For the first time in it's 175 year history Scientific American has endorsed a presidential candidate, Joe Biden. They recognize the importance of basing our actions on fact and science, and the disasters... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 months ago • 356 views • 3:42

"... I met Molly Burke a few months ago. She’s awesome. I absolutely love what she’s done on YouTube to bring awareness to living with disability, and turning it into ability. And her guide dog Gallop... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 5 months 1 week ago • 88 views • 16:32

YouTube description: Technical details about what we're doing: We're working on a time-series problem called a Sequence Classification. Recurrent Neural Networks called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 11 months ago • 562 views • 10:41

YouTube description: You probably know not to lick something unfamiliar. But there are actually a surprising number of discoveries that have been made because scientists licked things.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years ago • 766 views • 12:19

YouTube 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) 2 years 11 months ago • 724 views • 3:34

The Death Star is no moon, but it’s close to the size of one, so does this mean it needs its own gravity?

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 98 views • 8:45

YouTube: Virtual particles are a way of talking about fields and their interactions as though particles are doing all the work. This is why there is some controversy around using the term 'virtual particles'.... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 22 views • 8:43

Because ... technology! YouTube: Augmented reality isn’t just science fiction anymore! In this episode, Michael becomes a hologram and Hank explains how one set of new technologies made it happen.

posted by PlayhousePals 4 years 7 months ago • 33 views • 4:43

YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 490 views • 4:02

YT: Water in rivers, in a glass, or falling from clouds obeys gravity. It's going to fall towards the ground because of the physical pull of the earth. But, what if we told you that you could turn a glass... continue reading

posted by Zawash 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 109 views • 1:06

In a multi-part series with the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill explores a variety of topics, including the nature of an expanding, accelerating universe (and how it might end), the difference... continue reading

posted by radx 7 years ago • 924 views • 26:47

“Now this is a very, very important point — to realize that the world is not an illusion, that the world simply happens to be an abstraction. Out of the process, please remember we are interested in... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 7 years 1 week ago • 72 views • 3:05

This is taken from a radio show called Science Friday. This is about a couple who were inspired to design and build their own tiny house with mobility because they were tired of paying 1200 monthly in... continue reading

posted by Issykitty 7 years 6 months ago • 5,381 views • 4:37

"Why is the sky blue? It's a question that you'd think kids have been asking for thousands of years, but it might not be that old at all. The ancient Greek poet Homer never used a word for blue in The... continue reading

posted by ant 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 45 views • 2:52