YouTube description: Near Slab City, California, a man painted a hill. It was outsider art: Leonard Knight had no training and no great masters to imitate. But somehow, he created something that resonates... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months ago • 551 views • 4:25Videos (49) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 454 views • 5:46This video is about using particle accelerators as part of the solar panel silicon wafer manufacturing process. The accelerators embed protons into the wafer crystals, allowing them to break and separate... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 568 views • 3:42I recently had the idea for this new vacuum cannon design that many of you might be interested in. Since it hasn't been very long since my last vacuum cannon video I thought I would make this a more casual... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years ago • 16 views • 10:29For the past 50 years, kung fu master Li Liangui has been contorting his body into seemingly impossible positions as he practices one of the more unusual Chinese martial arts. The 70-year-old is an expert... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 weeks ago • 334 views • 2:18No idea what this is from, but I wish this would happen every time someone selfishly cuts a line thinking their time is more important than everyone else's.
posted by newtboy 7 years 2 months ago • 2,882 views • 52 secsI 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 2 months 1 week ago • 419 views • 11:27British philosopher and thinker Alan Watts asks the question, "What would you like to do if money were no object?" It's a question many of us have considered, but few have truly act upon. "Yeah, that's... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 902 views • 3:07In 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 3 months 1 week ago • 99 views • 6:27YouTube: Many people have to wait too long to see a doctor. And it could get worse. If, as many people believe, we have a shortage of doctors in the United States, then it follows that we can fix this... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 460 views • 6:02One thing I should point out is that Mr. Manley consistently gets Karl Schwarzschild's name wrong. It's Schwarz Schild (black shield) and pronounced more like shield (except the d is a t sound and it's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,050 views • 8:00At Autodesk's Pier 9 workshop in San Francisco -- and no, this isn't an ad, pull down the description for more! -- there are giant robot arms using welders to 3D print with stainless steel. Which seemed... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 782 views • 4:51His girlfriend is a hell of a good sport. ------------------------------------------------------------ I made a freeze ray! Im basically a bonafide evil genius now. Freeze your cat, girlfriend, or... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months ago • 38 views • 4:36I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,388 views • 4:32No more store bought, very simple and easy. Enjoy!
posted by Gratefulmom 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 30 views • 41 secsThe fascinating video above tells the story of MIT Professor Ioannis Yannas, who was recently inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame alongside such luminaries as the Wright brothers and Steve... continue reading
posted by enoch 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,844 views • 16:57YouTube: Hate the taste of sour stuff? Well fret no more with this miracle berry! It will coat your tongue with an awesome protein to make everything taste sweet!
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months ago • 308 views • 2:59Milk. It does a body [no] good! YouTube: There are a few topics that just never get old for me. “Pay for performance”. “overtesting”. “medical myths”. And, of course, my never-ending war... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 327 views • 4:23An interesting riddle - can you sifters solve it, without resorting to the solution in the video (from 1:25)? iflscience: The following riddle is claimed to have been written by Einstein as a boy. It's... continue reading
posted by Zawash 8 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 52 views • 5:08"No one should be under the illusion that marijuana has no harms." Happy 420 Sifters! YouTube: There's just no way to talk about marijuana without someone completely misinterpreting what I say. Some... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 257 views • 5:48