YouTube description: From bee sting to cobra bites, we measure the deadliest substance known to mankind and see how much it takes to kill a person. Everything from the top 10 deadliest substance, most... continue reading
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Turns out even the tiniest of screw-ups can result in major problems. From metric math mistakes at NASA to impatient generals dooming their own men. -yt
posted by eric3579 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 440 views • 10:56YouTube description: View full lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/history-vs-cleopatra-alex-gendler She was the most notorious woman in ancient history, a queen who enraptured not one but two of Rome’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 171 views • 4:28Youtube - The military coup in Turkey is over and President Recep Erdogan’s crackdown is in full swing. As of this writing, the government has already detained over 10.000 servicemen, among them more... continue reading
posted by RedSky 8 years 3 weeks ago • 21 views • 12:38I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 8 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 1,388 views • 4:32The last star in the universe will be a red dwarf. Red dwarfs in general might be great places to look for aliens – or planets for humans to find a new home after our solar system has died.
posted by ChaosEngine 8 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 515 views • 5:51YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 493 views • 4:02I'd be looking out for a killer backhand! YouTube: San Quentin prison sits on a secluded bay just north of San Francisco and inside the walls hosts the largest death row population in the United States.... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 10 months ago • 148 views • 7:03This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Building strong children is easier than repairing broken adults. Why allow something to break only to try to fix... continue reading
posted by LukeForsyth455 8 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 24 views • 17:43"The success of vaccines is one of the reasons that people are less likely to vaccinate their children." YouTube: Fewer children in the United States are getting vaccinated. That’s bad news for those... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 7 months 1 week ago • 382 views • 9:16YouTube Description: In 1991, Cuba's economy began to implode. "The Special Period in the Time of Peace" was the government's euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,569 views • 8:30Ever call someone OCD because they like to have a clean apartment? Ever tell someone you have a phobia of spiders when, in fact, they just creep you out a little? In this episode of Crash Course psychology,... continue reading
posted by cricket 1 decade 3 weeks ago • 669 views • 11:32Sixty Symbols explains the differences between Special and General Relativity and answers if they could change the value of any constant what would it be and why.
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