YouTube Description: HAPPY 25th birthday, WWW!

posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 7 months 2 weeks ago • 419 views • 10:55

Tell the FCC to reclassify broadband internet as a common carrier telecommunications service: http://goo.gl/xHnB4n Also: http://goo.gl/kZ3RLV Discuss this video: http://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGrey/comments/24roa5/internet... continue reading

posted by Grimm 1 decade 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,324 views • 3:34

"View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-many-ways-can-you-arrange-a-deck-of-cards-yannay-khaikin . One deck. Fifty-two cards. How many arrangements? Let's put it this way: Any time you pick... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 8 months 2 weeks ago • 25 views • 3:42

YouTube Description: are you an uninsured American? Check out: https://www.healthcare.gov Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com Mental Floss "micromorts"... continue reading

posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 9 months ago • 278 views • 8:06

YouTube 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 11 months ago • 270 views • 10:13

YouTube Description: Mind Blowing Cocoon. This incredible design is the work of a spongilla fly (Climacia areolaris). The mind blowing structure is the insect's cocoon which is composed of an outer net... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 515 views • 1:14

"Why is the sky blue? It's a question that you'd think kids have been asking for thousands of years, but it might not be that old at all. The ancient Greek poet Homer never used a word for blue in The... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 1 year 9 months 1 week ago • 47 views • 2:52

"... These silver ants have ten minutes to retrieve their food under the African sun before time is up." From http://myrmecos.net/2013/02/24/sunday-night-movie-cataglyphis-brave-the-heat/ ... Longer... continue reading

posted by ant 1 decade 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago • 755 views • 2:55

Happy October, Month of the Hexaflexagon! Oct. 21st is the annual Celebration of Mind, in honor of Martin Gardner. Maybe you'd like to host or attend a flexagon party sometime around then, or learn about... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 decade 2 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 2,201 views • 4:45

YouTube Description: A quickly-made muse on the foreword of anthropologist Edmund Snow Carpenter's They "Became What They Beheld," and how it relates to Youtube. This book is out of print. If you're interested,... continue reading

posted by seltar 1 decade 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 2,738 views • 5:44

YouTube Description: Happy Pi Day! Special thanks to Toby (or not Toby) for playing Dog Hamlet. This cool website lets you search the first 200,000,000 digits of Pi. See if your phone number... continue reading

posted by Zifnab 1 decade 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,582 views • 3:46

From YouTube: Accuracy not guaranteed. Get Audacity and play! http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Correction: it is the "Basilar" membrane, which is what I say, but somehow between recording the script... continue reading

posted by Zifnab 1 decade 3 years 4 months ago • 2,162 views • 12:49

From http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/13/sam_the_sesame_stree.html ...

posted by ant 1 decade 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 3,329 views • 4:56