"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

posted by bobknight33 1 year ago • 17 views • 5:30

From Youtube, "Who FILES A LAWSUIT UNDER THE SEA? A depressed Plankton wakes up and goes to the Krusty Krab one morning without a plan to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, telling Karen that... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 31 views • 23:21

"Elevator. It’s a fascination and a fear for many. Countless action movies and TV shows feature stuck elevators, fights in elevators, and, of course falling elevators. How many times when an elevator... continue reading

posted by ant 2 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 214 views • 7:36

YouTube description: Less than 2 percent of the ocean floor has been explored by scientists. “Every time we go to the deep sea, we find new species of organisms,” explains geobiologist Victoria... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 128 views • 9:46

Stumpy Brown is a Wangkujanka woman who lives at Christmas Creek in the Kimberley. Stumpy has seen many changes throughout her lifetime but nothing so dramatic, when as a teenager, she saw a white man... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 3 weeks ago • 788 views • 5:21

The reason they need weevil greenhouses is that the Brazilian weevils don't like Texan winters, and tend to die off over winter. If they mentioned it in this video I missed it. YouTube description: ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 9 months ago • 973 views • 3:44

Some of the most exciting movies are the ones with crazy plot twists. But what separates a good twist from a bad one? Let's take a look at a few movies and see what separates the epic from the boring.

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 546 views • 5:34

YouTube description: Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 444 views • 7:42

In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 97 views • 6:27

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) 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 810 views • 14:23

YouTube description: In which John visits the Za'atari refugee camp in northern Jordan and talks with refugees there about their hopes, ambitions, fears, and complex lives. Thanks to everyone at UNHCR,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 142 views • 3:31

To quote her own presentation: - Our fears about debt and deficits are driven by an outdated gold standard ideology - Money is not a finite "thing" - Deficits can be too big or too small - The goal... continue reading

posted by radx 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 275 views • 1:18:38

The eight glasses of water a day is a myth! YouTube: How much water should you drink every day? Not as much as you've been told. This summer, like many summers before it, has seen a rash of articles... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 792 views • 6:46

When 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 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 27 views • 3:06

"Since the 1960s, developmental psychologists point to the 'Visual Cliff'—an experiment that plops babies on a fake precipice—as proof that infants learn to fear heights as they learn to crawl. Yet,... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 384 views • 5:31