Sam Harris speaks with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan about the origins of the COVID pandemic. They discuss the evidence of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, media and academic censorship of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 273 views • 58:27Videos (62) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Washing your hands after using the restroom - most of us only do so because a fellow co-worker is in the bathroom with us, and we wonder if he'll tell other people if we don't.
posted by BSR 1 year 7 months ago • 59 views • 10:28Amazon has shared surveillance video recorded by its doorbell camera system without attempting to contact users for their prior consent and without police obtaining a warrant. The company has now admitted... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 10 months 3 weeks ago • 66 views • 1:27In 2003, one of the most severe power outages in history affected the northeastern US and parts of eastern Canada. This video summarizes the events leading up to and during the blackout.
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 54 views • 20:39How do you rebuild one of the biggest spillways in the world after a catastrophic failure with the next flood season right around the corner? This video covers the engineering and construction required... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 280 views • 20:38The Millennium Tower at 301 Mission Street in San Francisco is famously tilting and sinking into the ground. How does geology affect the design of skyscraper foundations, and what is being done to fix... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 99 views • 13:32Marcin Wichary gives a really entertaining talk on looped videos, as a live looped video with no post production. Vimeo description: This is a remote Ignite talk I gave at Figma on May 27, 2021.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years ago • 139 views • 5:18February 2017 saw one of the most serious dam-related engineering incidents in history with the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. Whether they realized it or not, the people living and working... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 3 weeks ago • 465 views • 18:27Imagine pole-vaulting across dangerous terrain, down steep slopes and ravines. "Salto del pastor"—translated from Spanish as "the shepherd's leap"—is just that. Now a folk sport and hobby, it was once... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 751 views • 3:53When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and fingerpointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. This video provides a summary of the facts of the 2021 Texas winter storm. ... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 167 views • 16:48"Cookie Monster joins NPR's Life Kit Parenting Podcast to talk about practicing self-control, especially when you have to wait for something you really want... like a plate of delicious chocolate chip cookies..." ... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 3 months ago • 11 views • 5:07YouTube description: While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this unusual anatomy developed in the first place. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,094 views • 9:31Dr. Robin DiAngelo speaks about her book, "White Fragility" and systemic racism, "bringing language to the emotional structures that make true discussions about racial attitudes difficult. With clarity... continue reading
posted by alcom 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 11 views • 1:23:31Createk third-arm : Supernumerary robotic arm powered by magnetorheological clutches and an hydrostatic transmission. Fast enough to compensate for human motions while being safe for physical human-robot interaction. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 123 views • 2:51YouTube description: People use boats for all kinds of reasons, and in the same way, there are all kinds, shapes, sizes, and ages of locks used for waterway navigation across the world. Freight is big... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months ago • 248 views • 10:37From Youtube, "A brief overview of this ingenious method of compressing air using only the power of water. The way a trompe harnesses the power of water to generate compressed air with no moving parts... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,217 views • 8:50YouTube description: To prepare him for landing the lunar module, Neil Armstrong practiced on a training vehicle, right here on Earth. It was designed to replicate flying within a gravitational pull... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 462 views • 2:14