Category: pleasure of knowledge
Tryengineering.org is a resource for students, their parents, their teachers and their school counselors. This is a portal about engineering and engineering careers, and we hope it will help young people understand better what engineering means, and how an engineering career can be made part of their future.Students...
it’s not possible to be electrocuted by urinating on an electric line. A stream of urine quickly separates into individual droplets, according to the television program “MythBusters.” Because the urine isn’t a steady stream, it would be highly unlikely that a powerful electric current could travel up...
Electronics Engineering video blog.David L. Jones is an electronics design engineer based in Sydney Australia. He hosts the EEVblog, the world’s largest and most popular engineering video blog and Youtube channel. In each episode he shares some of his 20+ years experience in the electronics design industry...
Want to study the basics of solar cell and want to design simple solar cells sitting at home(virtual) This site is an electronic book on solar cell. It can either be read from start to finish as a course on photovoltaics or used as a reference.You can...
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out was filmed in 1981 and will delight and inspire anyone who would like to share something of the joys of scientific discovery. Feynman is a master storyteller, and his tales – about childhood, Los Alamos, or how he won a Nobel Prize...
Our Taste for Alcohol Goes Back Millions of YearsGenetics research sheds light on a long human relationship with Alcohol Alcohol has been part of human existence for millennia. Alcoholic beverages are an integral part of human culture. Like the wines consumed in Jewish and Christian rituals, these drinks...
Aparna Rao, who collaborates with Danish artist Soren Pors , re-thinks and re-imagines the ordinary into something that is high-tech, playful, witty, and incredibly creative. Watch as she introduces a few of the duo’s creations: the “Uncle Phone” (see image above ) that is “so long that it...
Touch is an extremely powerful thing. Humans clearly respond to touch, both physically and emotionally. Some areas on our bodies are more sensitive than others, however. Laughing when tickled in our sensitive spots (under the arms, near the throat and under our feet) could be a defensive mechanism....
Following is the transcript of the classic talk that Richard Feynman gave on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Here is a new video of this lecture Richard Feynman “Tiny Machines” Nanotechnology Lecture (I imagine experimental physicists...
Though we find 3-blade ceiling fans more often, we come across, quite occasionally, ceiling fans with four blades and very rarely, five-blade fancy fans, also. We would never see a ceiling fan with six or more number of blades and surely never a fan with a single blade....