A more light hearted episode. On that solar eclipse hype train. I've never been so excited to literally not see something. Btw before someone's who's played aged of mythology chimes in, Mercury is a Roman... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months ago • 306 views • 3:20

"... The pigments in our food all get destroyed on their way through our digestive system...so where do the colors of our poop and pee come from? ..." This old ant poops and pees, of many colo(u)rs... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 28 views • 2:51

American healthcare might not be the best world, but it is the most expensive. *** It's true, ask for an itemized bill sometime. I had a panic attack a few months ago and ended up in the hospital. Since... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 2,092 views • 5:33

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 7 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 541 views • 8:11

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) 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 189 views • 1:58

The 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 This requirement was repealed...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 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,012 views • 8:52

YouTube 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) 8 years ago • 170 views • 3:27

YouTube: Hacking is tough, but stopping hackers can be even tougher.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 32 views • 8:47

YouTube 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) 8 years 3 months ago • 1,728 views • 3:13

YouTube: 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 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 461 views • 6:02

Uhoh 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 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 924 views • 3:50

YouTube: 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 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,690 views • 2:10

The original title had old movies, but fuck that, a movie from 2004 is not an 'old' movie.

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 4 months ago • 1,693 views • 3:16

This 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 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 902 views • 5:12

As Rhea explains, public defenders are often understaffed and underfunded.

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 256 views • 2:23

YouTube 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) 8 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 139 views • 1:28

YT-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 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 240 views • 22 secs

I 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 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 258 views • 7:16

The 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 8 years 6 months ago • 176 views • 4:46