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In the last few years, wildfires have been getting worse - and, oddly, it's because humans have been preventing them. From a helicopter above the forests of British Columbia, and from the Tree Ring Lab... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 125 views • 3:46YouTube description: In which John gets curious about the last time global human population declined and ends up learning about a period of human history called The General Crisis. Thanks to Our World... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 674 views • 3:59Journalist Ashlee Vance travels to Montreal, Canada to meet the founders of Lyrebird, a startup that is using AI to clone human voices with frightening precision. Source: Bloomberg
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 412 views • 6:14Cannibalism is a clear taboo in our society. But, putting ethics aside, what are the other reasons why you should not eat other humans?
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 11 months ago • 93 views • 3:44YouTube description: Huttese, Klingon, Dothraki—it’s all Greek to me. Just a bunch of sounds. Right? Not if you listen closely. Some of these constructed languages, or “conlangs,” pass as real... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 551 views • 4:32The Crisis of Meaning [humans are not cats] YouTube: Studies have shown that people with jetpacks were on average 92.4% much happier with their lives.
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years ago • 490 views • 9:43"What goes on inside that cremation machine? ..."
posted by ant 6 years 2 weeks ago • 65 views • 6:43YouTube description: Researchers out of the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab have developed a novel imaging system that can gauge the distance of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,189 views • 2:59YT - Human Interests Published on Mar 1, 2018 How Google handles international border disputes.
posted by Buck 6 years 2 months ago • 1,391 views • 6:49Dr. Babak Sarani, director of trauma and acute care surgery at George Washington University Hospital, explains what bullets do to the human body. Source: Washington Post
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 368 views • 4:36Bill nominates, perhaps only provocatively, James Bosnack's cigarette machine as the invention with the greatest economic impact on the 20th century. Cigarettes, as compared to pipes and cigars, are and... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 90 views • 2:41YouTube description: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States, and the United Nations estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 397 views • 14:33Who else is excited for another season of the world's most popular public slaughter house fueled by human lives? Oh ... just us in America?
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 5 months ago • 531 views • 3:46"... Read more about the concept of non-state spaces: https://goo.gl/UsgDDy For thousands of years, humans have drawn lines on the earth, dividing the planet into nations. But there are some parts of... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 22 views • 13:27All nuclear waste is currently in temporary storage. Finland is building the first long term permanent storage site in the world. How do you convey a warning not to tamper with such a place tens of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 777 views • 11:09