YouTube description: When scientists first split the atom, they didn’t realize what they’d done until physicist Lise Meitner figured out they had discovered what we now call nuclear fission.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 729 views • 6:41HOST: History of Science and Technology
Updated: 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago
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This playlist is meant to include videos that follow the human understanding of the nature of things and the world through history.
I made a brick mold that makes bricks 25 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm from wood. A log was split and mortise and tenon joints were carved using a stone chisel and sharp rocks. The mold was lashed together with cane... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,024 views • 10:47The Soviet TU-144 came out earlier, and flew faster than the better known Concorde (on which it was heavily based thanks to spies), so why didn't it become the better known supersonic carrier? Was it simple... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 2,733 views • 6:50In Crawfordsville, Indiana, there's a rotary jail: an invention that, with hindsight, should probably never have been built. But it was, here and in other towns across the United States. It might have... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 759 views • 3:17YouTube description: In the region of Cusco in Peru, a unique centuries-old Incan tradition continues to this day. Each year during the second week of June, hundreds of locals gather to hand build a... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months ago • 1,203 views • 3:48YouTube: In the 1950s, the people of Minamata, Japan started seeing strange behavior from the local cats, and it wasn't long before humans were showing the same symptoms.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 2 months ago • 669 views • 5:25Electrifying! In Select Theaters 11/24/2017 YouTube: Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse, THE CURRENT WAR is the epic story of the cutthroat competition... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 2 months ago • 693 views • 2:34This is very much not how I remember it being reported around the time of the repair mission. I'm sure that at the time it was incorrectly reported as being due to the effect of grinding the mirror under... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months ago • 1,191 views • 7:52YouTube description: Many structures built by ancient Romans around 2,000 years ago are still standing, and some are still in excellent condition. Over the last decade, researchers have come discover... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months ago • 688 views • 1:58Real Engineering goes into the history of the US GPS system.
posted by RFlagg 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,073 views • 7:42YouTube description: The Park-Car was invented by Brooks Walker in the 1930s and patented in the 1950s. The car included a fifth wheel that allowed it to rotate in and out of parking spaces, as well... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 501 views • 1:31Exurb1a gives his take on Western Philosophy.
posted by w1ndex 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 364 views • 9:15YouTube description: Jim Woodward is a lampist. A what, you ask? A lampist's main job is to keep the enormous, delicate glass lenses of lighthouse lights in tip-top shape so that ships at sea stay safe.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 37 views • 2:52On the subject of lead, mentalfloss recently had an interesting article on Clair Patterson (the most important scientist you've probably never heard of) who was the first to realise how much lead was in... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 348 views • 5:14YouTube Description: View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history...Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world after water –– and from sugary Turkish Rize tea to salty Tibetan... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,105 views • 4:58YouTube description: It's an omnipresent image that has inspired music, tattoos, and even an emoji on your phone. But Hokusai's Great Wave is a woodblock print that was made to be reproduced. What's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 645 views • 8:35Given it's on QI, one can presume it isn't the obvious, to cut wood or trees... I'll avoid channels that might give it away. To be fair though, I have to wonder if this is just a case that it looks... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,935 views • 4:51Exploring a few innovations in nuclear power generation that could make new plants much safer...if we were still making new plants.
posted by newtboy 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 629 views • 8:11