YouTube 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 4 months 2 weeks ago • 397 views • 14:33Videos (57) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
The reason they need weevil greenhouses is that the Brazilian weevils don't like Texan winters, and tend to die off over winter. If they mentioned it in this video I missed it. YouTube description: ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 976 views • 3:44After much arguing with Americans I'm now fairly convinced it's 'math' not 'maths'. A piece of me has died. -yt
posted by eric3579 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 685 views • 5:25Let's say you're traveling at 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 km/h) in low earth orbit, your main engines are out of fuel, and it's your job to guide the spaceship through a fiery re-entry without burning... continue reading
posted by Ashenkase 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 114 views • 17:49My dad smoked and drank. He worked in a high stress job. He died at age 49 from stomach issues. YouTube: In 1984, Dr. Barry Marshall had a theory about ulcers that he couldn't convince the science community... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 10 months 1 week ago • 86 views • 4:17YouTube description: Chemical weapon attacks aren’t the only reason to pay attention to Syria. When Syrian-American author and civil rights lawyer Alia Malek woke up to the images of Syrians dying... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 week ago • 279 views • 3:02YouTube 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) 7 years 2 weeks ago • 170 views • 3:27YouTube description: If you're sitting on a boat in Lake Constance, are you in three countries at once? Or just in one? Does it even matter? Because strangely, it turns out there are parts of the world... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 556 views • 2:32YouTube description: As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 426 views • 9:15Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” (“The Magic Flute”) is widely regarded as one of the most influential operas in history. And while it may seem like a childish fairytale at first... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 1,331 views • 5:48"A whale is gonna die." YouTube: Every choice is ultimately about whales.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months ago • 119 views • 2:36Last month I brought attention to a particularly nasty product currently promoted online to vulnerable people as a cancer cure. Black salve is a paste made from a mixture of Bloodroot extract and zinc... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 330 views • 8:10I hope watching this didn't depress you, because my god, making it depressed me.
posted by ChaosEngine 7 years 7 months ago • 290 views • 4:35YouTube description: On La Gomera, a small island in Spain’s Canary Islands, the last speakers of a language without words reside. "El Silbo," a whistled communication used in rural and isolated areas,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months ago • 197 views • 3:53Via YouTube: We all know that we need things like water and oxygen to live, but what happens when you get too much of a good thing?
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 72 views • 9:53Kablooey YouTube: Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene explains supernovas and demonstrates how a star like ours eventually dies. Oh, and he breaks a world record, too
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months ago • 695 views • 5:30"Drop, cover, hold on. " YouTube: Dr. Jones advises you keep plenty of water handy, even though you're more likely to be murdered in Los Angeles than die in an earthquake.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 30 views • 7:57You’ve seen the Terminator die in molten steel and Gollum die in the fires of Mount Doom, but is it really that accurate?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 310 views • 7:01The ultimate in organic recycling
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 157 views • 3:12Yeah... Flashy Outfit over Fighting, getting peed on or, uh DYING ... every day, ALL day! YouTube: When it comes to sex things can be complicated, but for the three species we are looking at today,... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 31 views • 4:11