It's time the news organizations began questioning the actions of police.

As you're thumbing through your seed catalogs for the upcoming season, you might be confused by common terms for seeds. Are GMO seeds bad? What even ARE heirloom seeds. And what about hybrids...they're... continue reading

Bee swarms solve problems by adhering to psychophysical laws, and make decisions democratically.

posted by newtboy 8 months 1 week ago • 89 views • 15:50

The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny... continue reading

posted by eric3579 9 months 2 weeks ago • 714 views • 10:48

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.⁠ ⁠ It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading

posted by newtboy 10 months ago • 554 views • 10:12

YT: Discover the world’s largest organism: Pando, an enormous and ancient quaking aspen, and find out how it became so huge.

posted by Zawash 1 year 5 months 2 weeks ago • 595 views • 6:28

"With the first documentary from MinnMax, we travel back to 1971 to tell the surprising story of how a college project from Bill Heinemann, Paul Dillenberger, and Don Rawitsch was donated to the state... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 7 months 1 week ago • 6 views • 23:08

https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 year 9 months 4 weeks ago • 922 views • 7:59

In 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 2 years 2 months ago • 429 views • 6:33

YouTube description: This video demonstrate how differently the air spreads when coughing. This visualizes the high importance of the World Health Organization's behavioral recommendations for protection... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 2 months ago • 424 views • 1:09

Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 169 views • 57 secs

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 876 views • 3:16

YouTube description: Slimy, a little smelly, maybe even a little gross, but to many organisms, the oxic-anoxic transition is a shifting chemical boundary that has created a challenge for life...a challenge... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 123 views • 10:04

YouTube description: As a quadriplegic, Álvaro Silberstein spent years believing he would never be able to visit Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park. Then, he discovered a wheelchair designed... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 181 views • 2:57

https://youtu.be/PZoaKzEXzi8 It's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE! ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 588 views • 9:49

Watch 35 Years of the World’s Economy Evolving as a Living Organism... Source: https://howmuch.net/articles/world-economy-as-a-living-organism

posted by b4rringt0n 2 years 12 months ago • 381 views • 21 secs

Filmmaker Jan van IJken's Becoming reveals the fascinating genesis of animal life. A single cell is transformed into a complete, complex living organism with a beating heart and running bloodstream. Observe... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 494 views • 6:43

YouTube description: Less than 2 percent of the ocean floor has been explored by scientists. “Every time we go to the deep sea, we find new species of organisms,” explains geobiologist Victoria... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 128 views • 9:46