Predominately found in South and Central America, the Leafcutter Ant is truly an amazing creature. The complexity of teamwork and organization displayed in their societies is 2nd only to human beings and... continue reading
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YouTube: Eyes have been around for a long time, like... half a billion years or so... and in that time, animals have evolved lots of crazy and amazing ways to observe the world around them!
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 weeks ago • 403 views • 8:42"The deeper you go, the weirder it gets." YouTube: We know more about some other planets than we do about the deepest corners of Earth's oceans, and the species we've found there are almost alien. Here's... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 8 months ago • 474 views • 3:10UAlberta: UAlberta research team uses MRI video to observe for the first time what happens inside joints when they crack. (Edmonton) “Pull my finger,” a phrase embraced by school-aged kids and embarrassing... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 2 weeks ago • 408 views • 7 secsYT: This test works equally well for AA, AAA, C, D and 9 Volt alkaline batteries. It is our understanding that the following chemical reactions occur and helps to explain our observations. A non-rechargeable... continue reading
posted by Zawash 9 years 8 months ago • 589 views • 5:32Derek discusses how the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. My brain hurts.
posted by nanrod 9 years 11 months 1 week ago • 793 views • 5:46"A meteor weighing 10,000 metric tons exploded only 23km above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia on February 15, 2013. Unlike previous such events, this time scientists had the highly sensitive OMPS instrument... continue reading
posted by ant 1 decade 8 months 3 weeks ago • 264 views • 3:51YouTube Description: What would you see if you were drifting through space, looking back at the sun? Well its light intensity would decrease as the inverse square of distance from the sun. And you would... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 2 months ago • 569 views • 3:06Learn interesting bits of info about Venus, including why Venus is used as an example of an Earth in a runaway greenhouse effect, the importance of Galileo's observations of Venus when combating the church's... continue reading
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