Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading
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Thanks to Visually (http://Visual.ly) for facilitating the creation of this video, to http://youtube.com/kurzgesagt for the animation, and to The Prison Policy Initiative for research help and fact checking.... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 month ago • 1,435 views • 3:41Via 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 5 months 1 week ago • 133 views • 2:03"To be a great artist, one must be ready to fail," is just some of the advice offered up by performance artist, Marina Abramović in this recent interview. This idea of failure echoes Samuel Beckett... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 6 months 2 weeks ago • 456 views • 8:46(Description via YouTube) Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we... continue reading
posted by Procrastinatron 1 decade 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,300 views • 21:47Please excuse any mistakes in the translation. Neither of the languages is my native one. :) "In China you don't have letters when writing. Instead you use characters, and each character is a word.... continue reading
posted by WaterDweller 1 decade 10 months ago • 173 views • 2:00The World's smallest true monkey, the Pygmy Marmoset, averages in at 3.5 ounces and 5 inches in height (sans tail). I do not have stats at this time for the pasta.
posted by Mordhaus 1 decade 11 months 3 weeks ago • 2,216 views • 39 secsNote to self: Do NOT thumbs up in Iran or throw Metal horns in Spain.
posted by Mordhaus 1 decade 11 months 3 weeks ago • 556 views • 1:13"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 3 weeks ago • 47 views • 2:52YouTube Description: What would you see if you were drifting through space, looking back at the sun? Well its light intensity would decrease as the inverse square of distance from the sun. And you would... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 2 months ago • 569 views • 3:06YouTube Description: Forget turducken... I'm stuffing my turkey with two ducks, stuffed with four hens, stuffed with eight quail eggs. Honestly, I do not recommend trying this yourself.So what's your... continue reading
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