YouTube description: How did Q and U get to be partners? It's a tiny window back to the origins of our writing system. Produced for Mental Floss.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 week ago • 404 views • 2:49

The Nightly Show - Super Depressing Deep Dive - The Origins of America's Lead Poisoning Crisis YouTube: Larry presents an animated breakdown of the aggressive role that corporations played in the tragic... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 weeks ago • 14 views • 5:05

YouTube description: Just as vinyl records have a pattern of grooves and ridges that contain the sound, talking tapes - which were originally developed in 1918 - work on the same principle. Along the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month ago • 688 views • 3:37

If you're keen to live out your own "Game of Thrones" battle fantasy (ahem, good luck), see Richard Furrer. The Wisconsin-based blacksmith forges Ulfberht style swords, the name given to a group of uncommonly... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 8 years 1 month 1 week ago • 269 views • 2:23

Bernie Sanders won Nevada Saturday after county conventions took the win from Hillary Clinton. The Clinton and Sanders campaigns clashed at Nevada county conventions, and Sanders walked away with three... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 600 views • 6:26

The Game Of Life. It's a family game night staple. But what you may not know is that this classic board game would not exist if it weren't for the follicular furnishings of Abraham Lincoln. In other words,... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 8 years 2 months ago • 66 views • 1:55

Mind your face holes! YouTube: Lead is really useful when you add it to things like paint and gasoline. Problem is, it’s also poisonous.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 7,222 views • 4:54

Bros and bro proteins didn’t build this great nation. But if they did (or tried to) this is what it might have looked like. Brought to you by the original protein: meat, cheese, and nuts.

posted by newtboy 8 years 11 months ago • 160 views • 2:19

"From the axe, which originated in 1,000,000 BC, to today's killer drones, mankind's use of weapons has been varied and incredibly inventive." -- The Atlantic

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 9 years 1 week ago • 345 views • 2:18

YouTube Description: Although widely thought to hail from the North Pole, Santa Claus is in fact originally from Turkey. The BBC's Mark Lowen visited the southern Turkish town of Demre to trace the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 159 views • 2:47

YouTube Description: In 1991, Cuba's economy began to implode. "The Special Period in the Time of Peace" was the government's euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,569 views • 8:30

There was something deeply satisfying about watching a true craftsman doing their thing. This was artisanal beyond my reckoning. I had no good ideas myself on how you'd find and reuse the same hidden... continue reading

posted by SFOGuy 9 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,045 views • 6:52

Neat demonstration of Newton's laws in slow motion, with music and a slinky. So cool how the bottom of the Slinky doesn't move until the top of the dropped Slinky arrives at it on the way down... I... continue reading

posted by SFOGuy 1 decade 5 months ago • 808 views • 1:43

Vimeo: A visual remix of the famous 2003 Harvard Dialect Survey, which maps out the various dialects of American speech. Read the full article on the film here: theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/11/soda-vs-pop-vs-coke-... continue reading

posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 6 months 1 week ago • 555 views • 4:04

"This video is a part of a lecture from MIT open courseware. The teacher is Prof. Walter Lewin. He is Dutch origin astrophysicist. But at 1966 he went to MIT and stayed there." From http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comm... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 8 months 2 weeks ago • 3,779 views • 3:13

"These beads seem to levitate, defy gravity and jump out of the beaker. But how and why do they act like this? We met up with Steve Mould, the science guy from Britain's Brightest, to explore the science... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 11 months 1 week ago • 199 views • 5:15

YouTube Description: A quick look at the history of how your wardrobe was invented. Including underwear, jeans, socks, sunglasses, and more.

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 11 months 2 weeks ago • 229 views • 1:05

YouTube Description: Imagine a mouthful of pop rocks plus Novocaine plus dandelions and you'll have an idea of what buzz buttons are like! Big in Brazil, the buzz buttons inspired us to call on our favorite... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 year ago • 311 views • 5:27

Channels?

posted by grinter 1 decade 1 year 1 month ago • 2,427 views • 1:50

Happy October, Month of the Hexaflexagon! Oct. 21st is the annual Celebration of Mind, in honor of Martin Gardner. Maybe you'd like to host or attend a flexagon party sometime around then, or learn about... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago • 2,201 views • 4:45