YouTube description: 50 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 526 views • 5:47Videos (196) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YT: 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 1 week ago • 400 views • 3:08YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 498 views • 6:19YouTube description: How many tries does it take an average player to do what professional pool players do on the first try? Your Average Pool Player attempts Corey Deuel's famous 2004 US Open draw... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,732 views • 5:07As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA — and... continue reading
posted by Ashenkase 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 582 views • 13:02YT: 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 3 weeks ago • 388 views • 3:05Dialect coach Erik Singer once again analyzes the accents of some of Hollywood's biggest names. How accurate were their accents, really? I find this stuff fascinating.
posted by ChaosEngine 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 145 views • 24:22YT: 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 5 years 8 months ago • 122 views • 10:45YouTube description In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 521 views • 8:34In 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 10 months ago • 22 views • 2:59"Gross and mean!" YouTube: If gulls just stole some of your chips while you were out trying to enjoy your lunch, you should feel lucky, because one species has recently developed a taste for live mammal... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 43 views • 4:08YouTube description: A metal alloy spoon melts in tea. Featuring Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Senior Technician Neil Barnes. Why not use Gallium? Well - besides the fact it's not what we... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,324 views • 4:27YouTube 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) 5 years 12 months ago • 1,045 views • 2:44The Crisis of Meaning [humans are not cats] YouTube: Studies have shown that people with jetpacks were on average 92.4% much happier with their lives.
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years ago • 490 views • 9:43Go back in time with these NBC News archive clips from 1994 and 1995 when the "World Wide Web" and Internet were mere mysteries. Source: Today
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 17 views • 2:12At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 406 views • 7:08I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months ago • 1,223 views • 3:54YT: I built an A frame hut as a large work space for projects. First I made a celt hatchet to cut timber for the hut. The axe head was made of amphibolite and the handle was made of a species of wattle.... continue reading
posted by nanrod 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 524 views • 9:05The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25 to 40 percent forest. Within a few centuries, almost all... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 801 views • 5:22