YouTube description: Mumbai Police and FCB Interface collaborated to teach Mumbai’s reckless honkers a lesson. Watch how a passive street signal turned into a Punishing Signal and taught Mumbaikars... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months ago • 598 views • 1:54

YouTube description: People get nervous when they see Märten Ajne ice skating. He intentionally skates on extremely thin ice. Ajne has pursued this dangerous hobby for 40 years and has skated on more... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 11 months 3 weeks ago • 850 views • 2:34

"... The eyes are often the first thing we see when we look at someone. And when you look at them up close, everyone’s eye color is a kaleidoscope of shapes and hues. How does eye color work? The answer... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 501 views • 6:21

YouTube description: Ruben Orozco Loza is an artist from Guadalajara, Mexico. He is a self-taught sculptor. He creates sculptures of celebrities and everyday people using modeling clay, silicone, resin,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 4 months ago • 1,422 views • 3:06

YT: What wiped out the dinosaurs? Most of us were taught it was a killer asteroid—which is true. But it turns out there was more than one disaster movie playing at the cineplex that was Earth 66 million... continue reading

posted by Lumm 1 year 10 months ago • 119 views • 10:45

"School may have taught you a wide array of lessons, whether it's things that are actually useful or algebra; but SOME are just straight up not true..."

posted by ant 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 65 views • 4:54

The US signed the metre convention and bases all customary units on SI standards. As an aside, the Utah constitution from 1895 required the metric system to be taught in schools. This requirement was repealed... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,009 views • 8:52

YouTube description: Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 444 views • 7:42

YT-FYI: I don't count the 1824 election as the final winner was determined by the house of representatives and thus not *technically* a straight-up Electoral College fail. From what I was taught, the... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 237 views • 22 secs

California poll workers are being trained to disenfranchise any no-party-preference voters by only offering them provisional ballots....which won't be counted. The law says they can vote in the primary,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 264 views • 5:02

This seems way more useful than the finger-counting method I was taught.

posted by nock 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 305 views • 1:10

Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn. "What happens when we teach a computer how to learn? Technologist Jeremy Howard shares some surprising new developments... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 5 months ago • 30 views • 19:50

EconStories presents a special event on entrepreneurship and innovation. PayPal co-founder and technology entrepreneur Peter Thiel visits the UT Austin campus to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 12 views • 51:15

"Strategically deployed at stations throughout the system and involved in up to 1,000 train trips a month, the Amtrak Police Department K-9 teams provide a psychological and physical deterrent to potential... continue reading

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 6 years 1 week ago • 30 views • 6:08