Some boaters were left stunned after witnessing an orca's extraordinary leap 15-feet out of the water during a dolphin hunt in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. (Credit: Miguel Cuevas) While battering their... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 months ago • 835 views • 45 secs

"Grover tires himself out while demonstrating the difference between near and far in this classic Sesame Street clip! ..." From http://www.savagechickens.com/2020/11/the-competition.html#comment-1198190.

posted by ant 10 months 3 weeks ago • 93 views • 2:45

One for the ages - Samuel L Jackson revisits an old classic with an important message - and reads "Stay the F*** at Home". YT: While Jimmy is in quarantine, he checks in with the great Samuel L. Jackson... continue reading

posted by Zawash 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 277 views • 8:35

Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate coronavirus. Read more about the coronavirus pandemic at http://vox.com/coronavirus You've been told a thousand times: wash your hands to stop the spread... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 year 7 months ago • 378 views • 3:45

For three centuries, farmers living in the remote mountains of northern Turkey have communicated great distances by whistling. It’s a language called kuş dili that is still used to this day, though... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago • 98 views • 2:41

YouTube description: Researchers out of the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab have developed a novel imaging system that can gauge the distance of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 7 months ago • 1,184 views • 2:59

This is probably the biggest loophole in German gun law: Because this arrow shooting airgun does not shoot a projetile THROUGH a barrel but OVER a barrel, the BKA (highest German authority on gun assessments)... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 332 views • 5:31

The Voyager 1 space probe is the furthest man-made object from Earth, and the fastest. But right now, it's moving towards us. Relatively speaking. At Mission Control for the Deep Space Network, inside... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 655 views • 3:26

YouTube: In which John Green considers the historical distance between Rome's Pantheon, the cave paintings at Lascaux, a different community's cave paintings at Chauvet, and the current day. Too often,... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 4 years 9 months ago • 467 views • 3:42

Compression of time during travel near the speed of light has some interesting and significant consequences.

posted by messenger 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 445 views • 8:37

YouTube Description: What would you see if you were drifting through space, looking back at the sun? Well its light intensity would decrease as the inverse square of distance from the sun. And you would... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 567 views • 3:06

This clip from the BBC’s Edwardian Farm documentary series shows how rope was made back before industrial factories spun threads together. It involved pulling and suspending fibers across long distances... continue reading

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,230 views • 2:50

YouTube Description: When sunlight shines through a small hole, it casts an image of the sun on a wall some distance away. Therefore the size and shape of the hole have little effect on the size and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 448 views • 3:32