YouTube description: If you're sitting on a boat in Lake Constance, are you in three countries at once? Or just in one? Does it even matter? Because strangely, it turns out there are parts of the world... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months ago • 556 views • 2:32

I took Orange Sunshine once [true story] YouTube: Inside chemistry labs, chemists work with what they call superacids. No one’s found a specific use for such a fantastically strong acid yet, but chemists... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 793 views • 4:49

El Caminito del Rey, the King's Little Pathway, is now a tourist attraction near Malaga, in southern Spain. But once, it brought adrenaline junkies here - sometimes fatally. Now it's safe: but the internet... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 762 views • 2:56

There are a few communities, up in northern Canada, with a dark history and a worrying future. Resolute is one of them, sat at the east of the once-legendary Northwest Passage. In a few years, it might... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 503 views • 4:28

YouTube description: Greenford, Middlesex. An item about the manufacture of wallpaper. C/U on stuffed birds. C/U of an artist painting the birds in a design. Various shots of artists designing... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 446 views • 2:52

"So you're gravy once you're locked in."

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months ago • 207 views • 8:33

Near the village of Hanbury is RAF Fauld. Once it was a munitions dump: now it's a crater. Here's why.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 95 views • 4:42

With all of the global warming a new threat has emerged, the release of methane gas, trapped in methane hydrates on ocean floors. It's release is often referred to as the 'methane bomb'. The last time... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 966 views • 8:37

As urban populations continue to rise, innovators are looking beyond traditional farming as a way to feed everyone while having less impact on our land and water resources. Vertical farming is one solution... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months ago • 832 views • 3:38

From YT: North America didn’t always have its familiar shape, nor its famed mountains, canyons, and plains: all of that was once contained in an unrecognizable mass, buried deep in Rodinia, a huge supercontinent... continue reading

Cooking and leaching Black bean to remove the poison making it safe to eat. A basket was made to leach the poison out in a stream. Also shown are Atherton Oak nuts. The Aboriginal artifacts found near... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 299 views • 4:51

YouTube description: Thanks for watching! Sorry the audio is a little off in this video. Currently trying to cut back on my expenses and had to move into a new apartment with shitty acoustics. Patreon: ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 533 views • 3:58

YouTube description: I made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's made from. This is because the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,003 views • 5:31

Salamanders are a major link in the food web, and measured by weight, there can be more salamander biomass than all mammals and birds combined in a forest. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bs or Bsal),... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 years 3 months ago • 112 views • 3:12

Who else misread the title? [missed the word IN!] YouTube: In this week's SciShow News, we discuss two new types of sensors being developed. One tracks the content of certain molecules in your sweat... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 181 views • 5:06

YouTube: In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desert knows:— "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 17 views • 12:03

YouTube: 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 5 months ago • 493 views • 4:02

Uploaded on Oct 19, 2011 I read part of Bradfords diary once and from what I gather a large number of the men would get up in the morning and instead of going to work would go to the communal store... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 189 views • 8:34

Like an actor’s script, a sheet of music instructs a musician on what to play (the pitch) and when to play it (the rhythm). Sheet music may look complicated, but once you've gotten the hang of a few... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 9 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 354 views • 5:24

A bug in Google Chrome allows malicious websites to turn users’ computers into clandestine listening devices, a programmer discovered. Tal Atler, a web developer in Israel, discovered that once you... continue reading

posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 3 months ago • 47 views • 4:06