This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 week 3 days ago • 500 views • 4:57

Watching this video might make you want to kill all humans

posted by newtboy 1 month 3 weeks ago • 105 views • 7:50

YouTube description: Not too long ago, our early human ancestors were under constant threat of attack from predators. And it turns out that this difficult chapter in our history may be responsible for... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 1 week ago • 146 views • 9:52

YouTube 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) 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,478 views • 2:53

YouTube description: 50 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 months 3 weeks ago • 514 views • 5:47

As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA — and... continue reading

posted by Ashenkase 4 months 3 weeks ago • 555 views • 13:02

--- Do earwigs climb into your ear? The quick answer is no. Earwigs are not interested in climbing into your ear to lay their eggs or otherwise. They’re no more likely than any other bug to accidentally... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 5 months ago • 139 views • 4:21

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 8 months ago • 28 views • 3:46

YouTube 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) 8 months 1 week ago • 667 views • 3:59

Journalist 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 9 months 1 week ago • 408 views • 6:14

Cannibalism 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 9 months 2 weeks ago • 88 views • 3:44

YouTube 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) 9 months 2 weeks ago • 543 views • 4:32

The 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 10 months 3 weeks ago • 415 views • 9:43

"What goes on inside that cremation machine? ..."

posted by ant 11 months ago • 61 views • 6:43

YouTube 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) 12 months ago • 1,182 views • 2:59

YT - Human Interests Published on Mar 1, 2018 How Google handles international border disputes.

posted by Buck 1 year 2 weeks ago • 1,360 views • 6:49

Dr. 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 1 year 3 weeks ago • 363 views • 4:36

Bill 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 1 year 1 month ago • 83 views • 2:41