"It’s more than just dancing around. ... If you’ve ever seen an orchestra perform you’ve probably had a difficult time looking away from the person dead center on the stage – the conductor. It’s... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 16 views • 4:42

In the last few years, wildfires have been getting worse - and, oddly, it's because humans have been preventing them. From a helicopter above the forests of British Columbia, and from the Tree Ring Lab... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 125 views • 3:46

YouTube description: Brian from Real Engineering also just released a related video on the Physics of Racing Games which you should watch once you're done with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz8RRxYwrhg ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months ago • 1,124 views • 9:14

In the far north of Canada sit the DEW Line stations: "Distant Early Warning". Built in the 1950s, these were the sites that would have sounded the alarm if the Soviet Union ever attacked North America.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 22 views • 2:59

Everyone holds in their pee every now and then. And that's okay! Just don't do it too often, or it could lead to some serious problems down the road.

posted by BSR 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 70 views • 3:05

"Gross and mean!" YouTube: If gulls just stole some of your chips while you were out trying to enjoy your lunch, you should feel lucky, because one species has recently developed a taste for live mammal... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 5 months ago • 43 views • 4:08

YouTube description: Huttese, Klingon, Dothraki—it’s all Greek to me. Just a bunch of sounds. Right? Not if you listen closely. Some of these constructed languages, or “conlangs,” pass as real... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 551 views • 4:32

"We've all seen TV snow. Whether because the TV is detuned, or just because we're trying to tune our Mega Drive into a new channel. But why, on a colour TV is this static still presented in a monochrome... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 148 views • 7:20

Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. Most people knew someone affected by the lethal drug. Just two decades later, the country has one of the lowest drug-related death rates in the world.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 497 views • 3:43

YouTube: You might think you know how to survive if you end up stranded in the wild, but those tips you read on the internet might just make things worse!

posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 532 views • 11:02

YouTube description: They may be dressed in black, but crow funerals aren't the solemn events that we hold for our dead. These birds cause a ruckus around their fallen friend. Are they just scared,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months ago • 858 views • 4:35

YouTube: You may have read headlines suggesting that if you have allergies, you might be at greater risk of developing mental illness. But don't panic just yet. Hank unpacks these findings on this week's... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 45 views • 5:48

"... Female mammals make milk, a cocktail of filtered blood, to provide their babies with vital nutrients..."

posted by ant 6 years 7 months ago • 92 views • 2:43

This is the story of a rock. It was once worth fighting wars over. Now its just a rock.

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months ago • 412 views • 6:37

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 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 961 views • 1:30

At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 408 views • 7:08

YouTube 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 9 months ago • 725 views • 3:34

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 6 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 524 views • 9:05

Who else is excited for another season of the world's most popular public slaughter house fueled by human lives? Oh ... just us in America?

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 532 views • 3:46