The endless expanse of the ocean’s midnight zone offers plenty of room to stretch out. Here, some animals can grow to great lengths. Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts... continue reading
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Near San Diego, California, there's a rotating house: and somehow, all the utilities, the electricity, gas and water, work even on the rotating part. How's that possible?
posted by BSR 10 months 1 week ago • 282 views • 7:31Dorothea 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 4 months 1 week ago • 82 views • 14:39You’re alive right now… at least I’m pretty sure you are. But you’re not TOTALLY alive. Bits of you are always breaking down, being thrown out, and being replaced. Even right now, parts of you... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 7 months ago • 81 views • 13:12Once I decided to build 2wd bicycle and faced the callenge. It wasn't that easy I expected but after few weeks 2wd bike works. All needed parts I found in old hand drill and some of them borrowed in a... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 129 views • 4:38From Youtube, "This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 82 views • 10:36One for the ages - Samuel L Jackson revisits an old classic with an important message - and reads "Stay the F*** at Home". YT: While Jimmy is in quarantine, he checks in with the great Samuel L. Jackson... continue reading
posted by Zawash 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 281 views • 8:35Building a spooky Halloween Robot Centipede was made possible by the Pro members of Makers Play ground. Thank you all for your love and support of the maker community. This project was a little challenging... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 223 views • 9:57YouTube description: Hi :) I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 1,278 views • 2:37The frozen continent of Antarctica contains the vast majority of all freshwater on Earth. Now that ice is melting at an accelerating rate, in part because of climate change. What does this transformation... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 1 month ago • 36 views • 10:16YouTube 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) 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 449 views • 9:29This is the story of America's massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America's most advanced machinery - the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 528 views • 12:48YouTube: The merging of two neutron stars was detected by gravitational waves and then by telescopes in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is a historic detection as it demonstrates: - the... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 7 months ago • 1,229 views • 5:26Every airline has their own branding on their planes, but for the most part, they're all painted white.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 466 views • 2:21"We're all familiar with Pomp & Circumstance, the graduation song that's the official soundtrack of almost every commencement. But how did it get so big? In this episode of Vox's Almanac, Phil Edwards... continue reading
posted by ant 7 years ago • 132 views • 5:34YouTube: I came across these four physics puzzles over the years in discussions with Neil deGrasse Tyson (riddle 4: which part(s) of a moving train are going backwards with respect to the ground?), Simon... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month ago • 1,232 views • 4:24At the University of Salford's Energy House, all the energy use is monitored and controlled, allowing researchers to experiment with all sorts of insulation and energy-saving techniques. But how to control... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 104 views • 3:36Is Hank trying for a goatee? YouTube: Let's face it: Humans are pretty messy. Industrial processes like mining and manufacturing are important parts of keeping civilization going, but they all impact... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 282 views • 10:13All of us have seen a world map at some point in our lives before, but it is very difficult to imagine how certain countries and parts of the world compare to each other in size that are far apart. In... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 9 months ago • 1,620 views • 6:20From YT: Congrats to Bruce, our latest recruit to pass his Initiation Test into the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy. We decided to share this part of his Initiation Test to encourage... continue reading
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