Ugggg ... I hate when the time changes [espcially in the Spring!] YouTube: Daylight saving time is the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour during the spring and back again in the fall in... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 7 months ago • 351 views • 2:20Videos (109) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
A whole lot, apparently. Recent surveys and modelling techniques have allowed scientists to get a much more accurate picture of the tree population of planet earth.
posted by Fantomas 8 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 20 views • 2:44A discussion of the linguistic features of AAVE, it's similarity to features of other languages, and the arbitrary nature of saying one language is better/worse than another.
posted by iaui 8 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 586 views • 8:33"Eternal youth wouldn't make us invincible." YouTube: References: Aubert, G. & Lansdorp, P. M. (2008) Telomeres and aging. Physiological Review 88(2): 557–579. http://simonadellemonache.com/dispens... ... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months ago • 581 views • 2:58The Smithsonian Channel explains about plants which disperse their seeds through forceful ejection.
posted by SDGundamX 8 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 937 views • 1:54Lack of ability to cry was why I didn't gel with antidepressants. Horrid. YouTube: Dr. Julie Holland argues that women are designed by nature to be dynamic and sensitive – women are moody and that... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 302 views • 6:51"Apparently, your biggest enemy is not lions and tigers and bears ..." YouTube: What were the first organisms to have sex? We may never know the answer, but as Bill Nye explains in this Big Think interview,... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months ago • 235 views • 3:58Nature's biochemistry at its creepiest!
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 311 views • 6:35Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry. UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner challenges this notion... continue reading
posted by enoch 9 years 5 months ago • 2,027 views • 4:37SciShow News explains the latest climate weirdness, and why the Global Warming Hiatus wasn’t really what it sounded like. Plus, see how humans have harnessed the climbing power of the gecko! -yt Sources: ... continue reading
posted by eric3579 9 years 6 months 1 week ago • 237 views • 5:04Common misconceptions about climate change. References below: For CO2, sea levels, Arctic sea ice, Antarctic and Greenland land ice: http://climate.nasa.gov Satellite data shows that ground-based... continue reading
posted by cricket 9 years 8 months 1 week ago • 868 views • 6:504th video in a series showing Twain Harte Rock (North of Yosemite) fracturing. Neat stuff!
posted by newtboy 9 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 766 views • 1:00"The intrinsic boy/girl ratio is rigged by Mother Nature."
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 331 views • 2:50"... war is a pretty big deal in world history so we better spend some time talking about it, at least in the abstract."
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 10 months ago • 256 views • 10:37"If you eat natural foods do it because you like the flavor, don't do it because you think you're avoiding carcinogens, if anything it's just the opposite."
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade ago • 158 views • 5:27Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading
posted by Zawash 1 decade ago • 255 views • 43:41YouTube Description: Guest Star: Elsie the cat. Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and from http://www.audionetwork.com FLAVOR NETWORK ARTICLE (the cool food network graphs): http://www.nature.com/srep... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 4 months 1 week ago • 270 views • 10:13YouTube Description: Hank shares the latest developments in science, this week demystifying three freaky things in nature: the polar vortex, why some bugs are infertile, and how a chain can appear to defy... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 4 months 1 week ago • 289 views • 4:46In a multi-part series with the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill explores a variety of topics, including the nature of an expanding, accelerating universe (and how it might end), the difference... continue reading
posted by radx 1 decade 4 months 2 weeks ago • 926 views • 26:47