YouTube description: This translucent Deepstaria jelly unfurled as it whorled and shapeshifted in currents created by ROV Hercules' thrusters. Its bright red resident isopod, a relative of the pillbug,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 months ago • 784 views • 5:43

Making a pattern to fill in a window opening can be a trial and error proposition - but it doesn't have to be that way!

posted by BSR 1 year ago • 95 views • 7:31

This is a Muonionalusta meteorite. The unique Widmanstätten pattern makes this one of the most beautiful meteorites. Showing this ring to new people really is amazing. Some people freak out completely... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 1 week ago • 790 views • 11:12

YouTube description: Jide Ipaye loves sneakers. Growing up, he had a hard time finding cool ones in his size, so he learned to make his own. But why keep a good thing to yourself? His Keexs line, with... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 5 months ago • 68 views • 2:28

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) 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago • 440 views • 2:09

YouTube description: This is how we go from single cells to people. EVO-DEVO Huxley B. Mac. Oh Carroll, Carroll Gould, Stephen Jay yeah D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter See One cell divide and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 5 months ago • 910 views • 4:46

Although she only talks about English, irregular verbs in Spanish (and probably other languages) are really quite similar - frequently used words tend to be more resistant to change than less frequently used ones. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 54 views • 3:59

YouTube description: Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 610 views • 6:45

Did you know you could measure the speed of light using your microwave oven? Then you might like to know how the oven works.

posted by Mordhaus 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 14 views • 10:01

YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,720 views • 3:13

"The science behind the stereogram craze of the 1990s. You might have remembered when sterograms appeared on Seinfeld. Learn about how these images trick the brain..."

posted by ant 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 28 views • 9:23

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 3 months 1 week ago • 73 views • 4:03

YouTube description: Greenford, Middlesex. An item about the manufacture of wallpaper. C/U on stuffed birds. C/U of an artist painting the birds in a design. Various shots of artists designing... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 6 months ago • 440 views • 2:52

YouTube description: Have ever wondered how digital illustrations are made? This video explains the basics. Help us keep making videos by supporting us in https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth We try... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 9 months ago • 475 views • 3:49

Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found in just about any... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 133 views • 4:36

YouTube description: Just as vinyl records have a pattern of grooves and ridges that contain the sound, talking tapes - which were originally developed in 1918 - work on the same principle. Along the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 10 months ago • 680 views • 3:37

YouTube Description: And how it got its name. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO El Niño is a weather phenomenon that occurs irregularly in the eastern tropical Pacific every... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,140 views • 2:59

Can you figure out the rule? Did you see the exponents pattern? http://youtu.be/AVB8vRC6HIY Why do you make people look stupid? http://bit.ly/12Fmlpl How do you investigate hypotheses? Do you seek... continue reading

posted by eric3579 6 years ago • 1,422 views • 4:44

YouTube Description: What happens when single photons of light pass through a double slit and are detected by a photomultiplier tube? In 1801 Thomas Young seemed to settle a long-running debate about... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 246 views • 6:00

Happy October, Month of the Hexaflexagon! Oct. 21st is the annual Celebration of Mind, in honor of Martin Gardner. Maybe you'd like to host or attend a flexagon party sometime around then, or learn about... continue reading

posted by eric3579 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 2,196 views • 4:45