YouTube description: In Calipatria, California, the town is below sea level -- but their flag pole isn't. But what does "sea level" mean? Is it just theory, or is there more behind it?... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 495 views • 2:58Videos (48) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
I'm at the top of Mount Evans, more than 14,000 feet - 4.3km - above sea level. This is definitely a mountain: but why doesn't the smaller summit next to it also count? Let's talk about prominence. (Just... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months ago • 152 views • 2:46YouTube description: In the high-altitude city of La Paz, Bolivia, rates of heart problems dwarf those of cities at sea level. But an unexpected partnership between medicine and art is helping address... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 67 views • 3:08The Connectome is a comprehensive diagram of all the neural connections existing in the brain. WIRED has challenged neuroscientist Bobby Kasthuri to explain this scientific concept to 5 different people;... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,698 views • 9:43In 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 3 months 2 weeks ago • 99 views • 6:27I 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 3 months 4 weeks ago • 1,756 views • 3:22At Autodesk's Pier 9 workshop in San Francisco -- and no, this isn't an ad, pull down the description for more! -- there are giant robot arms using welders to 3D print with stainless steel. Which seemed... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 782 views • 4:51The killer punch of the mantis shrimp is the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, a skill that goes hand in hand with its extraordinary eyesight. They can see an invisible level of reality using polarized... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 36 views • 4:00YouTube: Radiation is all around us, and when you travel by plane, you’re exposed to cosmic radiation. So what does this mean for our health? Does air travel expose us to unsafe radiation levels? Check... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months ago • 51 views • 2:29I could go on and on about addiction from a personal level but the YT description sums up the ignorance of the American public. From YT: His parents didn't bail him out- his bail was only $300, but their... continue reading
posted by Nephelimdream 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 523 views • 13:14YouTube description: Have ever wondered how digital illustrations are made? This video explains the basics. Help us keep making videos by supporting us in https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth We try... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 weeks ago • 483 views • 3:49This is an amazing visual exploration of hip-hop that looks one level deeper into how rap is a beautifully intricate weaving of rhymes and rhythm into something that is greater than the sum of its parts.... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 8 years 3 weeks ago • 572 views • 12:44Every Frame a Painting: "For the past ten years, I’ve been editing professionally. Yet one question always stumps me: “How do you know when to cut?” And I can only answer that it’s very instinctual.... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 8 years 1 month ago • 307 views • 9:25Triton is an underwater breathing apparatus that looks from a James Bond or Star Wars movie. Problem is - it cannot possibly work. Massive debunkage in the video. YT: So over the last couple of weeks... continue reading
posted by Zawash 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 234 views • 17:43The human visual system is extremely complex, but it makes repeated use of some tricks that can be exploited to produce interesting visual illusions. With even a high-level understanding of how the brain... continue reading
posted by cricket 8 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,207 views • 4:56"What happens when you drop a perfectly balanced stack of balls? And how is the result like a supernova? The classic momentum transfer demonstration, at the next level..." From http://boingboing.net/2015/02/24/how-to-... continue reading
posted by ant 9 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,125 views • 3:34"Highly" informative YouTube: SciShow News shares new research into how music festivals can lead to high levels of drugs in your drinking water, and celebrates the man who created the world’s first... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 33 views • 4:20YouTube: A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 675 views • 4:33