YT: "It's more complex than women earning 79 cents for every dollar a man makes." A good step toward introducing a little more data to the gender wage gap debate.
posted by Babymech 7 years 8 months ago • 386 views • 5:19| Videos (35) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: Pixar says Hank the Octopus wasn't possible with the technology available 13 years ago for "Finding Nemo." Find out how he came to life in "Finding Dory." (via digg)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark
(oritteropo) 7 years 11 months ago • 1,186 views • 3:54
YouTube description: In which John visits the Za'atari refugee camp in northern Jordan and talks with refugees there about their hopes, ambitions, fears, and complex lives. Thanks to everyone at UNHCR,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months ago • 144 views • 3:31
Watch this complex object get 3D printed in less than 15 minutes. Sean and Norm visit Carbon, the makers of the M1 3D printer, to get a demo of this new super fast 3D printing technology working in real-time.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus
7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 384 views • 24:31
The ongoing study is part of a growing interest in coral fluorescence among the scientific community. Coral Fluorescence was recently found to be a strong indicator of coral health, and coral fluorescence... continue reading
posted by newtboy
7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 127 views • 4:05
Predominately found in South and Central America, the Leafcutter Ant is truly an amazing creature. The complexity of teamwork and organization displayed in their societies is 2nd only to human beings and... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 281 views • 8:09
Know a simple way to solve Sudoku puzzles? If there is, let someone know! YT: Hackerdashery #2 Inspired by the Complexity Zoo wiki: https://complexityzoo.uwaterloo.ca/Co... For more advanced... continue reading
posted by Lumm
7 years 12 months ago • 912 views • 10:44
Milk. It does a body [no] good! YouTube: There are a few topics that just never get old for me. “Pay for performance”. “overtesting”. “medical myths”. And, of course, my never-ending war... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals
8 years 7 months ago • 327 views • 4:23
The human visual system is extremely complex, but it makes repeated use of some tricks that can be exploited to produce interesting visual illusions. With even a high-level understanding of how the brain... continue reading
posted by cricket
8 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,207 views • 4:56
Abstract: Hydrographic printing is a well-known technique in industry for transferring color inks on a thin film to the surface of a manufactured 3D object. It enables high-quality coloring of object... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 years ago • 883 views • 4:55
Bill details the engineering choices underlying the design of a beverage can He explains why it is cylindrical, outlines the manufacturing steps needed to created the can, notes why the can narrows near... continue reading
posted by eric3579
9 years 4 weeks ago • 1,673 views • 11:39
YouTube: In which John Green investigates war, and what exactly it may or may not be good for. Was war a result of human beings organizing into larger and more complex agricultural social orders, or did... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 9 months ago • 281 views • 12:48
YouTube Description: A new clip from Red Bull sees Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel explain the 2014 Formula One regulations -- which are arguably the most complex the sport has ever seen. At... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 2 months ago • 905 views • 3:28
What do Game of Thrones’ Dothraki, Avatar’s Na’vi, Star Trek’s Klingon and LOTR’s Elvish have in common? They are all fantasy constructed languages, or conlangs. Conlangs have all the delicious... continue reading
posted by randeepsamra
1 decade 7 months 2 weeks ago • 214 views • 5:21
YouTube Description: For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 11 months 2 weeks ago • 664 views • 6:11