YouTube description: I'm visiting the University of Iowa's National Advanced Driving Simulator, to answer a question: how unsafe is it for me to vlog while driving? Is vlogging while driving dangerous?... continue reading
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He's given a TED talk too, https://www.ted.com/talks/andres_ruzo_the_mythical_boiling_river_of_the_amazon YouTube description: When Andrés Ruzo was a boy, his grandfather would tell him tales of... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 2,029 views • 2:34Mutiny on the SS Global Warming, Perpetrated by the Top Ranked "Sailors on that vessel"
posted by bobknight33 6 years 7 months 1 week ago • 65 views • 5:01youtube- TEDx Talks Published on Sep 7, 2017 Imagine a global "Hive Mind" that can tap the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people, and produce a super-intelligence that is... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 119 views • 15:59Computers store text (or, at least, English text) as eight bits per character. There are plenty of more efficient ways that could work: so why don't we use them? And how can we fit more text into less... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 64 views • 6:31"Protection from deportation and the chance to work have been life-changing for DACA recipients. But if Congress and the White House can’t agree on a bill to protect them within a six-month timeframe,... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 8 months ago • 219 views • 5:28I'm at the top of Mount Evans, more than 14,000 feet - 4.3km - above sea level. This is definitely a mountain: but why doesn't the smaller summit next to it also count? Let's talk about prominence. (Just... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 152 views • 2:46YouTube: Go see if Eons is for you: http://www.youtube.com/eons Other cool things about Trilobites People have been collecting them for at least tens of thousands of years, as they've been found in... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 103 views • 3:39"... Watch this Simon's Cat Logic episode to find out how cats communicate using body language. Simon’s Cat Logic is a fun new series where we speak to a Cat Behaviour Expert at Cats Protection (http://www.cats.org.... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 228 views • 7:45Although she only talks about English, irregular verbs in Spanish (and probably other languages) are really quite similar - frequently used words tend to be more resistant to change than less frequently used ones. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months ago • 57 views • 3:59Terry Crews, actor, former NFL player, and host of Netflix's "Ultimate Beastmaster," discusses why he decided to build his own PC and how he used Facebook to help.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,907 views • 2:09"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 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 12:31The mysterious YouTube algorithm. It's confused people for years, and will continue to do so. So why isn't YouTube more transparent? It used to be that they wouldn't tell anyone how it works - but now,... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 160 viewsStar Talk host, Hayden Planetarium director, and astrophysicist extraordinaire Neil deGrasse Tyson has a brilliant knack for breaking down big scientific ideas to the masses. But can he keep his facts... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 96 views • 26:04The Voyager 1 space probe is the furthest man-made object from Earth, and the fastest. But right now, it's moving towards us. Relatively speaking. At Mission Control for the Deep Space Network, inside... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 week ago • 656 views • 3:26"That ruins a perfectly good banana."
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 2 weeks ago • 352 views • 6:14Published on Feb 19, 2016 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivers opening statement before a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Role of Judges under the U.S. Constitution. Remarks delivered... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 3 weeks ago • 211 views • 7:22YouTube: When President Trump's White House revealed its proposed budget recently. A lot of things got cut, and much public outrage was expressed about cuts to funding for Meals on Wheels. White House... continue reading
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