“Most of us can’t imagine what it will be like when the whole ocean system collapses,” says Colin Angus, CTO and cofounder Open Ocean Robotics, a tech startup that makes autonomous boats. The... continue reading
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"What different clouds mean, explained for kids. Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids! If you’re standing outside and you look up, you’ll likely see something familiar above... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 67 views • 8:03From Youtube, "The Postal Service is one of the few government agencies which pre-date the Constitution and creation of the United States. If the Founding Fathers kept it around, it must be important."
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 12 views • 25:54https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 930 views • 7:59Michael Bloomberg read a Washington Post climate article, and actually believed that they were telling the truth. At his age, he should know better.
posted by bobknight33 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 29 viewsKnowing Better talks about his personal experiences in the military.
posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 4 views • 34:36From Youtube, "American healthcare is like no other on Earth - needlessly complicated, expensive, and ready for reform."
posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 11 views • 33:34YouTube description: Citheronia regalis is a giant silk moth...though these don't actually produce silk, which is why it's better to go by their family name saturniidae. Citheronia regalis actually... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months ago • 1,000 views • 3:59From Youtube, "Most of our pop culture assumptions about the Heaven and Hell come from a single source: Dante's Divine Comedy. A work that was so important that it may have sparked a reformation in the... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 19 views • 30:42YouTube 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) 6 years 12 months ago • 645 views • 8:35Get to know your own body ...
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 72 views • 4:00YouTube description: Dirt is probably the cheapest and simplest construction material out there, but it's not very strong compared to other choices. Luckily geotechnical engineers have developed a way... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years ago • 930 views • 7:53I made this bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials.The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. I don't know the draw weight - safe to say greater than 15 kg... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 8 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 621 views • 5:54"... the medical marijuana community is better educated than the Doctors." YouTube: Mary Jane is all over the news these days. But you'd be surprised how much you don't know about it! In this installment... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months 1 week ago • 26 views • 6:20Expensive wines taste better...if you know the price
posted by eric3579 8 years 12 months ago • 1,117 views • 3:32He's on to something here. I forgave the Sifters who were certain that I was a sock puppet. And boy howdy, I felt better. Full disclosure, a smidgen of valium was instrumental in helping me achieve nirvana... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 4 months ago • 163 views • 4:13Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 255 views • 43:41"To be a great artist, one must be ready to fail," is just some of the advice offered up by performance artist, Marina Abramović in this recent interview. This idea of failure echoes Samuel Beckett... continue reading
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