9 months ago • Popular Mechanics

Just a heads up: never do these things with your washing machine. 

Never Do These Things With Your Washing Machine

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1 year ago • Popular Mechanics

Gerber Gear has been manufacturing knives and other tools since 1939. We stepped behind the scenes to meet the people behind these legendary blades and tools. 

How Gerber Gear is Made in the USA | Made Here | Popular Mechanics

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3 years ago • Popular Mechanics

The walls of the cell where Christopher Havens was serving a 25-year murder sentence were covered in notebook paper. The sheets filled with numeric and Greek scratchings had quickly overwhelmed his modest desk and were now forming a patchwork wallpaper that spread from that corner and began to wrap around the 8x12 room. The neatly nesting equations of the continued fractions guiding his chase could run on for 15 feet as he hunted for patterns that might offer a clue.

Some pages were complete nonsense, grasps into the unknown with whatever method appeared to him. Other pages made progress. They showed promise in his self-taught number theory education. Though Havens didn’t know this yet. He also didn’t know his problem didn’t have an answer. Guards and other inmates would do double-takes as they passed. He looked like a freak, but that didn’t matter anymore. He was getting somewhere. He was leaning into sticking out. Fitting in had gotten him into prison in the first place. 

Diver deeper into Christopher's journey with math while incarcerated:  https://bit.ly/3aOLgja 

3 years ago • Popular Mechanics

Learn how to make your own DIY backyard lounge chair. Full step-by-step episode of POP Projects, hosted by our friend  @WoodshopDiaries , goes live Tuesday morning. Time to start making. 

3 years ago (edited) • Popular Mechanics

Jump right onto the Hostess factory floor in our latest MADE HERE episode:  https://bit.ly/3gRU6Ne Interesting fact: Hostess produces roughly 500,000,000 Twinkies a year, or roughly 1,000 a minute. 

3 years ago • Popular Mechanics

New episode of POP News is live. In this episode explorers find the wreck of the U.S.S. Nevada, the battleship that was nuked...twice; Levitating 'fruit flies' could swarm on mars for science and the magnetic north pole is rapidly moving because of some blob.  https://youtu.be/6rnygzqLqwE 

3 years ago (edited) • Popular Mechanics

ACME Whistles has been making whistles out of their Birmingham, England factory for over 150 years. All by hand. Check out the latest episode of MADE HERE:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8CcPZec4b4&t... 

4 years ago • Popular Mechanics

Check out why Mike is building his own airplanes:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdhvZ3p1WrM 

4 years ago • Popular Mechanics

Our friends at @RunnersWorld  explains why the Nike Vaporfly was nearly banned. What do you think about the future of shoe innovation?  https://youtu.be/Vi3QzA-h1Rs 

4 years ago • Popular Mechanics

Brand new UNCUT episode is live. A behind-the-scenes look from inside Hammond's Candy in Denver, Colorado. 

Inside The Largest Handmade Candy Factory | Made Here | Popular Mechanics

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4 years ago • 5,263,997 views