Police in Franklington La tried to falsify accident reports to cover for a fellow officer that was drunk and had driven into oncoming lanes. The cops truck was found on the wrong side of the road surrounded... continue reading
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A man tries hard to fill his Tesla with gas.
posted by newtboy 3 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 768 views • 1:41The stereotypical modern playground — with its bright colors and rubberized flooring — is designed to be clean, safe, and lawsuit-proof. But that isn't necessarily the best design for kids. US playground... continue reading
posted by BSR 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 112 views • 5:44Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 1 week ago • 877 views • 3:16One key ingredient in the cuisine of Puglia is cheese, and there is a great variety to choose from. One cheese that stands out from the crowd is Burrata, a cheese created only about 50 years ago.
posted by Mordhaus 4 years 9 months ago • 16 views • 3:13YouTube description: Dig in to the history of the Roman Empire’s staged gladiatorial naval battles and how they flooded the Colosseum to reenact famous battles. Starting in 80 CE, residents of... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months ago • 428 views • 4:20Making a pattern to fill in a window opening can be a trial and error proposition - but it doesn't have to be that way!
posted by BSR 5 years 1 month ago • 99 views • 7:31YouTube description: Researchers from NVIDIA, led by Guilin Liu, introduced a state-of-the-art deep learning method that can edit images or reconstruct a corrupted image, one that has holes or is missing... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 909 views • 2:15(H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,785 views • 47 secsYouTube description: Hold on tight, because with a stabilised camera shot and a pair of sunglasses, you're about to see a video that works in both 2D and 3D at the same time. The technique's called... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months ago • 1,804 views • 3:31I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 5 months ago • 454 views • 5:46There’s a saying in the sea, 'If it’s a cone, leave it alone'. Although they look pretty harmless cone nails are pretty deadly. They're a chemical making factory that travels around an a giant sticky... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 5 months ago • 790 views • 3:48Welcome to the US National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, Colorado, where there's a giant freezer filled with 20km of ice cores from Greenland and the Antarctic. Here's why.
posted by Mekanikal 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,213 views • 3:33The Krabby Patty is a thing of pop culture culinary legend - a burger, forged from a secret formula, worshipped by a sociopathically upbeat sponge. How do we go about recreating that which is not reacreate-able?... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months ago • 30 viewsOn the Indonesian island of Java, men mine sulphur from inside Ljen Volcano. It's crater is filled with a mix of highly toxic gases, that have claimed the lives of over 70 miners in the last 40 years.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months ago • 24 views • 2:52I built a water powered hammer called a “Monjolo”. I started by making a water spout from half a hollow log to direct water from the creek. This was set up in the creek and water flowed through it.... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 6 years 11 months ago • 1,216 views • 8:51I built this pottery kiln and some pottery from termite mound clay to test an alternative clay source to my usual one from the creek bank. I started by making a large grate from ordinary clay. It was just... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years ago • 419 views • 11:27I 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 8 months ago • 1,388 views • 4:32YouTube description: Ever wondered what those huge numbers are at the end of runways? We explain! In everything decoded Atlas Obscura tries to explain the simple yet mysterious codes that fill our... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 491 views • 1:17YouTube description: There is extreme fishing and then is going to such extremes that you have a rod and a worm-like lure fused to your face. Quite frankly it's the type of commitment we admire. Meet... continue reading
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