Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones. Over time this... continue reading
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The Rio Las Vacas in Guatemala is one of the most polluted rivers on earth. This small river is estimated to contribute 2% of the total plastic pollution we dump in the oceans yearly. The Ocean Cleanup... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 months ago • 111 views • 52 secsAlaska has cancelled this year's snow crab harvest for the first time ever after 90% of the snow crabs disappeared. BILLIONS of snow crabs vanished from the Bering Sea. By why? Why did billions of crabs... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months ago • 104 views • 11:29From Youtube, "Some places are more threatened by rising sea levels than others, but in the end, we'll all be paying a price. Alternate titles include: "Where You Shouldn't Invest in Real Estate," "Places... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 5 months 1 week ago • 294 views • 20:12https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 930 views • 7:59From Youtube, "Anti-gravity is one of those controversial subjects that some say is more in the realm of science fiction than science fact with many physicists saying it's just not theoretically possible... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months ago • 117 views • 14:25From Youtube, "Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. Did Rami Malek do a good job speaking through prosthetics to become... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 19 views • 25:20From Youtube, "Is it possible that butter dry aged steak can be better than a real dry aged steak? Today I am dry aging one whole rib roast for 60 days, one half was in butter and the half other is the... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 241 views • 12:58YouTube description: Hi there! I'm (finally!) back with the first video of 2019 explaining what is Reggaeton, one of the most popular music genre today, now a real global phenomenon that regularly... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 378 views • 2:07In which Brian McManus discusses the loss of the Mercury 1 mission after a component failure exposed an error in the error recovery code. (H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,402 views • 6:53One ringy dingy [E!] YouTube: Feel like your phone is spying on you? Find out if it's real!
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 11 months ago • 362 views • 5:11YouTube description: Huttese, Klingon, Dothraki—it’s all Greek to me. Just a bunch of sounds. Right? Not if you listen closely. Some of these constructed languages, or “conlangs,” pass as real... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 551 views • 4:32YouTube description: Ever wondered how they film a tank shell in flight for over 100m meters like it was travelling at walking speed or the instant of a nuclear explosion. In this video, I look at... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,678 views • 7:14"... In this episode of Overrated, Vox's Phil Edwards investigates the largely unheralded business reason behind the success of Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird.' Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 142 views • 5:28Dialect coach Erik Singer takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. To best break down this concept, Erik analyzes some actors playing real people. Just how close... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 428 views • 29:11Petscop, is a seemingly harmless, PS One game that never made it to market. But dig a little deeper, and you'll find there is no game. Just fake let's plays, of a fake game, telling a very REAL and traumatic... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 71 views • 17:59And before one of you fuckheads inevitably asks, no, jerry the goatfucker was not a real catholic saint.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months ago • 108 views • 4:59YouTube description: Get your free one month trial with The Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/cH94303M6Gt This month I was visiting my parents living in Dubai and I took the chance to make a video... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 510 views • 7:38This informative video shows how I catch catfish out of the storm sewer. I was using 20lb line, a small circle hook, and Sewer fishing is real and I encourage y'all to try it by using the methods in this... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 26 views • 2:51If you're keen to live out your own "Game of Thrones" battle fantasy (ahem, good luck), see Richard Furrer. The Wisconsin-based blacksmith forges Ulfberht style swords, the name given to a group of uncommonly... continue reading
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