Category: Interesting
Four researchers conduct experiments with a mixture of cornstarch and water that is classified as a non-Newtonian liquid. Heinrich Jaeger, William J. Friedman, Alicia Townsend, Professor in Physics, and …
It seems we’ve posted a lot lately about art and images that alter our perceptions and play tricks on our minds. Here’s another post meant to trick your mind …
Where would we be without the invention of socks, toilets, sunglasses, purses and even condoms? All of these seemingly trivial yet essential everyday items are things that we could …
Just like these strange coincidences you're about to read below. Sometimes things happen that are beyond are control. Sometimes they defy explanation. Like a great mystery novel, these stories below …
Here are a few items some of us grew up with. They've been around so long that we really don't even think twice about them being there. You know …
In a series titled, Postcards from Google Earth by Clement Valla, the anomalies, or glitches, within Google Earth’s system is celebrated. The artist, programmer and designer hails from Brooklyn, …
Normally when you walk into any store, or for instance a coffee shop, you find employees. Right? Well if your ever in the town of Valley City, North Dakota, …
Ah, the many possibilities of playing with shaving cream. It was fun using it in arts and crafts classes as kids and apparently it’s still fun to play with …
Drop a basketball from somewhere high up and it basically just falls straight to the ground.... but add just a little backspin, and something incredibly cool happens. It's called …
So here's an oddly hilarious video of a helicopter flying through the air without the blades moving.... How?! Well... According to Peta Pixel, it's actually a combination of both, but …
Here’s what happens when you program a mechanical calculator to divide by zero. The machine literally goes haywire... Some say it's still going to this day. But why does this …
This short compilation of mass food production is mind boggling. In the video, you’ll see 24 machines that are automated producing common items you’d find in any grocery store. …
Filmed in zero gravity aboard the international Space Station, NASA Astronaut Don Pettit explores the behavior of water bubbles. The results are pretty wild. Antibubbles are formed when liquid drops …
Who doesn't love Worcestershire sauce?! I mean seriously... that stuff goes good with anything! But what exactly goes into making it? The process might surprise you... In the early …
We all know that water is super dense slow, and can slow a bullet down rapidly. So what happens when you shoot a bunch of water balloons. In this demonstration, …
Check out this hydraulic press smash a sheet of paper to pieces. The hydraulic press was the cause of death for the Terminator and Andre Delambre in The Fly. …
Adventurer, George Kourounis takes a small inflatable rubber raft out onto the world's largest lake of sulphuric acid at the bottom of the Kawah Ijen volcano crater in Indonesia. …
The evolution of language is quite profound. It turns out that if you venture far back enough into the English language, you wouldn’t understand a single word. You’d get …
