Stop-and-go waves of dense freeway traffic can flow backward for miles. This TED-Ed video explains the phenomenon of "phantom traffic jams" and shows how self-driving cars that are aware of… Read the rest of the article: What are "phantom traffic jams" and how can technology get rid of them?
Charles Platt's growing series of electronics books are the best I've come across. He explains concepts very clearly, and his illustrations are excellent. His latest book in the series is… Read the rest of the article: Easy Electronics book is an excellent introduction to electronics
a group of young black entrepreneurs have owned a office building in uptown minneapolis for over a year& got racially profiled at the private gym today🤦🏾♀️smh pic.twitter.com/iKmAuW5Tli — nisa (@anisalrh)… Read the rest of the article: White venture capitalist sees black men in shared office building gym, calls 911
In this video we see a woman hand her husband a folder with her pregnancy ultrasound results. The husband is in their car with his smiling adorable baby son in… Read the rest of the article: Father's mind is blown when he learns he is going to have triplets
Phone company LG Poland apologized for its TikTok video ad depicting a man taking photos of a woman in a skirt as she ascends a staircase. From Android Authority: LG… Read the rest of the article: LG Poland ad showcases phone's ability to take stealth upskirt photos
Open Culture has a page with capsule reviews of The 135 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind. The list includes "great podcasts on art, music, history, philosophy, plus captivating true… Read the rest of the article: Open Culture has a new directory of the "Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind"
What are Perler beads and why might you want to buy a big tub of 22,000 thousand? They are tiny colorful plastic cylinders. Each bead is a pixel that you… Read the rest of the article: Gigantic tub of 22,000 Perler beads
Trump and Trump Junior are tweeting accusatory nonsense about the death of a woman, and her widower asked Twitter to delete the hurtful messages because the tweets are in violation… Read the rest of the article: Twitter says it's "deeply sorry about the pain" Trump's tweets have caused
From designer Nate Shirley, a "personal hygiene product intended for cleaning your ears. It uses disposable spiral cleaning heads that spin at a constant speed." I wish he would Kickstart… Read the rest of the article: Concept design for a drill-like tool that augers wax out of your ear
A woman who was exercising her God-given right to release a miasma of aerosolized saliva in a confined space during a deadly pandemic was shouted at by other shoppers in… Read the rest of the article: Infuriated NY shoppers scream at woman for not wearing mask
If you misplace something, say a pair of headphones, think about its surface texture and the way it feels rather than what it looks like. This will help you remember… Read the rest of the article: To find something you misplaced, imagine its feel and texture
Bill Gates has designed tiny location-tracking microchips that he plans to implant into hundreds of millions of people when they get the COVID-19 vaccine. Only 26% of Republicans surveyed believe… Read the rest of the article: Over 40% of Republicans think Bill Gates is going to implant tracking chips through Covid vaccine
This foldable step stool is 11 inches high, and is only 1.5 inches thick when folded up. It has replaced a non-folding plastic step stool that we'd kept in on… Read the rest of the article: Useful foldable step stool
When ex-jewel thief Larry Lawton went to prison, he learned a lot of useful skills, which he is now sharing on YouTube. In this video, he teaches you how to… Read the rest of the article: How to boil water in prison
TitleMax says, "What are the best and worst TV finales of all time? To find out, we examined the most popular shows listed on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB). We… Read the rest of the article: 100 TV shows ranked by their final episode
The Universal Serial Bus specification was introduced by a consortium of large tech companies in 1996 to standardize the way peripherals connect to computers. In this episode of Nostalgia Nerd… Read the rest of the article: Why does USB keep changing?
Science teacher Bruce Yeany demonstrates a ramp walker he made from a pizza box and some scrap cardboard. Ramp walking toys have actually been around for quite a while, the… Read the rest of the article: How to make a ramp walker from pizza boxes
Gel-based super glue is much easier to use than regular super glue because it's thick and easier to control. You can apply a dab to a vertical surface without having… Read the rest of the article: Gel super glue is the best kind of super glue
"NVIDIA GameGAN is a powerful new AI model created by NVIDIA Research and was trained on 50,000 episodes of PAC-MAN to produce a fully functional version of the classic without… Read the rest of the article: This AI re-created a playable version of Pac-Man just by watching 50,000 episodes of gameplay
In this segment from the 1980s Australian television program Curiosity Show, the host shows you how to make accurate drawings of natural history specimens using graph paper. You place the… Read the rest of the article: How to draw natural history specimens
