Always thought it was weird that America switches the traditions red=left, blue=right colour scheme.
posted by ChaosEngine 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 466 views • 5:53Videos (59) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Three hundred and sixty degrees, of seven hundred clowns, all in one small room. Use the arrows in the upper left to look around. Turn on CC for bonus information.
posted by newtboy 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 16 views • 2:07YouTube description: Now that we’ve left behind the philosophy of religion, it’s time to start exploring what other ways might exist to find meaning in the world. Today we explore essentialism and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months ago • 406 views • 8:54Cooking and leaching Black bean to remove the poison making it safe to eat. A basket was made to leach the poison out in a stream. Also shown are Atherton Oak nuts. The Aboriginal artifacts found near... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 299 views • 4:51Your rich, eccentric uncle just passed away, and you and your 99 nasty relatives have been invited to the reading of his will. He wanted to leave all of his money to you, but he knew that if he did, your... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 12 months ago • 286 views • 3:50I made this bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials.The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. I don't know the draw weight - safe to say greater than 15 kg... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 8 years 1 month ago • 621 views • 5:54YouTube description: I made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's made from. This is because the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,003 views • 5:31YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months ago • 493 views • 4:02An interesting riddle - can you sifters solve it, without resorting to the solution in the video (from 1:25)? iflscience: The following riddle is claimed to have been written by Einstein as a boy. It's... continue reading
posted by Zawash 8 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 52 views • 5:08YT-I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 8 months ago • 1,709 views • 14:09YouTube: Even if you don't want to eat them, your apple cores still have plenty of energy left to give. SciShow explores how cities are capturing that energy and turning it into fuel
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 week ago • 12 views • 4:26A man punches another driver in a road rage incident with the police across the street, then calmly waits to be arrested. I wonder what happened to his car, they just left it running unattended in the... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 966 views • 3:25A less-than-exciting video explaining the details of lunar ranging experiments using "retro-reflectors" left on the moon from various moon landings. As explained in the video, retro-reflectors are not... continue reading
posted by rancor 9 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 228 views • 9:59"Strategically deployed at stations throughout the system and involved in up to 1,000 train trips a month, the Amtrak Police Department K-9 teams provide a psychological and physical deterrent to potential... continue reading
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 9 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 31 views • 6:08YouTube Description: 10 Curious Facts About Being Left-Handed. Want to be a politician? How about a medieval knight? Then maybe you should consider becoming a lefty.
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 5 months 3 weeks ago • 477 views • 2:24"A meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded only 23km above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia on February 15, 2013. Unlike previous such events, this time scientists had the highly sensitive OMPS instrument... continue reading
posted by ant 1 decade 8 months 3 weeks ago • 264 views • 3:51YouTube Description: I visited a butterfly farm and left a different man. Video of the entire process from egg to wing Inflation!!
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 10 months 1 week ago • 92 views • 11:12Richard Feynman describes a basic science riddle, how mirrors confuse left and right but not up and down.
posted by paperCUT 1 decade 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 5,388 views • 3:15