I'm dreaming of a white Christmas [no I'm not] YouTube: This episode Nellie Benner snorts a white crystalline powder: Cocaine. The active substance is cocaine hydrochloride and has a stimulating effect... continue reading
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YouTube: Whether or not it's worth investing in, the math behind Bitcoin is an elegant solution to some complex problems.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 412 views • 9:26Place your bets! YouTube: Comedian Matt Kirshen tests Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye to see if they can decipher whether something is a real mechanical problem or science fiction.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months ago • 1,034 views • 2:391 in 5 Americans either has had bed bugs, or knows someone who has. And the problem isn’t going away. It’s actually getting a lot worse.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 39 views • 8:33Dr Hannah Fry discusses Secret Santa, anonymity and derangements. And a better way to do it.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 30 viewsPublished on Oct 26, 2016 In the effort to prove the credibility of the undercover donor featured in the videos and to keep the investigation going, Project Veritas Action made the decision to donate... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 17:41Via YouTube: A new study led by the U.K.’s Queen Mary University has found that even relatively simple animals like bumblebees can teach other how to perform somewhat complex tasks such as pulling a... continue reading
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 595 views • 1:11Hank AND cats? Be still my heart! YouTube: Do you give ancient Egypt credit for the domestication of cats? That’s what many people think! But, with some new evidence, it seems that cats became our... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 520 views • 4:51A lot of people are arguing over the correct answer to this algebra problem involving horses, horseshoes, and boots. A Facebook post with this problem has over 500,000 comments. Can you figure it out?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months ago • 826 views • 2:51Also, it's a jumping spider capable of leaping up to 50 times it's own length. Fortunately for us, Portia is a spider eating spider.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,674 views • 4:00There's a variety of visual problems and disturbances we all experience on a daily basis. Floaters! Blue entoptic phenomenon! Visual snow! Phosphenes! With simulations, Inés will run through all of them.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,089 views • 3:44Are you? From YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqN_2jDVbOU "Geordie Rose, Founder of D-Wave (recent clients are Google and NASA) believes that the power of quantum computing is that we can... continue reading
posted by chicchorea 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 850 views • 19:38YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 811 views • 14:23YT: As the world switches to renewable energy - and we are switching - there's a problem you might not expect: balancing the grid. Rotational mass and system inertia are the things that keep your lights... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 828 views • 4:06His girlfriend is a hell of a good sport. ------------------------------------------------------------ I made a freeze ray! Im basically a bonafide evil genius now. Freeze your cat, girlfriend, or... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 38 views • 4:36Lately, mine has been on vacation! YouTube: Today we continue our unit on identity by asking where the mind resides. Hank explains the mind body problem and several approaches to the question of where... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 47 views • 9:07I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,388 views • 4:32It seems like every few months, there’s some kind of news about problems with the scientific publishing industry. Why does this keep happening? And what can be done to fix the system?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 409 views • 9:11Know a simple way to solve Sudoku puzzles? If there is, let someone know! YT: Hackerdashery #2 Inspired by the Complexity Zoo wiki: https://complexityzoo.uwaterloo.ca/Co... For more advanced... continue reading
posted by Lumm 7 years 12 months ago • 912 views • 10:44YouTube description: View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-psychology-behind-irrational-decisions-sara-garofalo Often people make decisions that are not “rational” from a purely economical... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 12 months ago • 144 views • 4:39