It is time to reframe how we think about our past. We need a new year 0 for humanity. But which one should we choose and why? I want to live in the year 12016!

posted by ChaosEngine 7 years 5 months ago • 417 views • 7:53

YouTube description: Lost for decades beneath the streets of Naples, Italy, the Galleria Borbonica is a time capsule of the city's history. The system of tunnels and caverns was originally created in... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 139 views • 1:28

Most of the time, the wasabi you get in a restaurant or buy in a store is fake. It’s actually horseradish that’s colored green. Why? Well, wasabi is a notoriously difficult plant to grow. In fact,... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 125 views • 3:04

At the age of 74, Meena Raghavan is the oldest known practitioner of Kalaripayattu, an ancient martial art from southern India. Since she was 7 years old, Raghavan has trained with the best of them. While... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,407 views • 2:22

The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit system threads its way through West Virginia University, taking thousands of people a day around the campus, non-stop. It's a system that was meant to be the future:... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 176 views • 4:46

Last month I brought attention to a particularly nasty product currently promoted online to vulnerable people as a cancer cure. Black salve is a paste made from a mixture of Bloodroot extract and zinc... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 330 views • 8:10

Over the past few days, the optical illusion posted by Akiyoshi Kitaoka has made the rounds on the internet, and today I'm explaining how the 12-dot optical illusion works. It is driven by two key features:... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 23 views • 3:16

"Greenskull has taken a break from an endless deluge of Zubats and Pidgeys to serve up some Pokémon GO Fast Facts! ..."

posted by ant 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 11 views • 1:40

My nephew has tried Soylent [I can't get past the name]

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 17 views • 3:04

YouTube: You might think of national parks as a nice place to see a geyser, or a big ol’ canyon, but over the past 100 years, US national parks have produced some of the biggest, oldest, deepest, and... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months ago • 217 views • 9:38

From YT: Captain Disillusion teams up with Beakman of' Beakman's World' to examine some free energy claims on YouTube, in the most '90s way possible. [The honest to god Beakman... Beakman was sort... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 783 views • 12:07

Every Frame a Painting: "For the past ten years, I’ve been editing professionally. Yet one question always stumps me: “How do you know when to cut?” And I can only answer that it’s very instinctual.... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 7 years 12 months ago • 307 views • 9:25

YouTube: What if you couldn’t remember anything past 30 seconds? Let us introduce you to a man named Henry Molaison who was diagnosed with anterograde amnesia. He couldn’t form new memories.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months ago • 19 views • 4:44

A'yup YouTube: A new technology could make diseases like Zika a thing of the past. But should we use it? The CDC on Zika: http://www.cdc.gov/zika/ Vox explains Zika virus in 6 charts: http://bit.ly/1POrNjA... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 123 views • 5:36

The magic of mathematical transformations applied to 360 degree video, warping time and space into an infinite loop. For the adventurous, you can click or drag anywhere to move around within the spherical... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,509 views • 1:57

There's no "undo" command.

posted by nock 8 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 337 views • 11:29

"Since the 1960s, developmental psychologists point to the 'Visual Cliff'—an experiment that plops babies on a fake precipice—as proof that infants learn to fear heights as they learn to crawl. Yet,... continue reading

posted by ant 9 years 1 month ago • 386 views • 5:31

EconStories presents a special event on entrepreneurship and innovation. PayPal co-founder and technology entrepreneur Peter Thiel visits the UT Austin campus to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 13 views • 51:15

YT: 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 • 5:32

As a psychologist and avid meditator (vipassana) for the past 7 years, myself, I'm excited to begin teaching a university course this semester which examines states of consciousness that transcend the... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 9 years 8 months ago • 744 views • 3:44