How does the President go from the White House to the UN headquarters in New York in just 1 hour?
posted by fuzzyundies 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 443 views • 12:03Videos (58) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
At the University of Salford's Energy House, all the energy use is monitored and controlled, allowing researchers to experiment with all sorts of insulation and energy-saving techniques. But how to control... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 104 views • 3:36You have. Just admit it.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 450 views • 8:23YouTube description: Foraminifera – tiny, single-celled marine life forms – build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet. Special thanks to Professor Lee Kump of Penn... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 489 views • 2:51YT-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 3 weeks ago • 240 views • 22 secsI invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,388 views • 4:32I built this grass hut up on a ridge. It's roughly parallel with the tiled hut and wattle and daub hut that are a couple of hundred meters away down in a valley. I built it on a ridge to get away from... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months ago • 567 views • 4:17The materials collection, at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, MA, houses thousands of pigments, including some of the world’s rarest. Dragon's blood, mummy, Indian yellow: these are but a few flashy... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 8 years 3 weeks ago • 639 views • 2:35YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months ago • 493 views • 4:02Uploaded on Oct 19, 2011 I read part of Bradfords diary once and from what I gather a large number of the men would get up in the morning and instead of going to work would go to the communal store... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 189 views • 8:34YT: Bill details the key engineering principles underlying plastic injection molding. He describes its history and, then, reveals the intricate details of the process. He shows viewers where to find, on... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 357 views • 9:37An 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 4 weeks ago • 52 views • 5:08Secret door / bookcase door! Awesome for extra storage. I may build one of these for at my house to get upstairs.
posted by Phooz 8 years 9 months ago • 415 views • 10:59There was something deeply satisfying about watching a true craftsman doing their thing. This was artisanal beyond my reckoning. I had no good ideas myself on how you'd find and reuse the same hidden... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,044 views • 6:52Building 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 1 month ago • 184 views • 39:09(YT description via Vice) You might not know who Arjan Roskam is, but you've probably smoked his weed. Arjan's been breeding some of the most famous marijuana strains in the world—like White Widow,... continue reading
posted by Procrastinatron 1 decade 8 months 4 weeks ago • 595 views • 26:58This is taken from a radio show called Science Friday. This is about a couple who were inspired to design and build their own tiny house with mobility because they were tired of paying 1200 monthly in... continue reading
posted by Issykitty 1 decade 9 months 3 weeks ago • 5,391 views • 4:37Worth the time.
posted by Mobius 1 decade 1 year 2 weeks ago • 309 views • 12:50