SKELETON PANDA SEA SQUIRT: A new species of sea creature that has a distinctive skeleton-like body structure and black spots that resemble a panda has been discovered in Japan. The "skeleton panda sea... continue reading
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The F-15 was born from the difficult lessons learned during the Vietnam War. In the late 1950s, Air Force planners were confident that the advent of powerful new radars and long-range air-to-air missiles... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 year 2 weeks ago • 83 views • 14:21Disney researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that seemingly makes it far easier to make an actor appear younger or older in a scene. While artists will still be able to make manual... continue reading
posted by simonm 1 year 5 months ago • 418 views • 6:48From YouTube, "Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 3 weeks ago • 145 views • 16:11MBARI sustained our commitment to ocean exploration and discovery in 2021. The year brought more challenges, but exploring our big, blue backyard always inspires awe and wonder—and curiosity about the... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 378 views • 3:16It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,835 views • 2:12Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 985 views • 2:32In this episode of Forgotten Failures, I take a look back at the long forgotten TV spinoff of "Blazing Saddles". This sitcom tried to capture the humor and success of the film that inspired it but would... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 10 months ago • 941 views • 7:36YouTube description: Tropical storms can be devastating but at least we usually know where they're going to appear. The exception being a very strange week in 1996, on Lake Huron.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 11 months ago • 185 views • 3:42YouTube description: Hips don’t lie. But a hip x-ray in the Soviet Union of the 1950s might not have been what it appeared to be. In fact, if it was round, it was likely a record. Let us explain.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 361 views • 2:30This strange creature was only discovered by marine biologists in 2007 during a deep water expedition. Teuthidodrilus, commonly known as the "Squidworm", is just as flamboyant as it is strange in appearance.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 778 views • 3:38YouTube 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 2 weeks ago • 1,278 views • 2:37From Youtube, "I bought 10,000 shade balls and tried to swim in them. They appear to act like a non-Newtonian fluid: rigid under high shear stress, but they flow like a liquid under low shear."
posted by w1ndex 4 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 104 views • 10:42YouTube 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) 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 417 views • 11:31YouTube description: Why does the exhaust from the Space shuttle boosters & engines look completely different? There's a huge variety in the appearance of rocket exhausts because different fuels, different... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 493 views • 11:26"We've all seen TV snow. Whether because the TV is detuned, or just because we're trying to tune our Mega Drive into a new channel. But why, on a colour TV is this static still presented in a monochrome... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 148 views • 7:20YouTube description: Shemika Campbell hails from a long line of limbo. Both her mother and her grandmother were limbo dancers, carrying on the traditionally Trinidadian form of dance. Shemika is keeping... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 12 months ago • 1,045 views • 2:44Mr. Samuel J. Seymour, the last living eyewitness to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. was the mystery guest on the February 8, 1956 episode of the I've... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 14 views • 7:18I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 1,223 views • 3:54nerdwriter analyses Goya's scary ass painting. I wonder if this has anything to do with the painting popping up in Altered Carbon? (it appears in a key characters appartment)
posted by ChaosEngine 6 years 2 months ago • 819 views • 8:47