From Youtube, "Kurzgesagt is lying to you, in every video, even in this one. Because our videos distill very complex subjects into flashy ten-minute videos and unfortunately, the reality is, well, complicated.... continue reading
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From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 510 views • 9:10"What different clouds mean, explained for kids. Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids! If you’re standing outside and you look up, you’ll likely see something familiar above... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 8 months ago • 67 views • 8:03From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months ago • 211 views • 11:41YouTube description: Let's journey deep into the cells themselves to take a look at some of the structures that keep cells alive and others that do... something... that we'll figure out someday... probably.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 166 views • 11:31YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months ago • 1,838 views • 3:58Cutting down some leaning trees at a friends house. These cedar trees were healthy but too close for comfort and one was leaning. There are a lot of things that can go wrong with something like this, do... continue reading
posted by eric3579 5 years 4 months ago • 1,785 views • 7:59"Cats often do hilarious and unexpected things. Watch THIS video to see cats doing something very unusual — acting like dogs! ..."
posted by ant 6 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 14 views • 4:01After earning our pilot's licence, the first thing most of us do is take our first passenger flying. However, I think passenger management is something that the primary training does not address very well. ... continue reading
posted by BSR 7 years ago • 89 views • 14:52John Oliver is not afraid to put his money where his mouth is. Back in February, realizing that President Trump gets most of his ideas from cable news, the Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight host purchased... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 3 weeks ago • 601 views • 1:37It was just a routine workers’ compensation fraud case for Ken Sheppard. Show up for a spot check, do some surveillance of the subject and keep it pushing. But on March 3, 2014, it was anything but routine... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 4 weeks ago • 1,157 views • 5:01YouTube: Why do cats love to hang out in boxes so much? It has something to do with being stone cold predators. And, a little anxiety.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 27 views • 2:15YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months ago • 493 views • 4:02While they don't quite cause a Y2K-scale of disaster, leap seconds can cause some serious glitches. Here's why computers have trouble with something that should, in theory, be pretty simple.
posted by blacklotus90 8 years 10 months 1 week ago • 18 views • 3:09"It's never been done on the internet. You're going to learn something." YouTube: SYNCHRONIZE WITH DEREK'S VIDEO: http://bit.ly/SouthernSwirl We each repeated the experiment 3 times, and got the... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months ago • 897 views • 8:02I've doubled what I thought I'd live ... must be doing something [cough] right!
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 249 views • 6:56There was something deeply satisfying about watching a true craftsman doing their thing. This was artisanal beyond my reckoning. I had no good ideas myself on how you'd find and reuse the same hidden... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,044 views • 6:52Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 11 months 1 week ago • 255 views • 43:41Thanks to Visually (http://Visual.ly) for facilitating the creation of this video, to http://youtube.com/kurzgesagt for the animation, and to The Prison Policy Initiative for research help and fact checking.... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 decade 1 month ago • 1,435 views • 3:41Can you figure out the rule? Did you see the exponents pattern? http://youtu.be/AVB8vRC6HIY Why do you make people look stupid? http://bit.ly/12Fmlpl How do you investigate hypotheses? Do you seek... continue reading
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