YouTube description: Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes — from a childhood... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months ago • 155 views • 13:08Videos (43) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
"This animation starts with an overview of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. As the camera slowly pushes in, Hurricane Matthew begins to form. By the morning of October 2nd, 2016 Matthew... continue reading
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 7 years 8 months ago • 9 views • 1:29UPDATE: We're still working on a species ID with our science partners at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, but currently we're thinking the purple orb is a pleurobranch, a nudibranch relative.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 219 views • 3:12"Game of Thrones is one of the great stories of our time. But with the recent ending of Season 6, a question comes to mind. How will it end? We reveal how George R.R. Martin is likely to finish this epic... continue reading
posted by ant 7 years 11 months ago • 22 views • 13:20YouTube description: Bill reveals the stunning engineering underlying the design of a diaper. He describes the five layers of a diaper, including the superabsorbent polymer in the diaper's core. He... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 337 views • 6:34For years marine biologists have puzzled over what the mysterious vampire squid eats. Recent research by Henk-Jan Hoving and Bruce Robison at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute finally reveals... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 8 years 1 month ago • 957 views • 4:33"Insight into how geckos can walk on vertical surfaces, awesome technology and all thanks to the evolution. This is excerpt from BBC Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds episode 3 - 'Off the Scale'." ... continue reading
posted by ant 8 years 1 month 1 week ago • 25 views • 3:47YouTube description: A massive document leak reveals the secrets of shell companies. Matt Yglesias explains, adapting an analogy from reddit user DanGliesack: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikei... ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 392 views • 2:07YT: Bill details the key engineering principles underlying plastic injection molding. He describes its history and, then, reveals the intricate details of the process. He shows viewers where to find, on... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 8 years 6 months 1 week ago • 357 views • 9:37YT: Bill reveals the engineering design of a NERF blaster, including how it shoots only one dart at a time using a novel air restriction mechanism.
posted by Fantomas 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 762 views • 2:52The human visual system is extremely complex, but it makes repeated use of some tricks that can be exploited to produce interesting visual illusions. With even a high-level understanding of how the brain... continue reading
posted by cricket 8 years 9 months ago • 1,207 views • 4:56From http://www.dorkly.com/post/74413/wolfenstein-the-old-blood-reveals-the-first-ever-grammar-nazi ...
posted by ant 9 years 2 weeks ago • 802 views • 44 secsYouTube: SciShow News explains the forces at work behind the earthquake in Nepal, introduces you to a new species of dinosaur, and reveals a discovery in Antarctica.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month ago • 116 views • 4:31"Since the 1960s, developmental psychologists point to the 'Visual Cliff'—an experiment that plops babies on a fake precipice—as proof that infants learn to fear heights as they learn to crawl. Yet,... continue reading
posted by ant 9 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 386 views • 5:31YouTube description: Make a beautiful colour changing liquid from cabbage juice, and explore the science of indicator solutions in this fun chemistry experiment for children. Download the infosheet... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 22 views • 3:56YouTube description: Teach children how to find the beautiful hidden colours in ink and use chromatography to solve mysteries. For info sheets and printable badges, click here: http://rigb.org/experimental/series-2/c... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 4 months ago • 276 views • 3:58YouTube: The colorful, acrobatic dragonfly may seem familiar, but this stunning macro film reveals the mysteries behind its metamorphic life cycle—and some surprising adaptations.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 63 views • 14:55In an interview recently Seinfeld reveals he believes he has autism on some level.
posted by newtboy 9 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 323 views • 1:02Via Brainpickings. Part 1. All of history's greatest figures achieved success in almost exactly the same way. But rather than celebrating this part of the creative process we ignore it. This missing... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 11 months ago • 496 views • 5:49