YouTube description: Shemika Campbell hails from a long line of limbo. Both her mother and her grandmother were limbo dancers, carrying on the traditionally Trinidadian form of dance. Shemika is keeping... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month ago • 1,045 views • 2:44Videos (133) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Featuring conductor Paige Dashner Long and the Florida Flute Orchestra, playing "Tico Tico No Fuba."
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 28 views • 2:25YouTube description: Let's find out how they put 3D images into glass objects. Known as a 'Bubblegram', vitrography or sub-surface laser engraving, this technology has been around for a very long time... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 308 views • 6:28YouTube description: Vanguard 1 was the 4th satellite launched, after being beaten by Sputnik 1, 2 and Explorer 1, it also suffered from multiple high profile launch failures. However, 60 years on it's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 410 views • 6:41No one signed up to read to Sting, so the library put out a call for 4-8 year olds. Now he's booked solid, so I gotta ask, Sting....why the long face?
posted by newtboy 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 278 views • 1:41Is it OK to give a woman flowers? Yes, as long as you don't put your penis in them. The new rules on sexual harassment explained.
posted by ChaosEngine 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 704 views • 5:57All nuclear waste is currently in temporary storage. Finland is building the first long term permanent storage site in the world. How do you convey a warning not to tamper with such a place tens of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 777 views • 11:09I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 454 views • 5:46"When coming to a lane closure, getting over early into that long line may not always be the best way to get through." From https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/rude-drivers-who-merge-at-the-last-second-are-doin.html... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 160 views • 1:28YouTube description: This is how we go from single cells to people. EVO-DEVO Huxley B. Mac. Oh Carroll, Carroll Gould, Stephen Jay yeah D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter See One cell divide and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 923 views • 4:46For many years, archery was part of warfare, but with the introduction of guns in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, it started its long decline.. The "archery" of today is more like playing with... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 823 views • 5:06Last year LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. The science world went a little crazy. Only a few weeks ago a new rumour emerged: that LIGO had, for the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months ago • 151 views • 15:51YouTube: In the 1950s, the people of Minamata, Japan started seeing strange behavior from the local cats, and it wasn't long before humans were showing the same symptoms.
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 9 months ago • 669 views • 5:25I'm at the top of Mount Evans, more than 14,000 feet - 4.3km - above sea level. This is definitely a mountain: but why doesn't the smaller summit next to it also count? Let's talk about prominence. (Just... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months ago • 152 views • 2:46Uhoh YouTube: Prescription drugs are pretty awesome. They improve lives all the time. But it is possible to take too many. Over time, as patients are prescribed more an more ongoing medications, it's... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 80 views • 6:59YouTube: While we have long known about the existence of microbes — the tiny bacteria, fungi and archaea that live all around, on and in us — our full relationship has become one of the hottest topics... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 week ago • 15 views • 6:39I recently had the idea for this new vacuum cannon design that many of you might be interested in. Since it hasn't been very long since my last vacuum cannon video I thought I would make this a more casual... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 week ago • 16 views • 10:29Only Uranus joins Venus in rotating clockwise. Why is a day on Venus longer than a year? Why does Venus rotate backward? In short... living on Venus would really mess with your sense of time...
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 weeks ago • 32 views • 1:52Americans tend to smile more often than people in other countries. Olga Khazan digs into a couple scientific findings why — it turns out, American smiles signal excitement, confidence, and also have... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 weeks ago • 1,057 views • 3:16