"There's a scientific reason behind your 'second stomach.' ... How is it that, after stuffing ourselves full at dinner, we somehow find room to eat again once dessert comes around? Turns out, the thing... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 234 views • 4:15Videos (82) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
From Youtube, "Wine legs aka wine tears or wine fingers are stranger than they seem."
posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 425 views • 10:25They keep asking me. I keep telling them I am notarobot, but they never seem to remember. At least not for very long.
posted by notarobot 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 388 views • 7:40YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 498 views • 6:19"Elevator. It’s a fascination and a fear for many. Countless action movies and TV shows feature stuck elevators, fights in elevators, and, of course falling elevators. How many times when an elevator... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 219 views • 7:36From Youtube: It’s hard to define what makes something beautiful, but we seem to know beauty when we see it. Why is that and how does beauty affect our subconscious?
posted by w1ndex 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 544 views • 7:37YouTube description: Everything seemed normal on the second leg of American Airlines Fight 96, June 12, 1972. Captain Bryce McCormick sat back to take a sip of coffee and admire the view. Then, suddenly,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 462 views • 11:00"It’s more than just dancing around. ... If you’ve ever seen an orchestra perform you’ve probably had a difficult time looking away from the person dead center on the stage – the conductor. It’s... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 4:42As an American living in Thailand, I sometimes see Buddhist (and other Eastern religion) symbols that are pretty close to being swastikas. In many cases, I think that is done without knowledge of the... continue reading
posted by MilkmanDan 5 years 12 months ago • 145 views • 7:23Seems we can run pretty much everything on a single-phase AC, then why bother with 3 phases??
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 weeks ago • 24 views • 10:57We show you all the six types of charisma in MCU that seems so irresistible to women. One of the most common misconceptions of charisma is that one size must fit all. The truth is that while there are... continue reading
posted by wifidogs 6 years 2 weeks ago • 23 views • 15:49I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 1,223 views • 3:54At this time of year we have to start being extra watchful – our lambs are vulnerable to attack from this silent killer.. Not everyone is going to agree with this thesis – but I’ve been rescuing... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,496 views • 3:32Hydraulic transients (also known as water hammer) can seem innocuous in a residential setting, but these spikes in pressure can cause major damage to large pipelines and industrial pipe networks. In this... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 1,829 views • 7:40YouTube 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) 6 years 6 months ago • 1,980 views • 4:40I 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 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 454 views • 5:46YouTube description: What do all those bodies of water really mean? In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards travels through the map to define bodies of water. Find Phil Edwards on Facebook... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,336 views • 5:15Petscop, is a seemingly harmless, PS One game that never made it to market. But dig a little deeper, and you'll find there is no game. Just fake let's plays, of a fake game, telling a very REAL and traumatic... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 71 views • 17:59From http://www.reddit.com/r/nerdwriter/comments/2niyga/black_friday_is_not_what_it_seems/ ...
posted by ant 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 20 views • 5:34YouTube: I have always thought that sex ed and statistics should be the same course. There's no better way to show how vital stats is to your every day life than to look at statistics. Probabilities... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 411 views • 3:56