"Discover how alcohol impacts your body’s processes and causes hangovers, and find out what causes the most common hangover symptoms. The molecule responsible for hangovers is ethanol, which we colloquially... continue reading
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The Smithsonian Natural History Museum houses 147 million specimens — everything from pickled animals to priceless gems to dinosaur bones. But less than 1% of it's on display. The rest is hidden behind... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 year 11 months 2 weeks ago • 59 views • 12:15the takeaways from this video...when it was posted; the slogan 'x matters'; a simple healthcare measure still unavailable for many and how control of a women's life, or the most humane way to prevent abortions,... continue reading
posted by luxintenebris 2 years 3 weeks ago • 126 views • 2:53In most developed countries, workers have the right to a certain number of paid sick days. It’s a policy that isn’t rooted in just generosity — during pandemics like the novel coronavirus, it can... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 1 month ago • 430 views • 6:33Texas dad Jeffrey Younger has been fighting in the courts to stop his ex-wife from gender "transitioning" their 7-year-old son, James. On October 24, 2019, Dallas Judge Kim Cooks ruled to allow Younger... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 4 years 6 months ago • 9 views • 10:48Hank explains in moderate detail why HBO's Chernobyl explanation of "control rods with graphite tips" is misleadingly simplistic. Learn about how the RBMK design of the Chernobyl reactor was stable,... continue reading
posted by fuzzyundies 4 years 10 months ago • 513 views • 13:30In the last few years, wildfires have been getting worse - and, oddly, it's because humans have been preventing them. From a helicopter above the forests of British Columbia, and from the Tree Ring Lab... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 125 views • 3:46At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 406 views • 7:08The European Space Agency (ESA) is part of an international effort to monitor and – ultimately – tackle space debris. This junk – accumulated in orbit since the dawn of the space age sixty years... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 2 months ago • 136 views • 3:37YT: I built an A frame hut as a large work space for projects. First I made a celt hatchet to cut timber for the hut. The axe head was made of amphibolite and the handle was made of a species of wattle.... continue reading
posted by nanrod 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 524 views • 9:05I made a brick mold that makes bricks 25 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm from wood. A log was split and mortise and tenon joints were carved using a stone chisel and sharp rocks. The mold was lashed together with cane... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months ago • 1,024 views • 10:47I 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) 6 years 12 months ago • 1,216 views • 8:51I 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 1 month ago • 419 views • 11:27In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months ago • 99 views • 6:27From NYT: "...a really big drain called a spillway. And once you see it full of spiraling water, it is hard to take your eyes off it. For the first time in a decade, January and February have brought... continue reading
posted by chicchorea 7 years 2 months ago • 1,883 views • 1:31YouTube: Heart disease continues to be the number one killer in the United States. Because of that, billions of dollars are spent every year on medications that reduce your risk of disease and death. Compounding... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 46 views • 6:22After installing the Windows Anniversary Update for Windows 10 it would seem we picked up a lot more than we bargained for. There is a feature now that allows Microsoft to quietly install popular games... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 81 views • 13:57"Urushiol oil in poison sumac, poison oak, and poison ivy may produce a severe skin rash. Timely urushiol removal can prevent poison ivy skin reaction. The key is to understand how poison ivy works... ... continue reading
posted by ant 7 years 9 months ago • 1,239 views • 5:14YouTube: Thanks, in part, to the generous support of the NIHCM, this month we are releasing four special episodes on Opioids. We hope you enjoy them. This week’s episode: Treatment - The best way... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 88 views • 6:43YouTube description: I made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's made from. This is because the... continue reading
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