Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 year 11 months 2 weeks ago • 225 views • 9:55Videos (24) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: Check out Otherwords, a new show about language & linguistics! https://youtu.be/d2UccTPnl4w It might surprise you but cephalopods have a pretty good fossil record, with one major... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 384 views • 8:22YouTube description: People use boats for all kinds of reasons, and in the same way, there are all kinds, shapes, sizes, and ages of locks used for waterway navigation across the world. Freight is big... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 weeks ago • 248 views • 10:37From Youtube, "Well, looks like it's that time of year again. When Ben Shapiro (or anyone else) argues that rap and hip hop aren't technically considered music, they're flying in the face of basically... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months ago • 21 views • 13:55YouTube description: A decade ago, engineers found the Humber Bridge had the same problem as many of the world's suspension bridges: unexpectedly fast corrosion. Here's how they fixed it, and how they're... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 941 views • 5:05President Donald Trump is spreading another grotesque abortion claim —no surprise it’s 100% false. Trump said the following at the same Trump rally that saw a BBC cameraman attacked by a Trump supporter: ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 12 months ago • 36 views • 1:48Extremism is the enemy. We give it a bunch of names, put it on a fake spectrum, and rail on each other about how our extremes will be better, but it's all the same thing. Extremism is the enemy. Welcome... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 650 views • 17:35"Nearly half of Americans don’t know that Puerto Ricans are US citizens. But they are, and have been since 1917. Watch why Puerto Rico won't have power for months: http://bit.ly/2DBCPVp Read about... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 3 months ago • 481 views • 3:56"We're all familiar with Pomp & Circumstance, the graduation song that's the official soundtrack of almost every commencement. But how did it get so big? In this episode of Vox's Almanac, Phil Edwards... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 132 views • 5:34I did not know that! Thanks @eric3579 YouTube: There's a reason that a lot of planets in American science fiction look the same: they're all filmed in the same places. But why those particular locations?... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 12 months ago • 1,694 views • 2:08YouTube description: Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 week ago • 458 views • 7:42YouTube description: Chemical weapon attacks aren’t the only reason to pay attention to Syria. When Syrian-American author and civil rights lawyer Alia Malek woke up to the images of Syrians dying... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 week ago • 279 views • 3:02In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months ago • 99 views • 6:27Humans are the same as always, except now we have instant access to all knowledge and communication.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 331 views • 2:23YT-Elliot Crown was one of a few citizens allowed to speak and used his time to point out PROOF of possible voter fraud considering ALL NYC counties Hillary won were with THIS special black box... While... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 973 views • 1:22YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 493 views • 4:02An interesting riddle - can you sifters solve it, without resorting to the solution in the video (from 1:25)? iflscience: The following riddle is claimed to have been written by Einstein as a boy. It's... continue reading
posted by Zawash 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 52 views • 5:08Some languages have longer words than others -- but that's not just a simple choice. There's a lot of different ways to mix up morphemes, even if they all mean the same thing in the end.
posted by blacklotus90 8 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 599 views • 4:37YouTube: 35,000 walruses all hanging out at the same beach in Alaska? Why? Does global warming have anything to do with it? And what have we learned after 20 years of studying the effects of marijuana?
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 240 views • 5:14Via 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
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