Why Is MIT Making Robot Insects?
Adults CreativityWhat happens when you shrink robots down to the size of insects? Let’s explore the mind-bending physics behind their superpowers!
Primitive Technology: Flywheel blower smelt/Monsoon begins
Adults CreativityI tested a fly wheel on the blower. Taking an old clay fly wheel from the pump drill I made many years ago, I attached it to the axle of the one way spinning blower to see how it would effect performance.
Primitive Technology: Tile Capped Mud Walls
Adults CreativityI built Mud walls and capped them with roof tiles to protect them from rain. Mud walls if left uncovered in wet weather will dissolve in the rain and collapse.
Humanity's Greatest Journey
Adults CreativityIt’s finally time to reveal the 12,025 Human Era Calendar! This is more than just a way to mark the days – it’s our chance to share something with you all which is truly one-of-a-kind, a piece of art that will inspire you for an entire year and beyond.
Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
Adults CreativityWith the wet season only 2 months away and thatch being an impermanent material, I needed to make more roof tiles for a new hut that will withstand the next deluge.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows smelt
Adults CreativityI tested the water bellows with a smelt and it produced a small amount of iron from the ore. The concept has a lot of potential but is having some issues.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows (uses water instead of leather)
Adults CreativityI built a Water Bellows. It’s an upside-down clay pot with an inlet valve and an outlet spout. The inlet valve is simply a hole in the pot with a leaf plastered to the inside with wet clay so that it forms a one-way flap valve.
Primitive Technology: Polynesian Arrowroot Hashbrown
Adults CreativityI made a hashbrown from Polynesian arrowroot. A hashbrown is typically made from potatoes where it is mashed and baked on a pan.
What Speakers That Cost $370,000 Sound Like | WIRED
Adults CreativityWhat does it sound like when you listen to a speaker that’s roughly the price of the home you put it in?
Primitive Technology: Making Charcoal in a Closed Pot
Adults CreativityI made charcoal in a clay pot by putting wood in it and heat the pot externally effectively making it like a retort.
Primitive Technology: Geopolymer Cement (Ash and Clay)
Adults CreativityI have made wood ash cement before under the assumption that it was the calcium in the ash that gave it its cementitious properties...
The Science of HELLDIVERS 2!
Adults CreativitySuper Earth needs you, Helldiver! But of course, you wouldn’t just willingly jump into a hellpod and drop straight into the heart of battle without asking some important questions about the science and theory behind your new career, right?
What Makes Kurzgesagt So Special?
Adults CreativityWe're finally revealing the secret sauce behind kurzgesagt videos.
Primitive Technology: Wet Season Destroys Thatched Workshop
Adults CreativityThe thatched workshop where I produce bricks, pottery, cement and charcoal for various projects was destroyed by prolonged rain from the wet season.
Does Fallout's "Rule of Thumb" Work?
Adults CreativityIs #fallout 's famous Vault Boy actually hiding some accurate nuclear blast survival tactics?
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
Adults CreativityI tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?
Adults CreativityMany crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. That’s sort of like what happens with YouTube videos.
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
Adults CreativityI tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
How This Guy Runs a 5 and a Half Minute Mile...Backwards | WIRED
Adults CreativityEver tried running backwards? Meet Aaron Yoder, one of the world's fastest backward runners who can complete a reverse mile in five and a half minutes.
Chandigarh a perfectly planned city?
Adults CreativityExplore the construction of the futurist city Chandigarh, a project of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and planned by Le Corbusier.
Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time
Adults CreativityIs your future already written? Do your past, present, and future all exist right now? Surprisingly, the answer could be yes.