A lot of things happen on Earth, but there are still some things that just don't ever happen here. But, that doesn't mean that what's impossible here is impossible everywhere else in the universe. ... continue reading
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President Donald Trump is spreading another grotesque abortion claim —no surprise it’s 100% false. Trump said the following at the same Trump rally that saw a BBC cameraman attacked by a Trump supporter: ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 years 12 months ago • 36 views • 1:48Both beautiful and terrifying, this is a quick look at fungi, with a focus on their reproduction. It goes beyond terrifying if you happen to be an @ant, or similar cordyceps-susceptible life form.
posted by noims 5 years ago • 368 views • 4:44How to destroy a people Vote Democrat, Become Liberal Lean toward Socialism Become a Socialist nation become Venezuelans like Destroy the country and its people Leaders eat like kings while... continue reading
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posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 2,009 views • 8:50YouTube description: Cheese is delicious, beloved by many, and a teeming mess of microbes. Which microbes, exactly, has long been a mystery, but modern DNA sequencing tech is allowing researchers to... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 241 views • 6:38YouTube description: Technical details about what we're doing: We're working on a time-series problem called a Sequence Classification. Recurrent Neural Networks called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 566 views • 10:41On New Year's day, we said goodbye to George the Snail, marking the first extinction of 2019, and the way things are looking, it won't be the last. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow
posted by newtboy 5 years 3 months ago • 276 views • 5:51Out in the vast coldness of outer space, there are planets that travel alone through the darkness without the boundaries of a system. Here’s how this can happen – and why these frozen deserts might... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 329 views • 8:25YouTube description: Join David Lama from advanced basecamp to summit on his successful solo push for the first ascent of Lunag Ri, a previously unclimbed peak of 6.907meters on the borderline between... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 518 views • 3:24YouTube description: There is a revolution in the Type 1 diabetes community and thousands of people are now hacking their insulin pumps for better blood sugar management. CNBC's Erin Black, who was... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 761 views • 7:09"Elevator. It’s a fascination and a fear for many. Countless action movies and TV shows feature stuck elevators, fights in elevators, and, of course falling elevators. How many times when an elevator... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 219 views • 7:36YouTube description: In 1966 an SR-71 "Blackbird" disintegrated at 78,000 feet. The pilot's first thought was "No one could live through what just happened. Therefore, I must be dead."... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,634 views • 14:09Meet two of the first catastrophic spinal cord injury patients in the world able to take steps on their own following epidural stimulation and rehab. Researchers at the University of Louisville are making... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 7 months ago • 20 views • 3:01YouTube description: We decided to see what happens when you quit added sugar because everyone's talking about how terrible sugar is for weight and long term health and all of the things.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 780 views • 11:45https://youtu.be/cECsj2Bznig The Global Vehicle Target is the new standard for testing autonomous driving and crash test systems. To cameras and radar, it looks like a car: but if you hit it, it'll... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 846 views • 4:33I may be one of the largest repositories of random, useless knowledge but I had absolutely no idea this happened.
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 8 months ago • 581 views • 12:17YouTube description: What happens when you fire a Civil War mortar at a caravan? We invited YouTuber Tom Scott to find out. The mortar used is a replica of Roaring Meg, which destroyed large parts... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 1 week ago • 545 views • 7:11YouTube description: View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-really-happened-to-the-library-of-alexandria-elizabeth-cox 2,300 years ago, the rulers of Alexandria set out to fulfill a very... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 824 views • 4:53YouTube description In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully... continue reading
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