YouTube: What you don't know about your microbiome may kill you!!! ...or just give you diarrhea.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months ago • 74 views • 11:13

YouTube description: Why say a whole sentence when just a word will do? You might never have noticed that these English words contain whole phrases within them. Produced for Mental Floss... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months ago • 428 views • 1:53

YouTube description: It's not vanity. For cats, staying clean is a matter of life and death. And their tongue, specially equipped for the job, is just one of the things that makes cats such successful predators. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 369 views • 3:47

How does the President go from the White House to the UN headquarters in New York in just 1 hour?

posted by fuzzyundies 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 443 views • 12:03

In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 100 views • 6:27

From NYT: "...a really big drain called a spillway. And once you see it full of spiraling water, it is hard to take your eyes off it. For the first time in a decade, January and February have brought... continue reading

posted by chicchorea 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,900 views • 1:31

... how about you? YouTube: Star Trek has been beaming its way into fans' hearts for over 50 years, reinventing itself time and time again. Most fans think they know everything there is to know about... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 937 views • 12:27

...if he can read, it's at least clear that he doesn't read what he signs. Here he admits signing hundreds, much more than that, legal contracts without ever reading one. That's not good for a businessman... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 9 months ago • 550 views • 5:31

Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink | TEDxUniversityofNevada From YouTube: War is hell, but war is also a brutal teacher. War teaches you about brotherhood, honor, humility, and leadership. In this riveting... continue reading

posted by chicchorea 7 years 9 months ago • 116 views • 13:50

I never thought of sand as a non-renewable resource, but there's only a limited supply: and to make things worse, it keeps getting washed into the sea. At Cape May, New Jersey, the US Army Corps of Engineers... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months ago • 1,756 views • 3:22

YouTube description: View full lesson: ed.ted.com/lessons/history-vs-cleopatra-alex-gendler She was the most notorious woman in ancient history, a queen who enraptured not one but two of Rome’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 171 views • 4:28

Chop up 2 pounds of potatoes (or one pound, then halve the dressing) Toss with olive oil salt and pepper pepper pepper Bake at 400 30-45 minutes, wrastle' once or twice Dressing: 1/2 cup walnut oil ... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 233 views • 3:48

YouTube: No one is ever boring: we just seem boring when we haven’t learnt the surprisingly easy art of being honest about our vulnerabilities.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 572 views • 6:05

"Larry Smith doesn’t just live with Parkinson’s. He rises above it." "After a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s, Larry has exhausted every conventional method of treatment, every drug, and even... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 635 views • 7:59

Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, is the unofficial lightning capital of the world. There, lightning strikes occur, on average, 300 days a year. When dangerous storms approach, most people flee. But 21-year-old... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 79 views • 4:51

Nerdwriter just gets it.

posted by brycewi19 7 years 10 months ago • 1,354 views • 7:51

YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,728 views • 3:13

YouTube description: Thought autotune is the only thing used to fix singer's voices? Think again! Pop Theory is a series that explores the secrets and methods of modern pop music. Want to know more... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 845 views • 5:43

YouTube description: If you're sitting on a boat in Lake Constance, are you in three countries at once? Or just in one? Does it even matter? Because strangely, it turns out there are parts of the world... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 556 views • 2:32