YouTube description: The Galton Board is a 7.5” by 4.5” desktop probability machine. This device brings to life the statistical concept of normal distribution. As you rotate the Galton Board... continue reading
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YouTube 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 week ago • 308 views • 6:28How to dial your phone, now that the operator won't do all the work for you. A public training film from well within living memory, at a time when youngsters might need the instruction in order to use... continue reading
posted by Buttle 6 years 2 weeks ago • 1,504 views • 9:51On the morning of July 7, 1944, Captain Ben L. Salomon of the U.S. Army’s 105th Infantry, commissioned as a dentist, single-handedly held off a fierce attack of an overwhelming force of Japanese soldiers... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 6:24YouTube description: On the little island of Kihnu, seven miles off the coast of Estonia, women run the show. The island still functions as one of the last matriarchal societies left in the world. Historically,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 659 views • 2:54Humans emit roughly 30 to 40 billion tons of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere each year. If we keep it up, Earth will continue to heat up and ultimately devastate our way of life. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 107 views • 2:18YouTube description: Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 634 views • 6:45"Entire story arcs of Square One TV's Mathnet in order of production..."
posted by ant 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 16 views • 18:12:15John Oliver is not afraid to put his money where his mouth is. Back in February, realizing that President Trump gets most of his ideas from cable news, the Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight host purchased... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 2 weeks ago • 601 views • 1:37It was just a routine workers’ compensation fraud case for Ken Sheppard. Show up for a spot check, do some surveillance of the subject and keep it pushing. But on March 3, 2014, it was anything but routine... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 2 weeks ago • 1,157 views • 5:01British philosopher and thinker Alan Watts asks the question, "What would you like to do if money were no object?" It's a question many of us have considered, but few have truly act upon. "Yeah, that's... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 902 views • 3:07YouTube: "All audible musical sound is given us for the sake of harmony, which has motions akin to the orbits in our soul, and which, as anyone who makes intelligent use of the arts knows, is not to be... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 13:41... how about you? YouTube: Star Trek has been beaming its way into fans' hearts for over 50 years, reinventing itself time and time again. Most fans think they know everything there is to know about... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 2 months ago • 937 views • 12:27...if he can read, it's at least clear that he doesn't read what he signs. Here he admits signing hundreds, much more than that, legal contracts without ever reading one. That's not good for a businessman... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 550 views • 5:31John talks about Trump's Executive Order on Immigration in detail, what it means short term for refugees and permanent residents, and what we are still unsure about.
posted by eric3579 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 565 views • 7:22Please guys can you chek theres one thats broken!!
posted by bjornenlinda 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,184 views • 17 secsYouTube: Many are still unhappy with Obamacare.The main intent of the Affordable Care Act was to expand the safety net (Medicaid), regulate the non-employer-based private insurance market (the insurance... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 440 views • 5:08What is the basic unit for tanks? How big is it? How does it operate? How are orders conveyed? All this and a bit more.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 369 views • 9:13Via YouTube: A new study led by the U.K.’s Queen Mary University has found that even relatively simple animals like bumblebees can teach other how to perform somewhat complex tasks such as pulling a... continue reading
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 6 months ago • 595 views • 1:11Bean water here I come!
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