Vetulicolians are weird. First, they were thought to be an arthropod because of their segmentation, but due to the presence of gill slits and nothocord, Vetulicolians are now placed as stem chordates.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 weeks 1 day ago • 109 views • 2:01

Cannabis is finally being decriminalized in more and more places around the world. And for very good reasons! Compared to other legal drugs such as alcohol, cannabis is pretty mild and most users enjoy... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 months ago • 62 views • 14:42

Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern (Merriam-Webster) This one minute film uses pareidolia as a tool to convey the importance... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year ago • 231 views • 1:01

Odd how often those tasked with enforcing the law break them. 18 U.S. Code § 700 - Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties (1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 25 views • 59 secs

YouTube description: Adam Savage visits one of the world's most joyful places: Jim Henson's Creature Shop! While there, veteran puppeteers John Tartaglia and Donna Kimball use Gobo and Mokey Fraggle... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago • 134 views • 21:30

Manú National Park, deep in the Peruvian rainforest, is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. The park and surrounding areas are home to some 10 percent of the world's bird species, countless... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 19 views • 13:25

Jul 12, 2022 Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., gave a closing statement on July 12 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. The focus of the hearing was on extremist... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 8 months ago • 83 views • 4:25

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 10 months ago • 225 views • 9:55

The Omega 1 is not only much more powerful than existing technology, but it is also much more efficient. The Omega 1’s rotary mechanism is very efficient because it has very little friction and fluid... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 2 weeks ago • 481 views

Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 2 months ago • 83 views • 14:39

Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor. That’s the vision of FarmPod, a St. Croix-based startup... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months ago • 18 views • 6:56

From Youtube, "You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 313 views • 11:46

From Youtube, "Bowling has been reinvented many times over the past seven thousand years but especially in the last 30. This is the fascinating physics of balls, oil, lane and pins. Huge thanks to... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 485 views • 28:01

Wondering how to pronounce Frome or Towcester without sounding like an absolute Mousehole?

The Nenet reindeer herders need to move their tent every few days throughout most of the year. Every time they migrate they must pack the whole tent away, drag it across the tundra on sledges, and erect... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 4 years 2 weeks ago • 499 views • 32:14

From Youtube, "Some places are more threatened by rising sea levels than others, but in the end, we'll all be paying a price. Alternate titles include: "Where You Shouldn't Invest in Real Estate," "Places... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 295 views • 20:12

"Why some Americans’ votes count more than others. Watch more of our election coverage: http://vox.com/ElectionVideos In the 2000 US presidential election, the Democratic candidate got half a million... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 86 views • 8:09

YouTube description: While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this unusual anatomy developed in the first place. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 1,099 views • 9:31

From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 211 views • 11:41

https://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 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 931 views • 7:59