OpAmp, the Ultimate Component (ElectroBOOM101 – 013)

From ElectroBOOM. Operational Amplifiers are the best analog components and you can’t prove me wrong! This is a starter guide. Want more? Then join: Patreon: http://patreon.com/electroboom or YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0-OtVpF0wOKEqT2Z1HEtA/join Post your submissions to: http://reddit.com/r/electroboom My Merch: https://electroboom.creator-spring.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/mehdi_sadaghdar TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@electroboomguy Twitter: http://twitter.com/electroboomguy Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ElectroBOOM My articles: https://www.electroboom.com/ Below are my Super HUGE Patrons!…

What If It Rains Bananas For A Single Day? (Spoiler: It’s Bad)

From Kurzgesagt. Get the exclusive NordVPN deal + 4 months extra here: https://nordvpn.com/kurzgesagt It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Turns out, it’s not birbs running kurzgesagt, but hardworking humans. Support our video creation by getting a thoughtful product made with love on the kurzgesagt shop: https://shop.kgs.link/love Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-nostupidquestions/ Can jellyfish power…

This microscope spins – and the shots are insane

From Steve Mould. Try AnyDesk today: https://anydesk.com/stevemould The Hirox microscope has a rotary head attachments that allows you to sweep around your tiny subject like a drone! Explore Girl With a Pearl Earring in microscopic 3D here: https://www.hirox-europe.com/gigapixel/girl-with-a-pearl-earring/ Here’s my GelSight video: https://youtu.be/qtQ4rK66vlE #MicroscopicDrones #ScienceExplained #MiniatureEngineering #DroneFootage #SteveMould You can buy my books here: https://stevemould.com/books…

Digital Tar Pits – How to Fight Back Against A.I.

From Kyle Hill. A new movement aimed at poisoning A.I. models like ChatGPT has gained traction after hackers have been attempting to trap said models in a never ending ‘Tar Pit’ of nonsense. After reading an Ars Technica interview, I tracked down a hacker developing tools to poison AI training data. Tools such as ‘Nepenthes’…

The Hole In Relativity Einstein Didn’t Predict

From 1veritasium, 2veritasium, or sciencium. Why does energy disappear in General Relativity? 👉 Use code VERITASIUM to get 50% off your first monthly KiwiCo Crate! https://www.kiwico.com/VERITASIUM Try Snatoms! A molecular modelling kit I invented where the atoms snap together. https://ve42.co/SnatomsV ▀▀▀ A huge thank you to Prof. Geraint Lewis, Prof. Melissa Franklin, Prof. David Kaiser,…

Australian Electricity Better than UK?!

From ElectroBOOM. 🌎 Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily data plans! Use code “electroboom” at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/electroboom â›” Australia is a beautiful place, both environmentally and electrically! Although I only travelled to Sydney this time… Thanks for your support @ http://patreon.com/electroboom Post your submissions to: http://reddit.com/r/electroboom My Merch:…

Measuring SUPER HIGH VOLTAGE

From ElectroBOOM. Try everything Brilliant has to offer for free visiting https://brilliant.org/electroboom. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. How does one measure very high voltages when electrons don’t want to stay to be measured?! Also, don’t mess with STRONG sources of high voltage! You easily get vaporized!!! Thanks for your support @…

How Robert Frost Writes A Poem

From The Nerdwriter. Go to https://www.squarespace.com/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase. SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/nerdwriter MY BOOK: https://amzn.to/3ymfQPV FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/The-Nerdwriter-314141501931192/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheeNerdwriter SOURCES Langdon Hammer’s two lectures on Frost: Robert Frost On The Sound Of Sense and Sentence Sounds: https://udallasclassics.org/wp-content/uploads/maurer_files/Frost.pdf Robert Frost documentary: Frost Interview: MUSIC (via Epidemic Sound) PAUS – 369…

The Beauty Of Old Hollywood In One Scene

From The Nerdwriter. Go to https://www.squarespace.com/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase. GET MY BOOK: https://amzn.to/3ymfQPV PATREON: https://patreon.com/nerdwriter FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/The-Nerdwriter-314141501931192/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheeNerdwriter SOURCES Stanley Cavell, "Pursuits Of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy Of Remarriage" https://archive.org/details/pursuitsofhappin00cave Emanuel Levy, "George Cukor: Master of elegance – Hollywood’s legendary Director and His Stars https://archive.org/details/georgecukormaste0000levy Gavin Lambert, "On Cukor" https://archive.org/details/oncukor00lamb Story…

How to Make a YouTube Video in 1987

From Popular Science. Decades before software like Premiere and iMovie made video editing cheap, easy, and accessible for everyone, the only option was chaining a conglomerate of vintage 80s technology – multiple camcorders or VCRs and a TV – to craft custom analog video. Then the Videonics system changed tech history forever. With professional-grade setups…

The Time Travel Movie That Doesn’t Move

From The Nerdwriter. Go to https://www.squarespace.com/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase. GET MY BOOK: https://amzn.to/3ymfQPV PATREON: https://patreon.com/nerdwriter FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/The-Nerdwriter-314141501931192/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheeNerdwriter SOURCES Kawin, Bruce. “Time and Stasis in ‘La JetĂ©e.’” Film Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, 1982, pp. 15–20. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3697180 Elena Del Rio. “The Remaking of ‘La JetĂ©e’s’ Time-Travel Narrative: ‘Twelve Monkeys’ and…

The $68 Million Instant Movie Disaster (Polavision)

From Popular Science. Nearly 50 years ago, the Polavision camera blended Polaroid’s revolutionary instant film with on-demand home video – and the result was a landmark advance in analog technology that would become a mystery of science and a winding international journey into vintage tech. Because now, generations after Edwin Land bet his half-century legacy…

What if you CAN’T BURP?!

