An interview with a man who after 60 years of mariage talks of his worries that his wife will forget him with her oncoming dememtia.
posted by rubywillow 7 years 11 months ago • 114 views • 4:29Videos (82) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
This video shows the power that learning art at any age can have.
posted by rubywillow 8 years ago • 41 views • 2:05The materials collection, at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, MA, houses thousands of pigments, including some of the world’s rarest. Dragon's blood, mummy, Indian yellow: these are but a few flashy... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 8 years 1 week ago • 638 views • 2:35"A look at the hidden power of film props. And how filmmakers use the everyday (and not so everyday) objects in their scenes to enhance cinematic storytelling." -Vimeo
posted by Randy Perry (youdiejoe) 8 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 964 views • 10:23YouTube: At least one entire class of dinosaurs seems to have had feathers -- including velociraptors, and probably T. rex. Find out how we know, and how we even know what color some of them were!
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 31 views • 4:43An 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 • 5:08Watch these charismatic creatures shoot their tongues out like arrows to catch an insect, mimic leaves swaying in the wind, and display their hidden colors—and learn just how they do it. Click here... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 8 months 1 week ago • 7,071 views • 3:39Abstract: Hydrographic printing is a well-known technique in industry for transferring color inks on a thin film to the surface of a manufactured 3D object. It enables high-quality coloring of object... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 883 views • 4:55I know the presenter isn't very hip (or TED), but what he has to say about color should cause your brain to explode and then unexplode because everything makes sense.
posted by Magicpants 8 years 12 months ago • 940 views • 16:08Try how to drink and not to spill and prove the utmost of your skill.
posted by nock 9 years ago • 820 views • 6:29A great, physics-based explanation of why blurring colors on a computer doesn't look quite right, and how image storage/display could be easily improved
posted by blacklotus90 9 years 1 month ago • 644 views • 4:14Dig those crazy eyes! YouTube: New research shows chameleons actively tune nano-crystals to change their color.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 22 views • 5:42Learnfun and Playfun are software written to automate the playing of Nintendo games, with no game-specific options, only deriving objective functions by reading memory values. In this series the author... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 9 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 65 views • 25:35YouTube: Quick Questions dispels the myth that dogs can only see in black and white
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 269 views • 1:53YouTube: The colorful, acrobatic dragonfly may seem familiar, but this stunning macro film reveals the mysteries behind its metamorphic life cycle—and some surprising adaptations.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 4 months 1 week ago • 63 views • 14:55A good explanation of the colors you see, and those you don't in a rainbow.
posted by newtboy 9 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 445 views • 2:53It was the change that no-one saw coming: the idea that we could take a book, a painting or a song and send it through cables and wires and even thin air to the other end of the world - and it would be... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 653 views • 5:43Via 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
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 496 views • 5:49Via Brainpickings. Part 2. Do you ever have that feeling that everyone else is more successful than you? If you think that's bad - try being Leonardo Da Vinci. This is the first of a two-part... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 812 views • 4:25Vimeo description: Making a video can be a one person production but the more elaborate your ideas get, the more likely you'll need a crew to execute your vision. In this video, we give you a rundown... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 11 months ago • 250 views • 3:26