Some boaters were left stunned after witnessing an orca's extraordinary leap 15-feet out of the water during a dolphin hunt in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. (Credit: Miguel Cuevas) While battering their... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 1 week ago • 839 views • 45 secs

YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months ago • 426 views • 10:05

Back in the 1920s, wingwalking claimed lives. Daredevils would move around on the top of a plane's wings, in mid-flight, often without any harness or any safety line. Maybe they'd be able to clip onto... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 74 views • 4:09

The Lamborghini Miura is regarded by many to be the world’s first supercar. It set the car world on fire with its groundbreaking mid-engine layout, monster performance, and looks that could kill. Join... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 94 views • 12:42

In the mid-aughts, the police sergeant Ronald Watts knew how to exploit the lawlessness of the Ida B. Wells Homes. The Exoneration Project believes that he and his officers wrongly arrested hundreds of people.

posted by newtboy 6 years 1 week ago • 931 views • 7:06

Plywood is a simple material made by glueing together thin sheets of wood, known as veneers or plies. These basic elements have remained broadly the same throughout its history. The most significant breakthrough... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,947 views • 6:44

YouTube description: In a dusty, crowded shop in Milan, Italy, artist Osvaldo Menegazzi toils, as he has for decades, designing intricate decks of tarot cards. Every card a handmade work of art, Mengazzi... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 304 views • 2:11

The Ulfberht swords were made during a brief period of the MIddle Ages, roughly around 200 years. The quality of the steel and forging techniques were not rediscovered in Europe until the industrial age... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 473 views • 19:15

YT "Seatbelts and airbags in cars save passengers lives. Parachutes save people who, for a variety of reasons, exit a plane in mid-flight. So why aren’t parachutes provided to passengers on commercial... continue reading

posted by blackfox42 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 320 views • 6:48

YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 812 views • 14:23

Here's a travel itinerary I can live without! YouTube: I'm filming a documentary for TV about how Uranium and radioactivity have shaped the modern world. It will be broadcast in mid-2015, details to... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 217 views • 11:18

Neat demonstration of Newton's laws in slow motion, with music and a slinky. So cool how the bottom of the Slinky doesn't move until the top of the dropped Slinky arrives at it on the way down... I... continue reading

posted by SFOGuy 1 decade 5 months ago • 808 views • 1:43

YouTube Description: Don't you wish you could make things levitate in mid air?

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