From the guy who brought you the awesome "history of Japan" video.

posted by eric3579 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,602 views • 19:26

YouTube description: Lost for decades beneath the streets of Naples, Italy, the Galleria Borbonica is a time capsule of the city's history. The system of tunnels and caverns was originally created in... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 139 views • 1:28

At the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California, there sits a small teapot. It's the world's most famous teapot.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 921 views • 2:34

"... In this episode we take a look at some facts, secrets, and history of Luigi. Luigi is was by Nintendo veteran Shigeru Miyamoto, and is portrayed as the fraternal twin brother of Mario. Luigi first... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 12 views • 7:36

YouTube description: For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 508 views • 9:18

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 515 views • 2:59

Published on Mar 11, 2012 Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean,... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 7 years 12 months ago • 475 views • 4:47

"... an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet..." From http://educatedearth.net/video.php?id=4569 ...

posted by ant 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 25 views • 8:10

The history and workings of the iconic minigun, both in the real world and portrayal in media/videogames

posted by blacklotus90 9 years 1 month ago • 914 views • 7:41

YT: In which John Green teaches you about nation building and nationalism in Latin America. Sometimes, the nations of Latin America get compared to the nations of Europe, and are found wanting. This is... continue reading

posted by RedSky 9 years 2 months 1 week ago • 207 views • 12:14

YouTube: In which John Green investigates war, and what exactly it may or may not be good for. Was war a result of human beings organizing into larger and more complex agricultural social orders, or did... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 281 views • 12:48

"... war is a pretty big deal in world history so we better spend some time talking about it, at least in the abstract."

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 256 views • 10:37

Via Brainpickings. Part 1. All of history's greatest figures achieved success in almost exactly the same way. But rather than celebrating this part of the creative process we ignore it. This missing... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 9 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 496 views • 5:49

For nearly all of human history, most people were very, very poor. But something happened after 1800. Average wages began to rise. For example, in the past 200 years, the average wage in the United States... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 9 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 999 views • 3:19

YouTube Description: In which John Green teaches you about the United States as it was in the 1990s. You'll remember from last week that the old-school Republican George H.W. Bush had lost the 1992 presidential... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 3 months ago • 247 views • 15:38

Since it is Labor Day in a good part of the world, here is a video about the incidents at Haymarket Square following the call for workers to strike on May 1st. It picks up on May 3rd. The events would... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 1,238 views • 5:15