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posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 months 3 weeks ago • 1,992 views • 8:50

A dispatcher with the Lafayette Police Department took a 911 call that many young students would define as an emergency - math homework help. The police department published out a video with audio of... continue reading

posted by BSR 10 months 2 weeks ago • 33 views • 1:55

https://youtu.be/cECsj2Bznig The Global Vehicle Target is the new standard for testing autonomous driving and crash test systems. To cameras and radar, it looks like a car: but if you hit it, it'll... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 3 months ago • 840 views • 4:33

youtube- TEDx Talks Published on Sep 7, 2017 Imagine a global "Hive Mind" that can tap the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people, and produce a super-intelligence that is... continue reading

posted by Buck 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 115 views • 15:59

Last year LIGO announced the detection of gravitational waves from the merger of two black holes. The science world went a little crazy. Only a few weeks ago a new rumour emerged: that LIGO had, for the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 147 views • 15:51

American healthcare might not be the best world, but it is the most expensive. *** It's true, ask for an itemized bill sometime. I had a panic attack a few months ago and ended up in the hospital. Since... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 2,082 views • 5:33

YouTube description: Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 610 views • 6:45

YT "Seatbelts and airbags in cars save passengers lives. Parachutes save people who, for a variety of reasons, exit a plane in mid-flight. So why aren’t parachutes provided to passengers on commercial... continue reading

posted by blackfox42 2 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 313 views • 6:48

Hank AND cats? Be still my heart! YouTube: Do you give ancient Egypt credit for the domestication of cats? That’s what many people think! But, with some new evidence, it seems that cats became our... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 494 views • 4:51

With all of the global warming a new threat has emerged, the release of methane gas, trapped in methane hydrates on ocean floors. It's release is often referred to as the 'methane bomb'. The last time... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 965 views • 8:37

This video was taken in Papua, Indonesia. We saw it happen five or six times before we finally managed to capture it on video. The horsehair worms infect the prey and modify the brain chemistry in such... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 8 months 1 week ago • 987 views • 4:04

"Dear passengers. Does anybody know how to fly this plane?"

posted by Daldain 3 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 1,201 views • 10:35

Learnfun and Playfun are software written to automate the playing of Nintendo games, with no game-specific options, only deriving objective functions by reading memory values. In this series the author... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 4 years 11 months ago • 63 views • 25:35

EconStories presents a special event on entrepreneurship and innovation. PayPal co-founder and technology entrepreneur Peter Thiel visits the UT Austin campus to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 5 years 1 week ago • 12 views • 51:15

Demonstrates how conforming to the group can be dangerous in an emergency. Tells about real life situation where people died from behaving in such a manner.

posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 942 views • 8:23

Could floating nations help us solve political problems without fighting? Patri Friedman co-founded the Seasteading Institute with billionaire Peter Thiel because he believes we can. The Seasteading Institute... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 5 years 11 months ago • 94 views • 5:58