This video shows The Slow Mo Guys smashing two fluorescent light bulbs together in the garden to see how doing so looks in slow-motion. It’s kinda interesting, although not the most surprising by any stretch.

I’ve featured The Slow Mo Guys regularly here on WebTVHub. I find some of their videos fascinating, although I’m starting to wonder if they have run out of good ideas for things to film in slow-motion.

These fluorescent light bulbs are a classic case. On paper they look as if they’ll produce visually-stunning results. But in actuality it’s just some smashed glass and a puff of smoke.

The humor of the video just about saves it from being too dull to share.

Have you ever wondered what the Coriolis effect is? Let’s be honest, you probably haven’t. And neither had I before today. But actually it’s a fascinating subject.

This video shows what the Coriolis effect is by using a simple example of two people throwing a ball to each other while traveling on a roundabout. It’s about as easy a way of explaining it as there is.

If you try and read what the Coriolis effect is then you’ll probably be lost within seconds. It’s very hard to imagine what the hell is happening if it’s not shown to you visually rather than explained.

How many people will now rush out to see the Coriolis effect in action? I can only imagine there will be a lot of kids sitting in playgrounds tomorrow wondering what the hell those stupid adults are doing.

Can you really download audio tracks that replicate the effects of drugs? Or are people’s reactions just placebo effects?

While their experiment wasn’t exactly scientific (they only measure his brain on the second go and didn’t measure anyone else’s brains), this is an interesting intro to idosing.

I do think there is a lot to what binaural beats and the like can do, but as for replicating drugs…?

I think you will end up like this guy: some time spent and a headache.

There just isn’t the tech do do this kind of thing – yet. Or if there is, it’s not in the hands of audio drug makers.

There are so many things that we take for granted. Like all the senses. It’s probably impossible to truly imagine what it’s like not to be able to see, hear, touch, smell, or taste.

In which case it’s definitely impossible to truly imagine what it must be like to gain one of those sense after decades of living without it. But that is exactly what happens in this video.

We get to see, to share in, the moment in a 29-year-old woman who has been deaf since birth hears herself and those around her for the first time ever. And it’s a truly joyous moment that even the most hard-hearted person would struggle not to appreciate.

This is happiness of the highest order. The woman cannot contain her joy at experiencing sound for the first time. And it’s all thanks to technology in the form of a hearing implant. I could watch this over and over.

This is the teaser trailer for Star Trek: Infinite Space, a new Star Trek game based in the Deep Space Nine universe and timeline. And I have to say it looks very impressive. Even more so because it’s free and playable in your Web browser.

MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) games are big business. Everyone knows about World of Warcraft, but there are masses more out there to choose from, many of which are free and require no subscription to play.

One that isn’t quite out yet but is coming soon is Star Trek: Infinite Space, a new MMO from German games developer Gameforge. And even seeing this short video makes me want to get involved.

The browser-based Star Trek MMORPG has been in development and promised for release for a long time now, and fans are getting impatient. Thankfully the 2011 release date looks like sticking, so we’ll all be playing Star Trek: Infinite Space in the next few months. Hopefully.

This is a small snapshot of the first episode of Curiosity, which sees Stephen Hawking ask, and try to answer, the question, “Did God create the universe?”

I consider myself generally to be science-minded and I don’t subscribe to any organized religion. But I don’t think anything should be dismissed as bunkum by Hawking and his fellow scientists and/or atheists.

The ultimate point is that no one knows whether a force outside of our understanding or even outside of our universe exists. Whether you’re one who would call it God or not, it’s impossible to prove or disprove this.

As for Curiosity, the explanation of how all of us and everything we see around can have come from nothingness is beyond my understanding. Still, it’s intriguing to watch this theory being explained.

Onboard cameras give us amazing views as the shuttle Atlantis launches and then the detatched rocket boosters fall back to Earth.

On July 8th, the space shuttle Atlantis will make the final shuttle flight into Earth Orbit. This awesome footage is from a previous flight to Hubble, but the last flight will be a re-supply mission to the International Space Station.

This is the passing of an era that has seen many missions to space and two incredible disasters when Challenger and Columbia blew up, on camera, in front of millions of viewers.

The shuttles have been a main feature in a program that replaced the Apollo missions that took us to the Moon, and now, in a little more than a week, the program ends.

Learn about the summer solstice and jam to some Satriani at the same time. Sounds good to me.

Around the world, people are becoming more interested by what is happening above us.

Tonight (Oz time), June 21st, is the Summer Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere and Winter Solstice in the south. For thousands of years these have been times for celebration or ceremony, but many people today could not tell you what it means.

Here is a simple yet complete explanation for just what is going on as the south sees the shortest day and the north has their longest day.

This video from an Indian news channel shows the 2011 lunar eclipse happening live. This was the longest-lasting and darkest lunar eclipse of this century, with the moon changing to red before almost disappearing from view.

While the lunar eclipse was happening Google commemorated it with a new Google Doodle, those innovative changes to their logos which they throw up on the site every couple of weeks.

It’s a good job Google did because most of us wouldn’t have been able to see the lunar eclipse for real thanks to light pollution, especially in cities. And now YouTube lets us all see it in its full glory. Ah, the power of the Web.

Lunar and solar eclipses are actually quite common, but they’re mightily impressive to watch because they can remind you of the glory that is this world we live in. At least that’s the effect they have on me.

“The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare with a substantial coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7 that is visually spectacular.

The large cloud of particles mushroomed up and fell back down looking as if it covered an area of almost half the solar surface.” – YouTube

While the flare is not massive in and of itself (it is only an M-2, after all), the solar storm accompanying the flare is really what puts it in a spectacular category.

