YouTube description: Ah, the snake oil salesman. We've all heard, used, or maybe even been called this most nefarious nomenclature for no-good swindlers and charlatans before. But what the hell is snake... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 202 views • 2:13

"Futura is familiar. But its journey from avant-garde German type to hipster favorite is unusual — and it includes Nazis and the moon..."

posted by ant 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 584 views • 4:27

Only the Katar was never designed to open inside the body. It was never designed to open at all. It was only after the British colonized India that crap like this turned up to lure in tourists.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 12 months ago • 1,078 views • 29 secs

YouTube description: Originally built by the Incas, the manmade salt pans in Maras, Peru, have endured for over 500 years. Beneath the Qaqawiñay mountains runs a salty fresh spring, which empties into... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 12 months ago • 1,535 views • 1:20

From YT: The Jelling Stones, thousand-year-old Viking runestones, sit in the town of Jelling in Denmark. They tell the tale of Harald Bluetooth: one of the first kings of Denmark. Here's why his name is... continue reading

posted by Nephelimdream 8 years 3 weeks ago • 930 views • 2:39

One thing I should point out is that Mr. Manley consistently gets Karl Schwarzschild's name wrong. It's Schwarz Schild (black shield) and pronounced more like shield (except the d is a t sound and it's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,050 views • 8:00

YouTube: The crazy story of the arbitrary temperature scale used in a tiny minority of countries.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 665 views • 5:24

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) 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 427 views • 9:15

The Oregon Trail was a great game — but there were some things they couldn't teach kids. This is the bloody, sexy, drunken trail.

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 379 views • 4:29

YouTube: Making accurate maps is mathematically impossible

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 965 views • 6:00

YouTube description: John Reber had a plan: to dam the San Francisco Bay. He convinced some politicians - and it took the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bay Model they built in Sausalito, to prove... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,418 views • 4:34

A look at the cultural significance of the original Gojira and its message in Japan, the sanitation of the American version of the original 1954 movie, not readily seen in the US until Criterion's release... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 580 views • 7:35

Stirling engines are having a bit of a revival. What are they, and how do they work? Could they generate our electricity in the future?

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 615 views • 19:06

More here: Stages to Saturn: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/contents.htm

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 379 views • 5:30

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 8 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 921 views • 2:34

"Assembly Summer 2011 seminar... ... Author: Jari Jaanto and Visa-Valtteri Pimiä" From http://archive.assembly.org/2011/seminars/digital-resistance-the-non-compromising-attitude-of-east-european-demo-art... continue reading

posted by ant 8 years 3 months ago • 78 views • 40:00

How does Fusion Energy work and is it a good idea? -yt

posted by eric3579 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 514 views • 6:16

YouTube description: The famous symptomless carrier of Typhoid Fever, Mary Mallon, never felt the effects of the fever, but never recovered from a medical system that didn’t know how to treat a carrier... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 219 views • 4:03

We recently had the opportunity to spend a little time fielding some frequently asked questions to Brian Nagel, Brewmaster at Genessee Country Village & Museum. In today's episode, he discusses the functions... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 316 views • 2:51