From Youtube, "Let us explore the scientific mystery of what would happen to you if Earth suddenly turned into gold! The “Midaspocalypse”, based on the ancient tale of King Midas who was cursed so... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 2 weeks ago • 80 views • 9:17

Fantastic Infosec sea chanty - how to secure your online presence. Twitter: To reach the ~youth~ we're going to have to make infosec sea shanties, aren't we? Guess so! Behold the tale of kid who reuses... continue reading

posted by Zawash 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,241 views • 1:17

YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 70 views • 2:46

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) 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 590 views • 10:01

The bizarre and convoluted tale of Liberty Island

posted by ChaosEngine 6 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 648 views • 7:29

YouTube description: Wind can be one of the most critical and complicated loads on civil structures. The case of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a well-known cautionary tale that’s discussed in engineering... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months ago • 707 views • 8:48

YouTube description: There's a link from a 13th century legend, to a 16th century insult book, to a 19th century writer, to a 20th century comic book hero. And it starts in a small village near Nottingham,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 512 views • 2:46

The British love tales of their own military disasters. This was their greatest defeat in New Zealand. Artillery against clubs and spades.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 76 views • 30:04

He's given a TED talk too, https://www.ted.com/talks/andres_ruzo_the_mythical_boiling_river_of_the_amazon YouTube description: When Andrés Ruzo was a boy, his grandfather would tell him tales of... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months ago • 2,029 views • 2:34

Sit down. Take off your coat. Put on this and spend an hour of bliss hanging out with Tom. IMDB: Using rare archive, audio recordings and interviews viewers are taken on a trip through the surreal,... continue reading

posted by Zawash 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 63 views • 58:23

The nerdwriter takes a look at how the creators of "The Handmaid's Tale" use shallow focus to interesting effect.

posted by ChaosEngine 7 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 526 views • 6:45

The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 250 views • 5:56

YouTube: Three times in the last two weeks, people — a patient, a colleague and my wife — told me stories about how out of control the price of EpiPens were. Monday, my New York Times colleagues recounted... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 724 views • 7:02

"... it can take us awhile to fully grasp the downsides and side effects of new discoveries." I'll say! YouTube: SciShow explores the harrowing tale of the so-called Radium Girls, factory workers who... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 168 views • 4:39