"... Over the last year, we at MinuteEarth and MinutePhysics have had the privilege of working with NASA's Heliophysics Education Activation Team make a series of videos about the awesomeness of solar... continue reading
posted by ant 1 month 2 weeks ago • 3 views • 27:10Videos (462) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
The Ocean Kite Engine (OKE) incorporates regen kite control technology, enabling it to generate electrical power and/or providing propulsion. This dual functionality allows the OKE to not only propel boats... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 months ago • 184 views • 10:01Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern (Merriam-Webster) This one minute film uses pareidolia as a tool to convey the importance... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 months 1 week ago • 231 views • 1:01This car goes from 0-62 miles per hour (100kph) in 0.956 of a second. This is the classic acceleration test, one that we all grew up using to compare cars. A Formula 1 car will do it in about two and... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 months ago • 132 views • 17:05Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones. Over time this... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 months ago • 49 views • 4:14I gave a talk on my Masters Thesis Project in Architecture focusing on Altering Soundscapes in Exterior Environments using Helmholtz Resonators in Ceramic Bricks to absorb Low Frequency Traffic Noise. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 months ago • 80 views • 34:05In 1864, Jourdon Anderson and his wife escaped a life of slavery and moved to Ohio. A year later, he received a desperate letter from the man who used to own him, in which he was asked to return to work... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 months ago • 78 views • 6:30Hemp is a plant whose vegetable fibers have been used in the making of fabrics, the manufacture of espadrilles and in rope making. Manuel Abad was an expert ropemaker from Cornago (La Rioja) who showed... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 months 3 weeks ago • 56 views • 8:44Magnetohydrodynamic thrust uses no moving parts in order to accelerate water. It has been known for half a century, but it may be possible that we're only now beginning to explore it for use in Marine... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 months 1 week ago • 275 views • 12:11Using math to prove women are problems
posted by newtboy 8 months 2 weeks ago • 70 viewsOdd how often those tasked with enforcing the law break them. 18 U.S. Code § 700 - Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties (1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 10 months 2 weeks ago • 23 views • 59 secsYouTube description: In 2015, what we knew about Iron Age shields all changed. And it changed in a field in Leicester... Iron Age Curator Sophia Adams explains the construction of the first organic... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 4 weeks ago • 144 views • 15:29YouTube description: Adam Savage visits one of the world's most joyful places: Jim Henson's Creature Shop! While there, veteran puppeteers John Tartaglia and Donna Kimball use Gobo and Mokey Fraggle... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 11 months ago • 133 views • 21:302023 Florida is home to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants, and many work in the kinds of businesses that would be impacted by the law, known as SB 1718. Many of those affected are also members of mixed-status... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 1 week ago • 98 views • 7:32The American Grumman Hellcat fighter dominated what used to be a feared aircraft in the skies over the Pacific, the Mitsubishi Zero. In this video we look at what made the Hellcat so potent.
posted by eric3579 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 267 views • 12:32In 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which house the Museum's renowned collection of Islamic... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 4 months ago • 60 views • 17:44From YouTube, In this lab, they use different flow visualization techniques to help detect contraband and residues and develop trace particle detection methods... Thanks to Rich Press and NIST for... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 204 views • 21:48"... Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-slaver-ants/?pli=1 Everything changed when the slaver nation attacked. What used to be a thriving colony is now a captured country.... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 5 months 2 weeks ago • 52 views • 10:44A group of police recruits were hit be a car during a morning run. For some reason, a group of at least 40 recruits were running in the road instead of using sidewalks, without a permit, and were hit by a car. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months ago • 138 views • 2:07Washing your hands after using the restroom - most of us only do so because a fellow co-worker is in the bathroom with us, and we wonder if he'll tell other people if we don't.
posted by BSR 1 year 6 months 1 week ago • 59 views • 10:28