Celui qui tombe (He who falls), Yoann Bourgeois’ turntable acrobatics
Six people try to make their way on a large rotating turntable, jostling for position, walking, running, balancing, and tripping over each other. Their world spins to My Way sung by Frank Sinatra. They...
View ArticleHevesh5’s 32,000 domino passion project
A stunning central spiral that changes color, a rainbow checkerboard that falls in zig-zags, zipper fields that open like books, interlocking ‘double helix’ speed walls—an astounding setup that...
View ArticleKings Dominion Front Seat POV Roller Coaster Rides
Full-screen this front seat POV (point-of-view) video of five roller coasters at Virginia’s Kings Dominion amusement park. The first four: The Intimidator 305, the Dominator, the now-retired Volcano,...
View ArticleMicrogravity on ISS, a NASA Explorers web series
The International Space Station is not only a pioneering outpost in low-Earth orbit, it’s also an out-of-this-world science lab where scientific experiments are conducted by astronauts every day. “One...
View ArticleMaru and Hana walk through a narrowing toilet paper roll path
Watch as Maru and Hana walk through a gradually narrowing pathway created with two precariously stacked toilet paper roll walls. It’s a (mostly) quiet five minutes of video footage that is...
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Pandas in the snow at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo
Humans aren’t the only ones who love sliding in the fresh snow. Giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC made the most of their snow day by sliding down...
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Every type of roller coaster, explained by a roller coaster engineer
Clear 20 minutes of your time for a comprehensive review of the types of roller coasters that designers and engineers have created around the globe. Start with wooden roller coasters and steel roller...
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Tumbling Soda Bottle, a DIY physics toy
Make your own Tumbling Soda Bottle physics toy. This how-to video by retired physics teacher Bruce Yeany shares each step of how to turn a smooth plastic bottle, two pencils, and some sort of...
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Link, an imaginative stop-motion chain reaction
Washi tape rolls. Safety pins unpin. Protractors spin. Pencils sharpen. Plugs hop from outlet to outlet. Link is a stop-motion animation that imagines these moments as fantastical parts of a longer...
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Kaplamino’s adeptly engineered Kapla domino tricks
The blue Kapla planks are the dominoes. The red Kaplas are used as mechanisms or key parts of the chain reactions. The natural Kapla planks are used to create the structures. This adeptly-engineered...
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6,391 cereal box dominoes, a Guinness World Record
With each curve into another hallway, cereal boxes fall… hallway after hallway until the falling boxes expand into a huge triangle of breakfast-filled dominoes. As the last row falls in front of an...
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Egg Drop From Space
The Egg Drop is a fantastic physics and engineering challenge for all ages: Design a container that will protect your raw egg during a fall and crash landing. Sometimes you’re dropping the egg from...
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The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1971)
Perhaps you know the well-used gif of a ballet frog jumping for joy in front of a pastoral cottage? That gif is from a film production of Tales of Beatrix Potter, specifically telling The Tale of Mr....
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Zorbing: Rolling down a hill in an inflatable ball
Would you climb into a large inflatable sphere and wait to be launched down a hill? This surprising recreational activity is called zorbing, sphereing, and orbing. Set up on extreme sport tracks in...
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Ice Merchants, the Academy Award-nominated film by João Gonzalez
A father and son live in a house attached to a cliff. Every day, they make and harvest ice, parachuting off their deck to sell it in the village far below. When they return, they make more ice and wait...
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