The multiverse hypothesis or theory holds that a group of multiple universes (possibly infinite universes) comprise everything that exists: The entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 weeks 3 days ago • 123 views • 10:03

From Youtube, "This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 11 months 1 week ago • 78 views • 10:36

Writing 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 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,107 views • 6:40

YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 2 months 1 week ago • 68 views • 2:46

China used more concrete in 2 years than US used in last 20th century

posted by bobknight33 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago • 163 views • 2:41

Using foundational computer science theories, Colin Morris focuses on understanding trends in popular music. Borrowing from the areas of bioinformatics and compression algorithms, he shows that the lyrics... continue reading

posted by notarobot 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 132 views • 14:23

YouTube 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) 2 years 4 months ago • 564 views • 10:41

YouTube 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) 2 years 5 months ago • 430 views • 4:19

YouTube description: What would it be like if our eyes could see more colors? We may never be able to answer that, but we can build devices that can do the work for us. Over the last three weeks we've... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 440 views • 9:29

Clear uptrend

posted by bobknight33 2 years 9 months ago • 38 views • 11:35

YouTube description: In which John gets curious about the last time global human population declined and ends up learning about a period of human history called The General Crisis. Thanks to Our World... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 671 views • 3:59

One ringy dingy [E!] YouTube: Feel like your phone is spying on you? Find out if it's real!

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 1 week ago • 359 views • 5:11

The network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO What happened with Cambridge Analytica highlights this perfectly. ... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 516 views • 5:35

"... Ever since Macauley Culkin smashed his hands against his face and screamed, audiences have loved the film HOME ALONE. It has become a Christmas classic; played along side other holiday pictures that... continue reading

posted by ant 3 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 19 views • 14:01

YouTube description: This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallacy where seemingly contradictory results are implied by a single set of data depending on how it's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,966 views • 4:40

YouTube: The merging of two neutron stars was detected by gravitational waves and then by telescopes in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is a historic detection as it demonstrates: - the... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 8 months ago • 1,222 views • 5:26

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

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 149 views • 15:51

"School may have taught you a wide array of lessons, whether it's things that are actually useful or algebra; but SOME are just straight up not true..."

posted by ant 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 68 views • 4:54

YouTube description: View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-spot-a-misleading-graph-lea-gaslowitz When they’re used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,784 views • 4:10