Via Youtube, "Have you heard of the toy, StickBomb? Flat wooden sticks are woven together under tension, which then fly apart like dominos when one is removed. So what happens when this toy is pitted against a radio control model WRX STI? Find out in this dramatic, fun-filled video."
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Friday, March 7, 2014
Friday, February 22, 2013
Yawns [Video]
Did you know unborn fetuses as young as eleven weeks can yawn? Did you know humans are not the only animals who do it? Dogs, cats, snakes, and even fish yawn!
Check out the video below and challenge yourself not to yawn...bet you can't do it!
Check out the video below and challenge yourself not to yawn...bet you can't do it!
Friday, April 20, 2012
What Effect Does Sound Have On Us?
SoundCloud explores what sound does to us physiologically, psychologically, cognitively, and behaviorally. Pretty interesting short movie...watch it if you're interested in sound or psychology!
Monday, March 26, 2012
Noisy Jelly [Video]
Noisy Jelly is an interactive jelly-like substance that plays music when touched.
From the author, "The jelly is placed on a game board with a capacitive sensor. The variations of the shape, their salt concentration, and the distance and the strength of the finger contact are detected and transform into an audio signal. This object aims to demonstrate that electronic can have a new aesthetic, and be envisaged as a malleable material, which has to be manipulated and experimented."
Cool! Where can I get my hands on one of these to experiment with?
From the author, "The jelly is placed on a game board with a capacitive sensor. The variations of the shape, their salt concentration, and the distance and the strength of the finger contact are detected and transform into an audio signal. This object aims to demonstrate that electronic can have a new aesthetic, and be envisaged as a malleable material, which has to be manipulated and experimented."
Cool! Where can I get my hands on one of these to experiment with?
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
NBA Spacial Analysis
Via: NYTimes
Ever wonder where a basketball players "hot spot" is? Or how many times Kevin Durant dribbles before he shoots? How about the distance Kobe Bryant runs in a game?
Now we know thanks to Kirk Goldsberry! Kirk, a visiting scholar of geography at Harvard (now Linsanity makes sense!), creates visual maps based on the performance of NBA players to answer questions such as, "Who is the best shooter in the NBA?"
"To do this, Goldsberry divided the area from just behind the 3-point line down to the rim into 1,284 “shooting cells,” and looked at how players shot during every N.B.A. game between 2006 and 2011. Not a single player took a shot from every spot on the floor. (Kobe Bryant came the closest, shooting from 1,071 places. ) Then, Goldsberry looked at which players averaged more than one point per attempt from the greatest percentage of the places they shot from." - Joshua Brustein
According to this formula, Steve Nash and Ray Allen were the best shooters in the league.
Spatial analysis like this is important and I believe more and more coaches will contact people like Kirk to improve their player's performance and increase their win percentage.
Ever wonder where a basketball players "hot spot" is? Or how many times Kevin Durant dribbles before he shoots? How about the distance Kobe Bryant runs in a game?
Now we know thanks to Kirk Goldsberry! Kirk, a visiting scholar of geography at Harvard (now Linsanity makes sense!), creates visual maps based on the performance of NBA players to answer questions such as, "Who is the best shooter in the NBA?"
"To do this, Goldsberry divided the area from just behind the 3-point line down to the rim into 1,284 “shooting cells,” and looked at how players shot during every N.B.A. game between 2006 and 2011. Not a single player took a shot from every spot on the floor. (Kobe Bryant came the closest, shooting from 1,071 places. ) Then, Goldsberry looked at which players averaged more than one point per attempt from the greatest percentage of the places they shot from." - Joshua Brustein
According to this formula, Steve Nash and Ray Allen were the best shooters in the league.
Spatial analysis like this is important and I believe more and more coaches will contact people like Kirk to improve their player's performance and increase their win percentage.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Microwave in SloMo
For an ad campaign, Moe's Southwest Grill "proved" that microwaves ruin everything by microwaving objects such as a CD. Check out the carnage below:
Monday, August 8, 2011
Multi-Colored Ants
Via: DailyMail
Some discoveries are made on accident. This is very true for scientist Mohamed Babu. One day his wife noticed an ant turned white after drinking some spilled milk on her counter. That's when Dr. Babu came up with an experiment to see if different colored substances would change an ants appearance.
Dr. Babu mixed sugar droplets with red, yellow, green, and blue dye, along with a waxy base to prevent spillage, and placed the drops in his garden. Soon enough the ants began to drink the liquid and change colors. Amazing!
Below are some photos of Dr. Babu's experiment.
Some discoveries are made on accident. This is very true for scientist Mohamed Babu. One day his wife noticed an ant turned white after drinking some spilled milk on her counter. That's when Dr. Babu came up with an experiment to see if different colored substances would change an ants appearance.
Dr. Babu mixed sugar droplets with red, yellow, green, and blue dye, along with a waxy base to prevent spillage, and placed the drops in his garden. Soon enough the ants began to drink the liquid and change colors. Amazing!
Below are some photos of Dr. Babu's experiment.
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