How can brand names trick your brain with sound?

What makes certain brand names stick in our minds while others fade away? Why do some products sound luxurious while others sound light and airy, even

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Sound sculpture installations by Zimoun

With motors, cardboard, wires, sticks, crumpled paper, and other materials, artist Zimoun creates large-scale sound sculpture installations.

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Can these kirigami disks (full of holes) become parachutes?

How does a thin flat Mylar disk full of cuts transform into a parachute mid-fall? Engineers at Polytechnique Montreal are making those cuts, inspired by

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"Mathematical mind-reading" with dice.

Quite simple when you twig what it's doing.

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/three-dice-trick-math-magic-numberphile

(And fun that their D8 wasn't made with the standard "opposites sum to #+1" like most D# dice! But my Chessex one is)

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Blue Monday by New Order, played on vintage Casio instruments

"I thought it would be a fun challenge to do a cover version of New Orderโ€™s Blue Monday using only vintage consumer-grade Casio instruments," writes the

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Mountain bike versus motorbike doing the Red Bull Hardline course.

The mountain bikers are mad enough. But some of those jumps and corners and inclines with the weight of a motorbike seems so ridiculously tricky and dangerous! (At least he was scared, though!)

https://newatlas.com/sports/whats-faster-mountain-bike-motor-bike/

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What's faster: Pedal power or motor power?

We've all wondered who can get down the mountain faster; a mountain bike or a motor bike. Red Bull put it to the test in this white-knuckled thriller of a test down its infamous Hardline race course in Wales, known for big air, big brass, and big carnage.

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I didn't realise that Boston Dynamics (and its predecessor university work) was quite so old!

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/boston-dynamics-40-years-of-development-1983-2023

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Boston Dynamics: 40 years of development (1983 - 2023)

Boston Dynamics robots were first developed at Carnegie Mellon (1980-1986) and MIT (1987-1995), where founder Marc Raibert was a professor. These "Leg

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#TheKidShouldSeeThis have a new #OtherWords episode about words that are incorrectly pronounced. Very interesting.

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/why-do-we-mispronounce-words

Which, of course, reminds me of Ronnie Barker and his pismonunciation of worms ๐Ÿ˜

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0nFQgRApY

Why do we mispronounce words?

Facade, colonel, awry, omniscience, espresso, queue, jaguar, silicon, caramel, pecan, ask, nuclear. Why do these words (and so many others) get

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LEGO + paper with Studio Playfool

What is "the genius tool LEGO wants to forget?" In 2009, LEGO and Japanese retailer Muji collaborated to create innovative building sets that combined

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"The smallest and largest thing in the universe - the ultimate size comparison" is a cool animation aimed at kids, but still interesting.

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/comparing-the-smallest-to-the-largest-thing-in-the-universe

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Comparing the Smallest to the Largest Thing in The Universe

Scale-wise, you're equidistant from a squirrel and a three story building. You're halfway between a hummingbird and a commercial aircraft. You're around

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