The Real Fake Cameras of Toy Story 4 Shows How Pixar Continues to Evolve October 10, 2019 The Nerdwriter recently published a fascinating video essay on how Pixar mimics real camera shots and lenses in their digital worlds. The...
This is What Happens When You Teach an AI to Play Hide and Seek September 23, 2019 The team at OpenAI observed agents discovering progressively more complex tool use while playing a simple game of hide-and-seek. Through...
Something Quite Familiar Lurks in the Deepest Darkest Depths of the Ocean September 16, 2019 Sometimes the world feels boring. All the remote islands are visited, the arctic conquered, the dense jungles discovered. Except, there is...
Pianist Attempts to Play “Happy Birthday” in 16 Levels of Complexity July 31, 2019 Pianist and composer Nahre Sol attempts to play “Happy Birthday” in 16 levels of complexity. Nahre starts playing the iconic...
How Vesna Vulovic Survived a 33,000 ft Fall Without a Parachute July 18, 2019 She holds the Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. I’m not sure how the video got the name of...
Aerogels are the World’s Lightest Solids June 3, 2019 Aerogels are the world’s lightest (least dense) solids. They are also excellent thermal insulators and have been used in numerous...
How Pablo Escobar Single-Handedly Created the Hippo Crisis in Colombia December 11, 2018 Drug lord Pablo Escobar smuggled four hippos into his own personal zoo during the 1980’s. But wild hippos are usually only native to...
Why It’s Almost Impossible to Skip a Stone 89 Times November 12, 2018 Kurt Steiner set the world record for skipping stones by hurling a rock at the water and making it skip an astonishing 88 times. How is...
Some of the Largest Known Stars Compared to a Tennis Ball-Sized Earth October 29, 2018 If The Earth were shrunk down to the size of a tennis ball, how big would the universe be? Wren of the Corridor Crew is here to show you....
