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The team behind Modernist Cuisine, the massive six-volume book on scientific cooking, show us exactly what happens when a cube of gelatin hits a counter top—at 6,200 frames per second.
Jello cubes are a solid matrix of animal proteins suspended in a liquid—known as a "colloid"—and, regardless of how a colloid might feel squishing around inside your mouth, it's pretty incredible to watch.
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
Here's a wonderful stop-motion animation of Manhattan's bustling streets, made over the course of a month by photographer Josh Owens.
This arresting stop-motion vision of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano (after the jump) will knock your socks off.Sean Stiegemeier captured these...
Dragos Bardac's stop-motion video for The Pixels' "Life Buoy" does some pretty remarkable work with a camera and a song.
An animated look at how music sales have changed over the past 30 years
These robots can tell who you are, what you're holding, and even hold a conversation with you. What's next?
Staff at his Texas rescue center home feared they would have to euthanize the miniature horse, and cried when they first saw him gallop.
Phoenix Jones, a regular man in a super hero costume, is fighting crime in Seattle.
An animated map that shows the path of every Kiva loan between 2005 and today.
A demure young suburban housewife volunteers to take LSD for a study. Hilarity and rainbows ensue.
A UC Berkeley study results an amazing mini-movie of what your brain does while you're learning.
This video shows how the graphic designer tracks everything from the food he eats to the movies he watches, every single day.
A 29 year-old woman who was born deaf hears herself for the first time, thanks to a new cochlear implant.
Step inside this old-timey cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, the last vestige of an earlier time
Oh, 1988 New York, we don't miss you. But we miss your PSAs.
How should we make sure that our food is being redesigned for good, rather than just for profit?
The Sacramento Bee has a nice Google map that shows when employment is likely to return to pre-financial collapse levels in different parts of the...
A common refrain among preservationists is that a repurposed building should reflect that structure’s original use. A newly conceived space in...
Check out this video, which expands 30 seconds of massive explosions into eight glorious slow motion minutes of rockets firing. There is a very...
My friend just sent this to me and it made my morning. Check out Paperwhite Studios' Iloveyoumorethanblank, the cutest site with inspired,...
It's true! Bounce fabric softener repels bugs in the garden.
