The Millennium Tower at 301 Mission Street in San Francisco is famously tilting and sinking into the ground. How does geology affect the design of skyscraper foundations, and what is being done to fix... continue reading
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This district should serve as a reminder to you of what happens under socialist leadership. This is what all of America will look like if you allow leftists to continue to control and take over your country.... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 23 views • 6:46How to destroy a people Vote Democrat, Become Liberal Lean toward Socialism Become a Socialist nation become Venezuelans like Destroy the country and its people Leaders eat like kings while... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 47 views • 45:03At the headquarters of Cloudflare, in San Francisco, there's a wall of lava lamps: the Entropy Wall. They're used to generate random numbers and keep a good bit of the internet secure: here's how.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 769 views • 3:59From NYT: "...a really big drain called a spillway. And once you see it full of spiraling water, it is hard to take your eyes off it. For the first time in a decade, January and February have brought... continue reading
posted by chicchorea 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,884 views • 1:31In this small city near San Francisco, the dead outnumber the living by a thousand to one. There's some gruesome history here - and a few questions for the future.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 22 views • 2:45YouTube 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) 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,417 views • 4:34At Autodesk's Pier 9 workshop in San Francisco -- and no, this isn't an ad, pull down the description for more! -- there are giant robot arms using welders to 3D print with stainless steel. Which seemed... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 782 views • 4:51YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 658 views • 3:23YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 1 week ago • 493 views • 4:02I'd be looking out for a killer backhand! YouTube: San Quentin prison sits on a secluded bay just north of San Francisco and inside the walls hosts the largest death row population in the United States.... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 148 views • 7:03YouTube Description: Jellyfish don’t have a heart, or blood, or even a brain. They’ve survived five mass extinctions. And you can find them in every ocean, from pole to pole. What’s their secret?... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 170 views • 2:56A guide demonstrates what you can do with a real image from a giant concave mirror at the San Francisco Exploratorium.
posted by eric3579 9 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 1,855 views • 2:17Neatorama: 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
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