YouTube description: Watch a video showing the conservation of a Michelangelo drawing on loan from Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, in preparation for the exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months ago • 459 views • 6:00Videos (56) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
When Cliff Stoll sets your homework, there's always an extra lesson.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 1,273 views • 5:35A game based on Rock Paper Scissors, using new elements.
posted by harriet 6 years 8 months ago • 168 views • 4:32In Crawfordsville, Indiana, there's a rotary jail: an invention that, with hindsight, should probably never have been built. But it was, here and in other towns across the United States. It might have... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 753 views • 3:17YouTube description: 23rd video of the Behind the Business Series. BIC is a corporation based in France best known for making ballpoint pens. It was founded in 1945 by Baron Marcel Bich and has become... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,203 views • 10:33Kale 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 7 years 1 week ago • 200 views • 6:13I built a water powered hammer called a “Monjolo”. I started by making a water spout from half a hollow log to direct water from the creek. This was set up in the creek and water flowed through it.... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,216 views • 8:51The Magnus effect is an amazing phenomena: It can lift rotating objects up into the air, seemingly defeating gravity. Bruce Yeany brought out a cool video showing how to make flyers from paper cups... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 583 views • 6:40"A whale is gonna die." YouTube: Every choice is ultimately about whales.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 119 views • 2:36YouTube description: Using scissors, tape, and reams of creativity, Matthew Reinhart engineers paper to bend, fold, and transform into fantastic creatures, structures and locales. By adjusting the angles... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months ago • 979 views • 5:24Public bathrooms are teeming with microbes! You know to wash your hands, but when choosing between a hand dryer or a paper towel to dry them off— what’s your cleanest bet?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months ago • 92 views • 3:05YouTube description: So...why does all the writing in comic books look like that? Vox's Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comics culture, technology, and really cheap paper. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 555 views • 8:33YouTube 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 9 months 2 weeks ago • 446 views • 2:52It seems like every few months, there’s some kind of news about problems with the scientific publishing industry. Why does this keep happening? And what can be done to fix the system?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 409 views • 9:11YouTube description: Have ever wondered how digital illustrations are made? This video explains the basics. Help us keep making videos by supporting us in https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth We try... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 week ago • 483 views • 3:49YouTube description: A massive document leak reveals the secrets of shell companies. Matt Yglesias explains, adapting an analogy from reddit user DanGliesack: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikei... ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months ago • 392 views • 2:07Exploding molten salt - what happens and why (probably, anyway) - this is the full video. :) From a YT comment: Clearly the explosion is down to the analogue imbalance transition within the hyperbolic... continue reading
posted by Zawash 8 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 583 views • 8:45A'yup YouTube: A new technology could make diseases like Zika a thing of the past. But should we use it? The CDC on Zika: http://www.cdc.gov/zika/ Vox explains Zika virus in 6 charts: http://bit.ly/1POrNjA... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 123 views • 5:36YT: Decades ago, few pediatricians had heard of autism. In 1975, 1 in 5,000 kids was estimated to have it. Today, 1 in 68 is on the autism spectrum. What caused this steep rise? Steve Silberman points... continue reading
posted by Zawash 8 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 263 views • 13:49YT "Some of the most infuriating and stabbing pain is caused by nothing but a thin sheet of paper. Scientific American editor Ferris Jabr explains why the page of a book can sometimes cause more anguish... continue reading
posted by blackfox42 9 years 1 week ago • 386 views • 2:03