YouTube description: We take a field trip to the 2018 Summer Steam-up, an annual gathering of hobbyists who build and operate model trains with working steam engines! Tested meets up with two model... continue reading
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The Lamborghini Miura is regarded by many to be the world’s first supercar. It set the car world on fire with its groundbreaking mid-engine layout, monster performance, and looks that could kill. Join... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 94 views • 12:42I fucking love this show!
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 80 views • 8:37"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 10 months ago • 72 views • 58:34Rick Beato breaks down the System of a Down song Chop Suey from the album Toxicity. (Thanks to spawnflagger for the heads up on my stoned self posting the wrong song name)
posted by w1ndex 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 97 views • 12:30YouTube description: In which John gets curious about the last time global human population declined and ends up learning about a period of human history called The General Crisis. Thanks to Our World... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 674 views • 3:59YouTube 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 11 months 2 weeks ago • 470 views • 4:34YouTube description: Fritz Lang directed an extremely innovated film in 1929 called Woman in the Moon. (Frau Im Mond in German). He hired rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth to be his technical director,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 339 views • 3:13In Quebec, Canada, there's a town called Asbestos. It's an alarming name, one that conjures up images of lung disease and mesothelioma. So now that the town's asbestos mine, once the largest asbestos mine... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 week ago • 46 views • 4:30In the mid-aughts, the police sergeant Ronald Watts knew how to exploit the lawlessness of the Ida B. Wells Homes. The Exoneration Project believes that he and his officers wrongly arrested hundreds of people.
posted by newtboy 6 years 1 week ago • 931 views • 7:06YouTube: You might think you know how to survive if you end up stranded in the wild, but those tips you read on the internet might just make things worse!
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 1 week ago • 532 views • 11:02If you set up a row of dominoes as a timeline of history from the Big Bang to now, and had each domino represent 1 million years it would stretch over 300 meters long. I know because that's what I did... continue reading
posted by BSR 6 years 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 13:22"... Every once in a while, all the oaks or spruces or other plants in a region suddenly produce a tremendous bounty of seeds – up to 100 times more than usual. But why do they do it, and how do they... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 3 weeks ago • 187 views • 2:57YouTube description: Shemika Campbell hails from a long line of limbo. Both her mother and her grandmother were limbo dancers, carrying on the traditionally Trinidadian form of dance. Shemika is keeping... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 weeks ago • 1,045 views • 2:44Without neutrons, harnessing nuclear energy would be impossible. Try Audible free for 30 days: http://audible.com/veritasium I have a new documentary coming out in a few months - sign up here to be... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month ago • 667 views • 7:38YouTube description: Chi-Tien Lui is an electrical engineer and technician whose craft has evolved to the realm of high art. Born in China, he trained as a technician in Taiwan before moving to the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,047 views • 4:22Actors reading the actual words of eyewitnesses detailing minute by minute what happened in the run up to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. It includes forensic and medical examiner... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 10 views • 1:22:50The network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO What happened with Cambridge Analytica highlights this perfectly. ... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 520 views • 5:35