As urban populations continue to rise, innovators are looking beyond traditional farming as a way to feed everyone while having less impact on our land and water resources. Vertical farming is one solution... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 832 views • 3:38

"Goggle up. Science is about to happen!" YouTube: I always thought firing from the center was the best way to do it. Turns out I'm probably wrong.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 896 views • 8:44

"A heavy steel vault protects 2 cassettes that each hold over 1,000 bills. A sophisticated assemblage of sensors, rollers and conveyors ensures the correct number of bills is distributed to the account holder..." ... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 24 views • 2:57

In Wuppertal, Germany, there's the Schwebebahn: a suspended monorail that carries 80,000 people a day above the streets of the city, and above the river Wupper. It's a wonderful thing: but it wasn't the... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 927 views • 1:52

IFLScience: Still baffled by Einstein’s theory of relativity, or even the parts in the movie Interstellar when everyone experiences time differently? Well, this teenager’s explanation of special relativity... continue reading

posted by Zawash 8 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,541 views • 7:34

YouTube 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 6 months 4 weeks ago • 170 views • 2:56

YT: Decades ago, few pediatricians had heard of autism. In 1975, 1 in 5,000 kids was estimated to have it. Today, 1 in 68 is on the autism spectrum. What caused this steep rise? Steve Silberman points... continue reading

posted by Zawash 8 years 11 months ago • 263 views • 13:49

"From the axe, which originated in 1,000,000 BC, to today's killer drones, mankind's use of weapons has been varied and incredibly inventive." -- The Atlantic

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 8 years 12 months ago • 345 views • 2:18

"For SIGBOVIK 2015 I did this little hack to produce a portmanteau (that's a jammin' together of two words, like caviar + armpit = caviarmpit) of all 100,000+ words in English. This video is a little illustrated... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 9 years 1 month 1 week ago • 141 views • 8:56

YouTube: Gav shows you how insanely quick the inside of a DSLR camera moves when it takes a picture, by filming it at 10,000 fps

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 389 views • 7:13

Simulated tornado being generated by a supercomputer (Blue Waters) with 20,000 processing cores. I need a dictionary to figure out half of the terms used in the talk, but the simulations are stunning.

posted by Ashenkase 9 years 6 months ago • 89 views • 16:43

YouTube: 35,000 walruses all hanging out at the same beach in Alaska? Why? Does global warming have anything to do with it? And what have we learned after 20 years of studying the effects of marijuana?

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 7 months ago • 240 views • 5:14

War = Any armed conflict between two countries resulting in more than 1,000 deaths a year.

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 9 years 9 months 1 week ago • 388 views • 2:43

"Strategically deployed at stations throughout the system and involved in up to 1,000 train trips a month, the Amtrak Police Department K-9 teams provide a psychological and physical deterrent to potential... continue reading

posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 9 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 31 views • 6:08

Uhhh, to hell with the grocer's crap.... 1,000% more productive than conventional gardening & farming. The most robust, most scalable Aquaponics system in the world is the Portable Farms™ Aquaponics... continue reading

posted by chingalera 1 decade 8 months 4 weeks ago • 96 views • 6:31

"A meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded only 23km above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia on February 15, 2013. Unlike previous such events, this time scientists had the highly sensitive OMPS instrument... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 9 months ago • 264 views • 3:51

Please excuse any mistakes in the translation. Neither of the languages is my native one. :) "In China you don't have letters when writing. Instead you use characters, and each character is a word.... continue reading

posted by WaterDweller 1 decade 10 months ago • 173 views • 2:00

A bit of glass made by dropping liquid glass into water is called a Prince Rupert's Drop. It has some very weird properties, including being nearly indestructible at one end, and super vulnerable at the... continue reading

posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 3,954 views • 6:39

Water dropped onto pure sodium sizzles and then explodes. Part of a series of videos exploring chemical reactions at an insane 10,000+ frames per second.

posted by messenger 1 decade 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 64 views • 5:43