for Workers, Employers, and Pretty Much Everybody YouTube: Maybe the person working near you, the one who dragged himself to work and is now coughing and sneezing, couldn’t afford to stay home. Each... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 521 views • 5:25

There’s a job out there with a great deal of power, pay, prestige, and near-perfect job-security. And there’s only one way to be hired: get appointed to the US Supreme Court. But how do US Supreme... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 15 views • 4:26

El Caminito del Rey, the King's Little Pathway, is now a tourist attraction near Malaga, in southern Spain. But once, it brought adrenaline junkies here - sometimes fatally. Now it's safe: but the internet... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 762 views • 2:56

Youtube - The military coup in Turkey is over and President Recep Erdogan’s crackdown is in full swing. As of this writing, the government has already detained over 10.000 servicemen, among them more... continue reading

posted by RedSky 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 21 views • 12:38

YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months ago • 812 views • 14:23

Near the village of Hanbury is RAF Fauld. Once it was a munitions dump: now it's a crater. Here's why.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 95 views • 4:42

Have you ever wondered what happens when you bring a magnet near 5000 degree molten Iron? Does it attract? Or repel? Maybe it create cool shapes. But most importantly... DOES IT EXPLODE?! I set off... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months ago • 40 views • 5:21

I live near the Interurban Trail and the place is crawling with people glued to their phones at all hours of the day and night ... creepy.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 115 views • 2:45

YouTube description: Bill reveals the stunning engineering underlying the design of a diaper. He describes the five layers of a diaper, including the superabsorbent polymer in the diaper's core. He... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 337 views • 6:34

Cooking 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 12 months ago • 299 views • 4:51

YouTube 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 3 months ago • 1,003 views • 5:31

YouTube: 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 3 weeks ago • 493 views • 4:02

Bill details the engineering choices underlying the design of a beverage can He explains why it is cylindrical, outlines the manufacturing steps needed to created the can, notes why the can narrows near... continue reading

posted by eric3579 9 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,673 views • 11:39

"Since the 1960s, developmental psychologists point to the 'Visual Cliff'—an experiment that plops babies on a fake precipice—as proof that infants learn to fear heights as they learn to crawl. Yet,... continue reading

posted by ant 9 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 386 views • 5:31

The largest container ship in the world launched earlier this month. It's nearly the size of four football fields. Here's how container ships got so huge and transformed the global economy. Subscribe to... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 9 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,564 views • 2:34

Few ingredients come with as much baggage as MSG. Otherwise known as monosodium glutamate, the compound has had a bad reputation for nearly 50 years, so we at Reactions felt it was time to clear its name.... continue reading

posted by cricket 9 years 9 months ago • 702 views • 3:01

Youtube description: Peter Lee, Microsoft Research corporate vice president, shares insights and a sneak peek into the Skype Translator, derived from decades of research in speech-recognition, automatic-translation,... continue reading

For nearly all of human history, most people were very, very poor. But something happened after 1800. Average wages began to rise. For example, in the past 200 years, the average wage in the United States... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 3 weeks ago • 999 views • 3:19

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 decade 3 months 1 week ago • 4,780 views • 4:34

With no special skill or expertise, Greg Packer has been quoted by media outlets nearly a thousand times. Since his name first appeared on newsprint, in 1995, he’s spoken to reporters on subjects ranging... continue reading

posted by randeepsamra 1 decade 8 months 3 weeks ago • 286 views • 5:21