From Youtube, "Who FILES A LAWSUIT UNDER THE SEA? A depressed Plankton wakes up and goes to the Krusty Krab one morning without a plan to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, telling Karen that... continue reading
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From Youtube, "I bought 10,000 shade balls and tried to swim in them. They appear to act like a non-Newtonian fluid: rigid under high shear stress, but they flow like a liquid under low shear."
posted by w1ndex 4 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 104 views • 10:42YouTube description: Kerosene Creek is a natural hot spring near Rotorua, on the North Island of New Zealand. And there have been official warnings for years: don't put your head under water. It turns... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 12 months ago • 423 views • 3:42This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 516 views • 4:57YouTube description: Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary clear water droplets on a transparent surface can produce brilliant colors, without... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 399 views • 3:03YouTube description: A microscopic examination of dirty water before boiling and after boiling. The magnification in each shot is shown in the bottom right hand corner. Camera - Nikon D3300 ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months ago • 1,734 views • 4:33The wet season started and so fire related projects are harder to do. So I planted this years crop of yams using a different technique. The stones covering the mounds protect the yams from predators such... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 470 views • 6:48Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through the darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 329 views • 8:25YouTube description: Who would have thought baby electric eels would be so cute? I record their electric pulses and think about future research. Catania, K.C., 2015. Electric eels concentrate their... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 665 views • 3:27"Pacific mole crabs, also known as sand crabs, make their living just under the surface of the sand, where they're safe from breaking waves and hungry birds. Some very special physics help them dig with... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 90 views • 3:52YouTube description: At 30-years-old, Yu Kikuchi was tired of his job. Working in an assembly line that made turbines, he was aching to find a new lease on life. So when he heard about 80-year-old master... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 303 views • 2:46The days of 90% tax rates are so far gone most people do not believe they ever existed.
posted by C-note 5 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 9 views • 4:31n Porthcurno, Cornwall, there's an old telegraph cable landing station. It's how Britain talked to the Empire -- and it's now a museum. But the technology here isn't quite as obsolete as you might think.
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 329 views • 3:57YouTube description: View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-really-happened-to-the-library-of-alexandria-elizabeth-cox 2,300 years ago, the rulers of Alexandria set out to fulfill a very... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 824 views • 4:53Luscombe was an aircraft manufacturer that ceased operation around 1950, this one is a 1946 Luscombe 8A/ O-200. This video explains the annual inspection legally required to keep it airworthy and certified. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 714 views • 7:23YouTube description: Trees talk and share resources right under our feet, using a fungal network nicknamed the Wood Wide Web. Some plants use the system to support their offspring, while others hijack... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months ago • 435 views • 1:48YouTube description: He was inside Jabba the Hut in “Return of the Jedi,” helped make “The Muppets” come alive and has been pulling the strings on Yoda since he was 19 years old. Meet Dave Barclay,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 285 views • 3:12YouTube description: When the small Japanese seaside town of Susami needed a tourism boost, an unlikely resident came to the rescue: the town’s postmaster. Together with the local diving community,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 1 week ago • 450 views • 2:55