YouTube description: At the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand, the team at Mars Bioimaging are using detector equipment originally developed for the Large Hadron Collider, and putting... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 639 views • 5:41

YouTube description: Kerosene Creek is a natural hot spring near Rotorua, on the North Island of New Zealand. And there have been official warnings for years: don't put your head under water. It turns... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 423 views • 3:42

YouTube description: I kept getting asked about a sequence from the Apollo 11 documentary showing the ignition of a Saturn V upper Stage, known as the S-IVB, in space. After asking around I tracked... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 325 views • 11:08

YT: The Forbes Pigment Collection, at the Harvard Art Museums, is a collection of pigments, binders, and other art materials for researchers to use as standards: so they can tell originals from restorations... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 447 views • 5:13

From Youtube, "This video is called How Would Bach Play Crazy Train? A counterpoint adaption of the classic Randy Rhoads riff. We'll use Bach's Prime, Inversion, Retrograde and Retrograde Inversion to... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 152 views • 4:55

Measuring time is a complicated thing. Computers, banks, and stock markets in Denmark all use UTC, the international standard: but according to the law, they shouldn't.

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 316 views • 6:30

YouTube description: The Multi Axis Trainer, or MAT, is an icon of space exploration and astronaut training. But other than spinning round kids at Space Camp: what's it actually used for? Thanks... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months ago • 1,017 views • 3:13

YouTube description: The tourist guides promote it as Georgia's Little Grand Canyon: but this is a scar on the Earth, caused by humans either not understanding or not caring about geology. Is it natural?... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,488 views • 2:53

YouTube description: This is the story of one of the best, and also one of the worst, text messages I've ever received. It's about harm, about consequences, and about the responsibilities that designers,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 610 views • 6:16

Some American cities use buses, or trams, or trains. Peachtree City, Georgia, has a different solution: it's not quite public transit, but a hundred miles of golf cart tracks helps to keep cars off the road.

posted by nanrod 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 962 views • 5:50

YT: In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they were funded by someone anonymous in 1980, perhaps as a message... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 400 views • 3:08

Tom tests the level and duration of reverberation in giant WWII underground fuel storage tanks. Best youtube comment..."I'm slightly disappointed that you didn't shout out something like "BOLLOCKS" ".

posted by nanrod 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 747 views • 3:28

YT: There's a reason music videos look strange. I could just talk about framerate, cuts and continuity... or I could get an actual music video director. And a leaf blower.

posted by Lumm 6 years 2 weeks ago • 389 views • 3:05

In the 1830s, two French brothers, François and Joseph Blanc, pulled off the first telecoms scam in history. The optical telegraph, a line of semaphore towers stretching from hilltop to hilltop, was for... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month ago • 527 views • 5:49

Back in the 1920s, wingwalking claimed lives. Daredevils would move around on the top of a plane's wings, in mid-flight, often without any harness or any safety line. Maybe they'd be able to clip onto... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 75 views • 4:09

https://youtu.be/cECsj2Bznig The Global Vehicle Target is the new standard for testing autonomous driving and crash test systems. To cameras and radar, it looks like a car: but if you hit it, it'll... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 846 views • 4:33

YouTube description: Why does the exhaust from the Space shuttle boosters & engines look completely different? There's a huge variety in the appearance of rocket exhausts because different fuels, different... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months ago • 493 views • 11:26

Tom Scott tells part 2 of the entertaining story about what he learned on internet marketing, part 1 here: https://videosift.com/video/HOW-TO-BE-POPULAR-ON-THE-INTERNET-S1-E1 and part 3: https://videosift.com/vid... continue reading

posted by rbar 6 years 2 months ago • 187 views • 8:28

That Time I Got in Touble With the Government

posted by nanrod 6 years 2 months ago • 442 views • 6:39