About 10 years ago, the news was packed with reports about something called colony collapse disorder — a mysterious phenomenon that involved the disappearance of enormous numbers of bees. Then, the news... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 522 views • 3:30Videos (149) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube 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 • 6:19Computer-generated videos are getting more realistic and even harder to detect thanks to deep learning and artificial intelligence. As WSJ’s Jason Bellini finds in this episode of Moving Upstream, these... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 33 viewsYouTube description: At 30-years-old, Yu Kikuchi was tired of his job. Working in an assembly line that made turbines, he was aching to find a new lease on life. So when he heard about 80-year-old master... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 303 views • 2:46YouTube description: One of the most dynamic, transformative, and potentially dangerous features in North America is also responsible for some of the continent’s most amazing fossil deposits. It’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 271 views • 9:39YouTube 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 9 months 3 weeks ago • 674 views • 3:59YouTube 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 10 months 3 weeks ago • 339 views • 3:13YouTube description: How do you cool a building without air conditioning? Using an approach called biomimicry, see how architect Mick Pearce harnessed the ingenuity of termites to design a natural cooling... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 583 views • 3:42In this video we show a way to remove rusted bolts and fasteners from a flat head ford V8 with a cool tool that we purchased. Its called the Mini-Ductor by Venom. We haven't had this tool very long but... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 39 views • 2:38In 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 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 46 views • 4:30"Pill bugs. Doodle bugs. Potato bugs. Wood Shrimp. Whatever you call them, there’s something less creepy about these critters than other insects. Maybe it’s because they’re not insects at all..." ... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years ago • 519 views • 3:30Apparently it's from a Canadian show called Mr. D.
posted by moonsammy 6 years ago • 1,387 views • 1:40YouTube description: Let's find out how they put 3D images into glass objects. Known as a 'Bubblegram', vitrography or sub-surface laser engraving, this technology has been around for a very long time... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 weeks ago • 308 views • 6:28They called it that because it lasted 9 years.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 113 views • 10:40How to DAD creator Jordan Watson takes a break from explaining how to Dad to explain the difference between Australia and New Zealand. This is part 2, but he should have called it version 2 because it's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 420 views • 4:26I'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 1 month 4 weeks ago • 1,223 views • 3:54No one signed up to read to Sting, so the library put out a call for 4-8 year olds. Now he's booked solid, so I gotta ask, Sting....why the long face?
posted by newtboy 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 278 views • 1:41YT - Everyday Astronaut Published on Jan 24, 2018 It’s ALIVE!!!!! For the very first time, the Falcon Heavy has successfully lit all 27 of its mighty Merlin engines in preparation for its maiden launch.... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 175 views • 8:38YouTube description: Hold on tight, because with a stabilised camera shot and a pair of sunglasses, you're about to see a video that works in both 2D and 3D at the same time. The technique's called... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,804 views • 3:31YouTube description: With Dr Holly Krieger from Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. More Numberphile videos with Dr Krieger: http://bit.ly/HollyKrieger Her Twitter: https://twitter.com/hollykrieger ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months ago • 243 views