EFF director of cybersecurity, Eva Galperin, debunks several cybersecurity myths and describes how things like secure passwords, VPNs, encryption, the dark web / TOR, and privacy actually work.

posted by noims 5 months 2 weeks ago • 455 views • 11:29

YouTube description: At first this ghostly octopus drifted past the camera on ROV Hercules flapping wing-like fins, then inverted its webbed arms, ballooning out to reveal eight rows of suckers. This... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 496 views • 2:27

YouTube 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) 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 422 views • 1:48

'A Quiet Place' director and star John Krasinski takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the internet's most searched questions about himself. Does John Krasinski play basketball? Is he married... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 20 views • 6:10

Go back in time with these NBC News archive clips from 1994 and 1995 when the "World Wide Web" and Internet were mere mysteries. Source: Today

posted by b4rringt0n 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 16 views • 2:12

Argyroneta aquatica the Diving Bell Spider it the UK's only fully aquatic species of spider. They are rarely seen but are amazing creatures. This film explores how they hunt and live underwater.

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 448 views • 2:57

YouTube: Which marvel of nature can build a 2 metre Orb Web with a silk that ranks as the World's toughest natural fibre? - The answer is the Darwin's Bark Spider and this real life "Spider Woman", no... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 7 months ago • 1,544 views • 4:09

YouTube description: Google Earth is the most photorealistic, digital version of our planet. But how?! Where do the images come from? How are they they put together? And how often are they updated?... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 9 months ago • 670 views • 8:09

Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 187 views • 7:27

YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 5 months ago • 657 views • 3:23

YT: In a small town with an unfortunate name, let's talk about filtering and innuendo. And use it as an excuse for as many visual jokes as possible.

posted by Fantomas 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 51 views • 3:38

"... an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet..." From http://educatedearth.net/video.php?id=4569 ...

posted by ant 4 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 24 views • 8:10

Salamanders are a major link in the food web, and measured by weight, there can be more salamander biomass than all mammals and birds combined in a forest. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bs or Bsal),... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 107 views • 3:12

When I was a preschooler I walked face first into a spider web. Hence my lifelong fear of the eight legged creepers. YouTube: Spiderwebs are designed to trap bug-sized creatures. So how come spiders... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 27 views • 3:06

YouTube Description: HAPPY 25th birthday, WWW!

posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 419 views • 10:55

A bug in Google Chrome allows malicious websites to turn users’ computers into clandestine listening devices, a programmer discovered. Tal Atler, a web developer in Israel, discovered that once you... continue reading

posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 45 views • 4:06

Via Open Culture: Not long ago we posted the only known recording of Sigmund Freud’s voice. Today we present rare home movies of the founder of modern psychology, captured during the last decade of his life. ... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 129 views • 2:03

YT: "The concept of nothing is as old as zero itself. How do we grapple with the concept of nothing? From the best laboratory vacuums on Earth to the vacuum of space to what lies beyond, the idea of nothing... continue reading

posted by Fletch 7 years 10 months ago • 204 views • 1:54:00

YouTube Description: Gathering dust (and beer cans) under a tree at CERN - it's Gargamelle. This experiment played a key role in Nobel Prize-winning research into the weak force. It's now on public... continue reading

posted by Zifnab 8 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 496 views • 5:29