Before NOVA begins its construction, the Rainbow Bridge only exists in a 900-year-old painting that shows the bustling capital city of Kaifeng. Another NOVA ancient construction episode, again narrated... continue reading
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Before NOVA begins its construction, the Rainbow Bridge only exists in a 900-year-old painting that shows the bustling capital city of Kaifeng. Another NOVA ancient construction episode, again narrated... continue reading
posted by newtboyZefrank looks at Army Ants and the beetles that co-exist with them. From Youtube, "Where to buy the Army Ants Book: https://amzn.com/067424155X True Facts Shirts: https://ze-true-store.myshopify.com/ ... continue reading
posted by w1ndexhttps://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading
posted by eric3579YouTube description: A decade ago, engineers found the Humber Bridge had the same problem as many of the world's suspension bridges: unexpectedly fast corrosion. Here's how they fixed it, and how they're... continue reading
posted by Aard VarkYouTube description: Thanks to all the Dunedin Railways team! You can find out more about them here: https://www.dunedinrailways.co.nz/ Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) I'm at http://tomscott.com ... continue reading
posted by Aard VarkYouTube description: Wind can be one of the most critical and complicated loads on civil structures. The case of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a well-known cautionary tale that’s discussed in engineering... continue reading
posted by Aard VarkYouTube description: Frances Glessner Lee created dollhouses with dead dolls. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why. Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained... continue reading
posted by Aard VarkYouTube: "All audible musical sound is given us for the sake of harmony, which has motions akin to the orbits in our soul, and which, as anyone who makes intelligent use of the arts knows, is not to be... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePalsYouTube: Things can go wrong in scientific experiments sometimes, but when it comes to engineering, getting things wrong can be disastrous.
posted by PlayhousePalsEvery year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inca engineering techniques to rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge. The old bridge is taken down and the new bridge... continue reading
posted by MordhausTaking that internship in a remote mountain lab might not have been the best idea. Pulling that lever with the skull symbol just to see what it did probably wasn’t so smart either. But now is not the... continue reading
posted by MordhausWhere Dylan of Atlas Obscura tells you about his favorite places on the planet! Credits for this episode: https://www.flickr.com/photos/5388826... https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandro_... https://www.flickr.com/p... continue reading
posted by newtboyThere are only a few transporter bridges still working in the world. What are they for? Why weren't there more of them? And why don't we build them any more? -yt
posted by eric3579"Since the 1960s, developmental psychologists point to the 'Visual Cliff'—an experiment that plops babies on a fake precipice—as proof that infants learn to fear heights as they learn to crawl. Yet,... continue reading
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