In Seattle, you can find it in the seafood section of QFC neighborhood grocery.

wbeaty

Camera as memo recorder, outdoor chase scene, and some really stupid toy ideas (probably worth millions!!!)Also see the secret toy prototyping project: Santarchy Toy Mutations, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGCsMW...

wbeaty

More tricks using an 11-Tesla superconducting electromagnet. These are used for chemistry research; for determining the detailed shape of unknown molecules using "two dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance."Y'know, I've heard that if you place a tray of water under one of these magnets, the water will curve into a bowl shape, exposing the bottom of the tray. The Red Sea is parted. But nobody wants to try it. Too much expensive electronics might get wet. [LATER] Tried it. Didn't work. But perhaps the gradient was too small. I'll try it on another magnet.Also see http://amasci.com/unew.html

wbeaty

Basil Seed Drink plus dry ice: a spontaneous fluid mechanical food device made at Dorkbot techno-artist meeting. Basil Seed Drink can be found at an Asian grocery, or buy it online. In Seattle, dry ice comes from QFC food marts and from certain welding supply shops. Or look in phonebook yellow pages.

wbeaty

MAGNET SALE AT MR. GEORGE! http://www.supermagnetman.net/index.p... He's got 8mm sp1000 spheres for $0.30, sp0701 silver for $0.34See http://amasci.com/amateur/neospher.html Here's the trick to rapidly assembling a buckyball from sixty supermagnet beads.Note that this isn't a true Buckminster Fullerene, since magnets are dipoles while carbon atoms are quadrupoles. True buckyballs have hexagons and pentagons, while ours has squares and is slightly smaller. The big challenge: start with two pentagons, then assemble two hemispheres. (This is how it happens in nature.) Then knit the two hemispheres seamlessly together, trapping a glass marble or other gigantic ionized metal atom within. It's harder than it looks!

wbeaty

Walk fast while holding your camera a few inches from a surface. Now flip the image vertically in Moviemaker. You'll get a rats' eye view of your backyard... or convert your ceiling into the Deathstar shaft from Star Wars.

wbeaty

Disused for years, this old truck has mushrooms growing in its damp rugs and newspapers.

wbeaty

Get dry ice in the Seattle area at QFC supermarkets. It's about $1.00 per pound, in the seafood section. Bring a styrofoam cooler. Otherwise check your yellow pages under Dry Ice, or phone various supermarkets.Dry ice creates water-fog droplets which become trapped in the viscous thin "boundary layer" of air above a dark water surface. LOOKS COOL! Long ago at the U. of Rochester we had nerd parties with the SF society, D&D gamers, etc. I'd supply a block of dry ice as one major piece of entertainment. (Makes big booms when, ahem, misused.) Finally I built some official equipment: painting a cookie sheet black. Years later I used this phenomenon to demonstrate the gas clouds around rotating comet nuclei. Also see a weird electrostatic effect: THREADLIKE ELECTRIC WINDhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX3dVp...http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/airth...

kbentleydesign

This is a short 3D video depicting a theoretical configuration for dipole cavitation.

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Bre Pettis and William Gurstelle collaborate to make a t-shirt cannon out of parts from the hardware store. More info at makezine.com/podcast

DiscoveryNetworks

In this clip, Zoz demonstrates how to bend a spoon with your MIND.Tune in Wednesdays at 10 E/P for loads of zany brilliance, hi-tech wizardry, and a inside look at some of the latest tools and gadgets that just may change the way we live and work.http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/prototype...

SpencerSetters

This is the "Way Cool Scientist" section of Bill Nye The Science Guy: The Brain episode. Pretty neat. They work very well.

zerooskul

This is in response to the video: Holographic Text MessagesExplained by Allex Spires

ThomasGrillo

http://www.thomasgrillo.comVisit my channel to send messages.Before I learned to play the theremin, I made holograms. I made my first holo in 1988. For 5 years prior to the filming of this demo, I was gearing up for professional level holographic imaging. This video was shot in 1997 in my studio which was to have become Parallax Holograms. The video is part 3 in a series, and is an excerpt from a longer puplic access program which I will upload at a later date, in small segments.This is a short, detailed description of the optical table setups for making laser viewable transmission master (H-1) holos, as well as white light viewable reflection copy (H-2) holos using split beam techniques. I don't go into exposure, or processing techniques in this video. It's just a brief look at the lab, and explanation into how a holo is made.Sadly, just after the making of this video for Public Access TV, Agfa Gevart quit making holographic supplies for the masses, and limited production to high end green laser sensative films which put thousnads of amature, and semi professional holographers out of action for years until Russian films, and plates became readily available.My company, "Parallax Holograms" never became a reality due to the shortage of supplies caused by Agfa Gevart.Copyright 2007 Thomas Grillo

