"... Let's face it! The world hates fire ants. It is not hard to understand why seeing as they are a major domestic pest in many countries, as well as a very dangerous agricultural pest, like in the Unites... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 296 views • 15:53

YouTube description: Google Earth is the most photorealistic, digital version of our planet. But how?! Where do the images come from? How are they they put together? And how often are they updated?... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 678 views • 8:09

Chef is holy ground for film foodies, and as demonstrated in a previous episode, has some real culinary chops behind it (courtesy of Roy Choi). I love a good Cubano as much as the next guy, but can some... continue reading

posted by Mekanikal 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 43 views • 3:48

We love wood here at The Slingshot Channel. It is our most important raw material by a great margin. When we found this 20" piece of European Dogwood (Cornus Sanguinea) while cleaning up the shed, we immediately... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 204 views • 13:07

YouTube description: Meet Professor Jamie Seymour, he milks stuff. But nothing that moos, has hooves, wool or fur. He prefers to live life on the edge, milking the venom from the most venomous animals... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years ago • 176 views • 4:26

YouTube description: Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes — from a childhood... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 week ago • 155 views • 13:08

YouTube: Our relationships are often not quite as warm and perfect as they should be. That’s perhaps because we’re comparing them with a relationship in the past to which they shouldn’t – in fairness... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 weeks ago • 249 views • 5:57

"Larry Smith doesn’t just live with Parkinson’s. He rises above it." "After a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s, Larry has exhausted every conventional method of treatment, every drug, and even... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 1 month 1 week ago • 638 views • 7:59

Man, I love the psychology of death and the macabre.

posted by brycewi19 1 decade 5 months ago • 201 views • 13:51

YouTube: Life can get stressful in the wild and some animals are getting high to cope with it! Here are four animals that are taking the edge off in some pretty crazy ways.

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 6 months ago • 189 views • 1:27

In summery, Destin wants us to "love the mantis shrimp". I dunno ... seems too violent for my particular taste [though the slo-mo stuff is riviting].

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 6 months 1 week ago • 804 views • 7:21

An understanding of how we develop as human beings based on early, sometimes cruel experiments involving primates.

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 8 months 4 weeks ago • 214 views • 11:38

Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading

posted by Zawash 1 decade 9 months 2 weeks ago • 255 views • 43:41

YT: "Tidal forces don't just affect the ocean... They can affect entire galaxies." Also, tempting for a *cute for the lovely scientist.

A clever 'n' cute little love story told on a Möbius strip by Vi Hart, of "Doodling in Math Class" fame.

posted by FlowersInHisHair 1 decade 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 4,761 views • 7:15