Prisons are a very dangerous place. And since prisoners have a lot of free time they come up with different ways to hurt their cellmates or parole officers. The weapons we are gonna show you in this video... continue reading
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YouTube description: View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-super-glue-was-invented-moments-of-vision-8-jessica-oreck Today, super glue is a nearly indispensable household item — but its... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 362 views • 1:54I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 1,388 views • 4:32YT: Victor Gruen is, according to history, the man who invented the shopping mall... but that wasn't quite what he was aiming for. And it seemed like an appropriate day to do a video about suburban sprawl.
posted by Fantomas 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 575 views • 2:26YouTube description: Brady and Keith investigate the true pioneers of the incandescent light bulb. Films by James Hennessy and Brady Haran Royal Society website: http://bit.ly/Royal_Society ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months ago • 180 views • 5:33YouTube: Celsius never devised nor used the scale that now bears his name.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 210 views • 8:12YouTube description: View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-transistors-work-gokul-j-krishnan Modern computers are revolutionizing our lives, performing tasks unimaginable only decades ago.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,489 views • 4:54Published on Mar 11, 2012 Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean,... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 12 months ago • 475 views • 4:47YouTube description: Some times a mishearing leads to the birth of a word. Here are some words we invented by getting them wrong. Produced for Mental Floss.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years ago • 774 views • 2:40YouTube description: Remember the childhood hours of fun spent blasting your friends with neon-tinged water cannons? You can thank a NASA scientist for that. In 1982, Lonnie Johnson designed the Super... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 weeks ago • 504 views • 2:31"... an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet..." From http://educatedearth.net/video.php?id=4569 ...
posted by ant 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 25 views • 8:10YouTube Description: What has the highest melting point known to us? Hank Green explains in this episode of SciShow. This episode is brought to you by Audible. Go to Audible.com/SciShow for a free 30-day trail. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 524 views • 5:26"Inventions help humans overcome our shortcomings."
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months ago • 63 views • 11:31"From the axe, which originated in 1,000,000 BC, to today's killer drones, mankind's use of weapons has been varied and incredibly inventive." -- The Atlantic
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 8 years 11 months 1 week ago • 345 views • 2:18YouTube 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 4 months ago • 1,569 views • 8:30YouTube Description: How can we reach the end of the universe just by folding a piece of paper? And how one very wise guy used the power of exponential growth to earn big bucks for his invention?!... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 9 years 9 months 1 week ago • 268 views • 2:35YouTube Description: BBC Documentary on ancient mechanical clocks and their inventions.
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 5 months 2 weeks ago • 342 views • 59:17What do Game of Thrones’ Dothraki, Avatar’s Na’vi, Star Trek’s Klingon and LOTR’s Elvish have in common? They are all fantasy constructed languages, or conlangs. Conlangs have all the delicious... continue reading
posted by randeepsamra 1 decade 6 months 3 weeks ago • 214 views • 5:21Ancient Chinese ingenuity that improved life for mankind
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