The Smithsonian Natural History Museum houses 147 million specimens — everything from pickled animals to priceless gems to dinosaur bones. But less than 1% of it's on display. The rest is hidden behind... continue reading

posted by eric3579 4 days 15 hours 14 minutes ago • 55 views • 12:15

"School is back in session with temperamental substitute teachers, self-aware schoolbullies, and a lesson about consequences..."

posted by ant 9 months ago • 4 views • 22:30

After women complain about a biological man walking around naked in the women's locker room, the employees say the person is transgender and there's nothing they can do about it.

posted by bobknight33 10 months 2 weeks ago • 937 views • 3:45

"There's a scientific reason behind your 'second stomach.' ... How is it that, after stuffing ourselves full at dinner, we somehow find room to eat again once dessert comes around? Turns out, the thing... continue reading

posted by ant 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 232 views • 4:15

YT: I built an A frame hut as a large work space for projects. First I made a celt hatchet to cut timber for the hut. The axe head was made of amphibolite and the handle was made of a species of wattle.... continue reading

posted by nanrod 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 518 views • 9:05

The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25 to 40 percent forest. Within a few centuries, almost all... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 800 views • 5:22

and how this led to the invention of the Vibrator...

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 29 views • 10:06

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 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,039 views • 2:18

Humans emit roughly 30 to 40 billion tons of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere each year. If we keep it up, Earth will continue to heat up and ultimately devastate our way of life. ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 106 views • 2:18

Three hundred and sixty degrees, of seven hundred clowns, all in one small room. Use the arrows in the upper left to look around. Turn on CC for bonus information.

posted by newtboy 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 15 views • 2:07

As your country's top spy, you must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil syndicate, find the secret control panel, and deactivate their death ray. But your reconnaissance team is spotty, and you have... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 11 months ago • 279 views • 4:01

YouTube: An ISS resupply mission is launching today and the space station should have a new inflatable room to experiment with!

posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 17 views • 4:05

"Cool as a Cucumber" as David goes off to do the Public presentation in the Defense of his Math Thesis at Stanford University. When he finished, he walked out of that room with his Doctorate in Mathematics.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 34 views • 2:27

YT "In case you were thinking about using the hotel safe to store your valuables, you might want to think again. In this video Jim Stickley shows you just how easy it is to open a locked hotel safe." ... continue reading

posted by blackfox42 6 years 8 months ago • 63 views • 3:42

YT-I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,689 views • 14:09

YouTube Description: music by http://www.youtube.com/Jakechudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com brusspup anamorphic illusions: [See YouTube description] ANOMALOUS MOTION by Akiyoshi Kitaoka:... continue reading

posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,595 views • 10:48

Inspired by the writings of William S. Burroughs, Anthony Bourdain travels to Tangier in his quest to learn how Majoun is made. On entering the Cafe Baba, "It smells like my dorm room in 1972."

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years ago • 559 views • 8:09

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 9 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,432 views • 7:40