Australia's Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world and the only living structure visible from space. Although ecosystem managers in Australia have worked hard to preserve the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 541 views • 8:11Videos (134) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: It was fall of 1918. The Allied military’s tactical movements were jeopardized by the German military’s superior espionage capabilities. Not only were the Germans tapping Allied... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 188 views • 1:58The US signed the metre convention and bases all customary units on SI standards. As an aside, the Utah constitution from 1895 required the metric system to be taught in schools. This requirement was repealed... continue reading
posted by eric3579 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,012 views • 8:52YouTube description: More than five million people die every year from pollution-related illnesses, and nearly 10,000 of those deaths occur in London. But Romain LaCombe has made it his mission to change... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 weeks ago • 170 views • 3:27YouTube: Hacking is tough, but stopping hackers can be even tougher.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 31 views • 8:47YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,726 views • 3:13YouTube: Many people have to wait too long to see a doctor. And it could get worse. If, as many people believe, we have a shortage of doctors in the United States, then it follows that we can fix this... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 460 views • 6:02Uhoh YouTube: Most systems and machines people design break from time to time. That also applies to the United States' nuclear weapons. This video was originally published in June 2015.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months ago • 924 views • 3:50YouTube: Switzerland has a reputation for being... not paranoid, exactly, but certainly careful with their own safety. Zurich exemplifies this: not just with its fallout shelters, but with an entire backup... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months ago • 1,690 views • 2:10The original title had old movies, but fuck that, a movie from 2004 is not an 'old' movie.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,693 views • 3:16This reputed business genius appears to know nothing about business This anti tax, anti government genius just gave away $7 million of tax dollars (per year?) to Carrier with no guarantee of anything... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 901 views • 5:12As Rhea explains, public defenders are often understaffed and underfunded.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 255 views • 2:23YouTube description: Lost for decades beneath the streets of Naples, Italy, the Galleria Borbonica is a time capsule of the city's history. The system of tunnels and caverns was originally created in... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 139 views • 1:28YT-FYI: I don't count the 1824 election as the final winner was determined by the house of representatives and thus not *technically* a straight-up Electoral College fail. From what I was taught, the... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 240 views • 22 secsI built a prawn trap from lawyer cane, sticks and vine. Then I caught some prawns and ate them. Prawn (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquatic life due to their shape. It consists... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 257 views • 7:16The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit system threads its way through West Virginia University, taking thousands of people a day around the campus, non-stop. It's a system that was meant to be the future:... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 176 views • 4:46I'd like to cut *the donald* big league! YouTube: In which John Green compares the tax proposals of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and looks at what the tax system and budget would look like for... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 670 views • 10:34Inuktitut syllabics are brilliant. A writing system that's not an alphabet, but something really clever: an abugida, one designed from scratch for a language very unlike anything European. /YT
posted by notarobot 7 years 7 months ago • 84 views • 4:06"It has the most hilarious name out any planet in our solar system, but there's more to Uranus 'dan dis'. It had plenty of rings surrounding it and is the 7th planet from the Sun. Learn all you need to... continue reading
posted by ant 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 3:50