YouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading
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posted by bjornenlinda 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 19 views • 3:50YouTube description: Kittie Weston-Knauer loves a challenge, so best not get in her way. She started BMX racing at 40 years old, initially competing against men and later working with the sport’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 150 views • 3:20YouTube description: Hi there! I'm (finally!) back with a new video explaining what is swing, a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. The amazing... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 464 views • 2:01YouTube description: Ross MacDonald makes his paper by making paper. For the last 25 years, he’s created tens of thousands of paper props for movies and television shows like “Baby’s Day Out,”... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 2,158 views • 5:31YouTube description: Inventor Manu Prakash thinks you can’t understand Earth’s big problems without looking at the (really) tiny things. So he created Foldscope: an origami microscope that brings... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 138 views • 2:56H/T @eric3579
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 636 views • 10:30YouTube description: Canned fish has been around for over a century and has been enjoyed around world. Still, no one loves their fish more than Portugal, where old traditions of fishing, canning and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 449 views • 3:30YouTube description: Jide Ipaye loves sneakers. Growing up, he had a hard time finding cool ones in his size, so he learned to make his own. But why keep a good thing to yourself? His Keexs line, with... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 2:28YouTube description: While steel reinforcement solves one of concrete’s greatest limitations, it creates an entirely new problem: Corrosion of embedded steel rebar is the most common form of concrete... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 251 views • 7:49This animated map created from the NOAA, NWS, and PTWC shows every recorded earthquake in chronological order from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2015. The size of the circle shows the magnitude of the... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 875 views • 3:43YouTube 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 11 months ago • 339 views • 3:13YouTube description: Ferrofluid is a bizarre, NASA-engineered material that was created for spaceships but never used. In this “lab practical” video, we’ll put ferrofluid through its paces, and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months ago • 674 views • 4:26YouTube description: Huttese, Klingon, Dothraki—it’s all Greek to me. Just a bunch of sounds. Right? Not if you listen closely. Some of these constructed languages, or “conlangs,” pass as real... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 551 views • 4:32A Worland Fire Protection Unit captures an incredible and surreal video showing a sulfur-mound fire with fire tornadoes caused by burning sulfur and sulfur dioxide in Worland, Wyoming. The burning... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,431 views • 1:03YouTube description: It’s an 1980s pop music cliche that dates back to 1910. If you listen to the first few seconds of Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” (hint: listen to the Cardi B remix) you’ll hear... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 12 months ago • 594 views • 9:26Concrete's greatest weakness is its tensile strength, which can be less than 10% of its compressive strength. So, we often reinforce it to create a composite material strong against all types of stress.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 week ago • 362 views • 8:11Powerhouse Museum – Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Australia has created an incredible interactive area for kids, including giant wall screens that display scanned drawings made by the children... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month ago • 346 views • 1:36At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 406 views • 7:08