YouTube description: We take a field trip to the 2018 Summer Steam-up, an annual gathering of hobbyists who build and operate model trains with working steam engines! Tested meets up with two model... continue reading
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A game of swingball in a pubic space that teaches you how to say iambic Pentameter. A famous Shakespearian text is on the lamp-post, people say two words each, hitting the ball on the accent only.
posted by harriet 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 172 views • 1:09Jadon Anderson on his career sat diving. "My deepest was 621 feet" "When you drop out into the unknown- and you know, I could be the first person that’s actually stood here. You’re in a different... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 664 views • 3:18YouTube description In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 521 views • 8:34Earth’s outer shell is made of two materials whose different densities and thicknesses give rise to two distinct “levels” on the planet’s surface.
posted by Mekanikal 5 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 777 views • 3:10Why did soldiers in World War Two get issued with clips of ammunition instead of magazines? The reasons are quite practical.
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 10 months 1 week ago • 21 views • 6:44Rue Canusa (or Canusa Avenue) is a street that's split in two by a border: the northern part is in Stanstead, Canada, and the southern part is in Derby Line, USA — and border crossings here aren't as... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,382 views • 2:55Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. Most people knew someone affected by the lethal drug. Just two decades later, the country has one of the lowest drug-related death rates in the world.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 497 views • 3:43How to DAD creator Jordan Watson takes a break from explaining how to Dad to explain the difference between Australia and New Zealand. This is part 2, but he should have called it version 2 because it's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 420 views • 4:26YouTube description: In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 724 views • 3:34YouTube description: Cliff explains his passion for two Friden EC-132s. Extra discussion and explanation at: https://youtu.be/HwZO4EXMMm0 More Cliff videos: http://bit.ly/Cliff_Videos Calculator... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,025 views • 9:20YouTube description: Epicurious challenged cheese expert and noted author Liz Thorpe to guess which one of two cheeses was more expensive. Liz breaks down cheap vs expensive parmesan cheese, goat cheese,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,451 views • 11:20YouTube description: What’s the environmental impact of online shopping and what are the solutions to make it more sustainable? (H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 651 views • 5:37I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 454 views • 5:46YouTube: The merging of two neutron stars was detected by gravitational waves and then by telescopes in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is a historic detection as it demonstrates: - the... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,229 views • 5:26Last year LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. The science world went a little crazy. Only a few weeks ago a new rumour emerged: that LIGO had, for the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 151 views • 15:51Published on May 21, 2017 After four years of living off the grid we've gathered some wisdom we'd like to share with you. Please enjoy...ten MORE things we wish we'd known before we went off grid. ... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,847 views • 10:28YouTube description: Berlin is becoming a "Sponge City" designed to tackle two issues - heat and flooding - by imitating nature.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 705 views • 4:11Too bad the eclipse is happening in the middle of MY night! YouTube: Please SHARE so people know what to look for on Eclipse Day! (NOTE: Be sure to get the correct app! There are two. You want actual... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 348 views • 2:49YouTube description: There’s an invisible line between two groups of islands in the Indian Ocean with two totally different animal populations. It took three branches of science to figure out why it exists. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 574 views • 4:53