If Christians can sacrifice a tree and pray in the name of Jesus on public property, the next guy can sacrifice a goat to Baphomet and chant 'Yalla' in the same public area.
posted by newtboy 5 months 1 week ago • 79 views • 1:51Videos (43) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Wildfires in Hawaii fanned by strong winds burned structures in areas including the historic town of Lahaina, forcing evacuations and closing schools in several communities. Rescuers pulled a dozen people... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 months 1 week ago • 113 views • 2:14Manú National Park, deep in the Peruvian rainforest, is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. The park and surrounding areas are home to some 10 percent of the world's bird species, countless... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 6 months ago • 19 views • 13:25Though thousands of people have toured the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, almost no one has been allowed inside the New Safe Confinement to document what I’m about to show you. [EXPEDITION CHERNOBYL] Part 3 / 3
posted by BSR 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 12:56Sewers were one of the earliest and most impactful advents of public health in urban areas, and it’s exciting that we’re still finding new ways to use them to that end.
posted by eric3579 2 years ago • 50 views • 12:10Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 82 views • 14:39"... Extreme weather sometimes happens in very specific areas thanks to extreme surface temperature differences..."
posted by ant 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 52 views • 2:29Throughout the month of October, Saildrone performed a 30-day proof-of-concept demonstration for the United States Coast Guard to show how uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) could be used to provide persistent... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 316 views • 3:07YouTube description: About 25 generations of one family have made roasted rice cakes at Ichimonjiya Wasuke in Kyoto, Japan. Worshippers praying for good health at the Shinto shrine next door eat them... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 160 views • 8:01From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 55 views • 26:02Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 985 views • 2:32Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you—they’ll simply cause a severe headache or vomiting. Death-cap mushrooms are not like the others. As little as half an Amanita phalloides contains enough toxin... continue reading
posted by BSR 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 687 views • 2:34YT: Bill describes how the minimization of surface area and inertia compete to form droplets. He then shows how engineers use this knowledge to create precisely-sized droplets in a commercial inkjet printer... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 4 years 12 months ago • 732 views • 5:52Using foundational computer science theories, Colin Morris focuses on understanding trends in popular music. Borrowing from the areas of bioinformatics and compression algorithms, he shows that the lyrics... continue reading
posted by notarobot 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 140 views • 14:23YouTube description: In an effort to retain heritage, reduce waste and overcome the challenge of finding sites in urban areas, architects, engineers and developers are breathing new life into existing... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 628 views • 7:15"NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has already descended from Vera Rubin Ridge, a region of Mount Sharp that it has been exploring for more than a year. But before it left, the rover took a 360-degree panorama... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 3 months ago • 10 views • 1:31Powerhouse Museum – Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Australia has created an incredible interactive area for kids, including giant wall screens that display scanned drawings made by the children... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 346 views • 1:36"... Read more about the concept of non-state spaces: https://goo.gl/UsgDDy For thousands of years, humans have drawn lines on the earth, dividing the planet into nations. But there are some parts of... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 22 views • 13:27I 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 6 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 1,024 views • 10:47