YouTube description: In which John gets curious about the last time global human population declined and ends up learning about a period of human history called The General Crisis. Thanks to Our World... continue reading
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Journalist Ashlee Vance travels to Montreal, Canada to meet the founders of Lyrebird, a startup that is using AI to clone human voices with frightening precision. Source: Bloomberg
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 412 views • 6:14We explore the roles that robots are starting to play in construction and look at how they will affect our industry in the future. Source: The B1M
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 19 views • 5:48How long does it take to learn guitar? Here is my first 1 year guitar progress from absolute beginner. I'm adult beginner and start my learning at March 27 2017 when I took the guitar for the first time... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 11 months ago • 1,630 views • 6:08Between 1950 and 1970 the number of deaths on Sweden's roads more than doubled. Today though, it has one of the world’s lowest rates of traffic fatalities. This is the story of how the Swedish Government... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,871 views • 3:31A Worland Fire Protection Unit captures an incredible and surreal video showing a sulfur-mound fire with fire tornadoes caused by burning sulfur and sulfur dioxide in Worland, Wyoming. The burning... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,431 views • 1:03Source: Vox
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 19 views • 8:44Without neutrons, harnessing nuclear energy would be impossible. Try Audible free for 30 days: http://audible.com/veritasium I have a new documentary coming out in a few months - sign up here to be... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 12 months ago • 666 views • 7:38Kids at the Northwest Fencing Academy learn about the effectiveness of the tesudo (tortoise) formation used by the Roman legion. Source: Northwest Fencing Academy
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years ago • 987 views • 48 secsThe network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO What happened with Cambridge Analytica highlights this perfectly. ... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 2 weeks ago • 520 views • 5:35Powerhouse Museum – Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Australia has created an incredible interactive area for kids, including giant wall screens that display scanned drawings made by the children... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 2 weeks ago • 346 views • 1:36Police in West Midlands, UK have released footage of criminals stealing a car by relaying a signal from the key inside the home, to the car in the driveway. Source: CNNMoney I've always wondered... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 2 weeks ago • 961 views • 1:30US Car Number 1, the Ferdinand Magellan, sits in the Gold Coast Railway Museum in Miami. It's 120 tonnes of bulletproof, armoured railcar: a train carriage designed to move the President of the United... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 3 weeks ago • 398 views • 4:59Why is the NRA -- a group that represents the interests of gun manufacturers -- taken seriously in debates about reducing gun violence? Source: VOX
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month ago • 1,061 views • 8:55this video demonstrate how the automatic mahjong table shuffles the tiles, each table has 2 sets of mahjong tiles. Source: mike102688
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month ago • 1,354 views • 1:15Go back in time with these NBC News archive clips from 1994 and 1995 when the "World Wide Web" and Internet were mere mysteries. Source: Today
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 17 views • 2:12More than 70 people try to say 70 tongue twisters from 70 countries. In this tongue twisters challenge, citizens from all around the world attempt funny tongue twisters in different languages. Most English... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 28 views • 4:06Anyone can learn to be a productive worker. This video discusses 2 ways to do this: working smarter and working harder. Productivity is a key ingredient to earning more money, and a key ingredient to feeling... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 770 views • 12:44World Chase Tag presents the first match of the WCT2 Qualifiers at Release the Movement in Swansea. Rules: 2 teams, 12 rounds per game I didn't know Competitive Tag was a thing! Source: World... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 56 views • 6:46At 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 2 weeks ago • 406 views • 7:08