When grown-up jellyfish love each other very much, they make huge numbers of teeny-tiny potato-shaped larvae. Those larvae grow into little polyps that cling to rocks and catch prey with their stinging... continue reading
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Proudly Presenting: "Corporate Ping Pong" This engineered mechanical sculpture is a representation of the hum and haw and constant, slow churn of the big corporate machine. Jumping through hoops, creating... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 months 3 weeks ago • 72 views • 6:35YouTube description: Adam Savage visits one of the world's most joyful places: Jim Henson's Creature Shop! While there, veteran puppeteers John Tartaglia and Donna Kimball use Gobo and Mokey Fraggle... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 3 weeks ago • 133 views • 21:30Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 82 views • 14:39From Youtube, "Kurzgesagt is lying to you, in every video, even in this one. Because our videos distill very complex subjects into flashy ten-minute videos and unfortunately, the reality is, well, complicated.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 5 months ago • 162 views • 10:28Victor M. Sweeney, a licensed funeral director and mortician, once again answers the internet's burning questions about dead bodies and the funeral director profession. When someone dies, what happens... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 6 months ago • 7 views • 15:27Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened. It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 560 views • 10:12The Nenet reindeer herders need to move their tent every few days throughout most of the year. Every time they migrate they must pack the whole tent away, drag it across the tundra on sledges, and erect... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 499 views • 32:14"Why some Americans’ votes count more than others. Watch more of our election coverage: http://vox.com/ElectionVideos In the 2000 US presidential election, the Democratic candidate got half a million... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 86 views • 8:09From Youtube, "Well... this took longer than expected. I am sorry you had to wait so long for me to finish this video, I had some reading to do, then write the video, record the audio, and then the... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years ago • 19 views • 1:09:23"There's a scientific reason behind your 'second stomach.' ... How is it that, after stuffing ourselves full at dinner, we somehow find room to eat again once dessert comes around? Turns out, the thing... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 234 views • 4:15From Youtube, "Well, looks like it's that time of year again. When Ben Shapiro (or anyone else) argues that rap and hip hop aren't technically considered music, they're flying in the face of basically... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 21 views • 13:55"NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has already descended from Vera Rubin Ridge, a region of Mount Sharp that it has been exploring for more than a year. But before it left, the rover took a 360-degree panorama... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 10 views • 1:31Have you ever tried to figure out how to use a ratchet strap? Which way do you feed the other strap into it? How the heck to you get it to tighten? Well, don't worry. Dirt Farmer Jay can help you by explaining... continue reading
posted by BSR 5 years 10 months ago • 22 views • 7:29YouTube description: In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 724 views • 3:34"COSMOS is back with an all-new season! FOX and National Geographic TV’s Emmy-award winning event series returns with host Neil deGrasse Tyson in Spring 2019. The new season, COSMOS: Possible Worlds,... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 24 views • 21 secsYouTube description: A simple demonstration of the learning ability of a monitor lizard. If you're curious about how they get back into the enclosure, when they need to bask to warm up again they... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 294 views • 6:27I built a water powered hammer called a “Monjolo”. I started by making a water spout from half a hollow log to direct water from the creek. This was set up in the creek and water flowed through it.... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 7 years 1 week ago • 1,216 views • 8:51YouTube description: Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 weeks ago • 458 views • 7:42John Oliver is not afraid to put his money where his mouth is. Back in February, realizing that President Trump gets most of his ideas from cable news, the Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight host purchased... continue reading
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