YouTube description: If you're sitting on a boat in Lake Constance, are you in three countries at once? Or just in one? Does it even matter? Because strangely, it turns out there are parts of the world... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months ago • 556 views • 2:32Videos (156) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
"When I was a kid I used to see like 40% alcohol by volume and get really confused, but like the bottle's full."
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 156 views • 3:47Facebook isn't really free - you pay for it with your identity.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 940 views • 2:06Cameron Evans, dispels myths about what motor oil's made of, what "slipperiness" really means, and whether or not fuel additives really work, and what's the oil to use on a track day.
posted by bobknight33 7 years 5 months ago • 250 views • 17:48YouTube description: Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes the accents of some of Hollywood's biggest names. How accurate were they really? Check out more from Erik here: http://www.eriksinger.com/ ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 805 views • 16:41You might think you're really hot when you're not. So taking off clothing might seem like a great idea, even though it's not.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 314 views • 4:03El Caminito del Rey, the King's Little Pathway, is now a tourist attraction near Malaga, in southern Spain. But once, it brought adrenaline junkies here - sometimes fatally. Now it's safe: but the internet... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 762 views • 2:56YouTube: From taking your files ransom to foiling uranium enrichment, here are five more computer viruses that you really want to avoid.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months ago • 632 views • 11:07YouTube: Seriously, I really wanted to be a fighter pilot but the eye thing was a thing back then. Fortunately for you guys, if you're young and want to be a pilot.... and are willing to work hard to get... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 283 views • 10:55Inuktitut syllabics are brilliant. A writing system that's not an alphabet, but something really clever: an abugida, one designed from scratch for a language very unlike anything European. /YT
posted by notarobot 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 84 views • 4:06YouTube description: So...why does all the writing in comic books look like that? Vox's Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comics culture, technology, and really cheap paper. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months ago • 555 views • 8:33Fire-arrows - did archers really use them in battles?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months ago • 216 views • 11:28YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 811 views • 14:23All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before, but it is very difficult to imagine how certain countries and parts of the world compare to each other in size that are far apart. In... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,620 views • 6:20When Dr. John Reid, Chairman of the Trimontium Trust, contacted us and asked for our help in order to shed some light on an ancient mystery, we immediately agreed! Dr. Reid and his team did some excavations... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 344 views • 29:38YouTube description: There are lots of strategies to remember information when you need it most. These are shortcuts called mnemonics. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 183 views • 4:25YouTube description: Today's recipe is a little different: Cheese-curd fritters from Eliza Smith's 1758 cookbook, "The Compleat Housewife." We found it a bit challenging to make cheese curds in camp,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 49 views • 9:17A few months ago, @MrFisk submitted http://videosift.com/video/The-Most-Satisfying-Video-Ever-Made and I really dug the music...It was from Macintosh Plus' album Floral Shoppe, which has become a touchstone... continue reading
posted by oblio70 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 167 views • 8:23Yes, it's only micrograms of difference, but it's still really weird: until 2018, the kilogram is defined as "the weight of this physical object". So what happens when that object changes?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,538 views • 3:45YouTube description: There's a big fire in the building and suddenly all the sprinklers turn on -- that's not really how works. Let science extinguish this myth. How Fire Burns in Space - http://bit.ly/1OqRB5b ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 366 views • 4:02