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"Pill bugs. Doodle bugs. Potato bugs. Wood Shrimp. Whatever you call them, there’s something less creepy about these critters than other insects. Maybe it’s because they’re not insects at all..." ... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 1 month ago • 519 views • 3:30This is the story of a rock. It was once worth fighting wars over. Now its just a rock.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 412 views • 6:37Coined in 1990 by author and attorney Mike Godwin, Godwin’s Law was originally, to quote Godwin “a project in memetic engineering”, partially inspired by a 1980s article he read in Whole Earth Review... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 19 views • 5:38YouTube description: For decades, one of the most abundant kinds of fossils on Earth, numbering in the millions of specimens, was a mystery to paleontologists. But geologists discovered that these mysterious... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 615 views • 7:00YouTube description: Vanguard 1 was the 4th satellite launched, after being beaten by Sputnik 1, 2 and Explorer 1, it also suffered from multiple high profile launch failures. However, 60 years on it's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 410 views • 6:41The European Space Agency (ESA) is part of an international effort to monitor and – ultimately – tackle space debris. This junk – accumulated in orbit since the dawn of the space age sixty years... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 136 views • 3:37YouTube description: In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 725 views • 3:34"... Read more about the concept of non-state spaces: https://goo.gl/UsgDDy For thousands of years, humans have drawn lines on the earth, dividing the planet into nations. But there are some parts of... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 22 views • 13:27YouTube description: It's not your imagination; hold music on phones really did sound better in the old days. Here's why, as we talk about old telephone exchanges and audio compression. Thanks to... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 410 views • 3:36(H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 672 views • 7:24How the Sun affects the Earth.
posted by bobknight33 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 99 views • 4:19"Why Russia wants to own the North Pole..."
posted by ant 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 178 views • 12:50"... Let's face it! The world hates fire ants. It is not hard to understand why seeing as they are a major domestic pest in many countries, as well as a very dangerous agricultural pest, like in the Unites... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 296 views • 15:53The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is considered by the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy to be the "best drink in existence". While almost impossible to make on planet Earth, I needed to see if its effects... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 24 views • 6:55What if the Sun was here on Earth?
posted by w1ndex 6 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 657 views • 7:01