"... Have you ever looked at the front of a car and seen a face? Or an electrical outlet and seen a face? You definitely have. We all see faces everywhere we look thanks to a fun quirk of the human brain... continue reading

posted by ant 8 months 3 weeks ago • 51 views

The original Star Wars trilogy was groundbreaking for its special effects, its world building, its action, and so, so much more. But if you ask George Lucas, it isn't the action, nor the performances,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 11 months ago • 45 views • 10:59

"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

posted by ant 2 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 5 views • 4:52

This month a paper came out that honestly chilled me. It was about tipping points in climate - a well-known concept that the climate can change abruptly if certain conditions are met in certain elements... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months ago • 78 views • 11:01

"I’m vaccinated. I’m boosted. And I still got infected with the omicron variant of COVID-19. Here’s what I learned, and what it means for the possible end of this pandemic. References and sources:... continue reading

posted by ant 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 106 views • 17:55

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 168 views • 20:41

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: Comparing modern concrete to that of the western Roman empire. In this video, I discuss a few modern techniques that help improve design life of concrete, including roller compacted... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 495 views • 9:34

YouTube description: To quote from clickbait 'The answer might surprise you' - lots of references still say the mighty F-1 engine used on the Saturn V is the post powerful rocket motor ever, but, there... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 8 months ago • 805 views • 7:42

YouTube description: There's a link from a 13th century legend, to a 16th century insult book, to a 19th century writer, to a 20th century comic book hero. And it starts in a small village near Nottingham,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 512 views • 2:46

Robert Levin plays the third movement of Mozart's Sonata No. 17 in B flat major K 570, and talks about the differences between the instrument it was composed on and the pianos typically used today and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months ago • 1,130 views • 4:37

YouTube description: This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallacy where seemingly contradictory results are implied by a single set of data depending on how it's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,981 views • 4:40

I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 454 views • 5:46

"During a hurricane you usually hear meteorologists refer to its intensity by categories. If you don't know the difference between a category 1 and a category 5 hurricane, The Weather Channel meteorologist... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 70 views • 1:51

YouTube description: The fade out is underrated. It should come back. The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today's hits it's much... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 494 views • 7:42

YT: The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, sells Standard Reference Materials, or SRMs for short. They're analysed, quantified, and certified substances: everything from metals, to elements,... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 474 views • 4:13

It was just a routine workers’ compensation fraud case for Ken Sheppard. Show up for a spot check, do some surveillance of the subject and keep it pushing. But on March 3, 2014, it was anything but routine... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 years 2 weeks ago • 1,157 views • 5:01

"Tardigrades, also referred to as "water bears," are eight-legged microscopic animals that are seemingly impossible to kill, having been found everywhere from Antarctica to the deep sea."

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 8 years 1 month ago • 1,101 views • 4:10

YouTube description: Meet Professor Jamie Seymour, he milks stuff. But nothing that moos, has hooves, wool or fur. He prefers to live life on the edge, milking the venom from the most venomous animals... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month 1 week ago • 176 views • 4:26