Smarter Every Day

There are very few videos that I can watch as joyously - whether it's the thousandth or first time through - as that video above about Prince Rupert's Drops. The exhilaration of watching the glass explode in slow motion - and then of watching it reassemble itself, too, always gets me.

That's one of the many outstanding videos that Destin of Smarter Every Day has put together. He's a rocket scientist in the southern US (Atlanta, I think) who records these videos to make a little extra money for his kids' college funds.

His job apparently gives him a decent bunch of opportunities to travel, so some of his videos are from pretty far-flung locales, but some of them are right in his metaphorical backyard with his kids (to see why helium balloons don't do what you would expect when you hit the gas on the minivan)...



Or on his home office desk (looking at the creation of color depending only on structure of the scales)...



...or at a tattoo parlor.



He has more than a hundred outstanding videos on his channel.

Goggle up, because science is gonna happen.