"A truly X-cellent and X-ceptional video… ... Despite being one of the rarest letters in English, the letter X is everywhere. We sign letters with it, we rate movies with it, we name all sorts of things... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 2 months ago • 1 view • 11:39

In this video we show you the new kind of artificial muscles that don't explode after puncture but just bleed without a visible decrease of performance. We also present our robotic arm. Since the last... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 1 month ago • 157 views • 1:47

From Youtube, "NERC's Space Geodesy Facility, hidden away in the English countryside, fires lasers at satellites. Because it turns out that knowing a satellite's position exactly is really, really difficult.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 612 views • 3:17

From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 59 views • 26:02

"Ricky Gervais tests his knowledge of British slang. From 'dishy' to 'cheesed off,' the comedian takes you through some 'bog-standard' British words and phrases..." From http://www.cannotunsee.net/post/618953626171375... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 6 months ago • 17 views • 6:59

From Youtube, "The Scotch Snap is everywhere in modern hip hop - a metrically accented sixteenth note followed by a dotted eighth note. Why is it everywhere? And where did it come from? The answer lies... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 719 views • 8:12

YouTube description: An extremely useful video demonstrating the differences between English, German, Swiss Zurich German and Swiss Valais German. (Englisch, Deutsch, Zürichdeutsch und Walliserdeutsch). ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months ago • 245 views • 1:48

YouTube description: How many tries does it take an average player to do what professional pool players do on the first try? Your Average Pool Player attempts Corey Deuel's famous 2004 US Open draw... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 week ago • 1,734 views • 5:07

--- Do earwigs climb into your ear? The quick answer is no. Earwigs are not interested in climbing into your ear to lay their eggs or otherwise. They’re no more likely than any other bug to accidentally... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 152 views • 4:21

YouTube description: What happens when you fire a Civil War mortar at a caravan? We invited YouTuber Tom Scott to find out. The mortar used is a replica of Roaring Meg, which destroyed large parts... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months ago • 545 views • 7:11

YouTube description: Fritz Lang directed an extremely innovated film in 1929 called Woman in the Moon. (Frau Im Mond in German). He hired rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth to be his technical director,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 339 views • 3:13

More than 70 people try to say 70 tongue twisters from 70 countries. In this tongue twisters challenge, citizens from all around the world attempt funny tongue twisters in different languages. Most English... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 28 views • 4:06

The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25 to 40 percent forest. Within a few centuries, almost all... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 802 views • 5:22

Computers store text (or, at least, English text) as eight bits per character. There are plenty of more efficient ways that could work: so why don't we use them? And how can we fit more text into less... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 64 views • 6:31

Whats up with Chinese language?

posted by makach 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 21 views • 3:34