YouTube description: Ross MacDonald makes his paper by making paper. For the last 25 years, he’s created tens of thousands of paper props for movies and television shows like “Baby’s Day Out,”... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 months ago • 2,098 views • 5:31

"It’s more than just dancing around. ... If you’ve ever seen an orchestra perform you’ve probably had a difficult time looking away from the person dead center on the stage – the conductor. It’s... continue reading

posted by ant 12 months ago • 12 views • 4:42

YouTube description: What do you do if you're lost in Central Park? How to always find your way out with the secret code in New York City 1800s street lights. (via laughingsquid)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,851 views • 2:20

Powerhouse Museum – Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Australia has created an incredible interactive area for kids, including giant wall screens that display scanned drawings made by the children... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 343 views • 1:36

YouTube description: The Park-Car was invented by Brooks Walker in the 1930s and patented in the 1950s. The car included a fifth wheel that allowed it to rotate in and out of parking spaces, as well... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 3 weeks ago • 499 views • 1:31

South Park is home to a surprising number of tempting foodstuffs. Granted, they're all subtly gross in one way or another, but that doesn't make Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls sound any less appealing. Especially... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 255 views • 9:33

It was just a routine workers’ compensation fraud case for Ken Sheppard. Show up for a spot check, do some surveillance of the subject and keep it pushing. But on March 3, 2014, it was anything but routine... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,150 views • 5:01

YouTube description: March 4: On this day in 1941, British troops captured an Enigma machine. For more visit http://qi.com From QI Series I, Episode 13 (H/T @eric3579)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,084 views • 6:30

The Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit (Black Mamba APU) is a mostly female ranger unit founded with the purpose of protecting wildlife in South Africa. They are on the front-line protecting dwindling numbers... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 86 views • 2:35

YouTube description: In Bremen, Germany, there's a tower more than a hundred metres high: it's called the Fallturm, or the Drop Tower. If you want a cost-effective way to test an experiment in microgravity... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 6 months ago • 295 views • 4:02

In Eastern Nevada on the top of Wheeler Peak in the Great Basin National park sit some of the oldest living organisms in the world. - https://facebook.com/atlasobscura

posted by newtboy 3 years ago • 41 views • 3:57

In 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 3 years ago • 418 views • 2:02

Sadly, I too remember Ivan the gorilla. YouTube: Responding to the shooting of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, Bill Nye says the treatment of animals in zoos is plainly unethical. Yet zoos do have... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 1 month ago • 59 views • 7:37

YouTube: You might think of national parks as a nice place to see a geyser, or a big ol’ canyon, but over the past 100 years, US national parks have produced some of the biggest, oldest, deepest, and... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 1 month ago • 214 views • 9:38

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths

posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 40 views • 1:59

Via Neatorama

posted by lucky760 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,356 views • 1:13

Yikes ... I can semi relate to Trey Parker's childhood impression of poop [Mr. Hankey anyone?]. My Grandma used to tell my sister and I that if we didn't have a bowel movement EVERY day it would back up... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 1,147 views • 2:47

When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly... continue reading

posted by eric3579 5 years 5 months ago • 4,752 views • 4:34