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Wrapping chocolates at high speeds

Rion NakayaApril 29, 2021April 29, 2021

How does a split-flap display work?

Rion NakayaApril 19, 2021

How do you rescue good ideas from the Valley of Death?

Rion NakayaApril 7, 2021April 7, 2021

Every Bridge For Every Situation, Explained By an Engineer

Rion NakayaApril 6, 2021April 6, 2021

Every type of roller coaster, explained by a roller coaster engineer

Rion NakayaMarch 17, 2021

How does this mathematical card trick work?

Rion NakayaMarch 11, 2021March 11, 2021

Melodic drumming: Can you hear melody in the drums?

Rion NakayaMarch 10, 2021

The power of er, um, uh, like, well, you know…

Rion NakayaMarch 8, 2021

DIY Tensegrity Tutorial: How does this ‘anti-gravity’ structure work?

Rion NakayaFebruary 26, 2021April 20, 2021

What’s inside a kangaroo pouch?

Rion NakayaFebruary 25, 2021February 25, 2021

Buffy Sainte-Marie demonstrates the mouth bow

Rion NakayaFebruary 23, 2021

Vaccines 101: How vaccines work

Rion NakayaJanuary 19, 2021January 26, 2021

Spontaneous Synchronization, a UCLA physics demonstration

Rion NakayaDecember 18, 2020December 18, 2020

Paper airplane aerodynamics explained by a world record-setting designer

Rion NakayaDecember 15, 2020December 15, 2020

What is light? Royal Observatory Greenwich explains…

Rion NakayaOctober 29, 2020October 29, 2020