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Rhett Allain


  1. What Is Entropy, Really?

  2. Drive Slower, Save Money on Gas. Thanks, Physics!

  3. How Can Soccer Players Bend Their Shots in Midair?

  4. All the Fancy Measuring Devices Used in Science Rely on Two Stone-Age Techniques

  5. Build a Radio Wave Detector With Balls of Aluminum Foil!

  6. Do Lightsaber Blades Have Mass?

  7. How Can Astronauts Tell How Fast They’re Going?

  8. One Way or Another, Most of Our Electricity Comes From Solar Power

  9. You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

  10. How Can a Locomotive Pull a Long Train That’s Much Heavier?

  11. Could AI Data Centers Be Moved to Outer Space?

  12. How to Use Physics to Escape an Ice Bowl

  13. How Does the Hive Mind Work in ‘Pluribus?

  14. Could You Use a Rowboat to Walk on the Seafloor Like Jack Sparrow?

  15. How Do Astronomers Find Planets in Other Solar Systems?

  16. Can a Hydroelectric Dam Really Make the Days Longer?

  17. The Physics of the Northern Lights

  18. How Do Metal Detectors Work?

  19. In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up

  20. How to Get Your Kids Into STEM Even When Its Future Is Uncertain

  21. 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know

  22. Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency?

  23. How Does a Movie Projector Show the Color Black?

  24. Why Can’t You Switch Seats in an Empty Airplane?

  25. The Physics of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons

  26. Why Is It So Tricky to Show the Sun, Earth, and Moon in a Diagram?

  27. How to Design a Real-Life Hot Wheels Loop

  28. The Physics Trick That Makes These New Super Cars So Insanely Fast

  29. Solar Sails and Comet Tails: How Sunlight Pushes Stuff Around

  30. Unlock the Secret of a Gravity-Defying Parkour Stunt—With Physics!

  31. So You’re Underwater: Why Do You See That Circle of Light Above You?

  32. Does Jewelry and Big Hair Slow Down Olympic Runners?

  33. Tuariki Delamere’s Somersault Could Have Launched a New Era in the Olympic Long Jump

  34. The Incredible Physics of Simone Biles’ Yurchenko Double Pike

  35. No, You Can’t Have a Solar-Powered Passenger Plane

  36. How to Run on the Moon

  37. If Betelgeuse Explodes, Just How Bright Will It Get?

  38. How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air?

  39. Why Are We Seeing These Crazy Northern Lights?

  40. What Kind of Battery Would You Need to Power a Lightsaber?

  41. Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies?

  42. Can You View a Round Solar Eclipse Through a Square Hole?

  43. You Can Count on Pi

  44. How Do Heat Pumps Work?

  45. Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real?

  46. Why Is Our Solar System Flat?

  47. How to Convince Your Flat-Earth Friends the Earth Is Round

  48. Why the Polar Vortex Is Bad for Balloon Artists

  49. School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings

  50. How to Measure the Impact From a Collision