So you want to visit a black hole? Before you do, here's one piece of advice from NASA.
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YouTube description: It’s amazing what Anne Rosat can do with a pair of scissors. This 83-year-old artist has been depicting life in the Swiss Alps through the folk art known as papercutting for 50... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 week ago • 450 views • 2:58From Youtube, "Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. Did Rami Malek do a good job speaking through prosthetics to become... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 5 years 1 week ago • 19 views • 25:20YouTube description: Let's journey deep into the cells themselves to take a look at some of the structures that keep cells alive and others that do... something... that we'll figure out someday... probably.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 166 views • 11:31YouTube description: Aerosparx are a British aerobatics team that perform displays with fireworks attached to their wings. This is how they do it. More about Aerosparx: http://www.aerosparx.com/ ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 300 views • 6:32Steve Harvey talks about his meeting and beat down for doing so.
posted by bobknight33 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 33 views • 11:58YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,838 views • 3:58YouTube description: There was so much I wasn't able to tell you. Like, for example, most of the jellyfish on display at the aquarium are born and bred at the aquarium. They do active research on jellyfish... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,388 views • 8:03YouTube description: We normally build a dam to hold water back and store it for use in water supply, irrigation, hydropower, or flood control. But sometimes we have to let some water go. Whether we... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 1,036 views • 8:15According 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 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,059 views • 3:01"... I love coffee. Like, a lot. You know who else loves coffee? Astronauts! And also the people who help them do awesome things in space (I think NASA might be powered by coffee). But how do astronauts... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 124 views • 11:39"... We’ve all gotten dizzy before… but have you ever gotten WEIRD DIZZY? I teamed up with Vanessa Hill from BrainCrat to answer the question 'why do we get dizzy?' and in the process we learned about... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 5 months ago • 659 views • 9:22On Thursday, March 28, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), during a House Intelligence Committee open hearing, responded to Trump and Congressional Republican's calls for his resignation. "You might say that's... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 6 months ago • 195 views • 5:14Devil's Tears is a popular spot in Bali for tourists to take selfies, but visitors would do well to watch a few fail videos before getting too close to the edge. Lucky for these people, they only suffered... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,003 views • 50 secsYT: Two: the inside and the outside (badum tshh)! But taking a more scientific approach, do bananas actually have 5 sides like all the pub quizzes say? Dr Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist... continue reading
posted by Zawash 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 53 views • 10:07From Youtube, "Can you trust our videos? How do we research them nowadays? And what about our older videos? "
posted by w1ndex 5 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 653 views • 6:10YouTube description: Technical details about what we're doing: We're working on a time-series problem called a Sequence Classification. Recurrent Neural Networks called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 566 views • 10:41YouTube description: A recent study has concluded that people all over the world are probably ingesting microscopic plastic all the time. Now scientists want to know where this plastic is coming from,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 351 views • 5:06What 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 7 months 2 weeks ago • 63 views • 13:02YouTube description: What do Skrillex, David Bowie, Salt-N-Pepa and basically every drum and bass track have in common? They've all used the Amen break, a four-bar drum solo that has become the most... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 427 views • 4:05