Meet the binturong, aka "bearcat." With a face like a cat, a body like a bear, and a tail like a monkey, these reclusive creatures are pretty strange looking, and the strangeness doesn't end with their... continue reading
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YouTube description: Originally built by the Incas, the manmade salt pans in Maras, Peru, have endured for over 500 years. Beneath the Qaqawiñay mountains runs a salty fresh spring, which empties into... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,534 views • 1:20YouTube description: In the high-speed world of rally car racing, you’re only as good as your co-driver. As these racers speed around hairpin turns on unpaved, narrow roads, drivers must rely on the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months ago • 540 views • 4:06For a few months each winter, Harbin, China, turns into a fantastical "city of ice." From January 5 through February 25, this chilly provincial capital plays host to the Harbin International Ice and Snow... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 3 months ago • 431 views • 2:53YouTube description: Colorado is known for its beautiful Rocky Mountains, but with mountains come snow and with snow come avalanches. Breckenridge Resort has a group of 6 dogs and handlers trained specifically... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months ago • 189 views • 2:42YouTube description: These days, giant wind turbines are supplying more and more of our clean energy. And when they break down, they need to be fixed fast. It's a job only a few people are equipped... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 559 views • 5:44YouTube description: Lost for decades beneath the streets of Naples, Italy, the Galleria Borbonica is a time capsule of the city's history. The system of tunnels and caverns was originally created in... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months ago • 139 views • 1:28Most of the time, the wasabi you get in a restaurant or buy in a store is fake. It’s actually horseradish that’s colored green. Why? Well, wasabi is a notoriously difficult plant to grow. In fact,... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 125 views • 3:04YouTube description: The song “American Woman” by The Guess Who wasn't ever supposed to happen. It wasn't planned, staged or pre-meditated. Yet you all know the iconic riff. Sometimes all it takes... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 1,835 views • 3:02YouTube description: On La Gomera, a small island in Spain’s Canary Islands, the last speakers of a language without words reside. "El Silbo," a whistled communication used in rural and isolated areas,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 197 views • 3:53YouTube description: Remember the childhood hours of fun spent blasting your friends with neon-tinged water cannons? You can thank a NASA scientist for that. In 1982, Lonnie Johnson designed the Super... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month 1 week ago • 504 views • 2:31The 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 2 weeks ago • 1,844 views • 16:57