Imagine a civilization that outnumbers humanity by six orders of magnitude. By one and a half million times. And it's not some bacteria.

posted by BSR 1 month 2 weeks ago • 24 views • 28:47

How Does Kodak Make Film Light Sensitive? (How Film is Made, Part 2) I had no idea Kodak uses LAMINAR FLOW to make film. Imagine my surprise when I walked in and saw this beautiful waterfall and realized... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 8 months 1 week ago • 32 views • 59:57

Does your dog like toys? What do you think she imagines when thinking of her favorite toy? In this new study, published in the Journal of Animal Cognition, we examine how typical family dogs and dogs... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 117 views • 2:27

“Most of us can’t imagine what it will be like when the whole ocean system collapses,” says Colin Angus, CTO and cofounder Open Ocean Robotics, a tech startup that makes autonomous boats. The... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 3 weeks ago • 295 views • 8:44

Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor. That’s the vision of FarmPod, a St. Croix-based startup... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 18 views • 6:56

When a theory makes a prediction that disagrees with an experimental test, sometimes it means we should throw the theory away. But what if that theory has otherwise produced the most successful predictions... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 5 months ago • 436 views • 12:36

Imagine pole-vaulting across dangerous terrain, down steep slopes and ravines. "Salto del pastor"—translated from Spanish as "the shepherd's leap"—is just that. Now a folk sport and hobby, it was once... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months ago • 752 views • 3:53

From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 211 views • 11:41

Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far) Produced in... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 445 views • 10:54

"... I met Molly Burke a few months ago. She’s awesome. I absolutely love what she’s done on YouTube to bring awareness to living with disability, and turning it into ability. And her guide dog Gallop... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 90 views • 16:32

YouTube description: It's not your imagination; hold music on phones really did sound better in the old days. Here's why, as we talk about old telephone exchanges and audio compression. Thanks to... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months ago • 410 views • 3:36

There’s a saying in the sea, 'If it’s a cone, leave it alone'. Although they look pretty harmless cone nails are pretty deadly. They're a chemical making factory that travels around an a giant sticky... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 790 views • 3:48

youtube- TEDx Talks Published on Sep 7, 2017 Imagine a global "Hive Mind" that can tap the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people, and produce a super-intelligence that is... continue reading

posted by Buck 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 119 views • 15:59

YouTube description: More than five million people die every year from pollution-related illnesses, and nearly 10,000 of those deaths occur in London. But Romain LaCombe has made it his mission to change... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 170 views • 3:27

We love wood here at The Slingshot Channel. It is our most important raw material by a great margin. When we found this 20" piece of European Dogwood (Cornus Sanguinea) while cleaning up the shed, we immediately... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years ago • 204 views • 13:07

The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 250 views • 5:56

All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before, but it is very difficult to imagine how certain countries and parts of the world compare to each other in size that are far apart. In... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,623 views • 6:20

Published on Jul 25, 2016 Imagine if right-wing extremist neo-nazi skinheads had spent the last 8 months carrying out the same amount of terror that Islamists are responsible for. Do you think the... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 8 years 8 months ago • 167 views • 4:38

The border between India and Bangladesh is extremely messy and complicated. Why is this? And what's it like living there? ----------------------- I imagine it to be like a bag of holding placed inside... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 158 views • 3:07

"Imagine if dogs were the ones giving the news, owning the restaurants and writing the newspaper! Boy, it would be hard to understand what they were saying! ..."

posted by ant 9 years 2 months ago • 13 views • 3:14