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) 4 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 70 views • 2:46

https://youtu.be/vfWUorR8D60 Christmas isn’t just a time for presents, cookies, and holiday cheer, but the hunting period of Iceland’s murderous monster feline, the Yule Cat. This giant, fluffy... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months ago • 573 views • 10:04

Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far) Produced in... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 445 views • 10:54

This video is equally a promo for Google Cloud, and a really interesting story about the digitizing the photo library of the New York Times. YouTube description: Google Cloud is helping the New York... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 475 views • 3:56

YouTube description In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 521 views • 8:34

More and more pitchers are throwing triple digits. The fastest of them tops out at 105 MPH. WIRED examines why the 110 MPH fastball is almost impossible.

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 229 views • 9:46

YouTube description: For decades, one of the most abundant kinds of fossils on Earth, numbering in the millions of specimens, was a mystery to paleontologists. But geologists discovered that these mysterious... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years ago • 615 views • 7:00

I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 weeks ago • 1,225 views • 3:54

YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 606 views • 8:27

YouTube description: Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 1,293 views • 12:21

Ewww Ewww EWWW!!! YouTube: When predators attack, daddy longlegs deliberately release their limbs to escape. They can drop up to three and still get by just fine.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 884 views • 4:05

YT: In this video Bill explains some of the engineering principles underlying the design of a DLP (digital light processing) 3D Printer. The printer featured is an Ember printer, manufactured originally... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 7 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 1,095 views • 12:06

YouTube description: It's an omnipresent image that has inspired music, tattoos, and even an emoji on your phone. But Hokusai's Great Wave is a woodblock print that was made to be reproduced. What's... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 645 views • 8:35

YouTube description: Google Earth is the most photorealistic, digital version of our planet. But how?! Where do the images come from? How are they they put together? And how often are they updated?... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 678 views • 8:09

YouTube: Whether or not it's worth investing in, the math behind Bitcoin is an elegant solution to some complex problems.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months ago • 412 views • 9:26

YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 7 months ago • 658 views • 3:23

YouTube description: For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 8 months ago • 508 views • 9:18