Supercooled Water
When water is supercooled but remains undisturbed, it does not freeze into a solid unless there is an impurity present (a rough surface, for example) for the cold water to crystallize around (a “nucleation” site). Disturbing supercold water also causes it to crystallize.
The same can happen to liquified sugar if a single grain of sugar [...]
Adrenaline Slowing Down Time
Interesting clip from a BBC documentary on time.
Physicist Michio Kaku investigates claims of time dilation under the influence of Adrenaline and other drugs.
Machine Thinking by James Burke
This is an enlightening clip from a film by James Burke called ‘Machine Thinking’. This is only a little bit of the original but still very good.
I guess you could say that the point of this video is that things are created in such a systematic way that all originality has been lost. [...]
Grow Your Tree *HOUSE*
Talk about staying “green”, this is one of the coolest things I have come across.
I found this titled as “the ultimate tree house” on TechEBlog and this is a quick summation of this brilliant idea:
 Mitchell Joachim, Javier Arbona, and environmental engineer Lara Greden have designed the ultimate treehouse, which “will grow from a few seedlings [...]
Asch’s Conformity Experiment
Video of one of Asch’s conformity experiments. Below is a paraphrase from Wikipedia:
 The Asch conformity experiments, published in 1951, were a series of studies that starkly demonstrated the power of conformity in groups.
Experiments led by Solomon Asch asked students to participate in a “vision test.” In reality, all but one of the participants were confederates [...]
Beer Goggles Are REAL!
This excerpt comes from HowStufWorks and explains the math behind beer goggles!
Many of us have heard of the so-called “beer goggle” effect. It’s the phenomenon that occurs when someone’s had a few alcoholic drinks and suddenly, all of those people who looked semi-attractive on entering the bar look really, really appealing. Scientists have shown that [...]
Objects Suspended in Air
This stuff is really amazing. At first you might watch these and think ’so what’ but its truly amazing that by using sound the objects in the videos I have linked below float. I wondering what kind of energy consumption it takes to do this because if it’s low — this might [...]