YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 1,838 views • 3:58

"... The eyes are often the first thing we see when we look at someone. And when you look at them up close, everyone’s eye color is a kaleidoscope of shapes and hues. How does eye color work? The answer... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 543 views • 6:21

Devil's Tears is a popular spot in Bali for tourists to take selfies, but visitors would do well to watch a few fail videos before getting too close to the edge. Lucky for these people, they only suffered... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 1 month ago • 1,003 views • 50 secs

YouTube 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 ago • 732 views • 8:16

Cutting down some leaning trees at a friends house. These cedar trees were healthy but too close for comfort and one was leaning. There are a lot of things that can go wrong with something like this, do... continue reading

posted by eric3579 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,785 views • 7:59

YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months ago • 397 views • 3:15

YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 498 views • 6:19

YouTube description: Huttese, Klingon, Dothraki—it’s all Greek to me. Just a bunch of sounds. Right? Not if you listen closely. Some of these constructed languages, or “conlangs,” pass as real... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 551 views • 4:32

In Quebec, Canada, there's a town called Asbestos. It's an alarming name, one that conjures up images of lung disease and mesothelioma. So now that the town's asbestos mine, once the largest asbestos mine... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 11 months ago • 46 views • 4:30

As an American living in Thailand, I sometimes see Buddhist (and other Eastern religion) symbols that are pretty close to being swastikas. In many cases, I think that is done without knowledge of the... continue reading

Dialect coach Erik Singer takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. To best break down this concept, Erik analyzes some actors playing real people. Just how close... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months ago • 428 views • 29:11

There's an MRI scanner in Cardiff that can look at how the brain's wired up: your connectome. It's nowhere close to science fiction singularity brain-uploading, but it might well be part of unlocking new... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months ago • 312 views • 3:29

SAD! YouTube: I don't really know what this budget is meant to do aside from raise military spending dramatically while keeping spending almost exactly the same as it is now. It's remarkable how close... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 338 views • 5:03

School of Life's close reading of Machiavelli's the Prince avoids the trap of "How to Be a Tyrant".

posted by oblio70 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 921 views • 5:17

We are going to be explaining 12 cognitive biases in this video and presenting them in a format that you can easily understand to help you make better decision in your life. Cognitive biases are flaws... continue reading

posted by enoch 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 320 views • 10:09

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) 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,050 views • 8:00

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 7 years 5 months ago • 99 views • 8:45