Y'all have a great christmas and a very merry perihelion! https://youtu.be/3vBJb_53ppM
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Plastic spaghetti cracks 1000!
Hurrah - 1000 views on my Phil Up On Science YouTube channel for the Plastic Spaghetti video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djWlX1m6yo8
Would you let me put drugs in your brain?
The amazing Dr Kiara Bruggeman gets all Dr Seuss with her rhyme about her PhD research to develop a bandaid for the brain. Previously she won FameLab people's choice award with this piece. https://youtu.be/mZ-bmN7RMc0 Filmed at Health and Medical in the Pub at Smiths Alternative in Canberra. Supported by National Science Week ACT, ANU … Continue reading Would you let me put drugs in your brain?
Using nanoscience to repair the brain’s circuits
Nanoscience could be the key to repairing injuries or diseases in the brain, says Dr Vini Gautam in her amazing talk as part of Science in the Pub Canberra. https://youtu.be/NblANNY9eQQ
Who F&*%ed up the planet?
My cover of the amazing Katie Noonan's song about sustainability and responsibility. ##LANGUAGE WARNING## https://youtu.be/Ek99OAox6Ec The original is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdn3O6aaMNc
A new diet to save the planet
In August I did a course in Sustainable Stand Up with the marvellous Belina Raffy. Here's the result. Inappropriate thoughts and bad fart jokes. but we all gotta start somewhere... 🙂 https://youtu.be/fMiEGudKXoE
The nano-satellite revolution
Professor Rod Boswell from ANU shows off a nanosatellite and explains how they are revolutionising the space industry. https://youtu.be/jfPAGWG34cc
Faraday Cage: using a foil Twisties packet to hide from your boss
There's been a lot of news about the electrician who got busted hiding his phone/PDA in a foil Twisties packet to prevent his company from tracking him... so he could go play golf. So I decided to give it a whirl, in some chocolate wrapper. And then try out the microwave. but that wasn't so … Continue reading Faraday Cage: using a foil Twisties packet to hide from your boss
How a guitar steals energy from the future
From Physics in the Pub 2016, a great set from Leon Twardy about sound waves, how microphones work, and how an acoustic guitar steals energy from the future. https://youtu.be/35uZ34Ri168
Sound and fire = complicated!
The Rubens Tube is a really complicated demo that seems simple. Once you start thinking about it you realise that sound antinodes are points of oscillating pressure, so the flames shouldn't be stable peaks - they should be going up and down at the frequency of the wave! And if you change the gas pressure … Continue reading Sound and fire = complicated!
