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TKSST: The Most Amazing Thing About Domino Chain Reactions

5/22/2019

TKSST: The Most Amazing Thing About Domino Chain Reactions

A domino can knock over the next domino at about 1.5x larger (perhaps 2x larger) and this instant video classic from 2009 is a great example of this chain reaction. Watch University of Toronto’s Professor Stephen Morris knock over a 1-meter tall domino that weighs over 100 pounds by starting with a 5mm high by 1mm thick domino. TINY.
There are 13 dominoes in this sequence. If Professor Morris used 29 dominoes in total, with the next one always being 1.5x larger, the last domino would be the height of the Empire State Building.

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TKSST: How Scientists Solved This Dinosaur Puzzle

5/20/2019

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TKSST: How Scientists Solved This Dinosaur Puzzle

When paleontologists uncover a dinosaur they usually only find part of the animal, but when we walk through a museum we see exhibits that paint a full picture – so how do they fill in all those blank spaces? In the early 1900’s artists used to hand carve the pieces, but we’ve come a long way in the past century – both technologically and scientifically.
Now, we’re living in what some call a “golden age” for paleontology. Researchers are uncovering nearly one new species of dinosaur a week – making building exhibits easier and more efficient.

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TKSST: A ‘Ghost Bear’ Mother Teaches Her Cubs to Fish

5/16/2019

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TKSST: A ‘Ghost Bear’ Mother Teaches Her Cubs to Fish

A ‘ghost bear’ mother and her two cubs venture into a river in western Canada to eat. Her cubs need to learn how to fish, and the mother is looking specifically for female salmon carrying the nutrient-rich eggs that will help the bears put on weight for winter.
This BBC Earth clip from Natural World: Ghost Bear captures their feast, and shows what happens when a second, larger ghost bear wanders into the scene.

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TKSST: Disintegrating Flipbook by Andymation

2/27/2019

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Disintegrating Fligbook by Andymation
How do you create a flipbook where the character is disintegrating? Add lots and lots of well-placed dots. This Disintegrating Flipbook animation tutorial from Laika stop-motion animator Andy Bailey of Andymation demonstrates with a LED light pad, a pencil, some paper and binding clips. And though making hundreds of dots to create the effect takes time and effort, as seen in the demo, it’s well worth the result.

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TKSST: Nature’s Vanishing Trick

2/25/2019

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TKSST: Nature" Vanishing Trick"

Teenage Action For Conservation youth ambassador Lily Macfarlane created this video to highlight extinction and loss of biodiversity in our local ecosystems: Nature’s Vanishing Trick. British writer Robert Macfarlane, Lily’s father and author of Lost Words, helped the video go viral when he shared it online. Watch as her color pencil drawing of a tansy beetle disappears and is drawn again, echoing her narration.

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TKSST: MIT’s Jenga robot

2/21/2019

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TKSST: MIT’s Jenga Robot

If, while playing Jenga, you’ve ever wished you had the focus, predictive capabilities, and nerves of steel that would rival a robot, watch this video from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The robot and its algorithms were developed by MIT MCube Lab researchers using artificial intelligence and sensory hardware.

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TKSST: The Most Amazing Thing About Domino Chain Reactions

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