What Do Blind People Find Attractive?
Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, answers the popular question ‘what do blind people find attractive?’Read More
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Is A DOS Attack A Weapon? | Idea Channel
Denial of Service (DOS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks take down servers by distracting them with meaningless traffic until basically they can’t take it any more. Scientology, Westboro Baptist Church, and others like them have been hit, and if you look at the coverage of these events, the descriptive words “attacks,” “violent,” and Read MoreRead More
World’s Smallest Movie – Stop Time Animations on the Atomic Level
IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide molecules (two atoms stacked on top of each other), all in pursuit of making a movie so small it can be seen only when you magnify it 100 million times. Behind the scenes:Read More
TED: John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting — linguistically, culturally — than it seems, and it’s all good news.Read More
TED: Edith Widder: How We Found the Giant Squid
Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator could never be caught on film. Oceanographer and inventor Edith Widder shares the key insight — and the teamwork — that helped to capture the squid on camera for the first time.Read More
Is A Tagged Instagram More Than Just A Photo?
Idea Channel examines the mechanics of social media platform of Instagram.Read More
Why Do We Cry?
ASAPScience looks at the scientific explanation behind why humans cry.Read More
Why do we have Anxiety?
The SciShow explains why anxiety is still part of our lives.Read More
Modding a Vintage Camera to use Digital
This is cheating right? Here I’ve decided to do the project on a 1916 Kodak Autographic 3A Special. You need a camera with some sort of bellows, or a focusing lens apparatus. For instance, I would really love to convert a Kodak Instamatic, but it’s got no adjustable lens or bellows, and the back is Read MoreRead More
How I Became a Password Cracker
Nate Anderson reveals the relative ease of password hacking today by exploring some of the techniques used to gain access. At the beginning of a sunny Monday morning earlier this month, I had never cracked a password. By the end of the day, I had cracked 8,000. Even though I knew password cracking was easy, Read MoreRead More
TED-Ed: Why do we see illusions? – Mark Changizi
Why can’t our extremely complex eyes render simple optical illusions? Surprise, surprise — it comes back to the brain, which has only evolved to encounter natural stimuli. At TEDYouth 2012, Mark Changizi explains how the brain reckons with optical illusions. Check out the full lesson hereRead More
A Minimalist Explaination of How DNA works
BBC Knowledge and Learning is exploring a wide variety of topics from social history to science in a series of three-minute online Explainer documentaries, and commissioned Territory Studio (territorystudio.com) to produce an animated film on the subject of DNA. As Will Samuel, lead designer and animator on the project explains, the approach taken wasn’t just Read MoreRead More