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By: Numberphile
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV9k6dRQQe4
There are 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 ways to arrange a standard 3×3 Rubik’s Cube.
See our full series of Rubik’s Cube videos at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJNAdHv8TUCOmj7iKqyHZeg
This video features Matt Parker, James Grime and Katie Steckles.
With thanks to Drew Mokris for doing the animation: http://www.spinnerdisc.com/
With thanks to Feliks Zemdegs for use of one of his many world-record breaking videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/fazrulz1
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Videos by Brady Haran
Brady’s other channels include:
http://www.youtube.com/periodicvideos (Chemistry stuff)
http://www.youtube.com/sixtysymbols (Physics and astronomy)
http://www.youtube.com/DeepSkyVideos (Space stuff)
http://www.youtube.com/nottinghamscience (Science and behind the scenes)
http://www.youtube.com/foodskey (Food science)
http://www.youtube.com/BackstageScience (Big science facilities)
http://www.youtube.com/favscientist (Favourite scientists)
By: D. Scott Williamson
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How to draw seven red lines, all perpendicular, some with green ink, some with transparent ink, and one in the form of a kitten.
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By: Abec 11 Media
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This is a short documentary about the untold story of Sergio Yuppie’s humble beginnings in the skateboarding world. From being just a kid with a dream on the streets of Brazil to becoming an international skateboard icon, Sergio remains true to his purpose in life – skateboarding for the pure love of it.
We celebrate a life driven by passion and adversity – a rags to riches story where wealth is not measured by monetary value. Here’s a living, breathing example of the goals that you can achieve, no matter how big you dream. This is the story of Sergio Yuppie.
Directed/Filmed/Edited: Michael Alfuso
Producer: Chris Chaput
Assistant Camera: Rory Russell
Production Manager: Brad Teschner
Stunt Car: Christian Hunt
Additional Footage: Joao Brinhosa
Translation: Flavia Brancato
Song/Artist:
0:15 “Highway Star” Deep Purple cover by Stryper
1:27 “When It Pours It Rains” (Instrumental)
2:38 “The Prophet” by Gramatik
4:46 “Left Us To Mold” by Unida
6:24 “The Mentalist” by Mr. Fijiwiji
8:13 “Fortune Soul” by Blackmill
By: BBC Radio 1
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Chilly Gonzales gave a quick masterclass in pop music evolution for Huw Stephens on the Radio 1 Piano Sessions.
By: Pixels, Huh
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Pixel Art illustration by Octavi Navarro. 2014.
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By: frank howarth
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I volunteered to build the stands for the cars at this year’s Pinewood Derby. I used an old piece of hemlock to make the stands. The stands consist of three parts: a base, a post, and a platform. The platform is at a slight angle to better display the cars. We also built a car. It has a wedge shaped body with polished and bent axles. Calvin came in 13th out of 38 cars.
By: MetaSpoon
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Funny yet disturbing video of sexual harassment in Lima
By: frank howarth
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I have been cleaning up the shop. In this process, I have made a few shop upgrades. The first project is lowering the bottom shelf and putting on new wheels on the worktable. The new wheels will take more weight. The lower shelf will allow me it store the pantorouter on it. The second project is making a new foot for the grinder stand I built last Fall. I pulled off the leveling feet I had on there and attached a single piece of 2 inch angle iron. This looks a lot better. The third project is to demonstrate some of the alternate uses of the new shop stair. One is to use it as a step stool the reach higher places in the shop. Another is to use it as a platform for bringing heavy items into the shop.
Shop Stair
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Wood Turning Grinder Stand
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By: UniversityRochester
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Scientists at the University of Rochester have used lasers to transform metals into extremely water repellent, or super-hydrophobic, materials without the need for temporary coatings.
Super-hydrophobic materials are desirable for a number of applications such as rust prevention, anti-icing, or even in sanitation uses. However, as Rochester’s Chunlei Guo explains, most current hydrophobic materials rely on chemical coatings.
In a paper (http://ift.tt/1BbZSPO) published today in Journal of Applied Physics, Guo and his colleague at the University’s Institute of Optics, Anatoliy Vorobyev, describe a powerful and precise laser-patterning technique that creates an intricate pattern of micro- and nanoscale structures to give the metals their new properties. This work builds on earlier research by the team in which they used a similar laser-patterning technique that turned metals black (http://ift.tt/1BzlR5V). Guo states that using this technique they can create multifunctional surfaces that are not only super-hydrophobic but also highly-absorbent optically.
Guo adds that one of the big advantages of his team’s process is that “the structures created by our laser on the metals are intrinsically part of the material surface.” That means they won’t rub off. And it is these patterns that make the metals repel water.
“The material is so strongly water-repellent, the water actually gets bounced off. Then it lands on the surface again, gets bounced off again, and then it will just roll off from the surface,” said Guo, professor of optics at the University of Rochester. That whole process takes less than a second.
The materials Guo has created are much more slippery than Teflon—a common hydrophobic material that often coats nonstick frying pans. Unlike Guo’s laser-treated metals, the Teflon kitchen tools are not super-hydrophobic. The difference is that to make water to roll-off a Teflon coated material, you need to tilt the surface to nearly a 70-degree angle before the water begins to slide off. You can make water roll off Guo’s metals by tilting them less than five degrees.
As the water bounces off the super-hydrophobic surfaces, it also collects dust particles and takes them along for the ride. To test this self-cleaning property, Guo and his team took ordinary dust from a vacuum cleaner and dumped it onto the treated surface. Roughly half of the dust particles were removed with just three drops of water. It took only a dozen drops to leave the surface spotless. Better yet, it remains completely dry.
Guo is excited by potential applications of super-hydrophobic materials in developing countries. It is this potential that has piqued the interest of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has supported the work.
“In these regions, collecting rain water is vital and using super-hydrophobic materials could increase the efficiency without the need to use large funnels with high-pitched angles to prevent water from sticking to the surface,” says Guo. “A second application could be creating latrines that are cleaner and healthier to use.”
Latrines are a challenge to keep clean in places with little water. By incorporating super-hydrophobic materials, a latrine could remain clean without the need for water flushing.
But challenges still remain to be addressed before these applications can become a reality, Guo states. It currently takes an hour to pattern a 1 inch by 1 inch metal sample, and scaling up this process would be necessary before it can be deployed in developing countries. The researchers are also looking into ways of applying the technique to other, non-metal materials.
Guo and Vorobyev use extremely powerful, but ultra-short, laser pulses to change the surface of the metals. A femtosecond laser pulse lasts on the order of a quadrillionth of a second but reaches a peak power equivalent to that of the entire power grid of North America during its short burst.
Guo is keen to stress that this same technique can give rise to multifunctional metals. Metals are naturally excellent reflectors of light. That’s why they appear to have a shiny luster. Turning them black can therefore make them very efficient at absorbing light. The combination of light-absorbing properties with making metals water repellent could lead to more efficient solar absorbers – solar absorbers that don’t rust and do not need much cleaning.
Guo’s team had previously blasted materials with the lasers and turned them hydrophilic, meaning they attract water. In fact, the materials were so hydrophilic that putting them in contact with a drop of water made water run “uphill” (http://ift.tt/1EpsB4R).
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