From cereal to ice cream to cocktails, it seems that strawberries are served with just about everything. But it wasn't always this way. Today, Americans eat four times as many strawberries as they did... continue reading
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EconStories presents a special event on entrepreneurship and innovation. PayPal co-founder and technology entrepreneur Peter Thiel visits the UT Austin campus to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 13 views • 51:15Common misconceptions about climate change. References below: For CO2, sea levels, Arctic sea ice, Antarctic and Greenland land ice: http://climate.nasa.gov Satellite data shows that ground-based... continue reading
posted by cricket 9 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 868 views • 6:50Published on Sep 3, 2014 Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 9 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,308 views • 4:11It was the change that no-one saw coming: the idea that we could take a book, a painting or a song and send it through cables and wires and even thin air to the other end of the world - and it would be... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 653 views • 5:43"Strategically deployed at stations throughout the system and involved in up to 1,000 train trips a month, the Amtrak Police Department K-9 teams provide a psychological and physical deterrent to potential... continue reading
posted by Warren E. Hale (MrFisk) 9 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 31 views • 6:08An understanding of how we develop as human beings based on early, sometimes cruel experiments involving primates.
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 11 months 1 week ago • 214 views • 11:38Youtube description: Peter Lee, Microsoft Research corporate vice president, shares insights and a sneak peek into the Skype Translator, derived from decades of research in speech-recognition, automatic-translation,... continue reading
posted by alcom 9 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 130 views • 2:03Slate.com: Welcome back to "Ask a Homo," Outward's no-judgement answer service for all your questions on LGBTQ politics, culture, etiquette, language, and other queer conundrums. This week, Bryan Lowder... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade ago • 252 views • 4:10YouTube Description: Guest Star: Elsie the cat. Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and from http://www.audionetwork.com FLAVOR NETWORK ARTICLE (the cool food network graphs): http://www.nature.com/srep... continue reading
posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 3 months 3 weeks ago • 270 views • 10:13Khintchine's constant: http://oeis.org/A002210 Wieferich primes: http://oeis.org/A001220 Golomb's sequence: http://oeis.org/A001462 Largest metadrome in base n: http://oeis.org/A023811 All 7's: http://oeis.org/A01072... continue reading
posted by radx 1 decade 10 months ago • 238 views • 13:48From YT: How does a transistor work? Our lives depend on this device. When I mentioned to people that I was doing a video on transistors, they would say "as in a transistor radio?" Yes! That's exactly... continue reading
posted by mxxcon 1 decade 10 months ago • 55 views • 6:00June 25, 2013 - MSNBC. O'Donnell weighs in on what being a traitor actually means in the US based on what the Constitution says about it.
posted by not_blankfist 1 decade 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,441 views • 7:31Schoolteacher Jane Elliott quickly gets her students to discriminate and start hating each other based on the most meaningless of factors. She started doing this in 1968 after Martin Luther King Jr.'s... continue reading
posted by messenger 1 decade 10 months 4 weeks ago • 511 views • 14:37Based on the zefrank series, True Facts, we find ourselves marvelling at the introvert courtesy of Pleated Jeans.
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 year 2 weeks ago • 437 views • 2:48A terrific video from The New Yorker in which famed pickpocket Apollo Robbins reveals some of his favorite tricks. Unlike, say, most magicians, Robbins isn’t shy about sharing his secrets:
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 1 year 4 months 1 week ago • 1,589 views • 6:52Happy October, Month of the Hexaflexagon! Oct. 21st is the annual Celebration of Mind, in honor of Martin Gardner. Maybe you'd like to host or attend a flexagon party sometime around then, or learn about... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 year 7 months 1 week ago • 2,201 views • 4:45Researcher Ceri Brenner uses the Vulcan laser, a Petawatt Laser at the STFC's Central Laser Facility to create tiny balls of plasma for physics research. Relax and enjoy an education in laser based physics... continue reading
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