Always thought it was weird that America switches the traditions red=left, blue=right colour scheme.

posted by ChaosEngine 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 466 views • 5:53

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 7 months 4 weeks ago • 446 views • 2:52

YouTube description: Make a beautiful colour changing liquid from cabbage juice, and explore the science of indicator solutions in this fun chemistry experiment for children. Download the infosheet... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 1 month 1 week ago • 22 views • 3:56

YouTube description: Teach children how to find the beautiful hidden colours in ink and use chromatography to solve mysteries. For info sheets and printable badges, click here: http://rigb.org/experimental/series-2/c... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 276 views • 3:58

In this documentary we illustrate the brightly coloured and social affairs that bring the 'Sapeurs' together. Their bold choice to live an unexpected lifestyle is a source of celebrated originality and... continue reading

posted by randeepsamra 9 years 11 months ago • 32 views • 5:07

Via Open Culture: Not long ago we posted the only known recording of Sigmund Freud’s voice. Today we present rare home movies of the founder of modern psychology, captured during the last decade of his life. ... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 4 months 3 weeks ago • 133 views • 2:03

Schoolteacher Jane Elliott quickly gets her students to discriminate and start hating each other based on the most meaningless of factors. She started doing this in 1968 after Martin Luther King Jr.'s... continue reading

posted by messenger 1 decade 10 months ago • 511 views • 14:37

I would never have guessed...

posted by grinter 1 decade 11 months 1 week ago • 1,888 views • 1:57

From YouTube: With hundreds of unique dialects of English, there's a reason we have our own dictionary. Have you ever popped a button or loosened your belt after a big meal? That's stogged. Chris explains... continue reading

posted by lullaby_lune 1 decade 11 months 4 weeks ago • 219 views • 59 secs

"Why is the sky blue? It's a question that you'd think kids have been asking for thousands of years, but it might not be that old at all. The ancient Greek poet Homer never used a word for blue in The... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 47 views • 2:52

YouTube Description: Light is so common that we rarely think about what it really is. But just over two hundred years ago, a groundbreaking experiment answered the question that had occupied physicists... continue reading

posted by aaronfr 1 decade 1 year 2 months ago • 1,437 views • 7:40

How is it that we can see so many different colors if our eyes can only detect red, green and blue?

posted by thegrimsleeper 1 decade 1 year 2 months ago • 716 views • 5:14