NightHawkInLight attempts to recreate a lost supermaterial called Starlite that supposedly died with its inventor.

posted by w1ndex 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 21:15

In a quiet corner of Kent State University, scientists are exploring innovative ways to study the past. We joined our friends at Gizmodo to visit Kent State University's Experimental Archaeology lab, where... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 45 views • 7:30

YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months ago • 443 views • 4:19

YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months ago • 397 views • 3:15

YouTube description: How many tries does it take an average player to do what professional pool players do on the first try? Your Average Pool Player attempts Corey Deuel's famous 2004 US Open draw... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,734 views • 5:07

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 6 months 1 week ago • 2,158 views • 5:31

From Youtube: Moonshine = Homemade whiskey. It's unlawful to produce in the United States. Laws vary by country. This story explains why. Do not recreate what this person did. The purpose of this video... continue reading

posted by nanrod 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 99 views • 14:24

The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is considered by the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy to be the "best drink in existence". While almost impossible to make on planet Earth, I needed to see if its effects... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months ago • 24 views • 6:55

The Krabby Patty is a thing of pop culture culinary legend - a burger, forged from a secret formula, worshipped by a sociopathically upbeat sponge. How do we go about recreating that which is not reacreate-able?... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 30 views

The Ulfberht swords were made during a brief period of the MIddle Ages, roughly around 200 years. The quality of the steel and forging techniques were not rediscovered in Europe until the industrial age... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 473 views • 19:15

YouTube description: John Reber had a plan: to dam the San Francisco Bay. He convinced some politicians - and it took the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bay Model they built in Sausalito, to prove... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,419 views • 4:34

Try how to drink and not to spill and prove the utmost of your skill.

posted by nock 9 years 12 months ago • 820 views • 6:29

YouTube Description: Light is so common that we rarely think about what it really is. But just over two hundred years ago, a groundbreaking experiment answered the question that had occupied physicists... continue reading

posted by aaronfr 1 decade 2 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 1,437 views • 7:40

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posted by sepatown 1 decade 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,522 views • 2:10

Vi Hart calls herself a “recreational mathemusician”, which sounds like fun! In this video, she teaches more about math than she missed by doodling during class. See more of this sort of thing at her... continue reading

posted by Hive13 1 decade 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 8,333 views • 4:36