https://youtu.be/vfWUorR8D60 Christmas isn’t just a time for presents, cookies, and holiday cheer, but the hunting period of Iceland’s murderous monster feline, the Yule Cat. This giant, fluffy... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 573 views • 10:04

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 877 views • 3:16

YouTube description: The extraordinary story of a runaway Soviet Air Force MiG-23 that flew from Poland to Belgium in 1989, sparking a major security scare between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and ended... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 424 views • 4:46

YouTube description: In 1951, the American F-86 Sabre went head-to-head with the Soviet MiG-15 in the skies above North Korea. Both sides wanted to capture examples of each others aircraft. The Soviets... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 824 views • 6:07

YouTube description: Discover what happened when an RAF pilot ejected from his Harrier GR.1 jump jet over West Germany in 1971 - it made a break for the East German border!... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 686 views • 3:52

https://youtu.be/PZoaKzEXzi8 It's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE! ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 599 views • 9:49

Petoi Nybble, the first product of OpenCat

posted by newtboy 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 590 views • 2:03

YouTube 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) 6 years ago • 1,004 views • 12:52

YouTube description: Skiing and sledding down a mountain? Amateur hour. Try rolling through on a wooden bike. Say hello to the Velogemel, a snow bike local to the Swiss town of Grindelwald. Named for... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 weeks ago • 376 views • 3:08

The Hunt-Lenox globe is the second-oldest surviving terrestrial globe and also the oldest known globe to depict the Americas. The globe is covered in hidden details, including the Latin phrase, HC SVNT... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 1 month ago • 497 views • 2:26

Saturday Night Live's cue card supervisor, Wally Feresten, gives a behind-the-scenes look at an integral and iconic part of the show's production.

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 28 views • 6:53

YouTube description: Engineers need to be able to predict how water will behave in order to design structures that manage or control it. And fluids don’t always behave the way you’d expect. On this... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 752 views • 8:43

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: Joe Barnard left his background in videography and music production to launch his life of amateur rocketry, and he shares his DIY adventures in building rockets on his YouTube channel... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months ago • 916 views • 9:36

Electric cars are touted as a solution for reducing emissions and improving the environmental impacts of transportation, but are electric cars actually any better for the environment than gasoline cars?... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 475 views • 13:47

YouTube description: The Japanese Car Company is a corporate behemoth - but it's done much more than just give us Corollas or Land Cruisers. It's changed the way the world makes products. Here's how. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,729 views • 4:52

So unshelled Brazil nuts are actually seeds found inside a larger fruit that looks like a cannonball. Learn something new everyday.

posted by nanrod 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 396 views • 11:08

"... When nutrients from the ocean depths reach the sunlit surface (like in the Galapagos), life is more productive..."

posted by ant 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 54 views • 2:56

(H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 689 views • 10:59