YouTube description: Discover what happened when an RAF pilot ejected from his Harrier GR.1 jump jet over West Germany in 1971 - it made a break for the East German border!... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 1 week ago • 685 views • 3:52Videos (55) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 4 years 11 months ago • 168 views • 20:41YouTube description: After being diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal brain condition known as Moyamoya, Jennifer Lee was forced to face her own mortality and consider the things in life she held... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 589 views • 10:01YouTube 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) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 615 views • 7:00From YT: Video highlighting my research on PowerPoint Turing Machines for CMU's SIGBOVIK 2017 From me: So it turns out PowerPoint is Years ago when I discovered you could export PowerPoint files... continue reading
posted by Ickster 6 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 58 views • 5:34YouTube description: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States, and the United Nations estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months ago • 397 views • 14:33He's given a TED talk too, https://www.ted.com/talks/andres_ruzo_the_mythical_boiling_river_of_the_amazon YouTube description: When Andrés Ruzo was a boy, his grandfather would tell him tales of... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 2,029 views • 2:34YouTube description: Many structures built by ancient Romans around 2,000 years ago are still standing, and some are still in excellent condition. Over the last decade, researchers have come discover... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months ago • 688 views • 1:58YouTube: How does one species evolve into two within the same habitat? Discover the details behind a rare type of evolution: sympatric evolution.
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 230 views • 4:21YouTube description: In March 1974, Chinese farmers digging a well unearthed the greatest archaeological find of the century - the buried Terracotta Army. After coming across a life-sized human head... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 week ago • 634 viewsVia YouTube: Triquet Island, 500 km northwest of Victoria, is painting a picture of how our civilization began – and it was discovered by a student.
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 3 weeks ago • 642 views • 2:08"Larry Smith doesn’t just live with Parkinson’s. He rises above it." "After a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s, Larry has exhausted every conventional method of treatment, every drug, and even... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 635 views • 7:59Pillaging Vikings, huge runestones, protective amulets... Discover the linguistics behind the Norse Runes
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 450 views • 6:59"Donald discovers the everyday opportunities of math and why math is useful..." From http://boingboing.net/2016/11/16/donald-duck-is-a-quite-effecti.html ...
posted by ant 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 107 views • 27:36"That's Badass!" YouTube: Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how Albert Einstein correctly predicted the existence of gravitational waves.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 489 views • 2:07This is without a doubt the most entertaining A Capella Science song yet. The song assumes you already know about Crispr-Cas9, so it never actually explains that it's a targeted gene editing technique... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months ago • 497 views • 6:07UPDATE: We're still working on a species ID with our science partners at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, but currently we're thinking the purple orb is a pleurobranch, a nudibranch relative.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 219 views • 3:12Interesting. I wonder what kind of results could be discovered if there was proper government funding on these substances.
posted by brycewi19 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 262 views • 5:07