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 $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…