"... Over the last year, we at MinuteEarth and MinutePhysics have had the privilege of working with NASA's Heliophysics Education Activation Team make a series of videos about the awesomeness of solar... continue reading
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The Smithsonian Natural History Museum houses 147 million specimens — everything from pickled animals to priceless gems to dinosaur bones. But less than 1% of it's on display. The rest is hidden behind... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 year 12 months ago • 59 views • 12:15For over a century, one of the most important salmon runs in the U.S. has had to contend with historic dams in Oregon and California. These dams have been responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 1 week ago • 134 views • 3:07YouTube description: Dig in to the history of the Roman Empire’s staged gladiatorial naval battles and how they flooded the Colosseum to reenact famous battles. Starting in 80 CE, residents of... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 428 views • 4:20What do you get when you take a boxy little hatchback, replace the backseat with a high-performance engine, and add a turbo? You get one of the most badass pieces of automotive engineering thought up by... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 5 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 63 views • 13:02YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 397 views • 3:15YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 606 views • 8:27https://youtu.be/Zm6X77ShHa8 Beavers have done more to shape North American landscapes than any animal beside humans. We don’t notice them much today because there aren’t many left, but before colonization,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 1,121 views • 5:19"View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-brief-history-of-goths-dan-adams What do fans of atmospheric post-punk music have in common with ancient barbarians? Not much ... so why are both known... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 25 views • 5:31YouTube description: View full lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/history-vs-cleopatra-alex-gendler She was the most notorious woman in ancient history, a queen who enraptured not one but two of Rome’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 171 views • 4:28YouTube Description: View full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-mathematics-of-sidewalk-illusions-fumiko-futamura Have you ever come across an oddly stretched image on the sidewalk, only... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 21 views • 4:55A look at Cartoon Network's block of programming that popularized anime in the west.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 182 views • 6:02At the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, California, there sits a small teapot. It's the world's most famous teapot.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 921 views • 2:34The Nightly Show - Super Depressing Deep Dive - The Origins of America's Lead Poisoning Crisis YouTube: Larry presents an animated breakdown of the aggressive role that corporations played in the tragic... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 14 views • 5:05"... 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 2 months 1 week ago • 25 views • 8:10YouTube: SciShow News delves into the history of marine animals and finds that they’re getting bigger, and unlocks the secret of how cannabis creates one of its most medically useful effects
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 105 views • 4:28From cereal to ice cream to cocktails, it seems that strawberries are served with just about everything. But it wasn't always this way. Today, Americans eat four times as many strawberries as they did... continue reading
posted by enoch 9 years 4 months 1 week ago • 644 views • 4:42YouTube Description: Sport Relief and the Sainsbury's Sport Relief Games: http://goo.gl/UAKUr2 Sport Relief interactive video: [See YouTube Description] Ruis Martins animation: [See YouTube Description] ... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 4 months ago • 269 views • 10:22YouTube Description: music by http://www.youtube.com/Jakechudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com brusspup anamorphic illusions: [See YouTube description] ANOMALOUS MOTION by Akiyoshi Kitaoka:... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 5 months ago • 1,600 views • 10:48"What do Jesuit priests, gin and tonics, and ancient Chinese scrolls have in common? They all show up in our animated history of malaria. It's a story of geopolitical struggles, traditional medicine,... continue reading
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