Immovable Object vs. Unstoppable Force
What happens if an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? [Via youtube]
What happens if an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? [Via youtube]
Scientists are being inspired by nature to design the next generation of security devices. Arrays of nanoscale holes create beautiful reflected colours that are almost impossible to forge. [Via veritasium]
University of Melbourne graduate student Sara Ciesielski explains how children growing up in the Sherpa culture learn a lot more than words from their elders. [via geeksaresexy]
Ever expressed feelings for someone and had them reply by saying they’d rather be “just friends?” VSauce examines the science of the “Friend Zone.” [Via YouTube]
Dear Gentlemen, science has a confession. You were once…a female – which helps to explain where your nipples came from. Watch and learn. [Via youtube]
Youtuber minutephysics gives a top 10 reasons why we know the earth is round. [Via Youtube]
Italian filmmaker Giacomo Sardelli has collected messages from astronauts on the International Space Station and created this short-film that he calls “Further Up Yonder.” Messages that might be accompanied by perspective on things. [Via...
Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves. [Via RSA Animate]
The Longest Word in the World (Chemical name of titin) – 189,819 letters: Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine – see here: http://pastebin.com/wkKH8xD8 [Via geeksaresexy]
Timothy Weninger saved several versions while writing a paper submitted to the computer science conference, “World Wide Web.” This resulted in 463 intermediate versions of the paper. He stitched all of the versions together...