As you're thumbing through your seed catalogs for the upcoming season, you might be confused by common terms for seeds. Are GMO seeds bad? What even ARE heirloom seeds. And what about hybrids...they're... continue reading
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Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor. That’s the vision of FarmPod, a St. Croix-based startup... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 18 views • 6:56From Youtube, "You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 313 views • 11:46When a theory makes a prediction that disagrees with an experimental test, sometimes it means we should throw the theory away. But what if that theory has otherwise produced the most successful predictions... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 6 months ago • 436 views • 12:36From Youtube, "Bowling has been reinvented many times over the past seven thousand years but especially in the last 30. This is the fascinating physics of balls, oil, lane and pins. Huge thanks to... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 7 months ago • 485 views • 28:01Bee swarms solve problems by adhering to psychophysical laws, and make decisions democratically.
posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 93 views • 15:50How the Global Auto industry is changing to EV. The winner and the losers over the next decade. Cathie Wood of ARK Invest is well known for making bold calls on innovative companies such as Tesla.... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 2 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 13 views • 14:54Get er wet and make it sing.
posted by w1ndex 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 382 views • 19:43It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 2 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,835 views • 2:12The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 724 views • 10:48In this video I show you how magnetohydrodynamics work and how it can be used to make a real working device.
posted by newtboy 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 431 views • 6:53Roger Reaves is a former pilot and drug smuggler who employed Barry Seal & ended up in prison for 33 years in 26 different prisons, in 7 different countries spanning 4 continents. His friends and associates... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 2 years 10 months ago • 5 views • 2:39:50Marcin Wichary gives a really entertaining talk on looped videos, as a live looped video with no post production. Vimeo description: This is a remote Ignite talk I gave at Figma on May 27, 2021.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 139 views • 5:18In this video I’ll show you how to draw glitch designs and glitch letters! I hope the tips & tricks from this glitch tutorial will help you to make your own glitch drawings!
posted by newtboy 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 119 views • 6:44For 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 • 3:07When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and fingerpointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. This video provides a summary of the facts of the 2021 Texas winter storm. ... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 1 month ago • 166 views • 16:48From Youtube, "Hydroponic peppers and spider mites make for an exciting combo! "
posted by w1ndex 3 years 2 months ago • 144 views • 17:11Fantastic Infosec sea chanty - how to secure your online presence. Twitter: To reach the ~youth~ we're going to have to make infosec sea shanties, aren't we? Guess so! Behold the tale of kid who reuses... continue reading
posted by Zawash 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,241 views • 1:17From Youtube, "CREDITS: This video was made in collaboration with Benedikt Pleyer, who is a gifted microscopist and has a wonderful contagious passion for discovering the incredible worlds that exist... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 276 views • 11:43