Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 8 years ago • 136 views • 4:36Videos (90) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
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 ago • 404 views • 2:49The 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 ago • 14 views • 5:05YouTube 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 3 weeks ago • 688 views • 3:37If 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 ago • 269 views • 2:23Bernie 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 2 weeks ago • 600 views • 6:26The 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 1 month 3 weeks ago • 66 views • 1:55Mind 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 2 weeks ago • 7,222 views • 4:54Bros 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 10 months 4 weeks 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 ago • 345 views • 2:18YouTube 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 ago • 159 views • 2:47YouTube 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 ago • 1,569 views • 8:30There 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 5 months 4 weeks ago • 1,045 views • 6:52The original PBS story about the massive starfish die offs on both coasts. Scary stuff, as it could be the start of the collapse of both fisheries.
posted by newtboy 9 years 11 months ago • 593 views • 7:27In this documentary we illustrate the brightly coloured and social affairs that bring the 'Sapeurs' together. Their bold choice to live an unexpected lifestyle is a source of celebrated originality and... continue reading
posted by randeepsamra 1 decade ago • 32 views • 5:07Neat 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 4 months 3 weeks ago • 808 views • 1:43Vimeo: 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 5 months 4 weeks ago • 555 views • 4:04Interesting origins of some colorful English phrases.
posted by nock 1 decade 7 months 3 weeks ago • 427 views • 9:45"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 1 week ago • 3,779 views • 3:13