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 2 weeks ago • 678 views • 8:09

MUNCHIES heads to the Bollate jail just outside Milan to visit critically acclaimed restaurant InGalera, which means "in prison" in Italian. The restaurant is located inside a medium-security prison and... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 weeks ago • 678 views • 3:56

YouTube description: March 4: On this day in 1941, British troops captured an Enigma machine. For more visit http://qi.com From QI Series I, Episode 13 (H/T @eric3579)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months ago • 1,089 views • 6:30

In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 99 views • 6:27

At YouTube Space New York, there's the Mixed Reality lab: a virtual reality setup using an HTC Vive, a third controller, and some fancy compositing equipment. It's brilliant, and I got to visit and look... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 104 views • 4:26

YouTube description: The archerfish hunts by spitting water at terrestrial targets with weapon-like precision, and can even tell human faces apart. Is this fish smarter than it looks? ---+ Read the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 192 views • 3:36

YouTube description: As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months ago • 426 views • 9:15

YouTube 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 2 weeks ago • 510 views • 7:38

YouTube description: Greenford, Middlesex. An item about the manufacture of wallpaper. C/U on stuffed birds. C/U of an artist painting the birds in a design. Various shots of artists designing... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 446 views • 2:52

"... Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, visits the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium (http://www.healthebay.org) to experience sea creatures for the first time in his life..."

posted by ant 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 13 views • 7:03

"Elmo wants to learn all about cats. That's why Elmo's visiting his good friend and cat, Simon's cat! Let's watch Simon's cat and see what cat things he does! ..." I need a nap too. :P

posted by ant 7 years 10 months ago • 18 views • 2:57

YouTube description: In which John visits the Za'atari refugee camp in northern Jordan and talks with refugees there about their hopes, ambitions, fears, and complex lives. Thanks to everyone at UNHCR,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months ago • 144 views • 3:31

Watch this complex object get 3D printed in less than 15 minutes. Sean and Norm visit Carbon, the makers of the M1 3D printer, to get a demo of this new super fast 3D printing technology working in real-time.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 384 views • 24:31

The fascinating video above tells the story of MIT Professor Ioannis Yannas, who was recently inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame alongside such luminaries as the Wright brothers and Steve... continue reading

posted by enoch 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,844 views • 16:57

The Sweet Potato Council's own Head Honcho, 'You Got Him', is up on his tuber history by gum! YouTube: The reason "yams" and sweet potatoes taste the same to Americans is because they are the same.... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 153 views • 2:10

YouTube Description: Visit Rob's Channel the Obsolete Geek: https://www.youtube.com/user/robivy64 Visit me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/the8bitguy In this video, we'll cover 3 different... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 7 months ago • 595 views • 8:45

Must have been wonderful growing up Rashida Jones! YouTube: Actress, screenwriter, comic book author and documentarian, Rashida Jones, muses on the unheralded benefits of a nerdy upbringing, law vs.... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 8 months ago • 222 views • 3:42

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posted by newtboy 8 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 159 views • 1:26

From cereal to ice cream to cocktails, it seems that strawberries are served with just about everything. But it wasn't always this way. Today, Americans eat four times as many strawberries as they did... continue reading

posted by enoch 9 years 4 months ago • 644 views • 4:42

YouTube Description: Although widely thought to hail from the North Pole, Santa Claus is in fact originally from Turkey. The BBC's Mark Lowen visited the southern Turkish town of Demre to trace the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 159 views • 2:47