Fly through a wooden warship from the age of sail. 3D illustration and animation.

posted by BSR 1 year 1 week ago • 21 views • 25:27

Daffy Duck for President is a children's book, published by Warner Bros. and the United States Postal Service in 1997 to coincide with the release of the first Bugs Bunny U.S. postage stamp. The book... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 103 views • 4:32

YouTube description: Check out Otherwords, a new show about language & linguistics! https://youtu.be/d2UccTPnl4w It might surprise you but cephalopods have a pretty good fossil record, with one major... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 384 views • 8:22

https://youtu.be/vfWUorR8D60 Christmas isn’t just a time for presents, cookies, and holiday cheer, but the hunting period of Iceland’s murderous monster feline, the Yule Cat. This giant, fluffy... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 4 months ago • 571 views • 10:04

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 1 week ago • 2,158 views • 5:31

YouTube description In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 521 views • 8:34

YouTube description: Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,290 views • 12:21

YouTube description: Isn't it a problem to handle powerful magnets with iron in our blood? Let's find out! This video was sponsored by https://brilliant.org/Brainiac75/ The D200xH50 mm neodymium... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 684 views • 9:46

"Look in the margins of medieval books and you'll find an unusual theme: knights vs. snails. Vox's Phil Edwards investigated why in this episode of Vox Almanac..."

posted by ant 7 years 3 weeks ago • 86 views • 4:37

YouTube: Long before we had cameras scientists still needed visual documentation—enter the science illustrator!

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 weeks ago • 575 views • 11:50

I 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 1 month ago • 419 views • 11:27

YouTube description: Thought autotune is the only thing used to fix singer's voices? Think again! Pop Theory is a series that explores the secrets and methods of modern pop music. Want to know more... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 845 views • 5:43

"Australian Geographic presents Christmas Island - Part 4: The Red Crab Migration". "Australian Geographic presents the very Best of Australia: Christmas Island. Part 4 illustrates the enormity of Christmas... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 18 views • 4:30

YouTube description: Foraminifera – tiny, single-celled marine life forms – build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet. Special thanks to Professor Lee Kump of Penn... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 489 views • 2:51

***Contains spoilers about the show, you have been warned.***

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 594 views • 6:46

YouTube description: Bill reveals the stunning engineering underlying the design of a diaper. He describes the five layers of a diaper, including the superabsorbent polymer in the diaper's core. He... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 337 views • 6:34

YouTube 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) 7 years 11 months ago • 483 views • 3:49

From YT: On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.

posted by RFlagg 8 years 7 months 1 week ago • 2,598 views • 7:07

A beautifully produced video in which we follow John, a motor protein, who has to transport his package to the right destination in the nerve cell, illustrating the relevance and mechanisms of proper intracellular... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 8 years 12 months ago • 447 views • 5:14

"For SIGBOVIK 2015 I did this little hack to produce a portmanteau (that's a jammin' together of two words, like caviar + armpit = caviarmpit) of all 100,000+ words in English. This video is a little illustrated... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 9 years 3 weeks ago • 141 views • 8:56