YouTube description: It's not your imagination; hold music on phones really did sound better in the old days. Here's why, as we talk about old telephone exchanges and audio compression. Thanks to... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months ago • 410 views • 3:36Videos (42) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (542) |
YouTube description: Frances Glessner Lee created dollhouses with dead dolls. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why. Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months ago • 716 views • 8:16‘I was stunned when the pieces started falling into place,’ recalls specialist Howard Dixon of the moment an unassuming folio of photographs was presented to him in a restaurant in Texas earlier this year. ... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months ago • 1,174 views • 3:34In Helsingborg, Sweden, the Museum of Failure has just opened. It's just one room, but inside, curator Samuel West has assembled some of the world's greatest commercial disasters - and also a few things... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,040 views • 2:18A dragon-stem goblet has many parts, including a bowl, a foot, and a dragon. Dip molding is used to create the dragon, and the parts are attached with glue bits. This goblet has pincered bits, a merese,... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 352 views • 12:35The original title had old movies, but fuck that, a movie from 2004 is not an 'old' movie.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,693 views • 3:16We have another very special episode today! Marie Schultz, from Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, NY, shares with us a very simple but absolutely delicious recipe for fresh pork sausage. Marie... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 43 views • 8:13At the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California, there sits a small teapot. It's the world's most famous teapot.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 921 views • 2:34We have a very special episode today! Brian Nagel, from Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, NY, takes us on a tour of The 1803 Walter Grieve's Brewery located on the site. Brewing beer played... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 395 views • 9:54We recently had the opportunity to spend a little time fielding some frequently asked questions to Brian Nagel, Brewmaster at Genessee Country Village & Museum. In today's episode, he discusses the functions... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months ago • 316 views • 2:51UPDATE: We're still working on a species ID with our science partners at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, but currently we're thinking the purple orb is a pleurobranch, a nudibranch relative.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 10 months ago • 219 views • 3:12This video from the London Transport Museum youtube channel shows how the big vinyl signs that London busses use to show their destinations are made. YouTube description: McKenna Brothers, recognised... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 399 views • 4:10YouTube: Celsius never devised nor used the scale that now bears his name.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 210 views • 8:12The Coexist logo is famous on bumper stickers and around the world — but it's also at the center of quite a few battles. When Piotr Mlodozeniec designed the first Coexist logo, he had no idea how... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 504 views • 5:33The materials collection, at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, MA, houses thousands of pigments, including some of the world’s rarest. Dragon's blood, mummy, Indian yellow: these are but a few flashy... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 8 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 639 views • 2:35"Can we go launch one?" YouTube: What was the procedure to launch a nuclear missile? Uranium premieres: July 28 & 29 on PBS at 10pm ET/ 9pm Central France and Germany: July 31 at 10pm on ZDF/arte ... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 10 months 1 week ago • 576 views • 7:42A guide demonstrates what you can do with a real image from a giant concave mirror at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
posted by eric3579 9 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,855 views • 2:17YouTube: Submit your own photos of misinformed Dimetrodon toys and games to http://isnotadinosaur.tumblr.com ! Learn more about the Field Museum's fossil mammal and synapsid collection: bit.ly/1sYstC5 ... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 1 week ago • 406 views • 6:04Quite possibly TMI
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