YouTube description: We decided to see what happens when you quit added sugar because everyone's talking about how terrible sugar is for weight and long term health and all of the things.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 780 views • 11:45Videos (197) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
n Porthcurno, Cornwall, there's an old telegraph cable landing station. It's how Britain talked to the Empire -- and it's now a museum. But the technology here isn't quite as obsolete as you might think.
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 329 views • 3:57We talked to the co-founder of Tesla, JB Straubel, about why giant batteries are crucial to the future of power grids everywhere. Batteries are becoming more useful at powering bigger things like bikes,... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 498 views • 6:15"Brexit Britain is fed up with experts. These days we only listen to the bloke down the pub. So in this controlled experiment, we put three experts in a pub and recorded the results for your viewing pleasure. ... continue reading
posted by radx 5 years 9 months ago • 72 views • 58:34YT: 90s VHS video filters are in fashion right now, and most producers are using the same filter as everyone else. Why does the filter look like it does? To answer that question, I went to talk to the... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 434 views • 3:48In the last few years, wildfires have been getting worse - and, oddly, it's because humans have been preventing them. From a helicopter above the forests of British Columbia, and from the Tree Ring Lab... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 125 views • 3:46Larry Elder, delivers a moving and powerful testimony about reconciling with his father after years of not speaking to him. Larry also discusses the state of black men and race relations.
posted by bobknight33 5 years 10 months ago • 160 views • 32:59YouTube description: Trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web. Some plants use the system to support their offspring, while others hijack... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months ago • 435 views • 1:48It's all relative. YouTube: We've talked in the past about the positives of Marijuana use. What are the harms? From pregnancy effects to impaired driving to memory and concentration, Aaron will tell... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 600 views • 8:07"... Simon talks of Teddy disappearing, while Nicky shares advice on what to do. Has your cat ever gone missing? ..."
posted by ant 5 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 170 views • 6:01YouTube description: Reggaeton is one of the most popular music genres in the world. Its history is rooted in diaspora migration, censorship, poverty and the reclaiming of Afro-Caribbean identity. We... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 704 views • 10:49Irving Finkel talks Mesopotamian demons, ghosts and sprites and how to deal with them.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 weeks ago • 605 views • 5:52YT: As far as I can find, no-one has actually made a International Standard Cup of Tea - ISO 3103 or BS 6008 - for the internet before. Lots of people have talked about it, but that's easy. Making one?... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 6 years 3 weeks ago • 429 views • 3:34Anyone can learn to be a productive worker. This video discusses 2 ways to do this: working smarter and working harder. Productivity is a key ingredient to earning more money, and a key ingredient to feeling... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 770 views • 12:44A surprisingly informative tongue-in-cheek talk about wrangling the beast that is Microsoft Excel to actually perform HDR transformations on high-resolution photos, pixel-by-pixel.
posted by blacklotus90 6 years 4 months ago • 24 views • 11:47"Have you ever wondered how much food your stomach can hold? Turns out, it’s not a simple answer. Also, your brain and stomach are ALWAYS talking..." From http://www.popsci.com/eat-stomach-explode... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 5 months ago • 17 views • 3:39YouTube description: It's not your imagination; hold music on phones really did sound better in the old days. Here's why, as we talk about old telephone exchanges and audio compression. Thanks to... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 410 views • 3:36In which Derek drives a replica of the first internal combustion engine car patented by Karl Benz in 1886 and talks about how cars have improved since then (claims about Nazi speed records on public roads... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 476 views • 9:14Robert Levin plays the third movement of Mozart's Sonata No. 17 in B flat major K 570, and talks about the differences between the instrument it was composed on and the pianos typically used today and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,129 views • 4:37