YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months ago • 606 views • 8:27Videos (66) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: It's not your imagination; hold music on phones really did sound better in the old days. Here's why, as we talk about old telephone exchanges and audio compression. Thanks to... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 410 views • 3:36YouTube description: What do all those bodies of water really mean? In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards travels through the map to define bodies of water. Find Phil Edwards on Facebook... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,336 views • 5:15Believe it or not, off-roading is actually illegal in Iceland - they'll lock you up. There is an exception, though, in the form of the outrageous Icelandic Formula Offroad Championship. Strapped into home-built... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 249 views • 7:24Published on May 21, 2017 After four years of living off the grid we've gathered some wisdom we'd like to share with you. Please enjoy...ten MORE things we wish we'd known before we went off grid. ... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,847 views • 10:28Terry Crews, actor, former NFL player, and host of Netflix's "Ultimate Beastmaster," discusses why he decided to build his own PC and how he used Facebook to help.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,907 views • 2:09YouTube 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 3 weeks ago • 458 views • 7:42YouTube description: One woman's face is all over New York, although you've probably never heard of her. This was written with Amor Sciendi: go check it out! https://www.youtube.com/user/AmorSciendi ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months ago • 157 views • 2:36YouTube description: In Bremen, Germany, there's a tower more than a hundred metres high: it's called the Fallturm, or the Drop Tower. If you want a cost-effective way to test an experiment in microgravity... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 299 views • 4:02YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months ago • 1,726 views • 3:13YouTube description: If you're sitting on a boat in Lake Constance, are you in three countries at once? Or just in one? Does it even matter? Because strangely, it turns out there are parts of the world... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 556 views • 2:32Divide, multiply, and subtract. Bring it on down and bring it on back. (H/T @eric3579) YouTube description: Long Division Rap Don't forget to like and follow my Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/nadine... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 466 views • 56 secsFacebook isn't really free - you pay for it with your identity.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 940 views • 2:06metro.se: This is what the world looks like – with and without fact checking Swedish fact checker Viralgranskaren and The Internet Foundation In Sweden have released a guide about fact checking online.... continue reading
posted by Zawash 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 631 views • 1:34True Story ... I knew Trump was going to win the presidency as soon as it became apparent he was to be the nominee. It was the same feeling, a dark foreboding, that I have about Facebook. YouTube: Can... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 12 views • 4:26A lot of people are arguing over the correct answer to this algebra problem involving horses, horseshoes, and boots. A Facebook post with this problem has over 500,000 comments. Can you figure it out?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months ago • 826 views • 2:51UPDATE: We're still working on a species ID with our science partners at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, but currently we're thinking the purple orb is a pleurobranch, a nudibranch relative.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 219 views • 3:12In Eastern Nevada on the top of Wheeler Peak in the Great Basin National park sit some of the oldest living organisms in the world. - https://facebook.com/atlasobscura
posted by newtboy 7 years 10 months ago • 43 views • 3:57YouTube description: Today's recipe is a little different: Cheese-curd fritters from Eliza Smith's 1758 cookbook, "The Compleat Housewife." We found it a bit challenging to make cheese curds in camp,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 49 views • 9:17YouTube description: Me, I'm deaf already! NOTE: Depending on the quality you can play the video back at, your particular speakers/headphones/sound card setup, and even the down sampling YouTube... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,626 views • 1:27