Tom Scott explains why there's a few words that you just cannot use as file names or directories in Windows.

posted by w1ndex 4 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 1,123 views • 8:03

YouTube description: Almost all kids will mirror write at some point. Why? *Our in-studio shoot with other Vox team members was done before the Covid-19 outbreak. We are currently safely working... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 12 months ago • 68 views • 4:30

YouTube description: Hi :) I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 1,280 views • 2:37

Only Uranus joins Venus in rotating clockwise. Why is a day on Venus longer than a year? Why does Venus rotate backward? In short... living on Venus would really mess with your sense of time...

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 32 views • 1:52

YouTube: I came across these four physics puzzles over the years in discussions with Neil deGrasse Tyson (riddle 4: which part(s) of a moving train are going backwards with respect to the ground?), Simon... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years ago • 1,232 views • 4:24

Comparing forward curved blades, backward curved blades and straight blades for a blower impeller.

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 3 weeks ago • 571 views • 10:32

This video is about why entropy gives rise to the arrow of time, and also how the initial low-entropy condition of the universe is responsible for the fact that we experience time right now, and how ultimately... continue reading

posted by Mekanikal 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 42 views • 3:24

Glaciologists will find this video obvious. Everyone else... well, maybe I slept through a bit of sixth-grade geography, but I didn't know this, and I reckon I should have done.

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 7 months ago • 504 views • 3:01

"Marshal Grover is on horseback backwards!"

posted by ant 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 131 views • 2:39

YouTube Description: Music box, backwards Bach, orbifolds and wooden bowl.

posted by FlowersInHisHair 1 decade 2 years 2 months 1 week ago • 197 views • 7:21