Humanity's Greatest Journey
AdultsEducationHumanScience...It’s finally time to reveal the 12,025 Human Era Calendar! This is more than just a way to mark the days – it’s our chance to share something with you all which is truly one-of-a-kind, a piece of art that will inspire you for an entire year and beyond.
Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...With the wet season only 2 months away and thatch being an impermanent material, I needed to make more roof tiles for a new hut that will withstand the next deluge.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows smelt
AdultsCreativityEducationNature...I tested the water bellows with a smelt and it produced a small amount of iron from the ore. The concept has a lot of potential but is having some issues.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows (uses water instead of leather)
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...I built a Water Bellows. It’s an upside-down clay pot with an inlet valve and an outlet spout. The inlet valve is simply a hole in the pot with a leaf plastered to the inside with wet clay so that it forms a one-way flap valve.
Primitive Technology: Polynesian Arrowroot Hashbrown
AdultsCreativityEducationNature...I made a hashbrown from Polynesian arrowroot. A hashbrown is typically made from potatoes where it is mashed and baked on a pan.
What Speakers That Cost $370,000 Sound Like | WIRED
AdultsConstructionCreativityTechnology...What does it sound like when you listen to a speaker that’s roughly the price of the home you put it in?
Primitive Technology: Making Charcoal in a Closed Pot
AdultsCreativityEducationNature...I made charcoal in a clay pot by putting wood in it and heat the pot externally effectively making it like a retort.
Primitive Technology: Geopolymer Cement (Ash and Clay)
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...I have made wood ash cement before under the assumption that it was the calcium in the ash that gave it its cementitious properties...
What Makes Kurzgesagt So Special?
AdultsCreativityEducationScience...We're finally revealing the secret sauce behind kurzgesagt videos.
Primitive Technology: Wet Season Destroys Thatched Workshop
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...The thatched workshop where I produce bricks, pottery, cement and charcoal for various projects was destroyed by prolonged rain from the wet season.
Does Fallout's "Rule of Thumb" Work?
AdultsCreativityEducationScience...Is #fallout 's famous Vault Boy actually hiding some accurate nuclear blast survival tactics?
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...I tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?
AdultsCreativityEducationMedia...Many crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. That’s sort of like what happens with YouTube videos.
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
AdultsConstructionCreativityNature...I tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
How This Guy Runs a 5 and a Half Minute Mile...Backwards | WIRED
AdultsCreativityHumanLife...Ever tried running backwards? Meet Aaron Yoder, one of the world's fastest backward runners who can complete a reverse mile in five and a half minutes.
Chandigarh a perfectly planned city?
AdultsConstructionCreativityHistory...Explore the construction of the futurist city Chandigarh, a project of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and planned by Le Corbusier.
Did The Future Already Happen? - The Paradox of Time
AdultsCreativityEducationScience...Is your future already written? Do your past, present, and future all exist right now? Surprisingly, the answer could be yes.
Primitive Technology: Crab and Fish Trap
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...I made a fish trap from cane and tested it over the course of a year catching various aquatic animals.
How This Guy Makes the World's Best Puzzle Boxes | Obsessed | WIRED
AdultsConstructionCreativityGaming...Kagen Sound is an artisan of remarkable skill, engineering and constructing incredibly intricate puzzle boxes made entirely of wood.
Inside Japan’s Earthquake Simulator
AdultsConstructionCreativityTechnology...This is the world’s largest earthquake simulator, here’s how it works.