Exploring the Active Volcano of Mauna Loa | National Geographic
AdultsFoodLifeNatureTravelScienceNational Geographic Explorer Andrés Ruzo joins chef Melissa King in Hawaii to summit the world's largest active volcano, source local ingredients, and create a dish inspired by the island. Paid Content for Mazda.
Primitive Technology: Smelting Iron In Brick Furnaces
AdultsEducationLifeNatureScienceTechnologyEngineeringI made 3 furnaces from bricks using different configurations to test their effectiveness. The benefit of using bricks to make a furnace is that it's quicker, easier, re-useable and portable relative to a furnace constructed in-situ from clay.
What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up?
AdultsLifeNatureWorldScienceGeologyThe Earth is a gigantic ball of semi-molten rock, with a heart of iron as hot as the surface of the Sun. Titanic amounts of heat left over from its birth and the radioactive decay of trillions of tons of radioactive elements find no escape but up.
World's Largest Horn Shatters Glass
AdultsConstructionCreativityScienceGadgetsFunI might upgrade my car horn to this.
Civilian Tries on NASA Spacesuit For the First Time
AdultsConstructionScienceSpaceTechnologyHow does WIRED's Brent Rose feel about being the first person outside of the space program to try on a pressurized space suit?
Primitive Technology: Rock-Throwing Catapult (Trebuchet)
AdultsCreativityEducationNatureDIYEngineeringScienceI built a trebuchet, a type of catapult that uses a counter weight to store gravitational potential energy which is then used to fire a projectile via a sling.
The Man Who Killed Millions and Saved Billions
AdultsHistoryHumanSciencePhilosophyFritz Haber is the scientist who arguably most transformed the world. Part of this video is sponsored by Wren.
Bill Nye Breaks Down Webb Telescope Space Images | WIRED
AdultsEducationScienceSpaceTechnologyThe James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled us with its first batch of images. WIRED got in touch with the one and only Bill Nye to break down some of these astonishing photos, explaining what we're really looking at.
The 4 things it takes to be an expert
AdultsEducationHumanSciencePersonal FinanceWhich experts have real expertise?