The endless expanse of the ocean’s midnight zone offers plenty of room to stretch out. Here, some animals can grow to great lengths. Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts... continue reading
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The Scientist's Warning is a film about the journey one scientist takes after one of his research papers sparks a global movement to address the challenges facing our planet. Both scientists and citizens... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 120 views • 35:36From YouTube, "Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 1 month 1 week ago • 145 views • 16:11How much of the world’s energy comes from sustainable sources? I’m given free reign at a renewable energy factory to show you exactly how much in the best way I can - with some epic tricks!
posted by eric3579 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 313 views • 4:36From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 511 views • 9:10From YT: This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support the innovations... continue reading
posted by Nephelimdream 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 42 views • 10:07From Youtube, "This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 82 views • 10:36Global Warming is taking a rare back seat in the news right now, as we deal with the more immediate existential crisis afflicting our civilisation and way of life. But as entire countries are getting shut... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 347 views • 13:56From Youtube, "The logistic map connects fluid convection, neuron firing, the Mandelbrot set and so much more. Animations, coding, interactives in this video by Jonny Hyman
posted by w1ndex 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,113 views • 18:39Ice lost in Greenland means higher sea levels around the world. "Oceans Melting Greenland," a NASA program in its fourth year, is studying the melt. So far, measurements indicate a rate of melt exceeding... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 9 months ago • 325 views • 3:27YouTube 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 4 months 3 weeks ago • 426 views • 10:05YT - BRIGHT SIDE Published on Jul 14, 2017 We have 16 amazing maps that will change your perspective of the world forever. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz For copyright matters... continue reading
posted by Buck 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 268 views • 6:19YouTube description: The Japanese Car Company is a corporate behemoth - but it's done much more than just give us Corollas or Land Cruisers. It's changed the way the world makes products. Here's how. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,729 views • 4:52YouTube description: Reggaeton is one of the most popular music genres in the world. Its history is rooted in diaspora migration, censorship, poverty and the reclaiming of Afro-Caribbean identity. We... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 704 views • 10:49In Quebec, Canada, there's a town called Asbestos. It's an alarming name, one that conjures up images of lung disease and mesothelioma. So now that the town's asbestos mine, once the largest asbestos mine... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 46 views • 4:30Between 1950 and 1970 the number of deaths on Sweden's roads more than doubled. Today though, it has one of the world’s lowest rates of traffic fatalities. This is the story of how the Swedish Government... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 12 months ago • 1,871 views • 3:31YouTube description: Frances Glessner Lee created dollhouses with dead dolls. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why. Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 716 views • 8:16Humans emit roughly 30 to 40 billion tons of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere each year. If we keep it up, Earth will continue to heat up and ultimately devastate our way of life. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 107 views • 2:18Near Bodø in Norway, there's the strongest tidal current in the world: Saltstraumen Maelstrom, a constantly-changing rush of whirlpools, boils and vortices. It might not be quite the whirlpools of myth... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 12 months ago • 241 views • 2:32The potential benefits are world changing!
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