The best poem in the world
International slam poetry champion Harry Baker recites three poems, the second of which won him the slam poetry champs in France. Amazing rhyme with meaning.
Have you ever wondered why there are 360 degrees in a circle?
Have you ever wondered why there are 360 degrees in a circle? This short video distills a lot of information about numbers, geometry and the relationship between them.
Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice
By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they add rockets. See their jaw-dropping developments in micro-robotics, and hear about three ways we might use these little helpers in the future. Sarah Bergbreiter Microroboticist…
CURVED/labs design a facelift for the first Apple Macintosh
If you are old enough to remember Apple’s first Macintosh computer — the “doorstop” with the 9-inch screen — you’re going to love what German design company CURVED have done to revive it for the 21st century. Even if you don’t remember, enjoy it anyway.
Stephen Hawking’s big ideas…made simple
No time to read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time? In just two and a half minutes, Alok Jha explains why black holes are doomed to shrink into nothingness then explode with the energy of a million nuclear bombs, and rewinds to the big bang and the origin of the universe.
melt your mind 