YouTube description: It's an omnipresent image that has inspired music, tattoos, and even an emoji on your phone. But Hokusai's Great Wave is a woodblock print that was made to be reproduced. What's... continue reading
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"... Christopher and Rubber Duckie say the alphabet..."
posted by ant 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 15 views • 1:20"Entire story arcs of Square One TV's Mathnet in order of production..."
posted by ant 6 years 12 months ago • 16 views • 18:12:15Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Matt to discuss Ancestor Simulations.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 12 months ago • 19 views • 16:28There’s one interpretation of the meaning of quantum mechanics that manages to skip a lot of the unphysical weirdness of the mainstream interpretations: it's de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 23 views • 16:32The killer punch of the mantis shrimp is the fastest strike in the animal kingdom, a skill that goes hand in hand with its extraordinary eyesight. They can see an invisible level of reality using polarized... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 36 views • 4:00YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 658 views • 3:23YouTube description: For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 508 views • 9:18Yay Bees! Just don't come buzzin' around yours truly if you please. YouTube: Most flowering plants are more than willing to spread their pollen around. But some flowers hold out for just the right partner.... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 450 views • 3:49A little bit of history behind salt and pepper, interesting
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 235 views • 5:48YouTube description: This week we answer skeptics like Descartes with empiricism. Hank explains John Locke’s primary and secondary qualities and why George Berkeley doesn’t think that distinction... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 147 views • 9:52YouTube: We continue our look at philosophical reasoning by introducing two more types: induction and abduction. Hank explains their strengths and weaknesses, as well as counterarguments and the Socratic... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 325 views • 10:18A'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 ago • 123 views • 5:36"Imagine if dogs were the ones giving the news, owning the restaurants and writing the newspaper! Boy, it would be hard to understand what they were saying! ..."
posted by ant 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 13 views • 3:14New Year's resolutions bad
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 4 months ago • 12 views • 3:41"It's Reefer Badness out there!"
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 254 views • 5:46What's in a Placebo? Who knows.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 191 views • 7:14