This car goes from 0-62 miles per hour (100kph) in 0.956 of a second. This is the classic acceleration test, one that we all grew up using to compare cars. A Formula 1 car will do it in about two and... continue reading
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It seems the Everglades are a better habitat for pythons than their native habitat, and they are growing to record size eating the native fauna.
posted by newtboy 10 months ago • 251 views • 35 secsThis deepsea Octopus (or Squid) was filmed in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico by a work class ROV. At first we believed this to be a Cirrate Octopus, but now we believe it to be a Vampire Squid/Umbrella... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 75 views • 2:12Amazon has shared surveillance video recorded by its doorbell camera system without attempting to contact users for their prior consent and without police obtaining a warrant. The company has now admitted... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 10 months ago • 66 views • 1:27The story behind the new Terry Pratchett audiobooks - my all time favorite author. Can't wait to hear them! YT: This documentary follows Penguin Audio's ambitious project of turning the entire Discworld... continue reading
posted by Zawash 2 years 2 weeks ago • 31 views • 21:33YouTube description: Check out Otherwords, a new show about language & linguistics! https://youtu.be/d2UccTPnl4w It might surprise you but cephalopods have a pretty good fossil record, with one major... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 384 views • 8:22"The idea came to me in a dream I had this morning. I didn't really like how the classic Sesame Street "Ladybug's Picnic" song (a staple from my childhood) was performed on the new stop-motion version... continue reading
posted by ant 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 34 views • 57 secsMarcin Wichary gives a really entertaining talk on looped videos, as a live looped video with no post production. Vimeo description: This is a remote Ignite talk I gave at Figma on May 27, 2021.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 139 views • 5:18When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and fingerpointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. This video provides a summary of the facts of the 2021 Texas winter storm. ... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 166 views • 16:48COLUMBIA, SC Three former Orangeburg County law officers caught in an FBI sting where federal agents pretended to be members of a Mexican drug-smuggling cartel have been sentenced to prison, according... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 14 views • 1:20YouTube description: Alexa's recording you. What’s she doing with it? Read Sara’s article about the privacy settings on your smart speaker: https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/12/9/...... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 180 views • 5:35The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s... continue reading
posted by mxxcon 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 12 views • 7:14https://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 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 930 views • 7:59Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 985 views • 2:32From Youtube, "A wolf pulling over a wolf" Michael Lawrence got pulled over by a white cop in Prince Georges County, Maryland Michael's advice will hopefully save black AND white lives, make sure... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,114 views • 3:57From Youtube, "Well... this took longer than expected. I am sorry you had to wait so long for me to finish this video, I had some reading to do, then write the video, record the audio, and then the... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 1 week ago • 19 views • 1:09:23YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 69 views • 2:46YouTube description: Terrified residents of Italian cities record messages to themselves 10 days ago, when the pandemic hadn't yet killed 1,809 people and infected more than 24,000 across the country.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 297 views • 3:31YouTube description: Hips don’t lie. But a hip x-ray in the Soviet Union of the 1950s might not have been what it appeared to be. In fact, if it was round, it was likely a record. Let us explain.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 361 views • 2:30Ice lost in Greenland means higher sea levels around the world. "Oceans Melting Greenland," a NASA program in its fourth year, is studying the melt. So far, measurements indicate a rate of melt exceeding... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 325 views • 3:27