Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
AdultsConstructionCreativityNatureExperimentsScienceEngineeringI tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Chandigarh a perfectly planned city?
AdultsConstructionCreativityHistoryCitiesArchitectureExplore 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
AdultsCreativityEducationSciencePhilosophyFutureIs your future already written? Do your past, present, and future all exist right now? Surprisingly, the answer could be yes.
Primitive Technology: Crab and Fish Trap
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYExperimentsSurvivalI made a fish trap from cane and tested it over the course of a year catching various aquatic animals.
How This Guy Makes the World's Best Puzzle Boxes | Obsessed | WIRED
AdultsConstructionCreativityGamingArtDesignKagen Sound is an artisan of remarkable skill, engineering and constructing incredibly intricate puzzle boxes made entirely of wood.
Inside Japan’s Earthquake Simulator
AdultsConstructionCreativityTechnologyScienceNatural DisastersThis is the world’s largest earthquake simulator, here’s how it works.
Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Red-Headed League - Alex Rosenthal
AdultsCreativityHumanPsychologyBooksHistoryOne day in the fall, you called upon your friend, Sherlock Holmes, and found him in conversation with Jabez Wilson. Wilson had been working for the mysterious League of Red-Headed Men.
The Power of Unconventional Thinking | David McWilliams | TED
AdultsCreativityHumanPsychologyHistoryEconomyPoliticsFrom World War II to the 2008 economic collapse and beyond, history shows that economists don’t always see the future as clearly as they think they do, says David McWilliams.
Primitive Technology: Volute Shaped Blower
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYScienceTechnologyI made a volute shaped blower where the housing for the fan is volute shaped, that is to say a widening spiral to test the effectiveness of a one way spinning impeller.
Historian Breaks Down Napoleon's Battle Tactics | WIRED
AdultsCreativityHistoryHumanPolitics"Love him or hate him, Napoleon is a figure probably unrivaled in modern history." Today Jonathon Riley, a British General and historian, breaks down French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's most prominent battles and utilized war tactics.
Can you solve the secret assassin society riddle?
AdultsBooksCreativityEducationGamesProblem-SolvingYour agent has infiltrated a life or death poker game in a hidden back room of a grand casino.
Primitive Technology: Brick and Charcoal Production
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationDIYExperimentsIn this video I use the thatched hut to fire bricks and make charcoal in for the first time.
Primitive Technology: Downdraft Kiln
AdultsCreativityEnvironmentLifeNatureTechnologyEngineeringA Phoenix kiln is a type of downdraft kiln where the firebox is below the ware chamber.
Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Insulated Furnace
AdultsConstructionCreativityNatureTechnologyEngineeringI made a furnace insulated with wood ash to smelt iron in. Furnace insulation stops heat being lost from the walls of a furnace and so increases the heat within the furnace.
Primitive Technology: New Brick Kiln Design
AdultsCreativityEducationNatureDIYEngineeringTechnologyI cleared an area as a workspace for making bricks, trialed a new source of clay for brick making and tested a new kiln variant that uses fewer bricks than the previous design.
The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
AdultsCreativityIndustryScienceGamingWelcome to Micromouse, the fastest maze-solving competition on Earth.
Primitive Technology: Roasted Ore and Shell Flux Smelt
AdultsCreativityLifeNatureScienceExperimentsI tested 2 ways of improving iron smelts by treating the ore, roasting the ore and using snail shells as a flux. Then finally I recycled old slag to see if it would produce any more iron.
How NASA Reinvented The Wheel
AdultsConstructionCreativityScienceTechnologyEngineeringA huge thanks to everyone at NASA Glenn Research Center for having us at the SLOPE Lab, showing their work on this indestructible tire, and helping with the science and animation.
How Quantum Computers Break The Internet
AdultsCreativityScienceTechnologyCybersecurityA quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm.
Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducationScienceDIYI developed a cement made from iron bacteria, then made pots from it to test its ability to set and not dissolve in water.