The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers co-ordinated through... continue reading
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YouTube description: It’s an 1980s pop music cliche that dates back to 1910. If you listen to the first few seconds of Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” (hint: listen to the Cardi B remix) you’ll hear... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 594 views • 9:26YouTube description: In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 725 views • 3:34"... Ever since Macauley Culkin smashed his hands against his face and screamed, audiences have loved the film HOME ALONE. It has become a Christmas classic; played along side other holiday pictures that... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 10 months ago • 25 views • 14:01YouTube description: The fade out is underrated. It should come back. The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today's hits it's much... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 weeks ago • 494 views • 7:42YouTube description: At the University of Manchester's High Voltage Laboratory, we see what happens when a DJI Phantom 3 drone gets hit with an electrical impulse of 1.4MV - basically, a lightning strike.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 339 views • 5:31It takes less acceleration to get to other stars than our own sun. Crazy, huh?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,866 views • 3:13Damn! I didn't learn this essential Life Lesson until halfway through Architecture School in University. That lesson hit me hard and I cursed that I wasted so much time and effort beforehand. Just do... continue reading
posted by oblio70 8 years 1 week ago • 1,973 views • 3:48YouTube description: The song “American Woman” by The Guess Who wasn't ever supposed to happen. It wasn't planned, staged or pre-meditated. Yet you all know the iconic riff. Sometimes all it takes... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,835 views • 3:02There are cosmic snipers firing at random into the unvierse. What are they and what happens if they hit us?
posted by Mordhaus 8 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 316 views • 7:14YouTube description: How to write a hit...
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 592 views • 2:26Love these cat behaviorist advice videos from Simon. Really hit the mark. YouTube: IN OR OUT? - WHY ARE CATS SO INDECISIVE? Simon’s Cat Logic is a fun new series where we speak to a Cat Behaviour... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 646 views • 7:01"Do you even know what superdelegates are?" YouTube: Shadowy, unaccountable threats to the democratic process or, you know, kind of the opposite?
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 405 views • 6:08Triton is an underwater breathing apparatus that looks from a James Bond or Star Wars movie. Problem is - it cannot possibly work. Massive debunkage in the video. YT: So over the last couple of weeks... continue reading
posted by Zawash 8 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 234 views • 17:43YouTube description: We've reached peak lens flare. Vox's Phil Edwards explains how it happened. Lens flare: it's familiar from the very shiny work of J.J. Abrams, but it goes far beyond his flare-strewn... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 6 months ago • 987 views • 4:25"You can't think and hit at the same time." Yogi Berra
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 762 views • 6:51YouTube Description: Grammy-awarded musician, producer and self-proclaimed "musical genius" Chilly Gonzales has worked with the likes of Daft Punk, Drake, Feist or Peaches. Now German radio station... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 558 views • 4:33YT: Ever wonder who controls the inner workings of the Internet? Like what happens after you type in a URL and hit enter, or who assigns IP addresses? A father of the Internet is here to explain.
posted by mintbbb 1 decade 2 months ago • 176 views • 2:41Like an actor’s script, a sheet of music instructs a musician on what to play (the pitch) and when to play it (the rhythm). Sheet music may look complicated, but once you've gotten the hang of a few... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 decade 3 months 1 week ago • 354 views • 5:24