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Near San Diego, California, there's a rotating house: and somehow, all the utilities, the electricity, gas and water, work even on the rotating part. How's that possible?
posted by BSR 10 months ago • 282 views • 7:31No one truly knows what happens when we die, but chances are you've heard about the 'white light' that people sometimes see when they've had a near death experience. So is that evidence of an afterlife,... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 9 months 4 weeks ago • 54 views • 2:44The story behind the new Terry Pratchett audiobooks - my all time favorite author. Can't wait to hear them! YT: This documentary follows Penguin Audio's ambitious project of turning the entire Discworld... continue reading
posted by Zawash 2 years 1 week ago • 31 views • 21:33Let’s not resigns ourselves to fatality. Solutions exist. Together we can do more to decrease risks on the normal route to Mont-Blanc. The Mont-Blanc rising to 4 809 meters is the highest peak in... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 317 views • 4:02The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 15 views • 3:56"Grover tires himself out while demonstrating the difference between near and far in this classic Sesame Street clip! ..." From http://www.savagechickens.com/2020/11/the-competition.html#comment-1198190.
posted by ant 3 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 98 views • 2:45From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 510 views • 9:10In the fast-flowing streams of eastern Tennessee, Emilly Nolan is working hard to reestablish a population for a strange looking animal with an even stranger array of nicknames. The Eastern hellbender—aka... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 152 views • 6:51From Youtube, "In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And then there... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 521 views • 9:23YouTube description: If you want to drink a cup of tea at the Huashan Teahouse on Mount Hua, you’re going to have to put in the effort to get there. The journey starts with a 20-minute cable car ride.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 465 views • 2:39You've probably spun around a coin for fun at some point, but this physics toy uses the physics of a spinning coin to keep spinning faster and faster for up to 2 minutes. As seen on The Big Bang Theory,... continue reading
posted by MicrowaveMeShow 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 525 views • 2:02YouTube description: We normally build a dam to hold water back and store it for use in water supply, irrigation, hydropower, or flood control. But sometimes we have to let some water go. Whether we... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,035 views • 8:15An American explorer has descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. Victor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 12 months ago • 1,322 views • 2:14YouTube description: Kerosene Creek is a natural hot spring near Rotorua, on the North Island of New Zealand. And there have been official warnings for years: don't put your head under water. It turns... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years ago • 423 views • 3:42Mazda's screaming 4-rotor 787B She's a thirsty girl, but produces nearly twice the output of piston engines of the same displacement, and manages to be reliable.
posted by newtboy 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 173 views • 7:51YouTube description: Learn about the life and art of Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, who explored disability, relationships and Mexican culture in her work. -- In 1925, Frida Kahlo was... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 152 views • 4:06YT: In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they were funded by someone anonymous in 1980, perhaps as a message... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 400 views • 3:08YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 498 views • 6:19