"Why does America's system for picking the president start in Iowa? Before Americans vote on the next president in November, both major political parties have to settle on a nominee. That process is... continue reading
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YouTube description: Life is chemistry. From diatom to Diana, life is not a magical imbued trait, is a process of the physics of our universe. The precise and convoluted chemistry of life requires specific... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 508 views • 10:13YouTube description: Hi :) I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,278 views • 2:37"... We’ve all gotten dizzy before… but have you ever gotten WEIRD DIZZY? I teamed up with Vanessa Hill from BrainCrat to answer the question 'why do we get dizzy?' and in the process we learned about... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years ago • 659 views • 9:22YouTube description: Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great. Check out SimpliSafe... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,004 views • 12:52YouTube description: Sabra Kauka finds great joy in making the past present. A cultural practitioner on Kauai, she teaches Hawaiian children the arts of their ancestors, including kapa. In this physically... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 347 views • 4:13YouTube description: Technical details about what we're doing: We're working on a time-series problem called a Sequence Classification. Recurrent Neural Networks called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 566 views • 10:41Eric Bazilian was explaining 4 track recording to a friend, and in the process wrote this song. YouTube description: The story behind the song One Of Us by Joan Osborne, written by Eric Bazilian.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 216 views • 6:37YouTube 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) 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 417 views • 11:31YouTube description: Canned fish has been around for over a century and has been enjoyed around world. Still, no one loves their fish more than Portugal, where old traditions of fishing, canning and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 449 views • 3:30YouTube description: For the past 30 years, Paul Francis has been crafting the perfect sound, honing his skills at a company that has been in the business of making cymbals for 400 years. Making cymbals... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months ago • 831 views • 2:41YouTube description: The type of sushi you’re probably most familiar with is haya-nare, a quick form of sushi made and consumed within a day using vinegared rice and raw fish. But there’s a second... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 562 views • 2:55YouTube description: Let's find out how they put 3D images into glass objects. Known as a 'Bubblegram', vitrography or sub-surface laser engraving, this technology has been around for a very long time... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 weeks ago • 308 views • 6:28At 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 4 weeks ago • 406 views • 7:08From YT: Video highlighting my research on PowerPoint Turing Machines for CMU's SIGBOVIK 2017 From me: So it turns out PowerPoint is Years ago when I discovered you could export PowerPoint files... continue reading
posted by Ickster 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 58 views • 5:34YouTube description: Epicurious challenged cheese expert and noted author Liz Thorpe to guess which one of two cheeses was more expensive. Liz breaks down cheap vs expensive parmesan cheese, goat cheese,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,451 views • 11:20YouTube description: Watch a video showing the conservation of a Michelangelo drawing on loan from Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, in preparation for the exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months ago • 459 views • 6:00This video is about using particle accelerators as part of the solar panel silicon wafer manufacturing process. The accelerators embed protons into the wafer crystals, allowing them to break and separate... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 568 views • 3:42Plywood is a simple material made by glueing together thin sheets of wood, known as veneers or plies. These basic elements have remained broadly the same throughout its history. The most significant breakthrough... continue reading
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