"... Electric eels can emit some of the largest shocks in the animal kingdom - but why don't they shock themselves? ..."

posted by ant 4 months ago • 142 views • 3:59

"... A more detailed article on how we research our videos: https://medium.com/@Kurzgesagt/how-research-and-factchecking-work-at-kurzgesagt-f5b239188255 In 2023, Kurzgesagt has existed for 10 years... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 4 weeks ago • 47 views • 9:58

Known as the ‘Hollywood Glacier,’ Europe’s largest ice cap has been the picturesque and otherworldly scene of movies and TV shows for decades. But the real drama lies underneath; Vatnajökull glacier... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago • 66 views • 16:43

MBARI sustained our commitment to ocean exploration and discovery in 2021. The year brought more challenges, but exploring our big, blue backyard always inspires awe and wonder—and curiosity about the... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 4 months ago • 378 views • 3:16

"Olympic sports are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. They are Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. Besides, there are two more Olympics. They are Special Olympics and Paralympics.... continue reading

posted by ant 2 years 8 months ago • 15 views • 2:40

For over a century, one of the most important salmon runs in the U.S. has had to contend with historic dams in Oregon and California. These dams have been responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 12 months ago • 134 views • 3:07

YT: Discover the world’s largest organism: Pando, an enormous and ancient quaking aspen, and find out how it became so huge.

posted by Zawash 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,029 views • 6:28

https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 930 views • 7:59

In the debut episode of the Logistics of D-Day we explore the logic and planning that resulted in Normandy being chosen as the location for the largest amphibious invasion in the history of human kind. -yt

posted by eric3579 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 803 views • 14:54

YouTube description: The history of the Earth from its formation to present day, covering major events throughout its 4-billion-year history. Estimates of average temperature, atmospheric composition,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 3 months 1 week ago • 807 views • 11:36

In the fast-flowing streams of eastern Tennessee, Emilly Nolan is working hard to reestablish a population for a strange looking animal with an even stranger array of nicknames. The Eastern hellbender—aka... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 3 months 1 week ago • 152 views • 6:51

From 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 3 months 2 weeks ago • 294 views • 14:44

Nestle, the world’s largest food and beverage company, bottles Michigan’s water for next to nothing and sells it at great profit. And the state has just approved its request to pump even more, despite... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 5 years ago • 772 views • 12:07

YouTube description: The Yucatan peninsula is one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world and every year just offshore from Cancun, the largest fish in the ocean aggregates in vast numbers to feed. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 761 views • 5:26

YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months ago • 397 views • 3:15

YouTube description: The Ganges River is a highly revered site by Hindus and an iconic, historical epicenter in India. As hundreds of millions of people visit the Ganges each year, there is a dedicated... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 149 views • 2:26

I may be one of the largest repositories of random, useless knowledge but I had absolutely no idea this happened.

posted by Mordhaus 5 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 581 views • 12:17