From Youtube, "Kurzgesagt is lying to you, in every video, even in this one. Because our videos distill very complex subjects into flashy ten-minute videos and unfortunately, the reality is, well, complicated.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 162 views • 10:28Videos (330) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
The Millennium Tower at 301 Mission Street in San Francisco is famously tilting and sinking into the ground. How does geology affect the design of skyscraper foundations, and what is being done to fix... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 99 views • 13:32From Youtube, "You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 313 views • 11:46"Get into the spooky spirit with some of our favorite Count von Count moments, from classics like Batty Bat to new Halloween hits like The Cookie Monster Nosh, in this Best of The Count Compilation! ..."
posted by ant 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 8 views • 42:40Destin from Smarter Every Day looks into how the James Webb Space Telescope works.
posted by w1ndex 2 years 8 months ago • 190 views • 29:46Tom Scott's illegitimate son goes to Boston to look into the engineering obstacles behind an intercontinental tunnel.
posted by w1ndex 2 years 8 months ago • 118 views • 10:04From Youtube, "Bowling has been reinvented many times over the past seven thousand years but especially in the last 30. This is the fascinating physics of balls, oil, lane and pins. Huge thanks to... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 8 months ago • 485 views • 28:01How the Global Auto industry is changing to EV. The winner and the losers over the next decade. Cathie Wood of ARK Invest is well known for making bold calls on innovative companies such as Tesla.... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 13 views • 14:54"Olympic sports are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. They are Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. Besides, there are two more Olympics. They are Special Olympics and Paralympics.... continue reading
posted by ant 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 15 views • 2:40It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,835 views • 2:12In this video we dive deep into some of the more glaring errors in the design of Champlain Towers South and explore the most likely origin of the collapse from a structural engineering perspective. The
posted by BSR 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 17 views • 41:17The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 724 views • 10:48Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened. It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 10 months ago • 560 views • 10:12Some boaters were left stunned after witnessing an orca's extraordinary leap 15-feet out of the water during a dolphin hunt in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. (Credit: Miguel Cuevas) While battering their... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 1 week ago • 839 views • 45 secsImagine pole-vaulting across dangerous terrain, down steep slopes and ravines. "Salto del pastor"—translated from Spanish as "the shepherd's leap"—is just that. Now a folk sport and hobby, it was once... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 3 weeks ago • 751 views • 3:53I 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 month 1 week ago • 497 views • 10:15In this video me and the boys at Eastside Tree Works remove a Doug Fir that fell over and smashed into somebody's house.
posted by BSR 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 42 views • 48:27From Youtube, "Let us explore the scientific mystery of what would happen to you if Earth suddenly turned into gold! The “Midaspocalypse”, based on the ancient tale of King Midas who was cursed so... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 80 views • 9:17"Why some Americans’ votes count more than others. Watch more of our election coverage: http://vox.com/ElectionVideos In the 2000 US presidential election, the Democratic candidate got half a million... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 86 views • 8:09An amazingly thorough deep dive into the acoustic engineering, materials science, and construction of a beautiful pair of speakers. "We construct a pair of large Voigt speakers. I explain the principles... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 7 months ago • 375 views • 52:56