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| Honda Cog One of the finest Rube Goldberg machines ever filmed. But at what cost? Purportedly over £6M and the dismantling of two of the six hand-built Honda Accords. It apparently took months to shoot and the whole sequence worked without fail on take 606. No trick photography. No CGI. This one's for real. Enjoy. |
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Dodge Nitro: Auto Launcher A hip, good-looking Nitro driver offers assistance to a balding, doughey non-Nitro motorist in distress. The jump-start was more than was expected. The clip lends itself to invocations of some classic one-dimensional kinematics equations. The Blog of Phyz entry has more info. |
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| What Revolves Around the Earth? The French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire featured dramatic footage of a contestant clearly stumpted by a seemingly simple astronomy question. The drama takes an unexpected turn when he asks the audience for help. The Blog of Phyz entry has more info. |
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| Firewalkers Put to the Test British psychology professor Richard Wiseman challenged the paranormal explanation of firewalking. The results were not without humour. Spoiler alert: there are no energetic force fields accessed through meditation that can save your feet from being burned by hot coals. The Blog of Phyz entry has more info. |
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Science and the FedEx Superbowl XLI Ad The good people at Federal Express paid their $2.4M per 30 seconds for an ad that could aptly be described as a catalog of physics and astronomy misconceptions. The Blog of Phyz entry has more info. Don't forget to pre-quiz your students with the student worksheet (see link to the right). |
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Leidenfrost "Bubbleball" Paul Robninson's serendipitous discovery that a glowing brass ball dipped into hot water makes for a dramatic demonstration of the Leidenfrost Effect. The Blog of Phyz entry has more info and more video clips, including an embarrassing blooper! |
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| Time Fountain This is just very groovy. I found it while gearing up for ExploratoRio. It's reminiscent of the Exploratorium's Strobe Fountain and ExploratoRio's Dancing Drops. But--wow--seriously engineered! The Blog of Phyz entry has more info. |
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| Electricity Lesson NOT Safe for Students No thumbnail here. The link will take you to the download site, designed by physics teacher Dick Heckathorn. The clip includes particularly unsavory scenes from the "Electricity" edition of the Tell Me Why series. Watch it and you'll see why my comment is, "Oh, the humanity!" Don't forget to deploy the student worksheet before viewing this disaster in class. Oh, you can show it in class, but not as a lesson in correct content. |
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Human Circuits It's true, the Marquis de Sade might approve of the tactics seen in this clip. Still though, there's good physics to be enjoyed. And who doesn't like seeing otherwise intelligent people accepting electric shocks? It's a far cry (!) from the Milgram Experiment. |
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| Alkali Metals Make Big Boom Yeah, this is more chemistry than physics. But remember: in the end, it's all physics. And this is what happens when the Brainiacs get hold of some rubidium and cesium. As Mr. Tickle so eloquently puts it, "Warning warning warning! Extreme danger; clear the area!" |
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