Bizarre traveling flame discovery
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When you make a mathematical knot using elastic material you get jumping loops, and challenging puzzles
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The bizarre patterns that emerge when you heat any fluid
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Pop-up tents work in a really clever way
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Watch gravity pull two metal balls together
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If you try to pass a bouncy ball under a table, if it hits the underside of the table it will just bounce back out the way it came
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A cast saw can't cut through skin. Find out why in slow motion.
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Wirtz pumps are really clever
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This "perpetual motion" device is really clever
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The golf ball paradox
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Steffen's polyhedron is a flexible concave polyhedron. Euler thought such a shape was impossible. I also show infinitesimally flexible polyhedrons and bistable polyhedrons.
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The spool paradox
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Wire EDM is an insanely precise manufacturing method. But there's a trick behind these objects that appear to have no seam.
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Can water solve a maze?
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You can make handmade holograms just by etching lines into a shiny surface. All you need is a compass with two points (a divider). And to be able to get your head around the mind bending geometry.
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This microscope uses touch. Gelsight is a microscope that presses gel into the object of study.
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The turntable paradox: A ball on a spinning turntable won't fly off as you might expect. In fact the ball will have it's own little orbit exactly 2/7th the angular speed of the table. Here's why.
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Logic gates made of DNA beat me at tic-tac-toe
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How petrol pumps know when to turn themselves off
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Penrose Unilluminable Room is a room with mirrored walls that can't be fully illuminated by a single point source of light
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Electric kettles turn off automatically when the water starts to boil. So what happens when you boil alcohol that has a lower boiling point?
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Fractal ink jets that power spiral motion
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The spring paradox
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The Mould Effect: A new theory
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Orbital resonances and the Cassini Division, explained
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Why your pee looks like a chain
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Laser + mirror + sound — Visualizing sound waves with a laser
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I hacked into my own car
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Why PVC cement spins like crazy in water
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The self-levitating Kingsbury aerodynamic bearing
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Revealing motion invisible to the naked eye using Motion Amplification and Video Magnification
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This video has 16,905 likes (that's 689,333 fewer than Tom's!)
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How to spread hep A without leaving your house
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Piezoelectricity - Why hitting crystals makes electricity
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How diodes work
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