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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YouTube 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 3 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 3 weeks ago • 138 views • 2:56YouTube description: At 30-years-old, Yu Kikuchi was tired of his job. Working in an assembly line that made turbines, he was aching to find a new lease on life. So when he heard about 80-year-old master... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 303 views • 2:46Wrongfully Jailed For Rape As A Teen, He Now Helps Others Falsely Convicted | Megyn Kelly TODAY
posted by bobknight33 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 143 views • 13:33YouTube 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 1 week ago • 72 views • 2:28Tom Scott tells part 2 of the entertaining story about what he learned on internet marketing, part 1 here: https://videosift.com/video/HOW-TO-BE-POPULAR-ON-THE-INTERNET-S1-E1 and part 3: https://videosift.com/vid... continue reading
posted by rbar 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 187 views • 8:28Here's a fast method to find the center of boards and other objects without using a tape measure or figuring math! In 2 minutes you'll learn how to use a speed square or combination square (VERY common... continue reading
posted by BSR 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 26 views • 2:27"Brexit Britain is fed up with experts. These days we only listen to the bloke down the pub. So in this controlled experiment, we put three experts in a pub and recorded the results for your viewing pleasure. ... continue reading
posted by radx 5 years 9 months ago • 72 views • 58:34YouTube description: We go hands-on with The Looking Glass, the new display from a company that's been experimenting with various forms of volumetric and lightfield imaging in pursuit of real-world... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 639 views • 13:07YouTube 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 10 months 4 weeks ago • 339 views • 3:13Sir Patrick Stewart was an integral part of Fox’s X-Men franchise for 17 years as Professor Charles Xavier, but he announced earlier this year he’d be stepping down from the role, after deeming Logan... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 465 views • 4:09In the mid-aughts, the police sergeant Ronald Watts knew how to exploit the lawlessness of the Ida B. Wells Homes. The Exoneration Project believes that he and his officers wrongly arrested hundreds of people.
posted by newtboy 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 930 views • 7:06YouTube description: He was inside Jabba the Hut in “Return of the Jedi,” helped make “The Muppets” come alive and has been pulling the strings on Yoda since he was 19 years old. Meet Dave Barclay,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 285 views • 3:12YouTube description: Chi-Tien Lui is an electrical engineer and technician whose craft has evolved to the realm of high art. Born in China, he trained as a technician in Taiwan before moving to the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 week ago • 1,047 views • 4:22Unless you are Dave Grohl, he doesn't need to breathe
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 weeks ago • 942 views • 5:51Coined 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 1 month ago • 19 views • 5:38'A Quiet Place' director and star John Krasinski takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the internet's most searched questions about himself. Does John Krasinski play basketball? Is he married... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month ago • 22 views • 6:10How to DAD creator Jordan Watson takes a break from explaining how to Dad to explain the difference between Australia and New Zealand. This is part 2, but he should have called it version 2 because it's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 420 views • 4:26YouTube description: Featuring Tadashi Tokieda - more Tadashi videos at: http://bit.ly/tadashi_vids Tadashi Tokieda is a Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University (though this was filmed when... continue reading
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