When grown-up jellyfish love each other very much, they make huge numbers of teeny-tiny potato-shaped larvae. Those larvae grow into little polyps that cling to rocks and catch prey with their stinging... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year ago • 38 views • 4:39

The Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. speaks to the assembly about the actual Palestinian position on the Israeli war. It bears mentioning that Hamas is not the elected governing body, they seized control... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 4 months ago • 109 views • 42 secs

"Get into the spooky spirit with some of our favorite Count von Count moments, from classics like Batty Bat to new Halloween hits like The Cookie Monster Nosh, in this Best of The Count Compilation! ..."

posted by ant 3 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 9 views • 42:40

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.⁠ ⁠ It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 560 views • 10:12

YouTube description: While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this unusual anatomy developed in the first place. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 1,099 views • 9:31

From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 211 views • 11:41

https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading

posted by eric3579 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 931 views • 7:59

A NYC cabbie counts to 100 in French.

posted by w1ndex 4 years 8 months ago • 295 views • 3:44

In most developed countries, workers have the right to a certain number of paid sick days. It’s a policy that isn’t rooted in just generosity — during pandemics like the novel coronavirus, it can... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 432 views • 6:33

"The Count needs the help of the Miami Mice to make it to the spaceship countdown on time!"

posted by ant 4 years 12 months ago • 66 views • 5:05

The World's Biggest Gear Reduction by designer and maker of prototypical machines, devices and tools Daniel de Bruin. This machine visualizes the number googol. That's a 1 with a hundred zeros. A number... continue reading

posted by BSR 5 years 1 week ago • 1,211 views

This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years ago • 516 views • 4:57

YT: Two: the inside and the outside (badum tshh)! But taking a more scientific approach, do bananas actually have 5 sides like all the pub quizzes say? Dr Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist... continue reading

posted by Zawash 6 years 1 week ago • 53 views • 10:07

YouTube description: The Yucatan peninsula is one of the busiest tourist destinations in the world and every year just offshore from Cancun, the largest fish in the ocean aggregates in vast numbers to feed. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 weeks ago • 762 views • 5:26

YouTube description: You probably know not to lick something unfamiliar. But there are actually a surprising number of discoveries that have been made because scientists licked things.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 768 views • 12:19

About 10 years ago, the news was packed with reports about something called colony collapse disorder — a mysterious phenomenon that involved the disappearance of enormous numbers of bees. Then, the news... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 2 months ago • 522 views • 3:30

"... an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of PBS's Newton's Apple. Join David Neil and his four young companions on an entertaining and illuminating trek through... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 30 views • 26:32