YouTube description: In a dusty, crowded shop in Milan, Italy, artist Osvaldo Menegazzi toils, as he has for decades, designing intricate decks of tarot cards. Every card a handmade work of art, Mengazzi... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 weeks ago • 304 views • 2:11

YouTube description: Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 weeks ago • 458 views • 7:42

YouTube: Deep in the forests of New Guinea there is a rich variety of life, each more bizarre than the last. One such spectacle is the male Bird of Paradise who appears to go to extraordinary lengths to... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 245 views • 3:24

After trying to blow up a watermelon with a smaller capacitor, my friend coyt brought over 4 capacitors rated at 20kv and 25uf each. They came from a lab that used to them to simulate the effects of lightning... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 400 views • 6:09

YouTube description: Meet Professor Jamie Seymour, he milks stuff. But nothing that moos, has hooves, wool or fur. He prefers to live life on the edge, milking the venom from the most venomous animals... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 176 views • 4:26

YouTube description: Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes — from a childhood... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months ago • 155 views • 13:08

YouTube description: Originally built by the Incas, the manmade salt pans in Maras, Peru, have endured for over 500 years. Beneath the Qaqawiñay mountains runs a salty fresh spring, which empties into... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,534 views • 1:20

For a few months each winter, Harbin, China, turns into a fantastical "city of ice." From January 5 through February 25, this chilly provincial capital plays host to the Harbin International Ice and Snow... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 3 months ago • 431 views • 2:53

YouTube description: What if you had to grow 20 pounds of bone on your forehead each year just to find a mate? In a bloody, itchy process, males of the deer family grow a new set of antlers every year,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 318 views • 3:46

for Workers, Employers, and Pretty Much Everybody YouTube: Maybe the person working near you, the one who dragged himself to work and is now coughing and sneezing, couldn’t afford to stay home. Each... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months ago • 521 views • 5:25

Today we have our rivalry on the football field, but two centuries ago that rivalry was almost on the battlefield, and it was all over, Toledo? Yes, this was the Toledo War, a series of skirmishes over... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 13 views • 6:50

The killer punch of the mantis shrimp is the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, a skill that goes hand in hand with its extraordinary eyesight. They can see an invisible level of reality using polarized... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 36 views • 4:00

YouTube: Each year, we try to fight flu season with the influenza vaccine and this year is no different. But why is there a flu season at all and how do we fight it?

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 124 views • 4:45

I built a prawn trap from lawyer cane, sticks and vine. Then I caught some prawns and ate them. Prawn (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquatic life due to their shape. It consists... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months ago • 257 views • 7:16

YouTube description: Pit stops have been a part of motor racing since the very early days. Together with our friends at GoPro we go right into the thick of the action of a F1 pit stop. 18 Team members,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 6 months ago • 301 views • 2:16

"The four-day post-apocalyptic party in California’s Mojave desert began in 2010 and has seen steady growth each year. While it embraces many influences (video games like Fallout, films like Book Of... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 117 views • 5:30

YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 811 views • 14:23

Each rod takes about 2 weeks to complete and sells for ~$2000-2500 AUD.

posted by nock 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 254 views

All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before, but it is very difficult to imagine how certain countries and parts of the world compare to each other in size that are far apart. In... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,620 views • 6:20

I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,388 views • 4:32