Why Jakarta is sinking

Like many coastal cities around the world, Jakarta is dealing with sea level rise. But Indonesia’s biggest city also has a unique problem: Because of restricted water access in the city, the majority of its residents have to extract groundwater to survive. And...

How does Multitouch work?

Table of Contents: 00:06​ Electronics Sensing the Environment 01:08​ Section 1: Understanding the Grid 01:59​ Section 2: Sensing at one intersection. 02:52​ Section 3: Issues with the touchscreen 03:57​ Section 4: Scanning Rows 05:12​ Section 5:...

How Was Video Invented?

This is a video I’ve long wanted to make, about what makes video look like video and, up until 10 years ago or so, not as appealing as film. I grew up with the two technologies (film and video) in parallel and to me they always seemed like two ways of achieving...

The Insane Engineering of the Perseverance Rover

References: [1] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacec…​ [2]https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/zeroi…​ [3] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/missio…​ [4]https://www.mdpi.com/2411-9660/3/2/22…​ [5] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacec…​ [6]...

Who owns the boats looting the high seas?

The high seas are ungoverned, international waters where exploitation is rampant because companies can operate with great anonymity. To put a stop to this behavior researchers are using old technology to spotlight out who’s really fishing in these international...
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