Between 1950 and 1970 the number of deaths on Sweden's roads more than doubled. Today though, it has one of the world’s lowest rates of traffic fatalities. This is the story of how the Swedish Government... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,871 views • 3:31Videos (27) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: Let's find out how they put 3D images into glass objects. Known as a 'Bubblegram', vitrography or sub-surface laser engraving, this technology has been around for a very long time... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 week ago • 308 views • 6:28The reason they need weevil greenhouses is that the Brazilian weevils don't like Texan winters, and tend to die off over winter. If they mentioned it in this video I missed it. YouTube description: ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 976 views • 3:44YT: Are you thinking of adopting a new kitten? Or do you want to know some fun facts about kitten care? WATCH this brand new video to find out some fun facts and information about cats and kittens that... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 125 views • 5:21Published on Mar 23, 2017 The Democratic Party’s top officials will meet with some of their wealthiest donors in Washington, D.C., this week to plot the Trump resistance, according to documents obtained... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 49 views • 18:39For the past 50 years, kung fu master Li Liangui has been contorting his body into seemingly impossible positions as he practices one of the more unusual Chinese martial arts. The 70-year-old is an expert... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 334 views • 2:18YouTube 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 • 7:42"If you use bricks as dominoes: you get a second wave going in the opposite direction..." From http://www.cannotunsee.net/post/158664325879/the-brick-double-domino-effect-explained-if-you ...
posted by ant 7 years 1 month ago • 613 views • 3:59A scene in which nothing happens can be very important. Many great scenes are about what the characters are not saying. Here's one.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 67 views • 5:18I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months ago • 1,388 views • 4:32With all of the global warming a new threat has emerged, the release of methane gas, trapped in methane hydrates on ocean floors. It's release is often referred to as the 'methane bomb'. The last time... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months ago • 966 views • 8:37YouTube description: Why does English have so many words that have twins? Here's how we got to have two vocabularies, one based in Germanic roots, and one based in Latin. Produced for Mental Floss. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 622 views • 2:20Salamanders are a major link in the food web, and measured by weight, there can be more salamander biomass than all mammals and birds combined in a forest. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bs or Bsal),... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 112 views • 3:12Egads ... it's frightening how many of these internet 'sensations' I recognize! I need a life. YouTube: We see you’re on the Internet. That’s great, because we made a safety video starring the Internet.... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months 1 week ago • 787 views • 6:08Bill details the engineering choices underlying the design of a beverage can He explains why it is cylindrical, outlines the manufacturing steps needed to created the can, notes why the can narrows near... continue reading
posted by eric3579 9 years 1 week ago • 1,673 views • 11:39I've doubled what I thought I'd live ... must be doing something [cough] right!
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months 1 week ago • 249 views • 6:56Common misconceptions about climate change. References below: For CO2, sea levels, Arctic sea ice, Antarctic and Greenland land ice: http://climate.nasa.gov Satellite data shows that ground-based... continue reading
posted by cricket 9 years 7 months ago • 868 views • 6:50Special SciShow guest LeVar Burton explains the science behind double rainbows and other neat rainbow facts.
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