YouTube description: After being diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal brain condition known as Moyamoya, Jennifer Lee was forced to face her own mortality and consider the things in life she held... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 589 views • 10:01Videos (211) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: At 15 years old, Tan Wei Tian already has a prolific 12 year opera career behind her. By day, she’s your average high school student, balancing schoolwork and friends; by night,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 296 views • 2:41Pinkman Goo is one of the most unique strains on earth!
posted by newtboy 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 676 views • 1:47YouTube description: As a little girl, Basma Hameed suffered a painful accident that left half of her face obscured by third-degree burns. She endured hundreds of surgeries and laser treatments to repair... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 477 views • 3:32YouTube description: What do Skrillex, David Bowie, Salt-N-Pepa and basically every drum and bass track have in common? They've all used the Amen break, a four-bar drum solo that has become the most... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months ago • 427 views • 4:05Eric Bazilian was explaining 4 track recording to a friend, and in the process wrote this song. YouTube description: The story behind the song One Of Us by Joan Osborne, written by Eric Bazilian.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 216 views • 6:37YouTube description: It takes blood, sweat, tears and a whole lot of long hours to be one of the best marching bands in the country. Just ask Abraham Duffie, Jr., head drum major for the Sonic Boom... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 808 views • 2:55YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 426 views • 10:05In the animated short “Drawn & Recorded: Teen Spirit” by Drew Christie of Kalakala Animation, narrator T-Bone Burnett tells the story behind the famous 1991 Nirvana song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”... continue reading
posted by eric3579 5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 691 views • 2:55YouTube description: This is the story of one of the best, and also one of the worst, text messages I've ever received. It's about harm, about consequences, and about the responsibilities that designers,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 608 views • 6:16YouTube description: From the dynamic Choy Li Fut martial art—made world famous by Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee—to the stunning dragon dance, Pun Keng Man takes great pride in building community through... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 259 views • 3:18YouTube description: On a small island, off the coast of Okinawa in Japan, the world’s most precious kimonos are crafted using a very unusual element: mud. The meticulous technique, which has been... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 2,040 views • 2:50This is the story of America's massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America's most advanced machinery - the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 5 months ago • 528 views • 12:48YouTube description: Kittie Weston-Knauer loves a challenge, so best not get in her way. She started BMX racing at 40 years old, initially competing against men and later working with the sport’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months ago • 150 views • 3:20This video is equally a promo for Google Cloud, and a really interesting story about the digitizing the photo library of the New York Times. YouTube description: Google Cloud is helping the New York... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 475 views • 3:56YouTube description: Live long and prosper? Nichelle Nichols sure has. At the height of the American civil rights movement, she played “Star Trek’s” Lieutenant Uhura—then one of television’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 350 views • 2:58YouTube description: A new technique is allowing researchers to study the inner workings of a cuttlefish brain by tracking colour changing cells in their skin. These cell are directly controlled by... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 462 views • 6:19"... an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of PBS's Newton's Apple. Join David Neil and his four young companions on an entertaining and illuminating trek through... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 30 views • 26:32YouTube 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) 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,158 views • 5:31YouTube description: Inventor Manu Prakash thinks you can’t understand Earth’s big problems without looking at the (really) tiny things. So he created Foldscope: an origami microscope that brings... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 138 views • 2:56