The endless expanse of the ocean’s midnight zone offers plenty of room to stretch out. Here, some animals can grow to great lengths. Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts... continue reading
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Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 225 views • 9:55The Smithsonian Natural History Museum houses 147 million specimens — everything from pickled animals to priceless gems to dinosaur bones. But less than 1% of it's on display. The rest is hidden behind... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 59 views • 12:15"School is back in session with temperamental substitute teachers, self-aware schoolbullies, and a lesson about consequences..."
posted by ant 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 4 views • 22:30After women complain about a biological man walking around naked in the women's locker room, the employees say the person is transgender and there's nothing they can do about it.
posted by bobknight33 3 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 944 views • 3:45"There's a scientific reason behind your 'second stomach.' ... How is it that, after stuffing ourselves full at dinner, we somehow find room to eat again once dessert comes around? Turns out, the thing... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 10 months ago • 234 views • 4:15YT: I built an A frame hut as a large work space for projects. First I made a celt hatchet to cut timber for the hut. The axe head was made of amphibolite and the handle was made of a species of wattle.... continue reading
posted by nanrod 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 524 views • 9:05The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25 to 40 percent forest. Within a few centuries, almost all... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 801 views • 5:22and how this led to the invention of the Vibrator...
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months ago • 30 views • 10:06In Helsingborg, Sweden, the Museum of Failure has just opened. It's just one room, but inside, curator Samuel West has assembled some of the world's greatest commercial disasters - and also a few things... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,040 views • 2:18Humans emit roughly 30 to 40 billion tons of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere each year. If we keep it up, Earth will continue to heat up and ultimately devastate our way of life. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 107 views • 2:18Three hundred and sixty degrees, of seven hundred clowns, all in one small room. Use the arrows in the upper left to look around. Turn on CC for bonus information.
posted by newtboy 8 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 2:07As your country's top spy, you must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil syndicate, find the secret control panel, and deactivate their death ray. But your reconnaissance team is spotty, and you have... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 279 views • 4:01YouTube: An ISS resupply mission is launching today and the space station should have a new inflatable room to experiment with!
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 17 views • 4:05"Cool as a Cucumber" as David goes off to do the Public presentation in the Defense of his Math Thesis at Stanford University. When he finished, he walked out of that room with his Doctorate in Mathematics.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 34 views • 2:27YT "In case you were thinking about using the hotel safe to store your valuables, you might want to think again. In this video Jim Stickley shows you just how easy it is to open a locked hotel safe." ... continue reading
posted by blackfox42 9 years 1 week ago • 63 views • 3:42YT-I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 years 3 weeks ago • 1,711 views • 14:09"As a grad student, Cynthia Breazeal wondered why we were using robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms. The key, she realized: training robots to interact with people. Now she dreams up and builds... continue reading
posted by ant 9 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 22 views • 14:04@lann @eric3576 Getting my room mates cherries cut out in 12 hours. I am scared for him but happy for me ! ! TERRITORIAL ASSHOLE. Last two weeks this guy has kind of got an attitude... continue reading
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