An interesting and quick look at how the ancient Roman Civilization inhabitants dealt with their (not so) alone time.
posted by BoneRemake 2 years 2 months ago • 364 views • 5:40Videos (24) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
This is a bit of a mind-bender, but entirely worth the watch if you're at all interested in mathematics or computer science. Possibly even if you're not, but I'm uncertain. I had previously learned... continue reading
posted by moonsammy 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 633 viewsPike County Sheriffs beat and mace a man hogtied in a restraint chair so badly the sheriff deputy broke his hand on the man's face. He has applied for workers compensation for the "job related injury". ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years ago • 222 views • 1:47I highly recommend listening to the song first, or at least the first half. As a drummer for 32 years (8 formally on actual drums / in public, the rest on available surfaces and arguably in rhythm games),... continue reading
posted by moonsammy 3 years 2 weeks ago • 497 views • 10:15The 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 ago • 15 views • 3:56From 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 8 months 4 weeks ago • 55 views • 26:02ASM = Anti-Ship Missile. An interesting look into missile design and behaviors across the globe. From YT: Russia has got them... so does Japan, India, Taiwan, and others. So why doesn't the US?
posted by admiralronton 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 491 views • 17:52--- Do earwigs climb into your ear? The quick answer is no. Earwigs are not interested in climbing into your ear to lay their eggs or otherwise. They’re no more likely than any other bug to accidentally... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 151 views • 4:21YouTube description: Let's find out how they put 3D images into glass objects. Known as a 'Bubblegram', vitrography or sub-surface laser engraving, this technology has been around for a very long time... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 weeks ago • 308 views • 6:28"... Let's face it! The world hates fire ants. It is not hard to understand why seeing as they are a major domestic pest in many countries, as well as a very dangerous agricultural pest, like in the Unites... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 296 views • 15:53I made a brick mold that makes bricks 25 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm from wood. A log was split and mortise and tenon joints were carved using a stone chisel and sharp rocks. The mold was lashed together with cane... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,024 views • 10:47YouTube description: Meet Professor Jamie Seymour, he milks stuff. But nothing that moos, has hooves, wool or fur. He prefers to live life on the edge, milking the venom from the most venomous animals... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 176 views • 4:26YouTube: No one is ever boring: we just seem boring when we haven’t learnt the surprisingly easy art of being honest about our vulnerabilities.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 months ago • 572 views • 6:05Not sure how this fits in and not very topical but I found it interesting.
posted by vil 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 191 views • 10:05YouTube 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 8 months 1 week ago • 811 views • 14:23YT-Elliot Crown was one of a few citizens allowed to speak and used his time to point out PROOF of possible voter fraud considering ALL NYC counties Hillary won were with THIS special black box... While... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 973 views • 1:22Sacks of Water, prepare to have your minds blown. From YouTube: "Does water have a fourth phase, beyond solid, liquid and vapor? University of Washington Bioengineering Professor Gerald Pollack... continue reading
posted by chicchorea 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,036 views • 24:15"Apparently, your biggest enemy is not lions and tigers and bears ..." YouTube: What were the first organisms to have sex? We may never know the answer, but as Bill Nye explains in this Big Think interview,... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month ago • 235 views • 3:58Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 11 months 1 week ago • 255 views • 43:41“Now this is a very, very important point — to realize that the world is not an illusion, that the world simply happens to be an abstraction. Out of the process, please remember we are interested in... continue reading
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