"... The eyes are often the first thing we see when we look at someone. And when you look at them up close, everyone’s eye color is a kaleidoscope of shapes and hues. How does eye color work? The answer... continue reading

posted by ant 1 week ago • 476 views • 6:21

An American explorer has descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. Victor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 week 3 days ago • 1,143 views • 2:14

YouTube description: Even if you are a fruit and veggie lover, chances are you’ve never heard of most, if any, of the produce grown on Aaron Choi’s Girl & Dug Farms in San Marcos, California. Badger... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 week 4 days ago • 156 views • 3:20

"Behavior of mice aboard the International Space Station 20 female mice were transported to the International Space Station by SpaceX CRS-4 Dragon spacecraft. On NASA’s Rodent Habitat, the mice engaged... continue reading

posted by ant 1 month 1 week ago • 8 views • 3:42

YouTube description: Skiing and sledding down a mountain? Amateur hour. Try rolling through on a wooden bike. Say hello to the Velogemel, a snow bike local to the Swiss town of Grindelwald. Named for... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 months ago • 361 views • 3:08

YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 months 1 week ago • 418 views • 4:19

YouTube description: Not too long ago, our early human ancestors were under constant threat of attack from predators. And it turns out that this difficult chapter in our history may be responsible for... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 months 2 weeks ago • 146 views • 9:52

YouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 months 2 weeks ago • 412 views • 11:31

YouTube description: What would it be like if our eyes could see more colors? We may never be able to answer that, but we can build devices that can do the work for us. Over the last three weeks we've... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 months 2 weeks ago • 379 views • 9:29

Cutting down some leaning trees at a friends house. These cedar trees were healthy but too close for comfort and one was leaning. There are a lot of things that can go wrong with something like this, do... continue reading

posted by eric3579 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,776 views • 7:59

Thanks to a weird golden goal rule. YouTube description: Barbados needed to win by two, but they were only up one. So instead of scoring in the traditional way they intentionally kicked in an own... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 months 3 weeks ago • 409 views • 5:35

YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 months 4 weeks ago • 413 views • 10:05

YouTube description: 50 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months ago • 514 views • 5:47

YT: In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they were funded by someone anonymous in 1980, perhaps as a message... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 6 months ago • 392 views • 3:08

YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 1 week ago • 485 views • 6:19

YouTube description: How many tries does it take an average player to do what professional pool players do on the first try? Your Average Pool Player attempts Corey Deuel's famous 2004 US Open draw... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,717 views • 5:07

As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA — and... continue reading

posted by Ashenkase 7 months ago • 561 views • 13:02

YT: There's a reason music videos look strange. I could just talk about framerate, cuts and continuity... or I could get an actual music video director. And a leaf blower.

posted by Lumm 7 months 1 week ago • 373 views • 3:05

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again analyzes the accents of some of Hollywood's biggest names. How accurate were their accents, really? I find this stuff fascinating.

posted by ChaosEngine 8 months 1 week ago • 144 views • 24:22

YT: What wiped out the dinosaurs? Most of us were taught it was a killer asteroid—which is true. But it turns out there was more than one disaster movie playing at the cineplex that was Earth 66 million... continue reading

posted by Lumm 8 months 3 weeks ago • 119 views • 10:45