90 1/8" small magnets arranged in a 9x10 matrix with a larger magnet brought close. Beautiful self-assembly occurs. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Punches, Slaps, Pats, Thwacks. Dr. David G. Alciatore dissects each second up to 10,000x, revealing surprises. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

Great slow motion clip of a water balloon being thrown directly at someones face. Pretty cool! picked by shredtone 3 years ago

Slow Wave is a collective dream diary authored by different people from around the world, and drawn as a comic strip by Jesse Reklaw. picked by tvirus 2 years ago

Fast is fine, but slow can be much better.
Digital photography and the ascent of the Web have quickened our jobs. Instead of one deadline a day, we now have continual deadlines, bringing exponentially increasing speed to what we do at The Times. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Slow Motion Food Fight picked by sbalaciu 3 years ago

Typhoons can apparently trigger imperceptible, slow earthquakes.
This short version of the report is from the BBC... surprised nobody has posted it yet, couldn't find it here. picked by rambler 6 months ago

Vivace actually creates and then harvests energy from VIV, and it does it all using slow water currents, a previously untapped source of sustainable energy. picked by jLoSsDh 12 months ago

Letter mailed in 1954 finally arrives! picked by icepigs 3 years ago

Researchers said Monday that cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins appear to slow down the lung deterioration seen in both smokers and former smokers. picked by robfouryqr 3 years ago

LONDON (Reuters) - A woman banned from driving...after traveling at speeds of less than 10mph on the motorway told Reuters on Friday: "that road's my nemesis." Stephanie Cole, 58, of Fishponds, Bristol, straddled the hard shoulder and inside lane as she dawdled along a stretch of the M32 near her home last August. picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

A site containing lots of high speed video clips of all sorts of things, from birds taking off to the inevitable water balloon popping.

High speed cameras rule!! picked by thenegativeone 2 years ago

An insurance company has refused to pay out for repairs to a home hit by bad weather because the wind was too slow. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

An IT worker, after receiving a letter on January 3 that was sent on December 20 as priority mail, calculated that a snail would have made it even faster to his home than the letter. His boss was unavailable for comment. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

Nike Juice 312 golf ball. Nike ran some tests, to see what it can do at high speed going through a cake, an ice sculpture, a lava lamp, and more. picked by Rogue 3 years ago

Once upon a time, time was different. Supernova explosions in the early universe appear to age more slowly than today's supernovae, as if time itself was running slower back then, according to a recent series of astronomical observations. This cosmic time warp is exactly what should be produced by the expansion of the universe, confirming conventional big bang theory. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Slow motion video of a katana slicing an egg. Beautiful! picked by Wasabi 3 years ago

China may consider changing its one-child policy because it has helped slow population growth over the last three decades, a Chinese official said Sunday. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth’s continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair. Scientists have assumed that the shifting of crustal plates has been slow but continuous over most of the Earth’s history, but a new study suggests that plate tectonics may have ground to a halt at least once in our planet’... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Going against the U.N. ban on ocean iron fertilization experiments, The LOHAFEX experiment will spread 20-tons of iron sulphate particles over a 115-square-mile section of open ocean north of Antarctica. Ocean iron fertilization is considered one of the more promising options to slow or reverse the effects of climate change. picked by stinkobinko 11 months ago