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The World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Is Almost Here
The ENIAC was capable of about 400 FLOPS. FLOPS stands for floating-point operations per second, which basically tells us how many calculations the computer can do per second. This makes measuring FLOPS a way of calculating computing power. So, the … Continue reading
Despite Failure, NASA Helicopter Completes Its Official Mission!
[…]Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about major updates from the NASA Perseverance mission. Images and videos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 3rd flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNx9h… NASA stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAlXe… Github announcement: https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-s… […]
Recycling in the UK
Watch our video to understand some of the basics on recycling in the UK. From understanding how much waste is exported outside of the UK to how to throw a material away. Spoiler alert: recycling is complex and not always … Continue reading
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I Made A Water Computer And It Actually Works
[…]Computers add numbers together using logic gates built out of transistors. But they don’t have to be! They can be built out of greedy cup siphons instead! I used specially designed siphones to works as XOR and AND gates and … Continue reading
Spinning Flax (1940-1949)
British Instructional Films presentation. Man holds a bunch of flax out towards the camera. Two men work with large bundles of flax, separating it into smaller bunches. Man lifts large bundles onto a barrow. The fibres are combed by … Continue reading
The Case For Hydrogen – With Matt Ferrell | Answers With Joe
Big thanks to Matt Ferrell for guest hosting this episode! Much has been made about hydrogen fuel cells and their use in cars, but there are many other uses for hydrogen that make more sense. We examine those in today’s … Continue reading
They Did It! NASA’s Helicopter Actually Flew on Mars!
Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the uncredible success of NASA’s Perseverance mission – the helicopter actually flew! NASA stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Kol… Mission: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/heli… Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04181 Images: Sean McGrath from Saint John, … Continue reading
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Whitest Paint Ever Developed Could Help Slow Global Warming
Professor Xiulin Ruan with a sample of the whitest paint yet developed. (Photo: Jared Pike/Purdue University) “Painting 0.5-1% of the Earth’s surface (roofs, roads, cars, unused land, etc) with our paint will stop the warming trend.” Combatting the rise in … Continue reading
Ecosia – Weird Search Requests
Ecosia is an alternative search engine that has managed to find an interface between environmental activism and internet activism. Search queries become trees and you plant them without realizing it. The lethargy with which we allegedly walk through life as … Continue reading
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