TOLKIEN explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War... continue reading
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Pinkman Goo is one of the most unique strains on earth!
posted by newtboy 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 676 views • 1:47Watching this video might make you want to kill all humans
posted by newtboy 5 years 3 months ago • 122 views • 7:50YouTube description: The tourist guides promote it as Georgia's Little Grand Canyon: but this is a scar on the Earth, caused by humans either not understanding or not caring about geology. Is it natural?... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 1,488 views • 2:53YouTube description: Inventor Manu Prakash thinks you can’t understand Earth’s big problems without looking at the (really) tiny things. So he created Foldscope: an origami microscope that brings... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 138 views • 2:56Grama bay is gorgeous! Also, conversely, a place to see thousands of years of low-quality tagging from people of all backgrounds. From Pompeii Magnus to modern Albanian beach-goers, the walls ripple... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 177 views • 8:27Extremism is the enemy. We give it a bunch of names, put it on a fake spectrum, and rail on each other about how our extremes will be better, but it's all the same thing. Extremism is the enemy. Welcome... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 650 views • 17:35YT: What wiped out the dinosaurs? Most of us were taught it was a killer asteroid—which is true. But it turns out there was more than one disaster movie playing at the cineplex that was Earth 66 million... continue reading
posted by Lumm 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 122 views • 10:45Bunkers! Albania's most visible uniqueness. A negative that's so definitive of the nation that it has almost become a positive.
posted by nanrod 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 623 views • 10:42An examinination of miracles/magic/science and what it takes for sainthood in a modern world.
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months ago • 30 views • 9:56"... When nutrients from the ocean depths reach the sunlit surface (like in the Galapagos), life is more productive..."
posted by ant 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 54 views • 2:56YouTube description: In which John gets curious about the last time global human population declined and ends up learning about a period of human history called The General Crisis. Thanks to Our World... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 674 views • 3:59YouTube: An experiment on how turbulent convection in Earth's core makes a magnetic field
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 776 views • 8:27Earth’s outer shell is made of two materials whose different densities and thicknesses give rise to two distinct “levels” on the planet’s surface.
posted by Mekanikal 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 777 views • 3:10YouTube description: Giant Mine sits near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once it was a productive gold mine, but after the gold ran out, the mining company went bankrupt and left... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 1 week ago • 470 views • 4:34Stupid brain ... YouTube: Scientists think that evolution may not have prepared our brains for donuts, and an international research team has found out that some of earth’s oldest, largest trees are... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 436 views • 5:59YouTube description: Amazing high resolution photos of the Earth should show that the earth is oblate, but it's hard to see because the difference is about 0.3%. So here's a quick demo highlighting the difference. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 620 views • 1:43