YouTube description: Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 634 views • 6:45

Star Talk host, Hayden Planetarium director, and astrophysicist extraordinaire Neil deGrasse Tyson has a brilliant knack for breaking down big scientific ideas to the masses. But can he keep his facts... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 96 views • 26:04

(youtube) The Netherlands is well known for its excellent cycling infrastructure.

posted by pumkinandstorm 1 decade 2 years 2 months ago • 1,701 views • 6:29

This guy braves the trenches and attempts to explain if the portals in Portal could be possible, and what it would take to create them.

(H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 961 views • 10:50

YouTube: Long before we had cameras scientists still needed visual documentation—enter the science illustrator!

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months ago • 575 views • 11:50

YouTube: In which Hank kayaks around a lake that was bought with the destruction of fragile and irreplaceable ecosystems and also men's lives. Also, like, a lot of money. And he likes it. Lake Powell... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months ago • 531 views • 6:08

YT: Stephen Hawking has had the same trademark voice for 30 years and has now decided it's time for a change. Watch him view the audition tapes from hopeful celebrities...

posted by Zawash 7 years 9 months ago • 1,078 views • 5:31

From YouTube: A builder from Michigan USA has discovered some amazing techniques of how to move and lift huge stones onto one another. 032517

posted by chicchorea 7 years 9 months ago • 4,555 views • 6:27

Via YouTube: Incredible view of the western world from the mind of a small tribe living in the Amazon rain forest.

posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 9 months ago • 1,301 views • 6:30

YouTube description: Today's guest video is from Amy at Vintage Space! Go subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/vintagespace Amy brings with her one of the greatest props I've ever seen: an actual piece... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months ago • 214 views • 4:54

YouTube description: The unsung heroes of the footwear world? Both a tool and a beautiful work of craftsmanship, traditional snowshoes are what's made human habitation across the winter hinterlands... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 360 views • 3:04

This isn't even the strangest story about Muybridge (real name Edward James Muggeridge). In 1874 he shot and killed his wife's lover Major Harry Larkyns, but was aquitted by a jury who thought it was... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 102 views • 2:31

YouTube description: How an old letter and a printing press changed our pronunciation of a Scottish name. A story about Scots - neither English nor Gaelic! ~ Corrections & Additions ~ - The traditional... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 508 views • 3:49

Fully restored Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina plays "Lotosblumen Walzer" by E. Ohlsen. Restoration done by Fred Bernouw restorations in The Netherlands. Hupfeld’s ‘violin player’ was one of the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 542 views • 3:01

School of Life's close reading of Machiavelli's the Prince avoids the trap of "How to Be a Tyrant".

posted by oblio70 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 921 views • 5:17

the history of scurvy,how the cure was discovered and how the british navy dealt with this killer,and the cure we forgot.

posted by enoch 7 years 10 months ago • 104 views • 12:47