Journalist Ashlee Vance travels to Montreal, Canada to meet the founders of Lyrebird, a startup that is using AI to clone human voices with frightening precision. Source: Bloomberg
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YouTube description: He was inside Jabba the Hut in “Return of the Jedi,” helped make “The Muppets” come alive and has been pulling the strings on Yoda since he was 19 years old. Meet Dave Barclay,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 285 views • 3:12*updated, I posted the wrong video After finding out his father, Alfred, suffered from shell shock, Patrick Stewart meet Robert Bieber to find out more about the effects of shell shock and how it was... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,625 views • 3:15YouTube description: "The wood makes the sound gentler and more... woody" Meet the flute that our principal Lisa Beznosiuk uses for playing Bach, Handel, Rameau and people like that.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 719 views • 4:56YouTube description: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States, and the United Nations estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 397 views • 14:33YouTube description: What happens when you reinterpret heavy metal classics through the lens of mariachi musicians? Introducing: Metalachi—the first and only heavy metal mariachi band in the world.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 446 views • 2:49The future of train transportation might be pneumatic tubes and magnets. Meet the 89-year old entrepreneur who wants to disrupt the railroad with a modern twist on a very old train idea.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 591 views • 4:35Published on Dec 27, 2016 This is the story of how a tiny, magical creature was transformed into a cultural phenomenon by inventor, marketing genius and complicated eccentric Harold von Braunhut. Full... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,442 views • 16:47Man met this Macedonian hyperpolyglot and he speaks 35 languages. In this video they will speak 15 languages which they have in common and after that one will speak 6 more languages which the other does... continue reading
posted by Ashenkase 6 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 228 views • 12:28Humans emit roughly 30 to 40 billion tons of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere each year. If we keep it up, Earth will continue to heat up and ultimately devastate our way of life. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 107 views • 2:18Published on Mar 23, 2017 The Democratic Party’s top officials will meet with some of their wealthiest donors in Washington, D.C., this week to plot the Trump resistance, according to documents obtained... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 49 views • 18:39MUNCHIES heads to the Bollate jail just outside Milan to visit critically acclaimed restaurant InGalera, which means "in prison" in Italian. The restaurant is located inside a medium-security prison and... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years ago • 678 views • 3:56YouTube: What you don't know about your microbiome may kill you!!! ...or just give you diarrhea.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 74 views • 11:13YouTube description: Meet Professor Jamie Seymour, he milks stuff. But nothing that moos, has hooves, wool or fur. He prefers to live life on the edge, milking the venom from the most venomous animals... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 176 views • 4:26Scientists are trying to determine the potential dangerous effects of introducing water into a pressurized pocket of magma underground.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 269 views • 2:23Meet the binturong, aka "bearcat." With a face like a cat, a body like a bear, and a tail like a monkey, these reclusive creatures are pretty strange looking, and the strangeness doesn't end with their... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 2 months ago • 531 views • 1:25Published on Jun 23, 2016 Meet the most interesting man in the world... Peter Freuchen.
posted by bobknight33 7 years 3 months ago • 403 views • 6:16YouTube description: As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 426 views • 9:15YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading
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