From Youtube, "Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 days 20 hours 33 minutes ago • 575 views • 8:41

YouTube description: Life is chemistry. From diatom to Diana, life is not a magical imbued trait, is a process of the physics of our universe. The precise and convoluted chemistry of life requires specific... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 weeks 1 day ago • 502 views • 10:13

YouTube description: Death is inevitable and mysterious, even in the microcosmos. Stentors, heliozoans, and yes, even tardigrades, experience death in many different ways.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 1 week ago • 263 views • 7:21

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 months 2 weeks ago • 680 views • 2:34

YouTube description: The Ganges River is a highly revered site by Hindus and an iconic, historical epicenter in India. As hundreds of millions of people visit the Ganges each year, there is a dedicated... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 1 month ago • 146 views • 2:26

YouTube description: Credits: Narrator/Director: Brian McManus Co-Director: Mike Ridolfi Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net/) Footage of Hamburg Energy Bunker courtest of Perspektive... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 5 months 1 week ago • 923 views • 8:52

Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. Most people knew someone affected by the lethal drug. Just two decades later, the country has one of the lowest drug-related death rates in the world.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 1 year 5 months 2 weeks ago • 493 views • 3:43

Between 1950 and 1970 the number of deaths on Sweden's roads more than doubled. Today though, it has one of the world’s lowest rates of traffic fatalities. This is the story of how the Swedish Government... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,852 views • 3:31

YouTube description: Frances Glessner Lee created dollhouses with dead dolls. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why. Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 1 week ago • 709 views • 8:16

Terry Crews has more strength in one bicep than most humans have in their entire being. But how is he with spicy food? Find out as the Brooklyn Nine-Nine star enters the Hot Ones terrordome and goes beastmode... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 1 month 1 week ago • 494 views • 21:54

YouTube description: They may look serene as they glide across the surface of a stream, but don't be fooled by water striders. They're actually searching for prey for whom a babbling brook quickly becomes... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 355 views • 3:34

As horrific as this is, it probably should be shown to all young drivers. Heck, we could all learn a thing or two. - I watched it and It made me do some thinking on how I drive.

posted by bobknight33 2 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 224 views • 25:53

This French PSA is going viral. Fake car noise is blared at jaywalkers in a crosswalk, simulating a car screeching towards them at speed with it's brakes locked. The reactions are priceless, and caught... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,433 views • 1:55

Everything will end. Even the universe. But in a future so far away that it defies description, there will still be light and therefore a chance for life. It will be around White Dwarfs, the corpses of... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 6 months 1 week ago • 142 views • 6:29

The Magnus effect is an amazing phenomena: It can lift rotating objects up into the air, seemingly defeating gravity. Bruce Yeany brought out a cool video showing how to make flyers from paper cups... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 556 views • 6:40

YouTube description: In a dusty, crowded shop in Milan, Italy, artist Osvaldo Menegazzi toils, as he has for decades, designing intricate decks of tarot cards. Every card a handmade work of art, Mengazzi... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 201 views • 2:11

YouTube description: More than five million people die every year from pollution-related illnesses, and nearly 10,000 of those deaths occur in London. But Romain LaCombe has made it his mission to change... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 7 months ago • 167 views • 3:27