A Powerful Revealing View of the World
Published April 25, 2011 | 
Believe it or not, almost 75% of the world’s population has a mobile phone for conversation and Web access. As a result, there is an enormous amount of digital data available that didn’t exist not long ago, 
that can reveal a lot about human behavior and the things we are interested in.
Currently, a considerable wave of ambitious social-network experiments is underway in the U.S. and Europe to track our movements, probe our relationships and, ultimately, affect the individual choices we all make, and identify basic rules of human interaction. The research possibilities are dazzling to social scientists, and without scratching the surface of the available information they are already tracking movements of inhabitants of different cities to determine trends and patterns of the populations specific to each location.
Amazing God’s-Eye View of the World!
Great Mentos Video! Coke Zero and Mentos Rocket Car!
Published June 2, 2010 | Team Altman Awesome Mentos Video!
About The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car
After years of work, the Coke & Mentos guys have harnessed the explosive power of these geysers and achieved human propulsion! 108 bottles of Coke Zero and 648 Mentos mints combine to propel EepyBird into the annals of unusual records.
As always enjoy, and share the Mentos Rocket Car!
How Does This Work?
First of all, this is one not to try at home.
The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car uses a piston mechanism: a six-foot long rod sits inside a six-foot long tube attached to each bottle of Coke Zero. When the Mentos drop into the soda, the pressure tries to push the rod out of the tube. With 108 rods all pushing at once, that gives us a lot of power.
All that power is pushing against a wall braced with 3,600 pounds of cement blocks, so all the force is directed into moving the Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car forward. We get one big push for six feet, and then it’s all coasting from there.
Don’t Try This at Home!
Seriously, don’t try this at home. There is a huge amount of power involved, and we don’t want you to get hurt!