News and Updates from WonderHowTo: Page 190

MAKE Magazine recently opened the Make: Science Room, a "DIY science classroom, virtual laboratory, and a place to share your projects, hacks, and laboratory tips with other amateur scientists."

Curbly says, "This fly paper is delicious! How couldn't it be with ingredients like this?"

Jem Stansfield from BBC's Bang Goes the Theory has "put scientific theory to the test" with his Vortex Cannon. Filmed at 1300-fps, you can see the cannon knock down three different houses made of straw, stick, and brick with an explosive vortex ring.

Your very own steak dinner. Every little last bit, down to the plate, silverware and side dish.

"Bang Goes The Theory" is back on Wonderment.

Hunkin's Experiments offers over 200 science experiments freely available in comic strip form. The experiments are organized in 18 different categories, covering a wide range from simple trickery to more technical experiments. The author, Tim Hunkin, is a trained engineer turned cartoonist, and also responsible for TV series/site The Secret Life of Machines (worth a look).

Most of us love Ikea because it is cheap, contemporary design-conscious, and the megastore's cafeteria serves 15 delicious Swedish meatballs for the low price of $4.99.

A Guinness World Record has been set by nine-year-old student Rohan Ajit Kokane, from Belgaum in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka. The record was set this past spring for blindfold limbo skating when Rohan passed under a car, clearing a height of 6.75 inches.

To say Steven Purugganan is fast is an understatement.

From the blog Insanewiches, the cleverly assembled Rubik's Cubewich:

There's been a lot of craziness from the far East lately on WonderHowTo...

"Hi, I am Francis, the host of this show Cooking With Dog," begins every episode of YouTube's favorite Japanese Cooking Show.

Very cool 1920's papercraft toys from the LA Times "Junior Times" section. Just print, cut out and assemble (if you don't mind turning a blind eye to the dated racial association, e.g. Lee Ling...the Chinese Laundry Man).

Whoa, these bygone era triplets are seriously flexible.

Self proclaimed "Paper Airplane Guy", John Collins, is the master of paper crafted flight. Collins hosts workshops for Corporate America, using the paper airplane as a metaphor for success:

Dirk Auer has set a new world record…for insanity.

With many internet/Lego nerds anxiously awaiting the completion of the world's first full size Lego House, Barnaby Gunning Architects and British TV personality, James May, finally unveiled the finished product this past Friday. The house (was) 100% Lego, "including a working toilet, hot shower and a very uncomfortable bed".

Double clutching was born out of necessity to help ease gear transitions and prevent clutch wear.

Hello New Year. Guess what? Vacation is almost over, and I don't feel like going to work. The Puritans were so … 17th century. That was then. I am now. So, here is my resolution: I want to help usher in a new stage in American industry: enlightened entitlement. No more feeling guilty. I won't sneak around. I just won't work terribly hard. I am liberating the slacker within. To help ring in the New Year, join me in watching this inspirational video: How to be the laziest person in...

Imagine being a chicken looking down from above, in the after life. Wait. I am being manhandled by Christopher Walken. Yes, that iconoclastic guy from film.

Because of this one video, the company mail room can once again reclaim its destiny as a cultural Mecca. Face the facts: xeroxing your behind-crack during lunch break is so ... yesterday.

Snowmobilers make a lot of noise and annoy a lot of people (like me). So it is with some glee that I recommend this video on how to rescue a submerged snowmobile. That said, there is a leisurely beauty to this 8 minute and 37 second piece. It takes the appropriate time to tell the whole story without fancy editing. The natural questioning of a little boy becomes perfect play by play narration.

Duhhhh. How to disguise that Spitzer face.

Yes. It works.

This country seems to breed zealots and fanatics.

Tony Robbins is a megastar. He's on Oprah's level.

Birdwatching!

Fist full of pennies weighing you down?

Wheelie popping.

Popping is a form of hip-hop. Imagine a dance that's part Mr Roboto, part pelvis spasm.

Eight seconds can seem like an eternity when you're hanging onto 2,000lbs of fury. No amount of drunken mechanical bull riding can prepare you for the massive energy of the real thing.

Plantable paper? America throws out 49 million tons of paper annually. That's almost a third of U.S trash!

Going green has never been so hardcore as Jack Mountain's bushcraft podcast.

(We did not know about these, either...until we discovered these videos.)

Like Michaelangelo and Carerra had marble, this anonymous artist du jour had a plastic stirrer and spare flame. This beautifully intricate design was created by burning plastic. What you see artfully illustrates the chemical process known as thermosetting.

This ingenious how-to is a genuine tribute to the designs of inventor Buckminster Fuller.

It's hot. You're hungry. The power's out.

This is a simple trick of perfect balance.

These bubbles are incredible. The key to their stable state is in the homemade bubble recipe.