Videos of glass blowing may be a dime a dozen, but there’s something different about the 1959 Academy Award-winning documentary, Glas. The entire 10-minute short is set to an occasionally eerie mixture of jazz, bebop, and the metallic punctuations of industry at work.
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Making a Prince Albert’s Rupert’s drop is easy; you just let some molten glass drip into a bucket of water. But the resulting structure is so much more complex than the process that made it. The guys over at SmarterEveryDay took an in-depth look to explain why part of it can’t be destroyed with a hammer, while its other half explodes with the slightest nick. More »
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