The Kessler syndrome is a scenario where, if too many collisions occur between pieces of space debris, low earth orbit will become filled with clouds of tiny particles. All those particles floating around... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 months 3 weeks ago • 55 views • 7:34

We all know Richard Hammond loves a 4x4, and they don’t come much more legendary than the first ever road-going Land Rover, known affectionately as ‘JUE’. Richard takes us through the story of rediscovering... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 7 months ago • 233 views • 14:10

What is you could solve the shape puzzle with only one piece instead of 3? Modelling using Boolean Intersections may be rarely used, but the results are really interesting and well worth experimenting with!

posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months ago • 132 views • 6:44

The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 3:56

So you want to visit a black hole? Before you do, here's one piece of advice from NASA.

posted by noims 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 111 views • 2:40

YouTube description: This translucent Deepstaria jelly unfurled as it whorled and shapeshifted in currents created by ROV Hercules' thrusters. Its bright red resident isopod, a relative of the pillbug,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 793 views • 5:43

"... Step aboard Discovery and explore the space shuttle in 360. National Air and Space Museum and Google Arts & Culture have teamed up to bring a piece of Hubble’s history to life like never before.... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 7 months ago • 18 views • 6:55

YouTube description: Learn about the life and art of Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, who explored disability, relationships and Mexican culture in her work. -- In 1925, Frida Kahlo was... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 152 views • 4:06

YouTube description: Ruben Orozco Loza is an artist from Guadalajara, Mexico. He is a self-taught sculptor. He creates sculptures of celebrities and everyday people using modeling clay, silicone, resin,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 week ago • 1,444 views • 3:06

What do you get when you take a boxy little hatchback, replace the backseat with a high-performance engine, and add a turbo? You get one of the most badass pieces of automotive engineering thought up by... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 6 years 4 weeks ago • 63 views • 13:02

YouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months ago • 417 views • 11:31

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) 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 2,158 views • 5:31

After much arguing with Americans I'm now fairly convinced it's 'math' not 'maths'. A piece of me has died. -yt

posted by eric3579 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 685 views • 5:25

When Cliff Stoll sets your homework, there's always an extra lesson.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 1,275 views • 5:35

YouTube description: This is how we go from single cells to people. EVO-DEVO Huxley B. Mac. Oh Carroll, Carroll Gould, Stephen Jay yeah D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter See One cell divide and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 923 views • 4:46

YouTube description: The fade out is underrated. It should come back. The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today's hits it's much... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 494 views • 7:42

exurb1a takes us on a brief tour of the most amazing piece of engineering we are aware of, the human body.

posted by ChaosEngine 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 399 views • 7:35

‘I was stunned when the pieces started falling into place,’ recalls specialist Howard Dixon of the moment an unassuming folio of photographs was presented to him in a restaurant in Texas earlier this year. ... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,174 views • 3:34

I built this pottery kiln and some pottery from termite mound clay to test an alternative clay source to my usual one from the creek bank. I started by making a large grate from ordinary clay. It was just... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 420 views • 11:27

We love wood here at The Slingshot Channel. It is our most important raw material by a great margin. When we found this 20" piece of European Dogwood (Cornus Sanguinea) while cleaning up the shed, we immediately... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 204 views • 13:07