"Are You Smarter Than A Slime Mold? Let’s go ask Joe Hanson: https://youtu.be/K8HEDqoTPgk ..."
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YouTube description: Chi-Tien Lui is an electrical engineer and technician whose craft has evolved to the realm of high art. Born in China, he trained as a technician in Taiwan before moving to the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 1,047 views • 4:22US Car Number 1, the Ferdinand Magellan, sits in the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami. It's 120 tonnes of bulletproof, armoured railcar: a train carriage designed to move the President of the United... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 2 weeks ago • 398 views • 4:59Copper has a unique effect with magnets. It is not magnetic itself but it will generate an electric field from a moving magnet and this field directly and immediately impacts the magnet.
posted by jmd 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 236 views • 7:46"... Even the parts of our brains that don't control physical movement show a lot of rhythm, and that might be integral to how our brains work..."
posted by ant 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 213 views • 2:55California Taxing authority goes after man even after he moves out of state-- The man fights back.
posted by bobknight33 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 213 views • 7:07Published on May 21, 2017 After four years of living off the grid we've gathered some wisdom we'd like to share with you. Please enjoy...ten MORE things we wish we'd known before we went off grid. ... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,847 views • 10:28YouTube description: In Mexico, seniors are traditionally cared for in the homes of relatives. But a boom of foreign retirees, many of them Americans, have begun moving to Mexico to live out their years,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months ago • 792 views • 7:52The Lahti L-39 is a Finnish 20 mm anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It had excellent accuracy, penetration and range, but its size made transportation difficult. It was nicknamed "Norsupyssy"... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months ago • 134 views • 10:14The Voyager 1 space probe is the furthest man-made object from Earth, and the fastest. But right now, it's moving towards us. Relatively speaking. At Mission Control for the Deep Space Network, inside... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 12 months ago • 656 views • 3:26YouTube: I came across these four physics puzzles over the years in discussions with Neil deGrasse Tyson (riddle 4: which part(s) of a moving train are going backwards with respect to the ground?), Simon... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years ago • 1,232 views • 4:24I built this pottery kiln and some pottery from termite mound clay to test an alternative clay source to my usual one from the creek bank. I started by making a large grate from ordinary clay. It was just... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 weeks ago • 419 views • 11:27In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 99 views • 6:27YouTube description: As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 426 views • 9:15After installing the Windows Anniversary Update for Windows 10 it would seem we picked up a lot more than we bargained for. There is a feature now that allows Microsoft to quietly install popular games... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 81 views • 13:57YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 658 views • 3:23YouTube description: On La Gomera, a small island in Spain’s Canary Islands, the last speakers of a language without words reside. "El Silbo," a whistled communication used in rural and isolated areas,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 197 views • 3:53I could go on and on about addiction from a personal level but the YT description sums up the ignorance of the American public. From YT: His parents didn't bail him out- his bail was only $300, but their... continue reading
posted by Nephelimdream 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 523 views • 13:14From YT- The issue of mobility in armour is addressed there with striking images of actual armour pieces to demonstrate the range of movement allowed when worn. Today, our contribution follows the same... continue reading
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