The Smithsonian Natural History Museum houses 147 million specimens — everything from pickled animals to priceless gems to dinosaur bones. But less than 1% of it's on display. The rest is hidden behind... continue reading
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Seems Vitamin D may not be the answer to better Covid outcomes. It seems it may be the other effects of sunlight that is providing protection.
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 weeks ago • 516 views • 23:59From YouTube, "Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 3 weeks ago • 145 views • 16:11An interesting and quick look at how the ancient Roman Civilization inhabitants dealt with their (not so) alone time.
posted by BoneRemake 2 years 2 months ago • 364 views • 5:40The Omega 1 is not only much more powerful than existing technology, but it is also much more efficient. The Omega 1’s rotary mechanism is very efficient because it has very little friction and fluid... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 2 months 1 week ago • 480 viewsLet’s not resigns ourselves to fatality. Solutions exist. Together we can do more to decrease risks on the normal route to Mont-Blanc. The Mont-Blanc rising to 4 809 meters is the highest peak in... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months ago • 317 views • 4:02The world remains in a state of shock after spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting on the island of Tonga left a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific region. With shocking visuals... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 42 views • 4:26As 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
posted by dedstick 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 38 views • 10:32From 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 6 months ago • 313 views • 11:46You’re alive right now… at least I’m pretty sure you are. But you’re not TOTALLY alive. Bits of you are always breaking down, being thrown out, and being replaced. Even right now, parts of you... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 81 views • 13:12Metals have a crystal structure. But they're not one big crystal, they're lots of small crystals called grains. The size of the grains affects the physical properties of the metal, like hardness, toughness,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 135 views • 8:45How 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 3 weeks ago • 13 views • 14:54"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 1 week ago • 15 views • 2:40It'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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago • 724 views • 10:48"The idea came to me in a dream I had this morning. I didn't really like how the classic Sesame Street "Ladybug's Picnic" song (a staple from my childhood) was performed on the new stop-motion version... continue reading
posted by ant 2 years 10 months ago • 34 views • 57 secsIn this Dog Nation Episode, I help Victor and Anngel Benoun, with their dog Fergus. Fergus is a golden retriever who is a burn survivor. Fergus has one issue, he is aggressive on the leash. Whenever... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 10 months ago • 10 views • 9:18One year ago, Spot graduated from its early adopter program and began shipping out to workplaces around the world. From construction sites and power plants to mines and universities, today Spot is up-and-running... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 10 months ago • 117 views • 1:18The Dog Whisperer, Cesar Millan joins Andy and Wacha in studio to teach them a few lessons about the personality traits of beagles and how to get Wacha not to growl.
posted by BSR 2 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 8 views • 8:53