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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) 6 years 7 months ago • 311 views • 8:59Last 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
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 151 views • 15:51YouTube 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) 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 403 views • 10:13From http://www.reddit.com/r/nerdwriter/comments/2niyga/black_friday_is_not_what_it_seems/ ...
posted by ant 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 20 views • 5:34Scientists 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
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months ago • 508 views • 5:02YouTube 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) 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 634 views • 6:45Known 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
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 5:02It 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
posted by newtboy 7 years 4 weeks ago • 1,157 views • 5:01The 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
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 89 views • 2:35Is 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!
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 200 views • 4:47One 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) 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,050 views • 8:00The debate over Zwarte Piet (Black Pete), explained.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 20 views • 12:07Last 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
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months ago • 330 views • 8:10Over the past few days, the optical illusion posted by Akiyoshi Kitaoka has made the rounds on the internet, and today I'm explaining how the 12-dot optical illusion works. It is driven by two key features:... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 23 views • 3:16Celebrate Black Cat Appreciation Day August 17, 2016! Love me some black cats.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 367 views • 1:48