Sometimes, it seems hard to go outside and face the day. But what would happen if you never saw sunlight?
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"It’s all about active listening. This means to listen with your full attention by being in the moment, to listen with your eyes by reading the person’s body language, and most importantly, to listen... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 11 months ago • 15 views • 12:31YouTube: How the brain works, how we learn, and why we sometimes make stupid mistakes.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 764 views • 12:10This goblet is made using filigrana, a style of blown glass made with colorless, white, and sometimes colored canes that originated on the island of Murano in the 16th century. The canemaking and glassblowing... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 262 views • 10:27... how about you? YouTube: Star Trek has been beaming its way into fans' hearts for over 50 years, reinventing itself time and time again. Most fans think they know everything there is to know about... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 2 months ago • 937 views • 12:27Published on Jan 11, 2017 Mary reminds us that people her age are sometimes forgotten, but still very much alive. Call your grandma...
posted by bobknight33 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 326 views • 10:23YouTube: Things can go wrong in scientific experiments sometimes, but when it comes to engineering, getting things wrong can be disastrous.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 2,060 views • 11:16YouTube: Bakers will sometimes replace the butter, oil, or eggs in their breads, muffins, and assorted tasty treats with applesauce. That pretty much sounds like culinary magic, but it's not... it's culinary... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 204 views • 2:58El Caminito del Rey, the King's Little Pathway, is now a tourist attraction near Malaga, in southern Spain. But once, it brought adrenaline junkies here - sometimes fatally. Now it's safe: but the internet... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 762 views • 2:56A newly designed wind turbine leaves behind a loud, noisy and sometimes dangerous traditional feature of bladed turbines.
posted by newtboy 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 801 views • 1:14Is Hank trying for a goatee? YouTube: Let's face it: Humans are pretty messy. Industrial processes like mining and manufacturing are important parts of keeping civilization going, but they all impact... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 282 views • 10:13YouTube description: The song “American Woman” by The Guess Who wasn't ever supposed to happen. It wasn't planned, staged or pre-meditated. Yet you all know the iconic riff. Sometimes all it takes... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,835 views • 3:02YouTube description: Sometimes flight recorders are the only way the victims' families will know what happened to the plane. Immediately following an airplane crash anywhere in US territory, the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 229 views • 5:31Ewww-ahhh! YouTube: Seen up close, the anatomy of a mosquito bite is terrifying. The most dangerous animal in the world uses six needle-like mouthparts to saw into our skin, tap a blood vessel and sometimes... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 220 views • 3:18Published on Mar 11, 2012 Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean,... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 12 months ago • 475 views • 4:47YouTube description: I made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's made from. This is because the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 months ago • 1,003 views • 5:31YouTube: Sometimes galaxies eat each other! It's actually pretty common. And it turns out that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is pretty hungry.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 79 views • 5:12YouTube: There are a few animals that will instinctively lick their wounds when injured. SciShow Quick Questions explores the reasons why they do this, and why we sometimes have to stop them from doing it
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 23 views • 2:44An interesting riddle - can you sifters solve it, without resorting to the solution in the video (from 1:25)? iflscience: The following riddle is claimed to have been written by Einstein as a boy. It's... continue reading
posted by Zawash 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 52 views • 5:08A distant predecessor of the dreaded hipster perchance? YouTube: Sometimes, big hunks of strange-looking flesh wash up onshore and then people think that they’re dinosaurs or giant octopi or previously... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months ago • 18 views • 3:14