The endless expanse of the ocean’s midnight zone offers plenty of room to stretch out. Here, some animals can grow to great lengths. Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 month 1 week ago • 126 views • 3:36

"A truly X-cellent and X-ceptional video… ... Despite being one of the rarest letters in English, the letter X is everywhere. We sign letters with it, we rate movies with it, we name all sorts of things... continue reading

posted by ant 7 months ago • 1 view • 11:39

"Flashback to the holiday season of 2001. After years of filming, the first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is due to hit theaters, and expectations... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 2 months 1 week ago • 4 views • 24:24

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 1 year 5 months 1 week ago • 19 views • 13:25

YouTube description: This translucent Deepstaria jelly unfurled as it whorled and shapeshifted in currents created by ROV Hercules' thrusters. Its bright red resident isopod, a relative of the pillbug,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months ago • 793 views • 5:43

YouTube description: Something about the Apollo missions always confused me, sure, the step off of the lunar lander’s 91 cm footpad was a small step, but the step just before that was actually enormous! ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 483 views • 14:48

YouTube description: Less than 2 percent of the ocean floor has been explored by scientists. “Every time we go to the deep sea, we find new species of organisms,” explains geobiologist Victoria... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 129 views • 9:46

Jadon Anderson on his career sat diving. "My deepest was 621 feet" "When you drop out into the unknown- and you know, I could be the first person that’s actually stood here. You’re in a different... continue reading

posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months ago • 664 views • 3:18

There's a rather unknown community of Chinese-Americans who've lived in the Mississippi Delta for more than a hundred years. They played an important role in the segregated South in the middle of the 20th... continue reading

posted by Ashenkase 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 983 views • 8:21

YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,726 views • 3:13

YouTube: Did you know that cats have their own laws of physics? These are ancient, passed down through the ages on the internet. Author unknown. A special thanks to our guest cat scientist, Charlie Watson.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 56 views • 1:10

YouTube description: Approaching the Unknown, Mark Elijah Rosenberg's film about an astronaut whose Mars journey does not go according to plan, combines old school non-CGI special effect techniques... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,234 views • 5:40

For years marine biologists have puzzled over what the mysterious vampire squid eats. Recent research by Henk-Jan Hoving and Bruce Robison at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute finally reveals... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 957 views • 4:33

YT: Daniel Kish has been blind since he was 13 months old, but has learned to "see" using a form of echolocation. He clicks his tongue and sends out flashes of sound that bounce off surfaces in the environment... continue reading

posted by Zawash 9 years 3 weeks ago • 208 views • 13:08

"To be a great artist, one must be ready to fail," is just some of the advice offered up by performance artist, Marina Abramović in this recent interview. This idea of failure echoes Samuel Beckett... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 6 months ago • 456 views • 8:46

Inspired by the writings of William S. Burroughs, Anthony Bourdain travels to Tangier in his quest to learn how Majoun is made. On entering the Cafe Baba, "It smells like my dorm room in 1972."

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 11 months 2 weeks ago • 560 views • 8:09

Why is 'x' the symbol for an unknown? In this short and funny talk, Terry Moore gives the surprising answer.

posted by randeepsamra 1 decade 11 months 3 weeks ago • 259 views • 3:58

Since it is Labor Day in a good part of the world, here is a video about the incidents at Haymarket Square following the call for workers to strike on May 1st. It picks up on May 3rd. The events would... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 1,238 views • 5:15