The 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 9 months 1 week ago • 619 views • 2:50

In Helsingborg, Sweden, the Museum of Failure has just opened. It's just one room, but inside, curator Samuel West has assembled some of the world's greatest commercial disasters - and also a few things... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 1,037 views • 2:18

YT: Inside the beautiful Alnwick Garden, behind a locked gate, there's the Poison Garden: it contains only poisonous plants. Trevor Jones, head gardener, was kind enough to give a guided tour!

posted by Fantomas 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago • 183 views • 4:34

At YouTube Space New York, there's the Mixed Reality lab: a virtual reality setup using an HTC Vive, a third controller, and some fancy compositing equipment. It's brilliant, and I got to visit and look... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 3 months ago • 99 views • 4:26

YouTube: There's a lot about sleep that we don't understand, like why we even sleep in the first place, for example. Here are some amazing discoveries biologists have made while trying to solve the mystery... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 141 views • 10:35

"The biggest uninterrupted indoor space on the planet, Tropical Islands Resort, sits on an old airfield in Germany. How on earth could anyone afford to build something that big... and then use it as a... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 3 years 10 months ago • 222 views • 2:09

(youtube) 5 of the hottest, driest, strangest, deadliest and most amazing places in the world, including The Door to Hell, the Centralia ghost town, Dallol Crater, Erta Ale and the Dasht-e Lut Desert.

posted by pumkinandstorm 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 482 views • 4:36