"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 4 weeks ago • 235 views • 3:58

YouTube description: Make a beautiful colour changing liquid from cabbage juice, and explore the science of indicator solutions in this fun chemistry experiment for children. Download the infosheet... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 22 views • 3:56

YouTube description: Teach children how to find the beautiful hidden colours in ink and use chromatography to solve mysteries. For info sheets and printable badges, click here: http://rigb.org/experimental/series-2/c... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 276 views • 3:58

Up in smoke? YouTube: When you burn fat, where does it go? Many people, even some doctors, think it’s just “burned up.” But that’s not possible! Find out where your fat really goes

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 594 views • 2:43

OOOHHHHH MUUUHHHH GAWD. Either I shit too much or not enough, there is no balance with Crohns disease. Thinking a garden hose up the ass and turning the valve would be a good remedy. Why not... continue reading

posted by BoneRemake 9 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 665 views • 57 secs

"The one thing it cannot be is boring." YouTube: Sam Harris discusses the virtues of psychedelics such as LSD and MDMA. While he does not condone the use of these drugs without caveat, he does acknowledge... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 562 views • 9:00

YouTube: In which John Green investigates war, and what exactly it may or may not be good for. Was war a result of human beings organizing into larger and more complex agricultural social orders, or did... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 281 views • 12:48

Thanks to Visually (http://Visual.ly) for facilitating the creation of this video, to http://youtube.com/kurzgesagt for the animation, and to The Prison Policy Initiative for research help and fact checking.... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 decade 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,435 views • 3:41

“Now this is a very, very important point — to realize that the world is not an illusion, that the world simply happens to be an abstraction. Out of the process, please remember we are interested in... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 5 months 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 3:05

"To be a great artist, one must be ready to fail," is just some of the advice offered up by performance artist, Marina Abramović in this recent interview. This idea of failure echoes Samuel Beckett... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 8 months ago • 456 views • 8:46

http://videosift.com/video/Insane-woman-thinks-all-postal-workers-are-after-her Following the discussion which took place in the comment section of a video (linked above) posted by @pumkinandstorm,... continue reading

"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 3 months 1 week ago • 47 views • 2:52

YouTube Description: Light is so common that we rarely think about what it really is. But just over two hundred years ago, a groundbreaking experiment answered the question that had occupied physicists... continue reading

posted by aaronfr 1 decade 1 year 4 months ago • 1,437 views • 7:40

Another in the My Favourite Scientist series by the guy who does the Sixty Symbols videos. Rob Morris from Nottingham Trent Universit talks about his favorite scientist, Michael Faraday and about a lot... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,792 views