YouTube user tomcatberlin demonstrates just how flammable ping pong balls are in this video entitled, 2,538 Table Tennis Balls Burning. After showing how flammable one ping pong ball is, he turns a fire pit, filled with 2,538 ping pong balls, into a tower of flames.
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This Is What 200 Calories Looks Like
Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE visualize what 200 calories looks like. Moffit also explains what a calorie is and what makes some foods more calorie-rich than others.
Related: What 2,000 Calories Looks Like
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Mysterious Spinning Statuette At The Manchester Museum
Several months ago the Manchester Museum in Manchester, England noticed that a Middle Kingdom statuette in the museum’s Egyptian Worlds gallery was spinning. The 4,000-year-old, 10-inch tall statue of Neb-Senu has been on display for 80 years, it was only recently that museum staff noticed it was rotating. This spooky time-lapse video shows the statue spinning 360 degrees behind a locked case.
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ABC News Story
Doctors Use HIV To Cure Girl’s Cancer
After fighting leukemia for two years, Kari and Tom Whitehead were desperate to find a cure for their six-year-old daughter, Emily. They turned to the Cancer Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and with just hours left before organ failure, Emily underwent a new experimental treatment. Doctors treated Emily using a disabled form of HIV, which successfully reprogrammed her immune system and attacked the cancer cells.
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Patterns Of Audio Frequencies Visualized Through Vibrating Sand
YouTube user brusspup demonstrates the Chladni plate experiment by placing a metal plate on top of a speaker, connecting it to a tone generator and pouring sand on the plate. Various frequencies cause the sand to form into different geometric patterns, and higher frequencies create more complex patterns.
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