YouTube description: Check out how cats became our favorite little murder machines. To learn how dogs and humans got together, watch the companion video over at It's OK To Be Smart: https://youtu.be/tggdERc8E6Y ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 361 views • 3:05Videos (203) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
There’s no mammal in the world quite like the tree pangolin. Covered in reptilian-like scales that protect it from predators in the wild, the pangolin will curl into a ball when threatened. Unfortunately,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 2,218 views • 1:48"... Agriculture, Social Media, Day Care, Slavery: This video lists some of the most surprising things ANTS did way before HUMANS ever did them! Some of them might shock you! ..."
posted by ant 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 32 views • 16:48YouTube: "All audible musical sound is given us for the sake of harmony, which has motions akin to the orbits in our soul, and which, as anyone who makes intelligent use of the arts knows, is not to be... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 13:41In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months ago • 100 views • 6:27YouTube: The real reason we may destroy ourselves isn’t really to do with politics or economics or even warfare. It has to do with our minds.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 1,143 views • 5:24YouTube: In almost every year since the 1960s, health care spending has grown at least as fast as the overall economy, and often much faster. Health economists have long debated why.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 49 views • 6:21YouTube description: The archerfish hunts by spitting water at terrestrial targets with weapon-like precision, and can even tell human faces apart. Is this fish smarter than it looks? ---+ Read the... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 192 views • 3:36YouTube: In which John Green considers the historical distance between Rome's Pantheon, the cave paintings at Lascaux, a different community's cave paintings at Chauvet, and the current day. Too often,... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 519 views • 3:42In a very short amount of time the human population exploded and is still growing very fast. Will this lead to the end of our civilization?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 558 views • 6:40YouTube: 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 9 months 2 weeks ago • 23 views • 3:51YouTube description: Foraminifera – tiny, single-celled marine life forms – build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet. Special thanks to Professor Lee Kump of Penn... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 489 views • 2:51It is time to reframe how we think about our past. We need a new year 0 for humanity. But which one should we choose and why? I want to live in the year 12016!
posted by ChaosEngine 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 417 views • 7:53There are a group of parasites extremely disgusting and mean. Humanity declared war on them.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months ago • 575 views • 5:43Humans are the same as always, except now we have instant access to all knowledge and communication.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months ago • 331 views • 2:23The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 250 views • 5:56The killer punch of the mantis shrimp is the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, a skill that goes hand in hand with its extraordinary eyesight. They can see an invisible level of reality using polarized... continue reading
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