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 8 years 7 months ago • 475 views • 4:47

From YT: A wide-ranging interview with the legendary mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson in which he discusses his work with Richard Feynman, his attempts to build a spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs... continue reading

posted by rbar 8 years 7 months 1 week ago • 475 views • 5:19

YouTube description: Tubes have carried cats, mail, and people for a really long time. Vox's Phil Edwards leads the tour... Thanks to Ben FrantzDale, Swisslog, and Renown Health for letting us use... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 198 views • 3:42

"The computer industry has changed drastically over the last 3 decades, but there are some things we've lost along the way."

posted by ant 8 years 8 months ago • 1,790 views • 7:20

YouTube description: In 1919 a wave of molasses traveling at 35mph destroyed an entire neighborhood - Subscribe for new videos every Wednesday http://bit.ly/1PcJ14b https://facebook.com/atlasobscura ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 366 views • 4:04

YouTube description: New species of lifeforms are being discovered and described on our planet every single day -- but, when we talk about a species, what are we really referring to? Turns out, the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 262 views • 6:53

YouTube Description: October 12, 2014 marks the 50 Year anniversary of the unveiling of the Moog modular synthesizer at the Audio Engineering Society's (AES) New York convention. On that day in 1964,... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 1 decade 1 month 2 weeks ago • 558 views • 15:06

YouTube description: Brady and Keith wind some of The Royal Society's historical clocks, including one used by Captain Cook. Films by James Hennessy and Brady Haran Royal Society website: http://bit.ly/Royal_Soc... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 9 months 1 week ago • 77 views • 5:56

Springfield, MO-based National Audio Company opened in 1969 and when other major manufacturers abandoned tape manufacturing for CD production in the late 1990s, the company held on tight. Now, the cassette... continue reading

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 10 months 1 week ago • 1,845 views • 16:57

YouTube Description: Jan. 21 -- Starting in 1908, Henry Ford sold his novel Model T cars as the first to be really accessible to the masses. What's more, he marketed them as easy to handle for casual... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 10 months 1 week ago • 983 views • 3:12

YouTube Description: Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 11 months ago • 850 views • 23:08

A quick summation of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. From YT: What is something? On the most fundamental level thinkable, what are things? Why are things? And why do things behave the way they do?

posted by RFlagg 8 years 11 months 1 week ago • 713 views • 5:34

"Recently, it's been reported that ISIS has been giving recruits amphetamines to push their limits as soldiers. While the prospect is scary, the idea of giving soldiers uppers is an old one."

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 8 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 634 views • 3:26