The sun has been very quiet for a long while now, so this is certainly welcome, in a sense, by the NASA scientists.

One twin brother travels away at the speed of light for five years and then comes back to find his twin brother fifty years older while he is only ten years older.

How?

Okay, so animated educational videos probably are not
quite the thing you are looking for when you come to this site, but it is interesting.

Time dialation is a hard concept to understand, and I think these guys did a great job with explaining how it works.

I will admit that I got lost a couple times, but I got the basic concept and that is what counts.

Is anyone else thinking Mortal Kombat? Finish him!

Talk about one of the biggest highs you could probably ever get in this day and age. Shooting lightning bolts!

Okay, so they weren’t ’shooting lightning’ and it would have looked cooler if they didn’t have the Tesla coil lightning coming out of their heads as well as their hands, but it’s still pretty cool.

I am wondering about the chain mail, though. Obviously it’s a good conductor, but what did they wear underneath to protect themselves? Surely you would need something…

…but even if you didn’t, I would so love to do that. Wouldn’t you?

Scientists say that the Earth’s core is what keeps the invisible force – the Earth’s magnetic field – going. But what happens now as it seems to be getting more and more hiccups?

With all of the ‘end of day’ talk going on, it is a good thing to get informed in regards to what these things actually mean. This video goes into what happens when Earth’s magnetic field weakens and possibly fails.

I did feel like this video was a bit slow in getting to the meat of things, but I suppose that’s what you get with a program meant for all sorts of people?

Either way, a must watch.

In a rare seasonal treat, snow has hit many parts of the world just at the right time to create a real winter wonderland over Christmas. Which makes this video very timely.

But what does a snowflake look like under a powerful microscope? And is it possible to actually write a message on a tiny portion of one?

The answer to that question is categorically yes. As proved by the Sixty Symbols group at The University of Nottingham, using an electron microscope and a very thin bean of ions.

These are fired at the snowflake at a level of finiteness most of us probably can’t even comprehend, and the result is a ‘Merry Christmas’ message engraved on a snowflake. Amazing stuff, and very Christmassy.

The Winter Solstice is almost upon us once again, taking place on Dec. 21, 2010. Regardless of your beliefs, this is surely a time to celebrate nature and life as winter officially begins.

The Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year, when the sun reaches the furthest point it ever gets away from Earth. It also marks the official start of winter, although the weather suggests winter is already with us.

It’s believed that the Winter Solstice is the origin of Christmas, at least in terms of the date. As pagans used to commemorate this day long before Christianity showed up. The pagans used to call it Yule, hence the Yuletide we still welcome.

Intriguingly, this year’s Winter Solstice coincides with a total lunar eclipse in North America. So that’s a second reason to celebrate this particular day. By eating and drinking too much.

This has to be the coolest and stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

Think indoor bottle rockets…only with butane rocket power.

I remember making bottle rockets as a kid with baking soda and vinegar and thinking to myself, “Wow. That was disappointing.” If only there were a way to make bottle rockets actual rockets- but wait there is! And these guys were stupid enough to catch it all on video.

Butane, as we all know, is what makes cars blow up in movies. Experimenting with butane indoors is something I’d never try because of how risky the activity is, but for some reason there appears to be a handful of crazy people willing to try it- and even indoors!

Plastic, as I’m sure we all know, has many complications associated with waste. Sure, it’s very versatile to use, but it is also made from petroleum and not biodegradable.

In this video Eben Bayer shows how is company hopes to take on the plastic market and make it more environment friendly.

While 5 days of “growing” styrofoam may seem like a long time for companies now, in the long run it’ll help the world as whole simply because it is compostable. I was shocked to learn that EPS (expanded polystyrene plastic) which is used in most packaging will last for thousands of years.

One thing I’m surprised that Eben didn’t talk about was plates and cups. I’m sure there’s a huge market for fast-food restaurants if it would be possible.

While the last few decades have brought us personal, portable technology, the means to power all these devices still requires being connected to the grid.

Over 100 Silicon Valley startups are working on ways to change this, developing power sources designed to provide an inexpensive, clean way of generating our power needs. Bloom Energy is one of these startups.

Bloom Energy has created the Bloom Box, an all-in-one mini power station which could provide us with our energy needs for the future. CBS’ 60 Minutes recently got the inside scoop.

The Bloom Box isn’t without its controversy, mainly because it still requires a fossil fuel to work. Although natural gas is better than other fossil fuels, it’s still a finite resource and so any technology using it is only a step in the right direction rather than being the ultimate solution to the energy crisis.

If you’re middle class then you may have bought a bread maker and an ice cream maker over the past few years. Everyone else certainly has.

You may have found it isn’t as easy as it’s supposed to be to make this stuff. As the woman in this video found. But no worries, as there is a solution: the liquid nitrogen method.

Jeff Potter, author of a book called Cooking for Geeks, demonstrates how adding liquid nitrogen to the basic ingredients of ice cream (milk, cream, and flavoring) results in a lush mixture your friends will love.

The only things I’d question are whether liquid nitrogen is safe to consume in this manner, and how affordable it actually is. My guess is just about, and not at all. You have been warned.

With oil prices steadily increasing, it’s getting harder and harder to afford paving roads. Rather than having a road that is a drain on expenses, these engineers have designed a prototype that could actually provide solar power.

Using this technology, the traffic in your neighborhood could help power the lights at your house.

I’m no environmental engineer, but this seems like a pretty green idea. We live in such a car-loving society that I’m actually surprised it took this long for this concept to surface. It seems great on paper and done on a small scale, but I’ve got a few questions.

First of all, what about weather conditions? If the roads are made of glass, will they crack under freezing weather? And what about steep surfaces? How would roads near the mountains be made?