YouTube: What you don't know about your microbiome may kill you!!! ...or just give you diarrhea.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 74 views • 11:13

YouTube description: Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes — from a childhood... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 155 views • 13:08

...if he can read, it's at least clear that he doesn't read what he signs. Here he admits signing hundreds, much more than that, legal contracts without ever reading one. That's not good for a businessman... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 550 views • 5:31

"Larry Smith doesn’t just live with Parkinson’s. He rises above it." "After a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s, Larry has exhausted every conventional method of treatment, every drug, and even... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months ago • 635 views • 7:59

YouTube: In which John Green considers the historical distance between Rome's Pantheon, the cave paintings at Lascaux, a different community's cave paintings at Chauvet, and the current day. Too often,... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 518 views • 3:42

Humans are the same as always, except now we have instant access to all knowledge and communication.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 331 views • 2:23

The killer punch of the mantis shrimp is the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, a skill that goes hand in hand with its extraordinary eyesight. They can see an invisible level of reality using polarized... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 36 views • 4:00

There are a few communities, up in northern Canada, with a dark history and a worrying future. Resolute is one of them, sat at the east of the once-legendary Northwest Passage. In a few years, it might... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months ago • 503 views • 4:28

Is what is said ... what is implied? YouTube: Last week we talked about language and meaning. Today, Hank explores some of the things that complicate meaning and how we get around that. We’ll explain... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 596 views • 9:11

YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 811 views • 14:23

Every year, local communities on either side of the Apurimac River Canyon use traditional Inca engineering techniques to rebuild the Q'eswachaka Bridge. The old bridge is taken down and the new bridge... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months ago • 32 views • 3:16

YouTube description: On La Gomera, a small island in Spain’s Canary Islands, the last speakers of a language without words reside. "El Silbo," a whistled communication used in rural and isolated areas,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 197 views • 3:53

YouTube: We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other!

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 126 views • 9:18

YouTube: As denizens of the internet, most of us are familiar with the trolls. In this episode of SciShow, learn a little about how social scientists think trolls came to be, and how online communities... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 166 views • 8:56

Welcome to the world of Lucius Popidius Secundus, a 17-year old living in Rome in 73 AD. His life is a typical one of arranged marriages, coming-of-age festivals, and communal baths. Take a look at this... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 331 views • 6:35

The ongoing study is part of a growing interest in coral fluorescence among the scientific community. Coral Fluorescence was recently found to be a strong indicator of coral health, and coral fluorescence... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 127 views • 4:05

YouTube: Erick Greene and his team employ "roboraptors"—taxidermied hawks and owls with robotic moving parts— to learn about how birds communicate with alarm calls when a predator is nearby.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 920 views • 2:13

YouTube: When Neil deGrasse Tyson and Steven Tyler were both guests on The Late Show, they took some time backstage to discuss relativity and how cell phones work.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months ago • 200 views • 5:06

Is it a surprise that I speak cat? [shouldn't be] YouTube: Dr John Bradshaw explains why pet cats constantly miaow at their owners. Taken from Cats Uncovered.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 535 views • 4:10

Sacks of Water, prepare to have your minds blown. From YouTube: "Does water have a fourth phase, beyond solid, liquid and vapor? University of Washington Bioengineering Professor Gerald Pollack... continue reading

posted by chicchorea 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,036 views • 24:15