The folks who made "Lazy Teenage Superheroes" had a lot of fun doing it, and they spent almost nothing. With an outlay of only $300, they filled the video with impressive special video effects, sound, music and humor. I read about this video at boingboing and truly enjoyed watching this 13-minute film. Watching this project made we want to know more about the people who made the video. Here's the video website.
Before Galileo, and ever since Aristotle, many people believed that heavier objects fell faster than lighter objects. That might be true where air impedes light objects, such as feathers, but many people believed that even in the absence of air heavier objects always fell faster, and it was commonly assumed that, heavier cannonballs fall faster than light cannonballs, even in the absence of any scientific data. The beauty of the scientific method comes front and center in this simple experiment conducted on the surface of the moon by Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott.
One of my favorite books ever is Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior, by Geoffrey Miller (2009). I have lately been interested in trying to locate lower level personality differences that are predictive of political attitudes, and Miller offers such an analysis in chapter 9. To begin the chapter, Miller…
Did you see snow recently? No, not with your eyes, but with an electron microscope (and see here). Or with a photomicroscope.
I spotted this video featuring lots of trick pool shots. I barely know how to shoot pool, and I didn't know you could make these sorts of shots.
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