If you’ve been paying attention to the news the past few weeks, you know that some of the newly installed high government officials in the USA are trying to destroy much of the country’s scientific activity and community. That statement sounds bizarre — and the reality of it is even more bizarre. On Friday, March […]
The Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations and Snow Removal Team is seen, in this video, preparing a classic mousetrap-as-analog demonstration of how nuclear fission proceeds. Their written explanation includes these comments: We’ve got the set-up time down to 15 minutes, and like all nuclear devices, you only get one shot at this one. The mouse trap […]
This Vietnamese news report shows a new invention: a system of armor intended to protect a motorcycle rider in the event of a collision. The video appears to demonstrate that the invention works well for collision speeds of less than one mile-per-hour.