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Ikea’s Video Assembly Instructions Vastly Increase Your Chances Of Success
The ongoing joke that Ikea's flat-pack furniture is confusingly complicated to assemble might be rendered moot now that the Swedish company is rolling out video assembly instructions that look...
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Why Boosting Your Camera’s ISO Setting Can Make Your Photos Worse
Increasing your camera's ISO setting improves its ability to see in the dark, but it can also lead to artifacts in your images that look like millions of tiny dots, known as noise. But where exactly...
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Watch This RC Top Gun Pilot His Helicopter Through Impossible Manoeuvres
Carl Groover is the Maverick of RC helicopters. He does things with a miniature chopper that seem to defy the laws of gravity and physics. It will seriously blow your mind, and not just because you...
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How a Particle Accelerator Works: Explained With Donuts and Chocolate Bars
Using a fried dough and Kit Kat stop-motion animation, the folks over at Elements explain how a synchroton particle accelerator—like the Large Hadron Collider—accelerate particles up to the speed of...
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So How Does the Horizontal Spinning Blade On a Helicopter Propel It Forward?
Just because it's the weekend doesn't mean you have to switch your brain off completely. Smarter Every Day continues its video series on the physics behind helicopters with a look at how choppers use...
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How To Thoroughly Dry Your Hands With Just One Piece of Paper Towel
You don’t always walk away from a TED Talk feeling like you’ve learned something useful, but this time you will. Joe Smith presents a simple but incredibly useful technique that guarantees you can dry...
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This Adorable Animation Explains How Your Gmail Is Sent
When blasting through a mountain of email in the morning you probably never stop to ponder just how each message gets delivered to its recipient. But in an effort to highlight the company’s green...
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So How Does Your Smartphone’s Accelerometer Know Up From Down?
You probably take for granted the fact that turning your phone on its side automatically puts the display into landscape mode. But do you really know how the tiny accelerometer inside your device can...
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How We Measure the Universe Without Intergalactic Rulers
Scientists tell us that our universe is trillions of miles wide, but how exactly do they come to that measurement without an equally long tape measure? As this beautifully animated video explains, by...
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3D Scrabble Toy Is Not For Weak-Minded Wordsmiths
It’s not the first attempt to put a new spin on Scrabble by adding another dimension, but while playing this 3DX Word Game you’re not tied down by some overbearing board telling you where you can and...
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The Large Hadron Collider Throws Away More Data Than It Stores
You’d think that with a price tag of billions of pounds the LHC would have more storage capacity than it could ever use. But with the machine producing a petabyte of data every second, the researchers...
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So How Exactly Are Lasers Created?
They’re the bane of pilots and moviegoers, but lasers have become an essential part of everyday life. They facilitate everything from high-speed communications, to vision-saving surgeries, to...
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How Canon Built Your Digital Camera
You’re not going to walk away with an in-depth knowledge of how to build your own digital camera from watching this video. But Canon’s behind-the-scenes peek at what goes into building and designing...
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Find Out How Many Goats (or Guinea Pigs) It Would Take to Mow Your Lawn
As fun as it is to cut your lawn with a riding mower, they can be expensive to operate and maintain. Even the push variety end up costing you in the manual labour department, so you might want to...
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The Top 50 Sources Where Wikipedia Gets Its Facts
You didn’t think Wikipedia was all original content, did you? According to Webempires, the online encyclopedia cites and references over two million different websites. You can find the entire...
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All Chemistry Classes Should Be Taught by Adorable Dogs
Matthew Hartings is a chemistry professor at American University, and will most likely go down in history for coming up with the absolute best way to teach chemistry concepts to non-college types:...
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Using Science For Optimal Gravy Coverage
There are those who like to drown their roasts in gravy, and those who like to keep it sequestered to their mashed potatoes. And if you find yourself in that latter group, Vihart has put together a...
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Watch Gear Pantone Chart: Layers of Gorgeous Time-Keeping Guts
In the horological world, Skeleton watches are some of the most tricky to design and build since all of the timepiece’s inner workings are completely exposed and visible at all times. They can also be...
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The Science of Rocket Fuel Explained With Plastic Bottles and Slo-Mo
Rocket engines require two important ingredients to fire: fuel, and an oxidiser. And to get the most bang for your buck with those ingredients, you need to find the perfect recipe. As the BBC’s Bang...
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Watch a Woman from the 1990s Explain What a Computer Is
One of the things that will never fail to make me happy: seeing people stuck in time explain what modern day technology is. Kim Komando hosted an educational series about computer and explains the...
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