from yt: "Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper-Jones are the web's expert on maps. Be it the deserts of Bir Tawil, the maps that show how the internet works, maps used by Soviet spies, maps that are wrong, maps... continue reading
posted by makach 3 months ago • 80 views • 1:37Videos (22) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
EFF director of cybersecurity, Eva Galperin, debunks several cybersecurity myths and describes how things like secure passwords, VPNs, encryption, the dark web / TOR, and privacy actually work.
posted by noims 4 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 459 views • 11:29YouTube description: At first this ghostly octopus drifted past the camera on ROV Hercules flapping wing-like fins, then inverted its webbed arms, ballooning out to reveal eight rows of suckers. This... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 12 months ago • 499 views • 2:27YouTube description: Trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web. Some plants use the system to support their offspring, while others hijack... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months ago • 435 views • 1:48'A Quiet Place' director and star John Krasinski takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the internet's most searched questions about himself. Does John Krasinski play basketball? Is he married... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months ago • 22 views • 6:10Go back in time with these NBC News archive clips from 1994 and 1995 when the "World Wide Web" and Internet were mere mysteries. Source: Today
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 17 views • 2:12Argyroneta aquatica the Diving Bell Spider it the UK's only fully aquatic species of spider. They are rarely seen but are amazing creatures. This film explores how they hunt and live underwater.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 450 views • 2:57YouTube: Which marvel of nature can build a 2 metre Orb Web with a silk that ranks as the World's toughest natural fibre? - The answer is the Darwin's Bark Spider and this real life "Spider Woman", no... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,549 views • 4:09YouTube description: Google Earth is the most photorealistic, digital version of our planet. But how?! Where do the images come from? How are they they put together? And how often are they updated?... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 678 views • 8:09Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 188 views • 7:27YouTube 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) 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 658 views • 3:23YT: In a small town with an unfortunate name, let's talk about filtering and innuendo. And use it as an excuse for as many visual jokes as possible.
posted by Fantomas 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 51 views • 3:38"... an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet..." From http://educatedearth.net/video.php?id=4569 ...
posted by ant 8 years 8 months ago • 25 views • 8:10Salamanders are a major link in the food web, and measured by weight, there can be more salamander biomass than all mammals and birds combined in a forest. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bs or Bsal),... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 9 months ago • 112 views • 3:12When I was a preschooler I walked face first into a spider web. Hence my lifelong fear of the eight legged creepers. YouTube: Spiderwebs are designed to trap bug-sized creatures. So how come spiders... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 27 views • 3:06YouTube Description: HAPPY 25th birthday, WWW!
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 5 months 3 weeks ago • 419 views • 10:55A bug in Google Chrome allows malicious websites to turn users’ computers into clandestine listening devices, a programmer discovered. Tal Atler, a web developer in Israel, discovered that once you... continue reading
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 9 months ago • 47 views • 4:06Via Open Culture: Not long ago we posted the only known recording of Sigmund Freud’s voice. Today we present rare home movies of the founder of modern psychology, captured during the last decade of his life. ... continue reading
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