YouTube description: Hi there! I'm (finally!) back with a new video explaining what is swing, a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. The amazing... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months ago • 464 views • 2:01Videos (49) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Until recently, Canada didn't have a road link to the Arctic Ocean. But last year, the all-weather Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway opened, which meant that finally the country was connected "from sea to sea... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 10 months ago • 1,383 views • 3:16YouTube description: In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 724 views • 3:34On the morning of July 7, 1944, Captain Ben L. Salomon of the U.S. Army’s 105th Infantry, commissioned as a dentist, single-handedly held off a fierce attack of an overwhelming force of Japanese soldiers... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 6:24Published 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 ago • 1,847 views • 10:28The Lahti L-39 is a Finnish 20 mm anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It had excellent accuracy, penetration and range, but its size made transportation difficult. It was nicknamed "Norsupyssy"... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 134 views • 10:14It was just a routine workers’ compensation fraud case for Ken Sheppard. Show up for a spot check, do some surveillance of the subject and keep it pushing. But on March 3, 2014, it was anything but routine... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 2 weeks ago • 1,157 views • 5:01I built this pottery kiln and some pottery from termite mound clay to test an alternative clay source to my usual one from the creek bank. I started by making a large grate from ordinary clay. It was just... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month ago • 419 views • 11:27I finally managed to get my vacuum chamber working, and run the Tesla coil in it! Awesome effect on arcs, but RIP Tesla coil!
posted by Mekanikal 7 years 1 month ago • 539 views • 10:04We love wood here at The Slingshot Channel. It is our most important raw material by a great margin. When we found this 20" piece of European Dogwood (Cornus Sanguinea) while cleaning up the shed, we immediately... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month ago • 203 views • 13:07Scholars have attempted to crack the code to the perfect sandwich for millennia - in the end, it was Jake the Dog who finally achieved the zenith of 'wichcraft. Can Jake's glowing dream sandwich be realized... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 14 views • 3:44YT-FYI: I don't count the 1824 election as the final winner was determined by the house of representatives and thus not *technically* a straight-up Electoral College fail. From what I was taught, the... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 240 views • 22 secsYouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months ago • 811 views • 14:23Have you ever wondered what happens when you bring a magnet near 5000 degree molten Iron? Does it attract? Or repel? Maybe it create cool shapes. But most importantly... DOES IT EXPLODE?! I set off... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 40 views • 5:21NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 515 views • 2:59YouTube description: Sometimes flight recorders are the only way the victims' families will know what happened to the plane. Immediately following an airplane crash anywhere in US territory, the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 229 views • 5:31For years marine biologists have puzzled over what the mysterious vampire squid eats. Recent research by Henk-Jan Hoving and Bruce Robison at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute finally reveals... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 12 months ago • 957 views • 4:33This video was taken in Papua, Indonesia. We saw it happen five or six times before we finally managed to capture it on video. The horsehair worms infect the prey and modify the brain chemistry in such... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 3 weeks ago • 1,000 views • 4:04The 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 • 16:57YT-I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,709 views • 14:09