Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.⁠ ⁠ It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 2 weeks ago • 554 views • 10:12

The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken

posted by bobknight33 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 125 views • 29:46

last post was day 153. what progress in 100 days. I thought it would be done but still moving along.

posted by bobknight33 1 year 4 months 2 weeks ago • 5 views • 17:10

Who knew cracking nuts could be so interesting

posted by blacklotus90 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 65 views • 18:57

"I have trained magpies in my garden to trade litter for food. In this version the birds trade bottle-caps for food. Thr food dispenser contains a mix of peanuts and 'cat-food'. obviously, the birds prefer... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 9 months ago • 39 views • 2:07

https://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 2 years 2 weeks ago • 922 views • 7:59

YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 68 views • 2:46

The World's Biggest Gear Reduction by designer and maker of prototypical machines, devices and tools Daniel de Bruin. This machine visualizes the number googol. That's a 1 with a hundred zeros. A number... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,207 views

Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months ago • 169 views • 57 secs

The Ondophone - the dream of a sound that never was... At least for now, there might be a future where the Ondophone will come to real life. In this weeks episode we are taking a closer look at the first... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 40 views • 17:11

More than a little ironic how this video about fighting the corporate stranglehold on the music industry begins and ends as a commercial for audible.

posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 346 views • 8:40

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 8 months ago • 876 views • 3:16

They keep asking me. I keep telling them I am notarobot, but they never seem to remember. At least not for very long.

posted by notarobot 2 years 11 months ago • 387 views • 7:40

In which Half as Interesting explains the Machine Identification Code covertly printed in yellow dots by virtually all colour printers.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,644 views • 5:45

YouTube description: Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great. Check out SimpliSafe... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 5 months ago • 1,000 views • 12:52