YouTube description: Built from the discarded fuel tanks of WWII fighter planes, "belly tankers" are miniature speed demons and a major part of hot rod culture. For more, check out: https://www.petersen.org/1952-... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 month ago • 612 views • 3:48

YT: Two: the inside and the outside (badum tshh)! But taking a more scientific approach, do bananas actually have 5 sides like all the pub quizzes say? Dr Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist... continue reading

posted by Zawash 1 month 2 weeks ago • 21 views • 10:07

YouTube description: Ruben Orozco Loza is an artist from Guadalajara, Mexico. He is a self-taught sculptor. He creates sculptures of celebrities and everyday people using modeling clay, silicone, resin,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,417 views • 3:06

YouTube description: The Great Blue Hole is a massive underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. In the winter of 2018, a submarine crew from Aquatica Submarines ventured to the bottom of the hole... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,547 views • 3:38

YouTube description: A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it. When you place two (or two halves)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months ago • 688 views • 8:16

YouTube description: A recent study has concluded that people all over the world are probably ingesting microscopic plastic all the time. Now scientists want to know where this plastic is coming from,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 1 week ago • 344 views • 5:06

YouTube description: As a little girl, Basma Hameed suffered a painful accident that left half of her face obscured by third-degree burns. She endured hundreds of surgeries and laser treatments to repair... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 3 weeks ago • 467 views • 3:32

YouTube description: Babies and young kids are cast in movies just like adult actors, but there are special rules in place about how long they can be on set. Oftentimes, a director wants a baby to cry... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 4 weeks ago • 1,091 views • 4:11

YouTube description: What would it be like if our eyes could see more colors? We may never be able to answer that, but we can build devices that can do the work for us. Over the last three weeks we've... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 months 2 weeks ago • 377 views • 9:29

YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months 1 week ago • 483 views • 6:19

From youtube: UV at ground level is non-ionizing but it damages DNA and causes photoaging - how? Also, it turns out glass doesn't block all UV (specifically UVA passes through). This is something I learned... continue reading

posted by nanrod 7 months 3 weeks ago • 362 views • 4:46

So unshelled Brazil nuts are actually seeds found inside a larger fruit that looks like a cannonball. Learn something new everyday.

posted by nanrod 8 months ago • 382 views • 11:08

This animated map created from the NOAA, NWS, and PTWC shows every recorded earthquake in chronological order from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2015. The size of the circle shows the magnitude of the... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 8 months 3 weeks ago • 859 views • 3:43

YouTube 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) 11 months 1 week ago • 247 views • 3:12

"What goes on inside that cremation machine? ..."

posted by ant 1 year 1 week ago • 61 views • 6:43

Police in West Midlands, UK have released footage of criminals stealing a car by relaying a signal from the key inside the home, to the car in the driveway. Source: CNNMoney I've always wondered... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 1 year 2 weeks ago • 953 views • 1:30

YouTube description: This is Barsha Pump, it's a new water pump created by aQysta. "Barsha" means rain in Nepalese and the pumps are being made available across Nepal, Indonesia, Zambia and 9 other countries. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 728 views • 3:19

(H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 506 views • 5:53

YT: I built an A frame hut as a large work space for projects. First I made a celt hatchet to cut timber for the hut. The axe head was made of amphibolite and the handle was made of a species of wattle.... continue reading

posted by nanrod 1 year 3 months ago • 515 views • 9:05