YouTube description: In 1971, sushi was not widely consumed in North America. In fact, it wasn't popular at all. Chef Hidekazu Tojo, a Japanese chef new to Vancouver, British Columbia, needed to find... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 week ago • 460 views • 2:18

There’s no mammal in the world quite like the tree pangolin. Covered in reptilian-like scales that protect it from predators in the wild, the pangolin will curl into a ball when threatened. Unfortunately,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 3 weeks ago • 2,218 views • 1:48

A look at Cartoon Network's block of programming that popularized anime in the west.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 182 views • 6:02

YouTube description: Thought autotune is the only thing used to fix singer's voices? Think again! Pop Theory is a series that explores the secrets and methods of modern pop music. Want to know more... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months ago • 845 views • 5:43

After installing the Windows Anniversary Update for Windows 10 it would seem we picked up a lot more than we bargained for. There is a feature now that allows Microsoft to quietly install popular games... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 81 views • 13:57

YT-FYI: I don't count the 1824 election as the final winner was determined by the house of representatives and thus not *technically* a straight-up Electoral College fail. From what I was taught, the... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 240 views • 22 secs

From YT: Female masking is an underground scene where heterosexual men dress up as latex dolls. The scene has become increasingly popular in recent years so VICE Germany decided to find out more about... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 7 years 10 months ago • 371 views • 17:05

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) 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 483 views • 3:49

Ultraviolet diving, fluorescent diving, or "flo-diving", is becoming increasingly popular, for the simple reason that it can be a spectacular experience. Underwater Kinetics' tech expert Dr. Fred Fischer... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 24 views • 5:06

YouTube: Juice cleanses or fasts are thought of as a popular way to detox and reboot the digestive system. But, like most fad diets, juice cleanses might not be doing what you think they are.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 35 views • 3:46

An interesting riddle - can you sifters solve it, without resorting to the solution in the video (from 1:25)? iflscience: The following riddle is claimed to have been written by Einstein as a boy. It's... continue reading

posted by Zawash 8 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 52 views • 5:08

"Apparently, your biggest enemy is not lions and tigers and bears ..." YouTube: What were the first organisms to have sex? We may never know the answer, but as Bill Nye explains in this Big Think interview,... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 1 month 1 week ago • 235 views • 3:58

Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry. UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner challenges this notion... continue reading

posted by enoch 9 years 4 months 1 week ago • 2,027 views • 4:37

In a multi-part series with the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill explores a variety of topics, including the nature of an expanding, accelerating universe (and how it might end), the difference... continue reading

posted by radx 1 decade 3 months 3 weeks ago • 926 views • 26:47

(Description via YouTube) Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we... continue reading

Thomas Young is best known to us today for the double slit experiment that showed light behaves like a wave. He also did some important, if a bit "was he insane?!" experiments about how the eye works... ... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,876 views • 6:23