ThomasGrillo

http://www.thomasgrillo.comA remastered version of my introduction to holography in which I demonstrate two holographic optical table layouts for making transmission master, and reflection copy holograms. Recorded by Thomas Grillo in 1997 at Parallax Holograms Studios in Mississippi.Copyright 2007 Thomas Grillo

MrVanHerk

Year 9 science activity

EVAN199

From the show "How it's Made" on Discovery ChannelThis Episode: Holograms

LouRyder

My lovely sister gave this to me for my birthday sometime in the late 90's. I thought I'd prove science right for a little change of pace.I showed this video to a friend at work, and he told me Burger King was giving away smaller versions of this device to the kids, which makes me feel a little silly now. But it's still a cool illusion if you've never seen it.

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http://www.ted.com Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium -- and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world.

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http://www.ted.com What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's-eye view.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, athttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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http://www.ted.com Philosopher Dan Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don't we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, athttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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http://www.ted.com Insects and animals have evolved some amazing skills -- but, as Robert Full notes, many animals are actually over-engineered. The trick is to copy only what's necessary. He shows how human engineers can learn from animals' tricks.

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http://www.ted.com Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

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http://www.ted.com Biologist Richard Dawkins makes a case for "thinking the improbable" by looking at how the human frame of reference limits our understanding of the universe.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, athttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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http://www.ted.com Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, athttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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http://www.ted.com Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, athttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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http://www.ted.com Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he's not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll's to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: "Once I do something, I want to do something else."

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http://www.ted.com David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the ocean.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, athttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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http://www.ted.com n clear, nontechnical language, string theorist Brian Greene explains how our understanding of the universe has evolved from Einstein's notions of gravity and space-time to superstring theory, where minuscule strands of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions create every particle and force in the universe. (This mind-bending theory may soon be put to the test at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.)

TheBadAstronomer

I visited the incredible Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. This is technology on a truly amazing scale! For more (including who's who in the vid) go to my two blog entries about this: http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/20...andhttp://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/20...

BBC

More info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bigbangdayPlaylist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...Radio 4 joins CERN on 10 September 2008 as scientists attempt to discover more about the origins of the Universe by recreating the aftermath of the Big Bang.Here's Brian Cox on particle collisions and journeys into the unknown.

giagirl

Brian on BBC Breakfast plugging his Horizon, 'What on Earth Is Wrong With Gravity?'

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Dr. Brian Cox on getting the science right and on developing "Capa's" character.Brought to you by Sunshine Fan Onlinehttp://www.sunshinefan.comhttp://www.sunshinedna.com - Official site

giagirl

Broadcast the night of the Large Hadron Collider switch on, Professor Brian Cox explains to Jeremy Paxman and Sir David King (the president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science) why curiosity-driven scientific research is of vital importance for the future of humanity.

CERNTV

A 10' overview of the LHC project and its research plans

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http://www.ted.com - Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continent's creative potential, we can create a change in Africa's future. Turok asks the TED community to help him expand the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences by opening 15 new centers across Africa in five years. By adding resources for entrepreneurship to this proven model, he says, we can create a network for progress across the continent -- and perhaps discover an African Einstein.

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http://www.ted.com Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong give an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds from satellites and telescopes all over the world and the heavens, and weaves them together holistically to build a comprehensive view of our universe. (Yes, it's the technology that made Robert Scoble cry.)

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http://www.ted.com Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions like, Are elegant equations more likely to be right than inelegant ones? TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, athttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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http://www.ted.com In keeping with the theme of TED2008, professor Stephen Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- and discusses how we might go about answering them.

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http://www.ted.com Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, athttp://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

UnslaveMe

Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease malaria. Link to story .. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/world...

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http://www.ted.com Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself.