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) 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 417 views • 11:31Videos (127) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: What would it be like if our eyes could see more colors? We may never be able to answer that, but we can build devices that can do the work for us. Over the last three weeks we've... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 449 views • 9:29YouTube description: On a small island, off the coast of Okinawa in Japan, the world’s most precious kimonos are crafted using a very unusual element: mud. The meticulous technique, which has been... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,040 views • 2:50YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 397 views • 3:15"Elevator. It’s a fascination and a fear for many. Countless action movies and TV shows feature stuck elevators, fights in elevators, and, of course falling elevators. How many times when an elevator... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 219 views • 7:36YouTube description: A new technique is allowing researchers to study the inner workings of a cuttlefish brain by tracking colour changing cells in their skin. These cell are directly controlled by... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months ago • 462 views • 6:19In which Destin uses Schlieren imagery and a high speed camera to show the shockwaves from bullets. (H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months ago • 379 views • 9:46YouTube description: The Ganges River is a highly revered site by Hindus and an iconic, historical epicenter in India. As hundreds of millions of people visit the Ganges each year, there is a dedicated... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 149 views • 2:26YouTube description: Denmark has been consistently ranked in the World Happiness Report among the top three happiest countries in the world, owing, in part, to the presence of a stable government, access... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 421 views • 4:45YouTube description: Amazing high resolution photos of the Earth should show that the earth is oblate, but it's hard to see because the difference is about 0.3%. So here's a quick demo highlighting the difference. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 12 months ago • 620 views • 1:43YouTube description: Chi-Tien Lui is an electrical engineer and technician whose craft has evolved to the realm of high art. Born in China, he trained as a technician in Taiwan before moving to the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,047 views • 4:22OK. A thing I didn't say, that I probably should have, is that we haven't actually had a chance to do as much research on marijuana as we should have. Edibles have different effects than smoking which... continue reading
posted by eric3579 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 593 views • 3:40YouTube 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 1 month 2 weeks ago • 308 views • 6:28We show you all the six types of charisma in MCU that seems so irresistible to women. One of the most common misconceptions of charisma is that one size must fit all. The truth is that while there are... continue reading
posted by wifidogs 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 23 views • 15:49YouTube description: Vanguard 1 was the 4th satellite launched, after being beaten by Sputnik 1, 2 and Explorer 1, it also suffered from multiple high profile launch failures. However, 60 years on it's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 410 views • 6:41A surprisingly informative tongue-in-cheek talk about wrangling the beast that is Microsoft Excel to actually perform HDR transformations on high-resolution photos, pixel-by-pixel.
posted by blacklotus90 6 years 5 months ago • 24 views • 11:47YouTube description: Ever wondered how they film a tank shell in flight for over 100m meters like it was travelling at walking speed or the instant of a nuclear explosion. In this video, I look at... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,678 views • 7:14I 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 • 5:46See Through Suppressor in Super Slow Motion (110,000 fps) - Smarter Every Day 177
posted by bobknight33 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 906 views • 9:44