Zefrank looks at Army Ants and the beetles that co-exist with them. From Youtube, "Where to buy the Army Ants Book: https://amzn.com/067424155X True Facts Shirts: https://ze-true-store.myshopify.com/ ... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 928 views • 9:28Videos (149) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
"Why some Americans’ votes count more than others. Watch more of our election coverage: http://vox.com/ElectionVideos In the 2000 US presidential election, the Democratic candidate got half a million... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 6 months ago • 86 views • 8:09"Not every yellow bloom ― or fluffy white globe ― taking over your backyard is a dandelion. Some of them are close relatives called catsears. But both of them have a little secret. To tell them apart... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 82 views • 4:50The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s... continue reading
posted by mxxcon 3 years 9 months ago • 12 views • 7:14NightHawkInLight attempts to recreate a lost supermaterial called Starlite that supposedly died with its inventor.
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months ago • 72 views • 21:15Red 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 • 2:32Writing in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA says a review of Voyager 2’s old data from 1986 showed that Uranus vented a giant blob of gas into space. This pocket of ionized gas, a plasma structure... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years ago • 1,135 views • 6:40One for the ages - Samuel L Jackson revisits an old classic with an important message - and reads "Stay the F*** at Home". YT: While Jimmy is in quarantine, he checks in with the great Samuel L. Jackson... continue reading
posted by Zawash 4 years 1 month ago • 281 views • 8:35"Why does America's system for picking the president start in Iowa? Before Americans vote on the next president in November, both major political parties have to settle on a nominee. That process is... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 2 months 1 week ago • 309 views • 8:03For three centuries, farmers living in the remote mountains of northern Turkey have communicated great distances by whistling. It’s a language called kuş dili that is still used to this day, though... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 4 years 3 months ago • 100 views • 2:41"There's a scientific reason behind your 'second stomach.' ... How is it that, after stuffing ourselves full at dinner, we somehow find room to eat again once dessert comes around? Turns out, the thing... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 234 views • 4:15While testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, comedian Hasan Minhaj called out members of Congress for the student loan crisis by comparing current tuition costs to what they originally... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 470 views • 3:05On Thursday, March 28, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), during a House Intelligence Committee open hearing, responded to Trump and Congressional Republican's calls for his resignation. "You might say that's... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 1 month ago • 195 views • 5:14From Youtube, "This video is called How Would Bach Play Crazy Train? A counterpoint adaption of the classic Randy Rhoads riff. We'll use Bach's Prime, Inversion, Retrograde and Retrograde Inversion to... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 152 views • 4:55YouTube description: A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it. When you place two (or two halves)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 732 views • 8:16YouTube 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) 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 566 views • 10:41"NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover has already descended from Vera Rubin Ridge, a region of Mount Sharp that it has been exploring for more than a year. But before it left, the rover took a 360-degree panorama... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 10 views • 1:31A dispatcher with the Lafayette Police Department took a 911 call that many young students would define as an emergency - math homework help. The police department published out a video with audio of... continue reading
posted by BSR 5 years 3 months ago • 37 views • 1:55YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 441 views • 4:19