"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 1 month 2 weeks ago • 86 views • 8:09

For the first time in it's 175 year history Scientific American has endorsed a presidential candidate, Joe Biden. They recognize the importance of basing our actions on fact and science, and the disasters... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months ago • 361 views • 3:42

Science fiction and science fact are often intertwined. As Kate Mulgrew took on the role of Captain Janeway in Star Trek: Voyager, she found a passion for space, science, and exploration.

posted by Ashenkase 4 years 3 months 1 week ago • 81 views • 2:48

Zefrank gives his True Facts about Macaques. From Youtube, "CREDITS: MUSIC: https://soundcloud.com/querflote Thanks to Dr. Erin Riley, Dr. Kathryn Devaney, and Dr. Lauren Brent for their time helping ... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 379 views • 10:20

Zefrank talks about felines senses. From Youtube, "CREDITS:Thank you to Dr. Alexis Noel at http://www.noel.gatech.edu for allowing me to show her work. Click on the link to see other remarkable work... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,035 views • 12:50

Neil discusses the difference between having knowledge and intelligence. With knowledge, you can memorize certain facts and have them on hand when certain questions arise. With intelligence you can figure... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 556 views • 4:44

"Ah, she went that way....CHOMP."

posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 500 views • 10:23

Cuz the ocean is weird.

posted by newtboy 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 318 views • 10:15

Global Warming is taking a rare back seat in the news right now, as we deal with the more immediate existential crisis afflicting our civilisation and way of life. But as entire countries are getting shut... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 347 views • 13:56

In most developed countries, workers have the right to a certain number of paid sick days. It’s a policy that isn’t rooted in just generosity — during pandemics like the novel coronavirus, it can... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 432 views • 6:33

From Youtube, Brenda...Where's my egg? Join the Community: http://www.patreon.com/truefacts CREDITS: MUSIC: https://soundcloud.com/querflote Footage of the mating ostrich: Jackson Hart Grady ... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 22 views • 5:46

From Youtube, "A brief overview of this ingenious method of compressing air using only the power of water. The way a trompe harnesses the power of water to generate compressed air with no moving parts... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,219 views • 8:50

From Youtube, "Mudskippers gets what they gets and don't throws the fits."

posted by w1ndex 5 years ago • 412 views • 5:24

What's the best way to convince humans to conserve nature? Is it to put it on display for entertainment despite the fact that this undeniably harms the animals? Sadly, that's one of the more effective... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 2 weeks ago • 467 views

Gleba

posted by newtboy 5 years 1 month ago • 471 views • 3:39

From Youtube, "Anti-gravity is one of those controversial subjects that some say is more in the realm of science fiction than science fact with many physicists saying it's just not theoretically possible... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 117 views • 14:25

True Facts: Leafhoppers and Friends

posted by BSR 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 404 views • 5:35

Deinopis is a throwback to an older, cooler kind of cribellate spider. Lots of spigots...LOTS. OF. SPIGOTS.

posted by BSR 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 911 views • 6:46

"... It sounds like such an incredible fact. “Our own cells are outnumbered by our microbes 10 to 1!” I don’t remember where I first heard it. But I read it in science papers and articles by journalists,... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,355 views • 13:23

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 168 views • 20:41