YouTube description: In high school biology, we learn that humans are born with either XX or XY chromosomes, and that a person’s internal and external sex organs match those chromosomes. It turns... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 days 10 hours 5 minutes ago • 111 views • 13:40

Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far) Produced in... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 months ago • 438 views • 10:54

YT: Time to tell a story about idempotency, computer science, and the Night of the Multiple Orders.

posted by Fantomas 3 months ago • 22 views • 8:26

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 5 months 1 week ago • 159 views • 20:41

Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you—they’ll simply cause a severe headache or vomiting. Death-cap mushrooms are not like the others. As little as half an Amanita phalloides contains enough toxin... continue reading

posted by BSR 5 months 3 weeks ago • 680 views • 2:34

YouTube description: David Owen reports on noise pollution, an intangible phenomenon with serious costs to human health and wildlife. (H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months ago • 369 views • 8:45

YouTube description: At the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand, the team at Mars Bioimaging are using detector equipment originally developed for the Large Hadron Collider, and putting... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 months 1 week ago • 636 views • 5:41

According to a new report from the United Nations, our planet is in worse shape than at any other time in human history. The Trump Administration has done everything they can to do nothing about climate... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 months 1 week ago • 1,044 views • 3:01

"... We’ve all gotten dizzy before… but have you ever gotten WEIRD DIZZY? I teamed up with Vanessa Hill from BrainCrat to answer the question 'why do we get dizzy?' and in the process we learned about... continue reading

posted by ant 6 months 3 weeks ago • 650 views • 9:22

Sir David Attenborough explains how humans can take charge of our future and save our planet. -yt

posted by eric3579 7 months 1 week ago • 409 views • 8:28

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) 8 months 1 week ago • 507 views • 4:57

Watching this video might make you want to kill all humans

posted by newtboy 9 months 3 weeks ago • 117 views • 7:50

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) 10 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) 10 months 4 weeks ago • 515 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 1 year 3 weeks ago • 566 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 1 year 1 month ago • 145 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 1 year 4 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) 1 year 4 months ago • 669 views • 3:59