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Seeing The Explosion Inside A Transparent Engine Shows You How Engines Work
Video: This particular engine we’re looking at has four strokes: The intake, the compression, the combustion (or power) and the exhaust. Smarter Every Day visited the guys of 805 Road King and their transparent engine to show us exactly what’s going on in an engine when we fire it up. It’s pretty fascinating stuff.
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So Why Do Action Movies Make Actresses Fight Like This?
Video: I’ll admit to being dumb and not noticing this before, but action movies seem to make all actresses do the same move during a fight scene: The between-the-legs takedown. There’s different variations of it, of course, but the end result is almost always the same, someone ends up in between the action heroine’s legs,…
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How A Pop-Up Book Works
Video: I enjoyed this portrait of pop-up book artist Matthew Reinhart because, well, pop-up books are awesome and will never stop being amazing no matter how old I am, or how far technology advances. But also because he explains the technical aspects that go into making a pop-up book, like the V-folds he uses to…
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How Long Would It Actually Take To Fall Through The Earth?
Video: Obviously, in order to answer this super-silly thought exercise, you’d have to make it a little bit more manageable to calculate. That means in this scenario, the Earth is perfectly round, has the same density all throughout, and won’t, like, scorch your bum when you fall through the core. Life Noggin explains the maths…