YouTube description: They may be dressed in black, but crow funerals aren't the solemn events that we hold for our dead. These birds cause a ruckus around their fallen friend. Are they just scared,... continue reading

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YouTube description: How Schlieren imaging works in color, black and white and slow-mo. Filming by Raquel Nuno Sound Effects by A Shell in the Pit (H/T @eric3579)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 months 3 weeks ago • 306 views • 8:59

Last year LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. The science world went a little crazy. Only a few weeks ago a new rumour emerged: that LIGO had, for the... continue reading

YouTube description: Black holes are scary things. But they also might reveal the true nature of the universe to us. (via laughingsquid.com, H/T @eric3579)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months ago • 396 views • 10:13

From http://www.reddit.com/r/nerdwriter/comments/2niyga/black_friday_is_not_what_it_seems/ ...

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Scientists have JUST published this new observation. On January 4th, 2017 they detected the merger of two black holes 3 billion light-years away. This marks the furthest detection they've been able to... continue reading

YouTube description: Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 1 month ago • 607 views • 6:45

Known for his Emmy-winning children’s show “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” Bill Nye returns to TODAY to test viewers’ knowledge about some little-known science facts. Are raisins alive? Do black flowers... continue reading

It was just a routine workers’ compensation fraud case for Ken Sheppard. Show up for a spot check, do some surveillance of the subject and keep it pushing. But on March 3, 2014, it was anything but routine... continue reading

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The Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit (Black Mamba APU) is a mostly female ranger unit founded with the purpose of protecting wildlife in South Africa. They are on the front-line protecting dwindling numbers... continue reading

Is it a bird? A plane? A supernova? No! It turned out to be something else! We've also now studied the weather on a gas giant exoplanet!

One thing I should point out is that Mr. Manley consistently gets Karl Schwarzschild's name wrong. It's Schwarz Schild (black shield) and pronounced more like shield (except the d is a t sound and it's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 6 months 1 week ago • 1,031 views • 8:00

The debate over Zwarte Piet (Black Pete), explained.

Last month I brought attention to a particularly nasty product currently promoted online to vulnerable people as a cancer cure. Black salve is a paste made from a mixture of Bloodroot extract and zinc... continue reading