When you look at special strong magnets thinks, then a cartoonish giant red horseshoe magnet springs to mind, which villains use to attract anything metal from a great distance. While that’s far from reality, strong magnets are cool.
That puts it YouTuber Veritasium once again proven. He always deals with scientific problems or demonstrates fascinating phenomena. During his visit on National MagLab in Florida he shows the strongest magnet in the world:
Scary robo monkey
The so-called “uncanny valley” begins when artificial figures such as robots look realistic enough to induce a sense of unease. As part of a BBC documentary, a very realistic-looking primate robot was placed in front of a group of gorillas. This clip shows how they react to the machine.
Replacing a hard drive in 1989
If you want to replace a hard drive today, you often only have to screw and plug in a bit and the new 2 TB SSD is already in the computer. In 1989 things looked a little different. The training video shows how 2 people change a 340 MB disk.
Organized shopping
The fascinating thing about this clip is not so much that this man does his weekly shop with an e-scooter, but how well he has prepared for it. The way he transports the melon alone shows that a professional is at work here.
Otter vs. Smartphone
Presumably this otter thinks that crashed smartphone is food. Force is used to open the cell phone, much to the amusement of all bystanders.
Not enough? Then look at Went online last week pure. There you can see how a bicycle with square tires drives and how volcanologists “play” in an inch-thick layer of ash.
