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

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YouTube description: When the small Japanese seaside town of Susami needed a tourism boost, an unlikely resident came to the rescue: the town’s postmaster. Together with the local diving community,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 2 months 1 week ago • 449 views • 2:55

"... Christopher and Rubber Duckie say the alphabet..."

posted by ant 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 12 views • 1:20

YouTube description: Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes — from a childhood... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 3 weeks ago • 151 views • 13:08

YouTube: Video in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gates! Check out their Annual Letter here: http://b-gat.es/2lhhtmJ

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 127 views • 3:21

Nah Nah NahNah Nah! Read The Gates Annual Letter here: http://b-gat.es/2lhhtmJ

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 97 views • 8:30

Pillaging Vikings, huge runestones, protective amulets... Discover the linguistics behind the Norse Runes

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 416 views • 6:59

YouTube description: So...why does all the writing in comic books look like that? Vox's Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comics culture, technology, and really cheap paper. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 554 views • 8:33

http://www.vice.com/en_au/read/that-s-thing-everyone-drew-in-school-what-is-it

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 24 views • 4:38

I don't agree with all of his viewpoints, but in fairness many do. Hopefully, if you agree with him, this will help you to enact change.

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 78 views • 3:30

"Sesame Street's spoof of 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,' in which the detectives hunt down a missing letter M..." From http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/356sal/hi_reddit_im_caroll_spinney_the_puppeteer_who... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 119 views • 3:41

YouTube description: Teach children how to find the beautiful hidden colours in ink and use chromatography to solve mysteries. For info sheets and printable badges, click here: http://rigb.org/experimental/series-2/c... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 272 views • 3:58

YouTube Description: music by: http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow Top 1000 US first names over time INTERACTIVE: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager surname geographical distribution INTERACTIVE:... continue reading

posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 761 views • 7:54

Please excuse any mistakes in the translation. Neither of the languages is my native one. :) "In China you don't have letters when writing. Instead you use characters, and each character is a word.... continue reading

posted by WaterDweller 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 171 views • 2:00

Vimeo description: A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography. 291 Paper Letters. 2,454 Photographs. 140 hours of work. Created by Ben Barrett-Forrest © Forrest Media - 2013 ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 865 views • 5:09

Happy October, Month of the Hexaflexagon! Oct. 21st is the annual Celebration of Mind, in honor of Martin Gardner. Maybe you'd like to host or attend a flexagon party sometime around then, or learn about... continue reading

posted by eric3579 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 2,196 views • 4:45

YouTube Description: For more on Fibonacci and Plants: http://youtu.be/ahXIMUkSXX0For more snail: http://youtu.be/xbsAUq_nvxE... continue reading

posted by Zifnab 8 years 2 months ago • 1,218 views • 1:58

Since it is Labor Day in a good part of the world, here is a video about the incidents at Haymarket Square following the call for workers to strike on May 1st. It picks up on May 3rd. The events would... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 8 years 11 months ago • 1,235 views • 5:15