A boomerang can execute its unique roundtrip flight by making use of three fundamental physics principles: lift, relative velocity, and gyroscopic precession.
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Mar 18
How Does A Boomerang Work?
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Mar 18
Bill Nye Teaches You Science Slang
Bill Nye teaches you scientific slang words and terms. Find out what “arsole,” “hinny,” “champagne tap” and more words mean.
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Mar 18
Primitive Technology: Wattle and Daub Hut
I built this hut in the bush using naturally occurring materials and primitive tools.
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Mar 18
Crocodile Feeding FRENZY!
On this episode of Breaking Trail, Coyote feeds a GIANT Saltwater Crocodile!
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Mar 18
What If You Didn’t Sleep For A Week?
We all know sleep is important, but what if you just…. stopped doing it?
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Mar 18
Family Minestrone Soup
We’ve raided the archives for a cracking soup at this time of the year.
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Mar 18
A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place
Why should you care about the well-being of people half a globe away?
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Mar 18
A Dragon Torched My Hand
There are tons of things I had never considered about how difficult it is to fool your brain into thinking it’s touching something it’s not.
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Mar 18
The Real Reason Leaves Change Color In the Fall
Why do autumn leaves change colour? Because they lose the chlorophyll that makes them green, allowing the yellowy-orange pigment to shine through, right?
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Mar 18
For $10,000, A Silicon Valley Startup Will Kill You And Upload Your Brain To The Cloud
A Silicon Valley startup is claiming that they can make the impossible possible – that they can take your memories, and upload them to a computer, allowing you to live on (in some digitized form) after you’re dead.
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Mar 18
Cannibalism in the animal kingdom – Bill Schutt
Until recently, scientists thought cannibalism was a rare response to starvation or other extreme stress.