Mindboggingly complex song from Sesame Street analyzed. Fun if you're interested in rhythms and chords! :)
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Brian Cox - Solving The Fermi Paradox: Intelligent Alien Life in Our Galaxy Brian Cox explains the details behind the Fermi Paradox and why we haven't yet found intelligent alien life. The more interesting... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 3 months 3 weeks ago • 74 views • 10:18An interesting and quick look at how the ancient Roman Civilization inhabitants dealt with their (not so) alone time.
posted by BoneRemake 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 364 views • 5:40What is you could solve the shape puzzle with only one piece instead of 3? Modelling using Boolean Intersections may be rarely used, but the results are really interesting and well worth experimenting with!
posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 131 views • 6:44This is a bit of a mind-bender, but entirely worth the watch if you're at all interested in mathematics or computer science. Possibly even if you're not, but I'm uncertain. I had previously learned... continue reading
posted by moonsammy 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 633 viewsPike County Sheriffs beat and mace a man hogtied in a restraint chair so badly the sheriff deputy broke his hand on the man's face. He has applied for workers compensation for the "job related injury". ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 12 months ago • 222 views • 1:47I highly recommend listening to the song first, or at least the first half. As a drummer for 32 years (8 formally on actual drums / in public, the rest on available surfaces and arguably in rhythm games),... continue reading
posted by moonsammy 3 years 1 week ago • 497 views • 10:15The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 15 views • 3:56Who knew cracking nuts could be so interesting
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 65 views • 18:57From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 55 views • 26:02On a hike looking for rare limestone endemic plants in Death Valley, we spotted the wreckage of a plane! After several hours of hiking and many interesting plants, we managed to scramble over to the wreck.... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 1,776 views • 5:01We all know that making models for an epidemic's spread has almost infinite variables and is freaking hard to make. But, if you use statistics, you can at least learn some interesting things.... continue reading
posted by eoe 4 years 3 weeks ago • 69 views • 23:12This strange creature was only discovered by marine biologists in 2007 during a deep water expedition. Teuthidodrilus, commonly known as the "Squidworm", is just as flamboyant as it is strange in appearance.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 1 week ago • 778 views • 3:38YouTube description: There’s no telling what you can do when you put your mind to it. Take Richard Hull, he built a small-scale fusion reactor—in a shed, in his backyard. A retired electronics engineer,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,462 views • 3:32In which Half as Interesting explains the Machine Identification Code covertly printed in yellow dots by virtually all colour printers.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months ago • 1,648 views • 5:45An open conversation with a person diagnosed with Schizophrenia that I found very interesting and helpful.
posted by b4rringt0n 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 764 views • 9:24The Japanese have some interesting machinery used for rice cultivation.
posted by newtboy 5 years 1 week ago • 581 views • 10:36YouTube description: You can make a movable hole in soap film with a loop of thread. It's surprising when you first see and it's fun to think about why it behaves the way it does. It's also a useful... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 512 views • 6:03ASM = Anti-Ship Missile. An interesting look into missile design and behaviors across the globe. From YT: Russia has got them... so does Japan, India, Taiwan, and others. So why doesn't the US?
posted by admiralronton 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 491 views • 17:52YouTube description: Engineers need to be able to predict how water will behave in order to design structures that manage or control it. And fluids don’t always behave the way you’d expect. On this... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 752 views • 8:43