An amazingly thorough deep dive into the acoustic engineering, materials science, and construction of a beautiful pair of speakers. "We construct a pair of large Voigt speakers. I explain the principles... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 373 views • 52:56Videos (110) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
EFF director of cybersecurity, Eva Galperin, debunks several cybersecurity myths and describes how things like secure passwords, VPNs, encryption, the dark web / TOR, and privacy actually work.
posted by noims 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 459 views • 11:29Black community exposing the hypocrisy behind the "Black Lives Matter" movement.
posted by bobknight33 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 10:49"Teaching remotely in an empty classroom didn't keep me from doing an April Fool's prank video on my math class online during a video conference. In this one, the video version tried to figure out how... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 2 weeks ago • 490 views • 3:36YouTube description: Terrified residents of Italian cities record messages to themselves 10 days ago, when the pandemic hadn't yet killed 1,809 people and infected more than 24,000 across the country.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month ago • 297 views • 3:31"There's a scientific reason behind your 'second stomach.' ... How is it that, after stuffing ourselves full at dinner, we somehow find room to eat again once dessert comes around? Turns out, the thing... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 234 views • 4:15YouTube description: Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the Apollo Guidance Computer became overloaded.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 766 views • 7:18YouTube description: We normally build a dam to hold water back and store it for use in water supply, irrigation, hydropower, or flood control. But sometimes we have to let some water go. Whether we... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months ago • 1,035 views • 8:15US China Trade War: This is a War of Values’—Curtis Ellis Curtis Ellis, who was special advisor to the Secretary of Labor in the Trump-Pence administration, and is now a Senior Policy Advisor... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 25 views • 38:22YouTube description: Learn about the life and art of Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, who explored disability, relationships and Mexican culture in her work. -- In 1925, Frida Kahlo was... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 weeks ago • 152 views • 4:06YouTube description: Cheese is delicious, beloved by many, and a teeming mess of microbes. Which microbes, exactly, has long been a mystery, but modern DNA sequencing tech is allowing researchers to... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 241 views • 6:38Measuring time is a complicated thing. Computers, banks, and stock markets in Denmark all use UTC, the international standard: but according to the law, they shouldn't.
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 2 months ago • 316 views • 6:30YouTube description: At 15 years old, Tan Wei Tian already has a prolific 12 year opera career behind her. By day, she’s your average high school student, balancing schoolwork and friends; by night,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 296 views • 2:41Saturday Night Live's cue card supervisor, Wally Feresten, gives a behind-the-scenes look at an integral and iconic part of the show's production.
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 28 views • 6:53CBC Marketplace investigates the science and marketing behind popular DNA ancestry kits. Host Charlsie Agro and her identical twin sister Carly test five top brands. Find out why ancestry test kits are... continue reading
posted by eric3579 5 years 3 months ago • 1,655 views • 21:15Eric Bazilian was explaining 4 track recording to a friend, and in the process wrote this song. YouTube description: The story behind the song One Of Us by Joan Osborne, written by Eric Bazilian.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 216 views • 6:37YouTube description: Behind the Scenes: https://youtu.be/3HABgm-UUi0 Download Skunkworks! http://www.audible.com/Smarter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION Check out Derek's video... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 855 views • 11:21In the animated short “Drawn & Recorded: Teen Spirit” by Drew Christie of Kalakala Animation, narrator T-Bone Burnett tells the story behind the famous 1991 Nirvana song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”... continue reading
posted by eric3579 5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 691 views • 2:55