From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 510 views • 9:10Videos (81) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: Delta Technical Operations in Atlanta fixes commercial jets for Delta and 150 customers, including the military and other airlines. The bustling operation runs 24-7, repairing everything... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 951 views • 8:15Mainland China paid tens of millions of dollars to a Biden Center at a top U.S. university.
posted by bobknight33 3 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 35 views • 3:32NASA's current fleet of spacesuits was built in 1974, and each was reported to cost between $15 million and $22 million. Today, that would be about $150 million. Having not built any new mission-ready... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 4 years 1 week ago • 100 views • 10:41In most developed countries, workers have the right to a certain number of paid sick days. It’s a policy that isn’t rooted in just generosity — during pandemics like the novel coronavirus, it can... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 430 views • 6:33Temnospondyls were a huge group of amphibians that existed for 210 million years. Ahhh....the good ole days.
posted by newtboy 4 years 2 months 1 week ago • 207 views • 10:53Secret Service Most Wanted Man Explains How He Swindled Millions from Banks
posted by bobknight33 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 25 views • 15:38YouTube description: Life is chemistry. From diatom to Diana, life is not a magical imbued trait, is a process of the physics of our universe. The precise and convoluted chemistry of life requires specific... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months ago • 508 views • 10:13From Youtube, "In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And then there... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 521 views • 9:23YouTube 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) 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,838 views • 3:58YouTube description: If you want to drink a cup of tea at the Huashan Teahouse on Mount Hua, you’re going to have to put in the effort to get there. The journey starts with a 20-minute cable car ride.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 465 views • 2:39This is a Muonionalusta meteorite. The unique Widmanstätten pattern makes this one of the most beautiful meteorites. Showing this ring to new people really is amazing. Some people freak out completely... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 798 views • 11:12This video is equally a promo for Google Cloud, and a really interesting story about the digitizing the photo library of the New York Times. YouTube description: Google Cloud is helping the New York... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months ago • 475 views • 3:56YouTube description: The Ganges River is a highly revered site by Hindus and an iconic, historical epicenter in India. As hundreds of millions of people visit the Ganges each year, there is a dedicated... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months ago • 149 views • 2:26YT: What wiped out the dinosaurs? Most of us were taught it was a killer asteroid—which is true. But it turns out there was more than one disaster movie playing at the cineplex that was Earth 66 million... continue reading
posted by Lumm 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 122 views • 10:45"Brexit Britain is fed up with experts. These days we only listen to the bloke down the pub. So in this controlled experiment, we put three experts in a pub and recorded the results for your viewing pleasure. ... continue reading
posted by radx 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 58:34In which Brian McManus discusses the loss of the Mercury 1 mission after a component failure exposed an error in the error recovery code. (H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 1,402 views • 6:53They're not the only ones. YouTube: On the 4th of July, Americans like to celebrate the things that make the United States unique, and a lot of those things have to do with our geography. That remarkable... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 561 views • 3:49If you set up a row of dominoes as a timeline of history from the Big Bang to now, and had each domino represent 1 million years it would stretch over 300 meters long. I know because that's what I did... continue reading
posted by BSR 5 years 12 months ago • 16 views • 13:22