Coppersmithing, Wings, & Nuking Space
Welcome back to Science Goes Boom. First we’ll take a look at one of the most beautiful regions in America and the geography of why so few people live there:
When you combine guts, gravity, and gears, what do you get? Bike physics via Red Bull:
The Bronze Age revisited:
When Tootsie Rolls go boom. Also, did you know you can use a box of Tootsie Rolls as body armor against a .45?
When Space goes boom…or, a brief Cold War history of bad ideas:
The amazing, intricate, irreducably complex, perfectly formed, intelligent design of wings:
Parents Note: At the 10:33 mark the host expresses his amazement about how “nature and the living world has solved these extreme engineering problems thanks to the power of evolution.” Which just goes to show that even if you can teach a person science, you can’t always make them understand logic.
“How do we get the pecans out of the tree?”
“Duh, you shake them. And you call yourself a scientist?”
And finally, let’s check in on the comedy of errors Shane’s been dealing with over at Stuff Made Here. Oh, I see: Overengineering one of the most basic kid’s toys ever made.
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