"Behavior of mice aboard the International Space Station 20 female mice were transported to the International Space Station by SpaceX CRS-4 Dragon spacecraft. On NASA’s Rodent Habitat, the mice engaged... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 3:42

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 5 years 8 months ago • 495 views • 6:43

How to destroy a people Vote Democrat, Become Liberal Lean toward Socialism Become a Socialist nation become Venezuelans like Destroy the country and its people Leaders eat like kings while... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 5 years 8 months ago • 47 views • 45:03

YouTube description: What would it be like if our eyes could see more colors? We may never be able to answer that, but we can build devices that can do the work for us. Over the last three weeks we've... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 450 views • 9:29

YouTube description: From the dynamic Choy Li Fut martial art—made world famous by Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee—to the stunning dragon dance, Pun Keng Man takes great pride in building community through... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 260 views • 3:18

With the large hadron collider running out of places to look for clues to a deeper theory of physics, we need a bigger particle accelerator. We have one - the galaxy.

posted by w1ndex 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 147 views • 16:26

YouTube description: At Reed College in Portland, Oregon, there's a TRIGA nuclear reactor, used for research. You can stand next to it and watch the blue glow from the bottom of a deep swimming pool.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months ago • 460 views • 4:33

YouTube description: The type of sushi you’re probably most familiar with is haya-nare, a quick form of sushi made and consumed within a day using vinegared rice and raw fish. But there’s a second... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 562 views • 2:55

Seems we can run pretty much everything on a single-phase AC, then why bother with 3 phases??

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 24 views • 10:57

Actors reading the actual words of eyewitnesses detailing minute by minute what happened in the run up to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. It includes forensic and medical examiner... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 10 views • 1:22:50

Youtube: Many people sent me this story: it covers my favourite topics of power grids and temporal anomalies. But when the mainstream press have already covered it, how could I add something more? The... continue reading

posted by nanrod 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 493 views • 4:12

YouTube description: On the little island of Kihnu, seven miles off the coast of Estonia, women run the show. The island still functions as one of the last matriarchal societies left in the world. Historically,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 659 views • 2:54

YouTube description: Ever wondered how they film a tank shell in flight for over 100m meters like it was travelling at walking speed or the instant of a nuclear explosion. In this video, I look at... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,678 views • 7:14

Robert Downey Jr. and wife Susan Downey turned a converted windmill into a stylish and charming Hamptons home. In this funny, full-access tour, the Downeys show off their favorite art, let you into their... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 12 months ago • 220 views • 4:59

I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years ago • 454 views • 5:46

(H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 weeks ago • 1,765 views • 5:22

Google's artificial intelligence company, DeepMind, has developed an AI that has managed to learn how to walk, run, jump, and climb without any prior guidance. The result is as impressive as it is goofy.

posted by simonm 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 44 views • 1:51

I couldn't find any info on any projects like this, so I thought I would have a try myself. I thought an oven would be the perfect platform, it already has a door, space for insulation, and comes with... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 15 views • 7:48

What happens if your car runs out of engine oil?

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 26 views • 4:52