"The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can transmit dengue fever and Zika, makes a meal of us around our homes. And her eggs are hardy. They can dry out, but remain alive for months, waiting for a little water... continue reading
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For three centuries, farmers living in the remote mountains of northern Turkey have communicated great distances by whistling. It’s a language called kuş dili that is still used to this day, though... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 4 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 100 views • 2:41From Youtube, "Dianna from Physics Girl visited CERN in Geneva Switzerland to find out what the detectors at the LHC are looking for, and dive into the fundamental question: what are particles? Creator/Host:... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 294 views • 14:44What if a Passenger was the ONLY one left to land the plane? Could a passenger theoretically do it, without ANY previous knowledge or training? In todays Special video, I will go through the required... continue reading
posted by BSR 4 years 7 months ago • 25 views • 31:56From Youtube, "Who FILES A LAWSUIT UNDER THE SEA? A depressed Plankton wakes up and goes to the Krusty Krab one morning without a plan to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, telling Karen that... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 48 views • 23:21“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) 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 168 views • 20:41YT: Two: the inside and the outside (badum tshh)! But taking a more scientific approach, do bananas actually have 5 sides like all the pub quizzes say? Dr Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist... continue reading
posted by Zawash 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 51 views • 10:07--- 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 years 7 months 1 week ago • 151 views • 4:21Cap D looks into the escherian stairwell viral video from the Rochester Institute of Technology from back in 2013, and how a hoax can endure long beyond it's debunking.
posted by Fantomas 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,295 views • 15:42Have you ever tried to figure out how to use a ratchet strap? Which way do you feed the other strap into it? How the heck to you get it to tighten? Well, don't worry. Dirt Farmer Jay can help you by explaining... continue reading
posted by BSR 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 22 views • 7:29"Gross and mean!" YouTube: If gulls just stole some of your chips while you were out trying to enjoy your lunch, you should feel lucky, because one species has recently developed a taste for live mammal... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 43 views • 4:08Powerhouse Museum – Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Australia has created an incredible interactive area for kids, including giant wall screens that display scanned drawings made by the children... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 346 views • 1:36Now you might be wondering why is there odd pictures of rabbits in the boarders of medieval manuscripts. Ok this is a very oddly specific thing to wonder and it’s unlikely that this is a question that... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 96 views • 3:25At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 406 views • 7:08I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,223 views • 3:54*updated, I posted the wrong video After finding out his father, Alfred, suffered from shell shock, Patrick Stewart meet Robert Bieber to find out more about the effects of shell shock and how it was... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,625 views • 3:15During the evacuation of Gallipoli by the Allies, which started in December 1915, an ingenious invention was constructed on the battlefield by ANZAC forces to deceive the ottoman enemy into thinking a... continue reading
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