2023 Florida is home to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants, and many work in the kinds of businesses that would be impacted by the law, known as SB 1718. Many of those affected are also members of mixed-status... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 1 week ago • 98 views • 7:32Videos (21) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
What's a "seal" anyway? You know, it's really unclear. Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:48 What Are Seals? 1:38 Where Can We Find Them? 2:05 Species of Seals 3:09 The Three Families 3:22 Odobenidae ... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 6 months ago • 345 views • 25:39It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 2 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 1,835 views • 2:12"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 2 weeks ago • 67 views • 8:03Each season has its own distinctive flowers, and in Japan early May sees the wisteria blossom. Many people travel at that time to see fine examples of wisteria, a spreading vine that can be arranged over... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months 1 week ago • 388 views • 4:28YouTube description: In 1951, the American F-86 Sabre went head-to-head with the Soviet MiG-15 in the skies above North Korea. Both sides wanted to capture examples of each others aircraft. The Soviets... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months ago • 824 views • 6:07YouTube description: There was so much I wasn't able to tell you. Like, for example, most of the jellyfish on display at the aquarium are born and bred at the aquarium. They do active research on jellyfish... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,388 views • 8:03I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 454 views • 5:46Bayes' theorem explained with examples and implications for life.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 753 views • 10:37This video, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey, shows how earthquake liquefaction can affect buildings and buried structures. The concept presented is elementary but will provide you a basic understanding... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months ago • 817 views • 1:14YouTube: There's a lot about sleep that we don't understand, like why we even sleep in the first place, for example. Here are some amazing discoveries biologists have made while trying to solve the mystery... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 151 views • 10:35YouTube: Octopuses are smart! They play with toys, pull off daring escapes, and are masters of disguise. But they're also smart in a lot of ways that the human mind probably can't comprehend. For example,... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 167 views • 4:26As one who stays up all night, I get to hear some spectacularly melodious examples beginning as early as 3AM. Always delightful. YouTube: You’re having a dream, and for some reason that giant rabbit... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 week ago • 57 views • 2:10YT: Bill details the key engineering principles underlying plastic injection molding. He describes its history and, then, reveals the intricate details of the process. He shows viewers where to find, on... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 8 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 357 views • 9:37Powerful example of why EVERYONE should learn CPR and other life-saving methods.
posted by Lawdeedaw 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 611 views • 1:21I love the sound of breaking glass. YouTube: A special thank you to Dr. John Skinner, who is part of the Smarter Every Day Research team via Patreon for helping come up with the "tree explanation" of... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,994 views • 8:51A dissection of dialogue scenes from a few movies to illustrate the importance of framing and creating geometric shapes when filming multiple characters. The narrator focuses on The Bad Sleep Well (1960,... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 9 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 981 views • 3:11One more example of why you should not answer questions posed by cops...anything you say WILL be used against you (even if they have to lie about what you said, or what they heard, or what they thought... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,857 views • 2:08For nearly all of human history, most people were very, very poor. But something happened after 1800. Average wages began to rise. For example, in the past 200 years, the average wage in the United States... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 1 decade 1 week ago • 999 views • 3:19These are fascinating creatures. I decided to post this upbeat look upon learning of the immense and tragic losses suffered after a recent heat wave. Here is the news story on that event if you're interested:... continue reading
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