As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA — and... continue reading
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Stupid brain ... YouTube: Scientists think that evolution may not have prepared our brains for donuts, and an international research team has found out that some of earth’s oldest, largest trees are... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 12 months ago • 436 views • 5:59Coined in 1990 by author and attorney Mike Godwin, Godwin’s Law was originally, to quote Godwin “a project in memetic engineering”, partially inspired by a 1980s article he read in Whole Earth Review... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months ago • 19 views • 5:38"COSMOS is back with an all-new season! FOX and National Geographic TV’s Emmy-award winning event series returns with host Neil deGrasse Tyson in Spring 2019. The new season, COSMOS: Possible Worlds,... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 24 views • 21 secsOn the morning of July 7, 1944, Captain Ben L. Salomon of the U.S. Army’s 105th Infantry, commissioned as a dentist, single-handedly held off a fierce attack of an overwhelming force of Japanese soldiers... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 44 views • 6:24I 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 7 months 2 weeks 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 7 months 2 weeks ago • 790 views • 3:48‘I was stunned when the pieces started falling into place,’ recalls specialist Howard Dixon of the moment an unassuming folio of photographs was presented to him in a restaurant in Texas earlier this year. ... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,174 views • 3:34YouTube: Go see if Eons is for you: http://www.youtube.com/eons Other cool things about Trilobites People have been collecting them for at least tens of thousands of years, as they've been found in... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 103 views • 3:39Miss Info investigates how the Jamaican beef patty became a NYC icon. As the flaky meat turnover has infiltrated all aspects of city life—found in mom-and-pop bakeries, bodegas, pizza shops, and even... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 weeks ago • 258 views • 12:06The Lahti L-39 is a Finnish 20 mm anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It had excellent accuracy, penetration and range, but its size made transportation difficult. It was nicknamed "Norsupyssy"... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 weeks ago • 141 views • 10:14YouTube description: In March 1974, Chinese farmers digging a well unearthed the greatest archaeological find of the century - the buried Terracotta Army. After coming across a life-sized human head... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 634 viewsI 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 2 months 2 weeks ago • 419 views • 11:27We love wood here at The Slingshot Channel. It is our most important raw material by a great margin. When we found this 20" piece of European Dogwood (Cornus Sanguinea) while cleaning up the shed, we immediately... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 203 views • 13:07The Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit (Black Mamba APU) is a mostly female ranger unit founded with the purpose of protecting wildlife in South Africa. They are on the front-line protecting dwindling numbers... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 89 views • 2:35YouTube description: Have ever wondered how digital illustrations are made? This video explains the basics. Help us keep making videos by supporting us in https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth We try... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 week ago • 483 views • 3:49Learnfun and Playfun are software written to automate the playing of Nintendo games, with no game-specific options, only deriving objective functions by reading memory values. In this series the author... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 9 years 5 months ago • 65 views • 25:35YouTube Description: In 1991, Cuba's economy began to implode. "The Special Period in the Time of Peace" was the government's euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,569 views • 8:30A longer version of the sixtysymbols film about an atomic toggle switch, found here: http://videosift.com/video/Sixty-Symbols-Atomic-Switch-moving-individual-atoms
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