YouTube description: Frances Glessner Lee created dollhouses with dead dolls. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why. Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 717 views • 8:16

YouTube description: What do all those bodies of water really mean? In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards travels through the map to define bodies of water. Find Phil Edwards on Facebook... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,336 views • 5:15

"... In this episode of Overrated, Vox's Phil Edwards investigates the largely unheralded business reason behind the success of Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird.' Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 142 views • 5:28

"We're all familiar with Pomp & Circumstance, the graduation song that's the official soundtrack of almost every commencement. But how did it get so big? In this episode of Vox's Almanac, Phil Edwards... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 10 months ago • 132 views • 5:34

"Look in the margins of medieval books and you'll find an unusual theme: knights vs. snails. Vox's Phil Edwards investigated why in this episode of Vox Almanac..."

posted by ant 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 86 views • 4:37

YouTube description: There's a hidden market in the supermarket — Vox's Phil Edwards explains. Read the article here: http://www.vox.com/2016/11/22/13707022/grocery-store-slotting-fees-slotting-allowances... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 130 views • 6:59

YouTube 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) 8 years 6 months 1 week ago • 555 views • 8:33

YouTube description: This unreal experiment allows you to see air movement around any object. Download the music in this video: Song #1: Over Rain iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/over-rain-single/id1033... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 6 months 1 week ago • 307 views • 3:47

Join Phil for a tour of our capital-M Moon, from surface features, inside to the core, and back in time to theories about its formation.

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 8 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 218 views • 9:51

YouTube description: We've reached peak lens flare. Vox's Phil Edwards explains how it happened. Lens flare: it's familiar from the very shiny work of J.J. Abrams, but it goes far beyond his flare-strewn... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 987 views • 4:25

"We named the whole shebang after the sun." YouTube: In today's Crash Course Astronomy, Phil takes a look at the explosive history of our cosmic backyard. We explore how we went from a giant ball of... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade ago • 110 views • 10:17

From YT: A visit to the toilet is included in Professor Phil Moriarty's explanation of 3D glasses. How do 3D films give us that three dimensional effect?

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,522 views • 10:26

From YT: We're in Dublin discussing Ireland's only science Nobel Prize winner, Ernest Walton, known as ETS to his colleagues. One of those colleagues, Iggy McGovern, penned a poem about Walton called... continue reading

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 4 months ago • 1,481 views • 9:27

From YT: Sixty Symbols regular Professor Phil Moriarty discusses transparent glass and the so-called energy gap.

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 6,816 views • 5:56