"Child labor was widely practiced until a photographer showed the public what it looked like. ... The 1900 US Federal Census revealed that 1.75 million children under the age of 16, more than one in... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 452 views • 6:36

YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 443 views • 4:19

YouTube description: The Lane Motor Museum is the home to some whacky cars. One of the craziest is the Gyro-X that balances on two wheels through the use of a gyroscope.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 1,400 views • 4:04

Jay Foreman explains what happened.

posted by vil 6 years 1 week ago • 396 views • 10:52

Set on the open ocean in 1900, Age of Sail is the story of William Avery (voiced by Ian McShane), an old sailor adrift and alone in the North Atlantic. When Avery reluctantly rescues Lara, who has mysteriously... continue reading

posted by fuzzyundies 6 years 1 month ago • 1,270 views • 12:26

"The Gilded Age left a legacy of decay on the American landscape. ... Haunted houses are often depicted with similar features: decaying woodwork, steep angles, and Gothic-looking towers and turrets.... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 281 views • 5:01

"More and more products seem to come out that make use of some form of a computer text-to-speech voice, with today's voices sounding acceptably realistic. Even though speech-based products are fairly recent,... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 121 views • 8:27

In the 1830s, two French brothers, François and Joseph Blanc, pulled off the first telecoms scam in history. The optical telegraph, a line of semaphore towers stretching from hilltop to hilltop, was for... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 527 views • 5:49

Love this kind of future history - and amazing that the CD is already almost a forgotten relic. Time's moving faster.

posted by Brian Houston (dag) 6 years 3 months ago • 1,528 views • 8:35

(H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 411 views • 8:35

YouTube description: Today high-speed trains are comparable to air travel in price and door-to-door speed for shorter journeys. But decades ago locomotives faced fierce competition from air planes and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 240 views • 3:56

"How a cheesy joke from the 1830s became the most widely spoken word in the world. ... OK is thought to be the most widely recognized word on the planet. We use it to communicate with each other, as... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,231 views • 5:22

As early as July 1947, a decision was taken to release liquid radioactive waste from the plutonium extraction plant at Mayak into the River Techa, whose waters flow eventually into the Ob river system... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 155 views • 14:34

YouTube description: PopSci found the lost and forgotten first underwater film. It's a story too strange and horrifying to be fiction (and, yes, it involves a shark and a horse). In 1916, the silent... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 1,538 views • 4:20

Nothing is magic. Everything we know came about because of careful study and hard work.

posted by ChaosEngine 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 767 views • 8:51

Without neutrons, harnessing nuclear energy would be impossible. Try Audible free for 30 days: http://audible.com/veritasium I have a new documentary coming out in a few months - sign up here to be... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 669 views • 7:38