From Youtube, "Anti-gravity is one of those controversial subjects that some say is more in the realm of science fiction than science fact with many physicists saying it's just not theoretically possible... continue reading
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True Facts: Leafhoppers and Friends
posted by BSR 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 404 views • 5:35Deinopis is a throwback to an older, cooler kind of cribellate spider. Lots of spigots...LOTS. OF. SPIGOTS.
posted by BSR 4 years 7 months ago • 911 views • 6:46"... It sounds like such an incredible fact. “Our own cells are outnumbered by our microbes 10 to 1!” I don’t remember where I first heard it. But I read it in science papers and articles by journalists,... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,355 views • 13:23“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 168 views • 20:41According to a new report from the United Nations, our planet is in worse shape than at any other time in human history. The Trump Administration has done everything they can to do nothing about climate... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,059 views • 3:01The Coffee Break video that started the uproar with Kurzgesagt. -Popular Science is science for the masses. The stock in trade is nifty insights and suprising facts, conclusions that amaze and astound.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years ago • 914 views • 17:49YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 498 views • 6:19In this video, Tim demonstrates a variety of Lenz's Law demonstrations. At its simplest, you can just drop a magnet down a metal tube, maybe made of copper or aluminium, and be surprised at how slowly... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 8 months ago • 968 views • 6:01YouTube: "The giant anteater resembles a walking index finger with a mullet...and leg warmers."
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,238 views • 7:25YouTube description: A metal alloy spoon melts in tea. Featuring Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Senior Technician Neil Barnes. Why not use Gallium? Well - besides the fact it's not what we... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,324 views • 4:27"If you need calcium, eat a milkman." Mom
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,016 views • 4:58"BOO!" Look who's back!!!
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years ago • 1,653 views • 3:13At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 406 views • 7:08YouTube description: There's a link from a 13th century legend, to a 16th century insult book, to a 19th century writer, to a 20th century comic book hero. And it starts in a small village near Nottingham,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 511 views • 2:46"... Ever since Macauley Culkin smashed his hands against his face and screamed, audiences have loved the film HOME ALONE. It has become a Christmas classic; played along side other holiday pictures that... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 24 views • 14:01Well, if you discount the fact that sugar is basically poison over time.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 271 views • 1:23