From Popular Science. Some people can’t burp… at all. It’s called Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction, and RCD makes life seriously uncomfortable — both physically and socially. There’s an easy, increasingly popular medical fix that unlocks the power of the belch, and it’s actually changing lives. Popular Science: https://www.popsci.com/technology/thanks-to-reddit-a-new-diagnosis-is-bubbling-up-across-the-united-states/ #medical #sciencefacts #science #scienceandtechnology

The Most Famous Mystery We’ll NEVER Solve

From Popular Science. [YouTube Age-Restricted the previous upload. This is a new censored version.] Nearly 200 years ago, a mysterious teen boy arrived in Nuremberg. The event ignited the Kaspar Hauser story: a tale of weird history, an unsolved mystery that endures today, and a battle between the ancient lore of a feral child and…

How Matisse Revolutionized Color In Art

From The Nerdwriter. Go to https://www.squarespace.com/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase. GET MY BOOK: https://amzn.to/3ymfQPV PATREON: https://patreon.com/nerdwriter FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/The-Nerdwriter-314141501931192/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheeNerdwriter SOURCES Hilary Spurling, "Matisse: The Life" (Read this for an amazing biography of Matisse’s life) https://archive.org/details/matisselife0000spur John Elderfield "Henri Matisse: A Retrospective" https://archive.org/details/henrimatisseretr00elde Alastair Wright, "Matisse and the subject of modernism" https://archive.org/details/matissesubjectof0000wrig https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/jan/19/art…

Are Tesla Cybertruck Tires TRASH?

From Popular Science. Some Cybertruck owners are complaining that their tires are wearing out quickly — like very, very quickly. One user reported that he’s nearing the end of his tread after just 6,000 miles of summer street and highway driving. The Cybertruck weighs nearly 7,000lbs / 3,000kg, so its tires are going to grind…

We Dug Up a CHILD VAMPIRE?!

From Popular Science. Archaeologists in Chelm, Poland have unearthed the remains of a 13th century child who was suspected of becoming a vampire after burial — including a torso weighed down by rocks and a severed head. #vampire #science #weirdscience #weird #archaelogy

Doritos Dye Makes Mice TRANSPARENT?!

From Popular Science. Tartrazine, commonly called Yellow 5, is a dye that was discovered in the 1880s. It’s been used for food and cosmetics for generations… but it turns out that it can change the refractive index of water to allow us to see through mice and to expose their internal organs. "The dye in…

Why TV Is Wrong For Tolkien

From The Nerdwriter. Go to https://www.squarespace.com/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase. GET MY BOOK: https://amzn.to/3ymfQPV PATREON: https://patreon.com/nerdwriter FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/The-Nerdwriter-314141501931192/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheeNerdwriter SOURCES Mikhail Bakhtin, "Epic And Novel", from The Dialogic Imagination https://books.google.es/books?id=cblaBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false Hans Blumenberg, "Work On Myth" Book Details Ostaltsev, Alex (Oleksiy). “Tolkien and Bakhtin: Symphony of Time in The Lord of the Rings.”…

The VR Backpack Gamers HATED (Interactor)

From Popular Science. The 1980s cemented the role of the home video game console. By the early 1990s, gamers wanted to take their experience to the next level by harnessing physics and haptic feedback into a wearable gaming vest called the Aura Interactor
 or did they?! The lure of cymatics and the excitement of 90s…

Liquid water on Mars!

From Popular Science. The InSight lander has used seismic wave analysis to discover a massive reservoir of liquid water miles under the surface of Mars. We can’t drill down yet, but when we can, it may be critical to sustaining life on the Red Planet. #mars #space #science #spaceexploration

The Director Who Revolutionized The POV Shot

From The Nerdwriter. Go to https://www.squarespace.com/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase. GET MY BOOK: https://amzn.to/3ymfQPV   PATREON: https://patreon.com/nerdwriter FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/The-Nerdwriter-314141501931192/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/TheeNerdwriter SOURCES Bigelow, Kathryn, and Gavin Smith. “MOMENTUM Kathryn Bigelow Interviewed by Gavin Smith.” Film Comment, vol. 31, no. 5, 1995, pp. 46–60. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43455118 https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/scene-took-kathryn-bigelow-six-months/ https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-kathryn-bigelow-changed-cinema-forever/ BENSON-ALLOTT, CAETLIN. “UNDOING VIOLENCE: POLITICS, GENRE, AND DURATION…

DIY Supermaterial Could Save You From Heatstroke: Salt based PCMs

From NightHawkInLight. Check out my sponsor Brilliant, free for 30 days (and get 20% off a premium subscription!) by using this link: https://brilliant.org/nighthawk The most useful resource I found while investigating phase change materials was the following paper which explores several different types of low temp salt based PCMs: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316893824_Preparation_and_thermal_properties_of_Glauber’s_salt-based_phase-change_materials_for_Qinghai-Tibet_Plateau_solar_greenhouses The key to reducing the…