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 4 months ago • 1,488 views • 2:53Videos (141) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (22) |
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 4 months 1 week ago • 608 views • 6:16Some 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 4 months 2 weeks ago • 962 views • 5:50YT: 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 5 months ago • 400 views • 3:08Tom 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 5 months 1 week ago • 747 views • 3:28YT: 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 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 388 views • 3:05In 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 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 526 views • 5:49Back 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 5 years 7 months ago • 74 views • 4:09https://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) 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 846 views • 4:33Tom 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 5 years 8 months ago • 187 views • 8:28That Time I Got in Touble With the Government
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months ago • 442 views • 6:39YouTube description: What happens when you fire a Civil War mortar at a caravan? We invited YouTuber Tom Scott to find out. The mortar used is a replica of Roaring Meg, which destroyed large parts... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 545 views • 7:11n 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 1 week ago • 329 views • 3:57The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers co-ordinated through... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 624 views • 2:50YouTube description: At Reed College in Portland, Oregon, there's a TRIGA nuclear reactor, used for research. You can stand next to it and watch the blue glow from the bottom of a deep swimming pool.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months ago • 460 views • 4:33YT: 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 1 week ago • 434 views • 3:48In the far north of Canada sit the DEW Line stations: "Distant Early Warning". Built in the 1950s, these were the sites that would have sounded the alarm if the Soviet Union ever attacked North America.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 22 views • 2:59YouTube description: Giant Mine sits near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once it was a productive gold mine, but after the gold ran out, the mining company went bankrupt and left... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 1 week ago • 470 views • 4:34If you're in Canada, you need good winter boots. But how do you know whether they're actually safe, or whether you'll fall over the first time you step on ice? This is WinterLab, part of the Challenging... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 36 views