YouTube description: View full lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/history-vs-cleopatra-alex-gendler She was the most notorious woman in ancient history, a queen who enraptured not one but two of Rome’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 171 views • 4:28Videos (44) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
I don't know how it works, it's just the old bolt in the bottle gag.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 3,297 views • 13:21As a wildfire rages through the grasslands, three lions and three wildebeest flee for their lives. To escape the inferno, they must cross over to the left bank of a crocodile-infested river. Can you help... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 112 views • 4:19Via YouTube: A new study led by the U.K.’s Queen Mary University has found that even relatively simple animals like bumblebees can teach other how to perform somewhat complex tasks such as pulling a... continue reading
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 6 months ago • 595 views • 1:11Via YouTube: The Gaia space observatory released a detailed 3d map of the Milky Way, and scientists have to figure out why Charon's north pole is red!
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 7 months ago • 21 views • 4:21A 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 7 months 2 weeks ago • 826 views • 2:51"Urushiol oil in poison sumac, poison oak, and poison ivy may produce a severe skin rash. Timely urushiol removal can prevent poison ivy skin reaction. The key is to understand how poison ivy works... ... continue reading
posted by ant 7 years 9 months ago • 1,239 views • 5:14YouTube: As denizens of the internet, most of us are familiar with the trolls. In this episode of SciShow, learn a little about how social scientists think trolls came to be, and how online communities... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 166 views • 8:56Tom Scott: "Continuing the occasional Weird European Infrastructure Tour: an Italian lift that switches direction from horizontal to vertical. And honestly, until someone pointed it out to me, I could... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 704 views • 2:29Via YouTube: There are various ways to pronounce "O-U-G-H" in the English language. This was hilariously demonstrated on the "I Love Lucy" television program by Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) and his wife,... continue reading
posted by Gratefulmom 8 years 1 month ago • 842 views • 3:05A fun activity to help you figure out if your beliefs are well-grounded.
posted by Magicpants 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 2,513 views • 4:17The fascinating video above tells the story of MIT Professor Ioannis Yannas, who was recently inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame alongside such luminaries as the Wright brothers and Steve... continue reading
posted by enoch 8 years 3 months ago • 1,844 views • 16:57An 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 • 5:08Egads ... 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 • 6:08This master craftsman does a hell of a job with a rotary hammer. Imagine how much work he'll do when he figures out what the cord is for!
posted by newtboy 9 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,154 views • 52 secsSimulated tornado being generated by a supercomputer (Blue Waters) with 20,000 processing cores. I need a dictionary to figure out half of the terms used in the talk, but the simulations are stunning.
posted by Ashenkase 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 89 views • 16:43It 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 • 5:49@lann @eric3576 Getting my room mates cherries cut out in 12 hours. I am scared for him but happy for me ! ! TERRITORIAL ASSHOLE. Last two weeks this guy has kind of got an attitude... continue reading
posted by BoneRemake 1 decade 1 week ago • 70 views • 3:53Building the Machine introduces the public to the Common Core States Standards Initiative (CCSSI) and its effects on our children’s education. The documentary compiles interviews from leading educational... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 decade 3 weeks ago • 184 views • 39:09