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Soon after the US dropped two nuclear bomb on Japan in 1945, a group of physicists at the University of Pennsylvania decided to investigate for themselves how nuclear fission and the bomb might work using non-classified materials. In doing so, they …
There's a driving technique called heel-and-toe where the driver uses all three pedals (brake, clutch, throttle) at once to make deceleration smoother, especially in the turns.
Gary Connery is apparently the first person to skydive out of an aircraft and land on the ground without injury without the use of a parachute.
I had no idea a Slinky's adventures on a treadmill could be so dramatic or affecting. The stumble at ~1:43 is the most harrowing scene in film so far in 2012.
I can't tell if the app featured in this video is imaginary or not, but it's a great theoretical solution to the problem of douche parking. Douche parking is basically parking like a douche, and is way more prevalent in Russia than in the US. The Vi…
Cory Poole made this video of the annular solar ecplise yesterday using 700 photographs from a telescope with “a very narrow bandpass allowing you to see the chromosphere and not the much brighter photosphere below it.”
If you're attempting to enjoy beer and are without your bottle opener but you have your chainsaw, this will come in handy: Didn
Many more of Cern's photos are available on Facebook. (via colossal)
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This time lapse covers more than 1000 years and shows the shifting national borders of Europe. There's also a slowed-down versi
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