Hemp is a plant whose vegetable fibers have been used in the making of fabrics, the manufacture of espadrilles and in rope making. Manuel Abad was an expert ropemaker from Cornago (La Rioja) who showed... continue reading
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At 2994 meters on a never-before-surveyed seamount north of Johnston Atoll, the team made a thrilling discovery — the chance to examine an animal spotted for the very first time in the Pacific Ocean!... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month ago • 213 views • 1:46In 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which house the Museum's renowned collection of Islamic... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 60 views • 17:44The world remains in a state of shock after spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting on the island of Tonga left a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific region. With shocking visuals... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months ago • 42 views • 4:26Michael Osterholm is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology. He is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,286 views • 6:59Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 1 week ago • 171 views • 57 secsFrom Youtube, "Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. Did Rami Malek do a good job speaking through prosthetics to become... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 19 views • 25:20From Youtube, "In this episode of 'Price Points,' Epicurious challenges whiskey expert Heather Greene to guess which one of two whiskies is more expensive. Heather breaks down Scotch, rye, Irish, Bourbon... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 25 views • 20:40Kimberly Noble: How does income affect childhood brain development? Neuroscientist and pediatrician Kimberly Noble is leading the Baby's First Years study: the first-ever randomized study of how family... continue reading
posted by notarobot 5 years 3 weeks ago • 52 viewsYouTube description: Scientific language can be difficult to parse through for anyone not well-versed in the field. That’s where acclaimed actor Alan Alda comes in. Through the Alda Center for Communicating... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 498 views • 3:16From Youtube, "In this episode of 'Price Points', Epicurious challenges tea expert Emeric Harney of Harney & Sons to guess which one of two teas is more expensive. Emeric breaks down five in total before... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 24 views • 16:08Dialect coach Erik Singer once again analyzes the accents of some of Hollywood's biggest names. How accurate were their accents, really? I find this stuff fascinating.
posted by ChaosEngine 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 145 views • 24:22"Brexit Britain is fed up with experts. These days we only listen to the bloke down the pub. So in this controlled experiment, we put three experts in a pub and recorded the results for your viewing pleasure. ... continue reading
posted by radx 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 72 views • 58:34YouTube description: Epicurious challenged cheese expert and noted author Liz Thorpe to guess which one of two cheeses was more expensive. Liz breaks down cheap vs expensive parmesan cheese, goat cheese,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months ago • 1,451 views • 11:20YouTube description: A simple demonstration of the learning ability of a monitor lizard. If you're curious about how they get back into the enclosure, when they need to bask to warm up again they... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months ago • 294 views • 6:27YouTube description: I'm visiting the University of Iowa's National Advanced Driving Simulator, to answer a question: how unsafe is it for me to vlog while driving? Is vlogging while driving dangerous?... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 805 views • 4:27YouTube: Do you like playing with your cat, cats or other people’s cats? Would you like to know some interesting information about how cats play? And good ways to play with your cat? Well, watch this... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 7 months ago • 151 views • 5:42"... Do you think you know everything about kittens? Watch this video to find out! Simon’s Cat Care is a series where we speak to a Cat Behaviour Expert Nicky Trevorrow at Cats Protection (http://www.cats.org.uk)... continue reading
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