Cameron Evans, dispels myths about what motor oil's made of, what "slipperiness" really means, and whether or not fuel additives really work, and what's the oil to use on a track day.
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It's not about how many times one does it. YouTube: I spend a fair amount of time talking about how social determinants of health come into play, with respect to health care outcomes. I also talk a... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months ago • 568 views • 3:35YouTube 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 2 weeks ago • 811 views • 14:23His 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 9 months ago • 38 views • 4:36From YT: Congrats to Bruce, our latest recruit to pass his Initiation Test into the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy. We decided to share this part of his Initiation Test to encourage... continue reading
posted by iaui 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 699 views • 5:26"Urushiol oil in poison sumac, poison oak, and poison ivy may produce a severe skin rash. Timely urushiol removal can prevent poison ivy skin reaction. The key is to understand how poison ivy works... ... continue reading
posted by ant 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,239 views • 5:14YouTube description: There's a big fire in the building and suddenly all the sprinklers turn on -- that's not really how works. Let science extinguish this myth. How Fire Burns in Space - http://bit.ly/1OqRB5b ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 366 views • 4:02YouTube description: How to get into a dingy if you over 50"It works" (via digg)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 weeks ago • 1,727 views • 51 secsYouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT.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 ago • 493 views • 4:02"So, why not eat an apple?"
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 months ago • 419 views • 3:11Not only can the SR-71's engines push it to speeds above mach 3, but it can sustain those speeds for extended periods of time, at high efficiency. This is how it does it.
posted by Sylvester_Ink 9 years 7 months 1 week ago • 2,405 views • 5:56Neatorama: 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 2 weeks ago • 255 views • 43:41Thanks to Visually (http://Visual.ly) for facilitating the creation of this video, to http://youtube.com/kurzgesagt for the animation, and to The Prison Policy Initiative for research help and fact checking.... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 month ago • 1,435 views • 3:41“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
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 4 months ago • 72 views • 3:05"To be a great artist, one must be ready to fail," is just some of the advice offered up by performance artist, Marina Abramović in this recent interview. This idea of failure echoes Samuel Beckett... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 6 months 2 weeks ago • 456 views • 8:46Caleb sez, "The Department of Defense ordered that 3d printed gun removed from the Internet. That didn't work out. You can still download it and print it. I did, and found that the files are a mess and... continue reading
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 11 months 3 weeks ago • 376 views • 3:53This is a really nice demonstration, and explanation of, what happens when you drop a magnet down a conducting non-magnetic tube. YouTube Description: Huge thanks to the Royal Institution, Professor... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 4 months 1 week ago • 228 views • 3:50From YouTube: Accuracy not guaranteed. Get Audacity and play! http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Correction: it is the "Basilar" membrane, which is what I say, but somehow between recording the script... continue reading
posted by Zifnab 1 decade 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 2,162 views • 12:49A couple of the guys from Sixty Symbols talk about "Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov's winning of the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics from work on graphene." They explain what they did and why it is physics... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 7 months ago • 2,059 viewsRichard Feynman describes a basic science riddle, how mirrors confuse left and right but not up and down.
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