When a theory makes a prediction that disagrees with an experimental test, sometimes it means we should throw the theory away. But what if that theory has otherwise produced the most successful predictions... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 436 views • 12:36

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.⁠ ⁠ It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 560 views • 10:12

"What different clouds mean, explained for kids. Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids! If you’re standing outside and you look up, you’ll likely see something familiar above... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 6 months 1 week ago • 67 views • 8:03

The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s... continue reading

posted by mxxcon 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 12 views • 7:14

There's been a few stories recently about detonation engines and how they're supposed to be superior to traditional jet or rocket engines. So, what is a detonation engine, what's the difference between... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 25 views • 11:14

YouTube description: Kea, a type of parrot from New Zealand, have been surprising scientists with their smart predictions. Researchers set them a series of intelligence tests based around probabilities... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years ago • 599 views • 4:21

From Youtube, "Anti-gravity is one of those controversial subjects that some say is more in the realm of science fiction than science fact with many physicists saying it's just not theoretically possible... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 4 months ago • 117 views • 14:25

YouTube description: Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great. Check out SimpliSafe... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years ago • 1,004 views • 12:52

YouTube description: Engineers need to be able to predict how water will behave in order to design structures that manage or control it. And fluids don’t always behave the way you’d expect. On this... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 752 views • 8:43

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) 6 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 442 views • 2:09

"That's Badass!" YouTube: Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how Albert Einstein correctly predicted the existence of gravitational waves.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 489 views • 2:07

YouTube: Virtual particles are a way of talking about fields and their interactions as though particles are doing all the work. This is why there is some controversy around using the term 'virtual particles'.... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months ago • 26 views • 8:43

The sound of the collision from a billion light-years away is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago.

posted by blacklotus90 9 years 1 month ago • 778 views • 4:36

The human visual system is extremely complex, but it makes repeated use of some tricks that can be exploited to produce interesting visual illusions. With even a high-level understanding of how the brain... continue reading

posted by cricket 9 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,207 views • 4:56

"Also, yeah ...we had to make the internet shark proof." YouTube: Ever wondered what it would take to bring down the Internet? Well, not much.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 9 months ago • 866 views • 4:17

All I can say is, I can't predict what to expect [with relative accuracy] like I used to about 10-15 years ago here in the Pacific NorthWET.

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 3 weeks ago • 143 views • 2:47

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 1 decade 6 months ago • 744 views • 3:44

"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 1 year 6 months 4 weeks ago • 265 views • 3:51