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Casual Friday — Walkman vs. Hoover
OK, no great scientific value in today’s video — just good, clean fun. From the folks that brought you Wallace & Gromit, it’s “Stuff vs. Stuff: Walkman vs. Hoover”…
Casual Friday — life in slow motion
It’s just plain fun and interesting to watch what life looks like in super slow motion. Courtesy of Philip Heron, here’s a short film on the subject — Tempus II…
Casual Friday — the new Bay Bridge
Building a bridge to last 150 years, in the middle of an earthquake zone…
Casual Friday — like a bolt from the blue
A 9,000 frames-per-second view of some lightning in Rapid City, South Dakota…
Casual Friday — Curiosity’s first steps… er… rolls
The next rover headed to Mars took its first test drive last Friday — only a meter forward and a meter back, but baby steps are a good way to start…
Casual Friday — not your everyday sort of ballet
I knew the Russians were big on ballet, but I never would have guessed the lengths they’ll go to in pursuit of the art form…
Casual Friday: Apollo 11 Saturn V launch
Courtesy of the fine folks at Spacecraft Films, here’s a raw clip of video from one of the launchpad cameras — showing the Apollo 11 launch, 41 years ago…
Casual Friday — Shuttle Atlantis, from the inside
An unprecedented, up-close, inside (literally!) look in high-definition of space shuttle Atlantis as it was readied for “towback” from Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility runway to Orbiter Processing Facility-1 following its May 26 landing on STS-132…
Casual Friday — the Great American Horn Machine
The 4th of July’s coming up — so for those of you “in the neighborhood,” here’s a suitably technological way to celebrate…
Casual Friday — “Impossible Motion,” the best illusion of 2010
This illusion, dubbed “Impossible Motion,” was created by Koukichi Sugihara of Japan — and won the 2010 Best Illusion of the Year Contest in Naples, Florida…
