Tag: dropped

Really interesting to watch this watch fall apart slowly. Or I guess it happened quickly in real time.

It never occurred to me that the bottom of a hanging slinky doesn’t fall when the slinky is released. That’s weird, but it’s science!

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Photo: Mazhar Ali Khan/AP Photo Thirteen years after his case was first officially opened, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas Lewin presented evidence that charges should be dropped against the former and now-deceased Al-Qaeda leader because he can no longer show up in court to defend and/or answer for himself on the charges. I didn’t know they [...]

Photo by Christina Spicuzza On August 6th, a boy at the San Francisco Zoo dropped his Nintendo DS into the gorilla enclosure and subsequently lost the entire unit to the curious creature. There’s no word as to what exactly happened to it or whether or not the gorilla has had any fun playing it. Here’s [...]