On the Indonesian island of Java, men mine sulphur from inside Ljen Volcano. It's crater is filled with a mix of highly toxic gases, that have claimed the lives of over 70 miners in the last 40 years.
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"When I was a kid I used to see like 40% alcohol by volume and get really confused, but like the bottle's full."
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 156 views • 3:47I left Japan to get away from this!
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,366 views • 3:48The ongoing study is part of a growing interest in coral fluorescence among the scientific community. Coral Fluorescence was recently found to be a strong indicator of coral health, and coral fluorescence... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 127 views • 4:05Skip to 5:40 if you want to see the action without the science and how to.
posted by Mordhaus 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 598 views • 9:58From cereal to ice cream to cocktails, it seems that strawberries are served with just about everything. But it wasn't always this way. Today, Americans eat four times as many strawberries as they did... continue reading
posted by enoch 9 years 4 months 1 week ago • 644 views • 4:42YouTube: A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months ago • 675 views • 4:33The creator of the Tree of 40 Fruits does TED talks explaining how he went about making them. slightly more info at http://www.treeof40fruit.com/
posted by newtboy 9 years 9 months 1 week ago • 475 views • 5:18Thanks to Visually (http://Visual.ly) for facilitating the creation of this video, to http://youtube.com/kurzgesagt for the animation, and to The Prison Policy Initiative for research help and fact checking.... continue reading
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