Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you—they’ll simply cause a severe headache or vomiting. Death-cap mushrooms are not like the others. As little as half an Amanita phalloides contains enough toxin... continue reading

posted by BSR 5 years 2 weeks ago • 687 views • 2:34

Source: SmarterEveryDay

posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,355 views • 16:13

Part 3 of Smarter Every Day's look at social media manipulation, this time taking a look at Facebook.

posted by w1ndex 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,046 views • 22:34

"Behavior of mice aboard the International Space Station 20 female mice were transported to the International Space Station by SpaceX CRS-4 Dragon spacecraft. On NASA’s Rodent Habitat, the mice engaged... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 16 views • 3:42

"A prank I did for April Fool's Day for my math class. I "accidentally" drew on the projector with a whiteboard marker, and get help from the YouTube video..." From http://www.reddit.com/r/aprilfools/comments/ba97w4/b... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 2 months ago • 400 views • 2:48

My first video of a 3 part series on "coordinated inauthentic behavior". Thanks to ExpressVPN for sponsoring this series.

posted by bobknight33 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 861 views • 20:22

YouTube description: Thierry Coursier had a good life as a logistics worker. His salary was great, his work was comfortable and he sat at a desk all day. But, Thierry wasn’t happy. He gave up his... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 486 views • 2:43

From Youtube, "Is it possible that butter dry aged steak can be better than a real dry aged steak? Today I am dry aging one whole rib roast for 60 days, one half was in butter and the half other is the... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 241 views • 12:58

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) 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 566 views • 10:41

YouTube description: This Valentine’s Day, send a little love to your bacterial buddies! Our microbes keep us healthy, but some bacteria give their animal companions superpowers, like immunity to... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 245 views • 12:11

YouTube description: At 15 years old, Tan Wei Tian already has a prolific 12 year opera career behind her. By day, she’s your average high school student, balancing schoolwork and friends; by night,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 296 views • 2:41

On New Year's day, we said goodbye to George the Snail, marking the first extinction of 2019, and the way things are looking, it won't be the last. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow

posted by newtboy 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 276 views • 5:51

YouTube description: Behind the Scenes: https://youtu.be/3HABgm-UUi0 Download Skunkworks! http://www.audible.com/Smarter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION Check out Derek's video... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 855 views • 11:21

YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 427 views • 10:05

YouTube description: I didn't get much sleep the last two days, but it works! I'm going to keep working away on this project but in a different form factor. (H/T @eric3579)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 312 views • 12:14

This is amazing. I learned the Fourier series in university and I never understood it like this.

posted by ChaosEngine 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 536 views • 8:25

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 6 months 2 weeks ago • 397 views • 3:15