CGPGrey asks a very important question that is very telling of the times. Can Texas secede from the Union? Unsurprisingly, Texas has actually–for realz–tried to secede in the past, and the Supreme Court even ruled states cannot secede. But, what if?
Last month at Intel’s esteemed International Science and Engineering Fair, fifteen year old Jack Andraka won the highest award for his creation of a new, non-invasive method to detect early-stage pancreatic cancer.
When it is finally unveiled that he was the winner, Jack jumped up before the announcer even finished, screaming and smiling with glee as he ran down to the stage.
We just saw a science video of the cool effects the Stroboscopic Illusion, and now this similar video is going viral this week.
Science illusionist Brusspup used a subwoofer to create the illusion that water was some how dripping up, defying gravity. By changing the level of hertz from the speaker, and setting his camera to 24 frames per second, he seems to have the ability to change the direction of flow of water.
Of course, it’s all in our heads. The water is flowing as it should. The video is featured on KnowYourMeme.
Thanks Noam!
When one wants to express simplicity, a common phrase said is, “C’mon, it’s not rocket science!” But after watching this tutorial by minutephysics explaining rocket science, you’ll realize it really isn’t that complicated after all.
The Internet’s favorite obscure nerd CGPGrey is back with a list of common animal misconceptions. He covers how daddy long legs really aren’t the most poison spider in the world, how ostriches really don’t hide their heads in the sand, that bats aren’t really blind, and much more.
