An influx of women helped turned barren wild west camps into bustling towns.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 655 views • 5:44Videos (131) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
The American image of cowboys is a fabrication based on a century-old circus act.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 999 views • 2:19At the age of 74, Meena Raghavan is the oldest known practitioner of Kalaripayattu, an ancient martial art from southern India. Since she was 7 years old, Raghavan has trained with the best of them. While... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,407 views • 2:22I left Japan to get away from this!
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months ago • 1,366 views • 3:48Via YouTube: Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds. Worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. SEED: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000-year-old... continue reading
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 460 views • 4:23Using an old golf trick you can see if your dice are decently balanced or completely off. If you have that one D20 that rolls low now you can see why!
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 820 views • 4:07YouTube description: Greenford, Middlesex. An item about the manufacture of wallpaper. C/U on stuffed birds. C/U of an artist painting the birds in a design. Various shots of artists designing... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 446 views • 2:52YT: As the world switches to renewable energy - and we are switching - there's a problem you might not expect: balancing the grid. Rotational mass and system inertia are the things that keep your lights... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 828 views • 4:06Canadian sprinting sensation Andre De Grasse runs a hundred metres in Jesse's shoes. Who's the better runner when conditions are the same?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 395 views • 2:45When Dr. John Reid, Chairman of the Trimontium Trust, contacted us and asked for our help in order to shed some light on an ancient mystery, we immediately agreed! Dr. Reid and his team did some excavations... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 344 views • 29:38Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inca engineering techniques to rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge. The old bridge is taken down and the new bridge... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 32 views • 3:16Coober Pedy is a small desert town in Australia where the entire population lives in underground homes. With outside temperatures hovering over 100 degrees, residents made permanent homes in the cooler... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 589 views • 2:11From http://www.hardocp.com/news/2016/07/18/how_oldschool_floppy_drives_worked/ ...
posted by ant 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 272 views • 15:08In the U.S., apple picking season is between August and November. The apples then go into atmosphere controlled cold storage where they hibernate for up to 12 months before being sold. (via digg)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 763 views • 5:18In Crystal Palace Park, in South London, are 150-year-old dinosaur models: the first ever full-size replicas of extinct animals. But they're... well, they're a bit wrong, and they likely always will be.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 426 views • 2:02Welcome to the world of Lucius Popidius Secundus, a 17-year old living in Rome in 73 AD. His life is a typical one of arranged marriages, coming-of-age festivals, and communal baths. Take a look at this... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 331 views • 6:35Where the desert sands of Dubai meet the ocean, a troop of shipbuilders are taking on the enormous task of building the world's largest handmade ship.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months ago • 325 views • 4:06YouTube description: Approaching the Unknown, Mark Elijah Rosenberg's film about an astronaut whose Mars journey does not go according to plan, combines old school non-CGI special effect techniques... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months ago • 1,234 views • 5:40An interview with a man who after 60 years of mariage talks of his worries that his wife will forget him with her oncoming dememtia.
posted by rubywillow 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 114 views • 4:29