YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading
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Hank explains in moderate detail why HBO's Chernobyl explanation of "control rods with graphite tips" is misleadingly simplistic. Learn about how the RBMK design of the Chernobyl reactor was stable,... continue reading
posted by fuzzyundies 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 513 views • 13:30Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election will be read live in New York City. According to Reuters, there will be around 20 actors performing the reading. Those include,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 132 views • 33 secs"... I love coffee. Like, a lot. You know who else loves coffee? Astronauts! And also the people who help them do awesome things in space (I think NASA might be powered by coffee). But how do astronauts... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years ago • 124 views • 11:39Using foundational computer science theories, Colin Morris focuses on understanding trends in popular music. Borrowing from the areas of bioinformatics and compression algorithms, he shows that the lyrics... continue reading
posted by notarobot 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 140 views • 14:23YT: Two: the inside and the outside (badum tshh)! But taking a more scientific approach, do bananas actually have 5 sides like all the pub quizzes say? Dr Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist... continue reading
posted by Zawash 5 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 51 views • 10:07"... Today's Adventures! Wren uses visual effects to show you how much water is actually on Planet Earth! ..."
posted by ant 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 54 views • 6:38YouTube description: You probably know not to lick something unfamiliar. But there are actually a surprising number of discoveries that have been made because scientists licked things.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 768 views • 12:19YouTube description: The Multi Axis Trainer, or MAT, is an icon of space exploration and astronaut training. But other than spinning round kids at Space Camp: what's it actually used for? Thanks... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 1,017 views • 3:13"... You know you’ve wondered. Do fish actually pee? And what does that make the ocean… one big toilet? ..."
posted by ant 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 44 viewsHi! I took my African Ancestry DNA Test hoping for certain results, but could have never guessed what the actual results turned out to be. Watch to see my live reaction!!
posted by bobknight33 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 232 views • 12:25Ever wonder how fast the ships in Star Trek actually are? How about relative to one another? Source: EC Henry
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 611 views • 4:07Electric cars are touted as a solution for reducing emissions and improving the environmental impacts of transportation, but are electric cars actually any better for the environment than gasoline cars?... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 6 months ago • 475 views • 13:47As 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 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 582 views • 13:02YT: 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 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 388 views • 3:05YouTube 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 4 weeks ago • 129 views • 9:46Jadon 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 2 weeks ago • 664 views • 3:18So unshelled Brazil nuts are actually seeds found inside a larger fruit that looks like a cannonball. Learn something new everyday.
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 396 views • 11:08"It’s more than just dancing around. ... If you’ve ever seen an orchestra perform you’ve probably had a difficult time looking away from the person dead center on the stage – the conductor. It’s... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 4:42If you're in Canada, you need good winter boots. But how do you know whether they're actually safe, or whether you'll fall over the first time you step on ice? This is WinterLab, part of the Challenging... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 36 views