OK, so straight up..... This might be one of my favorite Smarter Every Day videos ever. It has everything I love.... hard work, fluid dynamics, mechanics, control systems, nature, beautiful shots, teamwork,... continue reading

posted by BSR 1 year 6 months ago • 214 views • 19:58

YouTube description: Kea, a type of parrot from New Zealand, have been surprising scientists with their smart predictions. Researchers set them a series of intelligence tests based around probabilities... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 599 views • 4:21

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

"Ant venom delivery captured, for the first time, in slow-motion (1,000fps) & up-close video. The ants (and stingers) featured in this video are the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius and the trap-jaw... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 700 views • 3:31

YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 441 views • 4:19

YouTube description: A new technique is allowing researchers to study the inner workings of a cuttlefish brain by tracking colour changing cells in their skin. These cell are directly controlled by... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 462 views • 6:19

YouTube description: A fractal pattern is a kind of equation occurring all around us in nature. So what's a fractal and what does it have to do with nautiluses, romanesco broccoli, Star Trek II: The... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 442 views • 2:09

YT - ThePanthNetwork Published on Feb 20, 2012 This video answers the questions "What is Pantheism?" and "What do Pantheists believe?" Please watch this video with your volume up, as it does not... continue reading

posted by Buck 6 years 3 months ago • 66 views • 3:26

YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 606 views • 8:27

I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 6 months ago • 454 views • 5:46

YouTube description: Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 weeks ago • 458 views • 7:42

"Fire Ants vs Flood: Will these fire ants of The Fire Nation survive this natural disaster? How do ants deal with a mass flood inside their nest? Today we find out in this epic fire ant farm video! ..."

posted by ant 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 109 views • 16:59

YouTube 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

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 658 views • 3:23

This video explores the nature of self-perception and various illusions related to body ownership. - YT

posted by blacklotus90 7 years 9 months ago • 162 views • 9:16

An important video that gets to the root of tackling bigotry and hate. An excellent lecture by Prof. Laith Saud

posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 29 views • 14:32

YouTube description: There is extreme fishing and then is going to such extremes that you have a rod and a worm-like lure fused to your face. Quite frankly it's the type of commitment we admire. Meet... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 2 weeks ago • 271 views • 6:32

The fascinating video above tells the story of MIT Professor Ioannis Yannas, who was recently inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame alongside such luminaries as the Wright brothers and Steve... continue reading

posted by enoch 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,844 views • 16:57

Ugggg ... I hate when the time changes [espcially in the Spring!] YouTube: Daylight saving time is the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour during the spring and back again in the fall in... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months ago • 351 views • 2:20

A whole lot, apparently. Recent surveys and modelling techniques have allowed scientists to get a much more accurate picture of the tree population of planet earth.

posted by Fantomas 8 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 20 views • 2:44

4th video in a series showing Twain Harte Rock (North of Yosemite) fracturing. Neat stuff!

posted by newtboy 9 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 766 views • 1:00