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 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 ago • 133 views • 21:30Before NOVA begins its construction, the Rainbow Bridge only exists in a 900-year-old painting that shows the bustling capital city of Kaifeng. Another NOVA ancient construction episode, again narrated... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 65 views • 54:16Dorothea 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 1 week 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 4 months 1 week 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 5 months 1 week 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 8 months 3 weeks ago • 560 views • 10:12Once again Cops doing their job to protect society.
posted by bobknight33 2 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 50 views • 12:22The 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 1 month 3 weeks ago • 499 views • 32:14Kiwami Japan back at it again with the sharpest knives...in the world, this time made of a crab shell.
posted by w1ndex 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 11 views • 16:08"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 5 months 2 weeks 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 3 years 11 months 2 weeks 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 4 months 3 weeks 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 5 months 3 weeks ago • 21 views • 13:55From Youtube, "Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. Did Rami Malek do a good job speaking through prosthetics to become... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months ago • 19 views • 25:20"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 ago • 10 views • 1:31Dialect 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 5 years 7 months ago • 145 views • 24:22Have 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 9 months 2 weeks 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 ago • 724 views • 3:34