YouTube: We live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it’s natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 8 months ago • 297 views • 4:14Videos (40) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months ago • 99 views • 6:27Via YouTube: A new study led by the U.K.’s Queen Mary University has found that even relatively simple animals like bumblebees can teach other how to perform somewhat complex tasks such as pulling a... continue reading
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 6 months ago • 595 views • 1:11YouTube description: A good anvil is the mother of all shop tools. Here is tour of my small collection, and a few things I have learned regarding anvils over the years. Thank you for watching. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 699 views • 7:58I built this grass hut up on a ridge. It's roughly parallel with the tiled hut and wattle and daub hut that are a couple of hundred meters away down in a valley. I built it on a ridge to get away from... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 567 views • 4:17YouTube 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 ago • 366 views • 4:02YouTube: Today on SciShow we bring you a cool humanoid diving robot and insight into the evolution of the venus flytrap.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 10 views • 4:56I made this bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials.The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. I don't know the draw weight - safe to say greater than 15 kg... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 8 years 3 weeks ago • 621 views • 5:54YouTube description: Machine translation's a useful tool, don't get me wrong. But if you actually try to use it for regular conversation, it'll fall down really quickly. Why? What makes it so difficult? ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 weeks ago • 559 views • 5:05From OutdoorHub: "opens a Master Lock by simply applying tension and gently tapping it with a hammer. This is a particularly worrisome exploit for two reasons. First, this type of lock is one of the most... continue reading
posted by chicchorea 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,617 views • 1:13YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 493 views • 4:02This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Building strong children is easier than repairing broken adults. Why allow something to break only to try to fix... continue reading
posted by LukeForsyth455 8 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 24 views • 17:43YT-I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,709 views • 14:09Jeremy 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 9 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 36 views • 19:50YouTube Description: Tuning forks are wonderful tools for teaching physics. In this video and accompanying article, James Lincoln, Physics Teacher at Tarbut V Torah High School highlights 10 enriching... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 207 views • 5:16Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 11 months ago • 255 views • 43:41New crazy applications for 3D printing in coming decades, especially for healthcare, well beyond today's uses of building toys and tools.
posted by messenger 1 decade 4 months 3 weeks ago • 927 views • 3:16"To be a great artist, one must be ready to fail," is just some of the advice offered up by performance artist, Marina Abramović in this recent interview. This idea of failure echoes Samuel Beckett... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 6 months ago • 456 views • 8:46YouTube Description: http://www.ted.com With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to present data that debunks several... continue reading
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