YouTube description: Ahmed Darwish el Fakhouri spends his days surrounded by olive oil soap stacked up high—each precious bar waiting to be wrapped and sold after a drying out period of two to three... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 months 3 weeks ago • 345 views • 2:24

YouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 415 views • 11:31

YouTube description In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 519 views • 8:34

The key to making a juicy chicken breast is to not use powdered chicken. The trick is to use dry chicken, then dunk it in water. Mmmm.

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 94 views • 3:18

YouTube description: The average American consumes more than 3,600 calories daily – a 24% increase from 1961, when the average was just 2,880 calories. Americans haven't increased their consumption... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 4 months ago • 694 views • 1:37

YouTube description: Oslo is the Tesla capital of the world. I spent a day in Oslo before traveling to Svalbard, and noticed that there were Teslas everywhere. Upon further investigation, I learned... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 784 views • 7:10

Kale chips are so easy to make it's more difficult to not make them than to make them. Rip off some chunks of kale. Mix with some olive oil. Add some salt. Spread on a parchment papered baking sheet. ... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 197 views • 6:13

YT: How to do an oil change for your car! The car being worked on in this video is a 2013 Nissan Juke. The steps are pretty much the same though regardless of your own car model.

posted by iaui 3 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 215 views • 4:03

What happens if your car runs out of engine oil?

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 6 months ago • 24 views • 4:52

Remy is an especially-clean-looking rat that's been given the gift of Gusteau's gastronomy. Let's see if his signature dish is worth staking an entire restaurant's reputation upon for the sake of a pun.

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 142 views • 4:05

Chop up 2 pounds of potatoes (or one pound, then halve the dressing) Toss with olive oil salt and pepper pepper pepper Bake at 400 30-45 minutes, wrastle' once or twice Dressing: 1/2 cup walnut oil ... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 228 views • 3:48

YouTube description: 1 tablespoon of olive oil destroys half an acre of waves on this lake. What The Physics?! (via digg, H/T @eric3579)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 616 views • 3:55

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.

posted by bobknight33 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 249 views • 17:48

YouTube: Bakers will sometimes replace the butter, oil, or eggs in their breads, muffins, and assorted tasty treats with applesauce. That pretty much sounds like culinary magic, but it's not... it's culinary... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 11 months 1 week ago • 201 views • 2:58

The best technical description of what happened. Many small human errors combined to create the conditions for this tragic accident.

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,747 views • 11:23

YT-FYI: I don't count the 1824 election as the final winner was determined by the house of representatives and thus not *technically* a straight-up Electoral College fail. From what I was taught, the... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 237 views • 22 secs

Silicone oil droplets provide a physical realization of pilot wave theories. -yt

posted by eric3579 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 789 views • 7:41