When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and fingerpointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. This video provides a summary of the facts of the 2021 Texas winter storm. ... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 167 views • 16:48

From Youtube, "CREDITS: This video was made in collaboration with Benedikt Pleyer, who is a gifted microscopist and has a wonderful contagious passion for discovering the incredible worlds that exist... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 4 months ago • 276 views • 11:43

"I have trained magpies in my garden to trade litter for food. In this version the birds trade bottle-caps for food. Thr food dispenser contains a mix of peanuts and 'cat-food'. obviously, the birds prefer... continue reading

posted by ant 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 41 views • 2:07

WTF! No, I really mean it, what the actual, convoluted, outdated, insane, fk. My head hurts.

posted by dedstick 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 75 views • 8:03

From Youtube, "Torsional eye movement, known as cycloversion and cyclovergence have a fascinating evolutionary history via our evolutionary ancestors that had eyes on the sides of their heads. Your eyes... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 49 views • 12:51

From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 55 views • 26:02

Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 985 views • 2:32

In this episode of Forgotten Failures, I take a look back at the long forgotten TV spinoff of "Blazing Saddles". This sitcom tried to capture the humor and success of the film that inspired it but would... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months 1 week ago • 941 views • 7:36

This pair is finally done, used all original nails on the heels and the waist. My favorite shoes, Florsheim

posted by BSR 4 years 1 week ago • 367 views • 58:23

"Teaching remotely in an empty classroom didn't keep me from doing an April Fool's prank video on my math class online during a video conference. In this one, the video version tried to figure out how... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 2 months ago • 491 views • 3:36

The World's Biggest Gear Reduction by designer and maker of prototypical machines, devices and tools Daniel de Bruin. This machine visualizes the number googol. That's a 1 with a hundred zeros. A number... continue reading

posted by BSR 4 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,211 views

From Youtube, Brenda...Where's my egg? Join the Community: http://www.patreon.com/truefacts CREDITS: MUSIC: https://soundcloud.com/querflote Footage of the mating ostrich: Jackson Hart Grady ... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 18 views • 5:46

YouTube description: Hi :) I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,278 views • 2:37

YouTube description: It's an often told story about Apollo 12 getting struck by lightning, crippling the command module in flight and John Aaron in mission control figuring out the exact switch to flip... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 261 views • 13:55

"... It sounds like such an incredible fact. “Our own cells are outnumbered by our microbes 10 to 1!” I don’t remember where I first heard it. But I read it in science papers and articles by journalists,... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,355 views • 13:23

"... I met Molly Burke a few months ago. She’s awesome. I absolutely love what she’s done on YouTube to bring awareness to living with disability, and turning it into ability. And her guide dog Gallop... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 10 months ago • 90 views • 16:32

YouTube description: The Citicorp Center repair is a classic engineering case study of how mistakes must be avoided in engineering and construction of public works. A skyscraper in New York City needed... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 week ago • 1,280 views • 8:24

YouTube description: people are weird sometimes -- (my favourite part is 5:54 to 6:43)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 824 views • 9:55

The Coffee Break video that started the uproar with Kurzgesagt. -Popular Science is science for the masses. The stock in trade is nifty insights and suprising facts, conclusions that amaze and astound.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 914 views • 17:49