Few of the monsters that evolution created have been so successful at hurting us as the variola virus, responsible for smallpox. The carnage it caused was so terrible and merciless that it compelled humankind,... continue reading
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Scientists Discover Superworm Eats Plastic | Zophobas Morio 243,647 views Jun 26, 2022 Australian scientists have found the Zophobas morio - commonly known as the Superworm - can survive eating only... continue reading
posted by Oxen_Morale 1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago • 195 views • 10:13YouTube description: Kea, a type of parrot from New Zealand, have been surprising scientists with their smart predictions. Researchers set them a series of intelligence tests based around probabilities... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months ago • 599 views • 4:21In the fast-flowing streams of eastern Tennessee, Emilly Nolan is working hard to reestablish a population for a strange looking animal with an even stranger array of nicknames. The Eastern hellbender—aka... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 152 views • 6:51What's the best way to convince humans to conserve nature? Is it to put it on display for entertainment despite the fact that this undeniably harms the animals? Sadly, that's one of the more effective... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 467 viewsSir David Attenborough explains how humans can take charge of our future and save our planet. -yt
posted by eric3579 5 years 1 month ago • 421 views • 8:28YouTube 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 2 weeks ago • 1,488 views • 2:53There’s a saying in the sea, 'If it’s a cone, leave it alone'. Although they look pretty harmless cone nails are pretty deadly. They're a chemical making factory that travels around an a giant sticky... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 790 views • 3:48YouTube: We live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it’s natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 297 views • 4:14https://youtu.be/Zm6X77ShHa8 Beavers have done more to shape North American landscapes than any animal beside humans. We don’t notice them much today because there aren’t many left, but before colonization,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 1,121 views • 5:19YouTube description: Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 weeks ago • 458 views • 7:42YouTube: Do you like drinking milk or chatting with your friends? Well, you can enjoy those because of the evolution happened over the past million years, and we are still evolving. Let's find out what... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 23 views • 3:51I built a prawn trap from lawyer cane, sticks and vine. Then I caught some prawns and ate them. Prawn (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquatic life due to their shape. It consists... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months ago • 257 views • 7:16NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 515 views • 2:59An important video that gets to the root of tackling bigotry and hate. An excellent lecture by Prof. Laith Saud
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 29 views • 14:32The fascinating video above tells the story of MIT Professor Ioannis Yannas, who was recently inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame alongside such luminaries as the Wright brothers and Steve... continue reading
posted by enoch 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,844 views • 16:57Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry. UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner challenges this notion... continue reading
posted by enoch 9 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 2,027 views • 4:37SciShow News explains the latest climate weirdness, and why the Global Warming Hiatus wasn’t really what it sounded like. Plus, see how humans have harnessed the climbing power of the gecko! -yt Sources: ... continue reading
posted by eric3579 9 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 237 views • 5:04Common misconceptions about climate change. References below: For CO2, sea levels, Arctic sea ice, Antarctic and Greenland land ice: http://climate.nasa.gov Satellite data shows that ground-based... continue reading
posted by cricket 9 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 868 views • 6:50"... war is a pretty big deal in world history so we better spend some time talking about it, at least in the abstract."
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