The Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. speaks to the assembly about the actual Palestinian position on the Israeli war. It bears mentioning that Hamas is not the elected governing body, they seized control... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 4 months ago • 109 views • 42 secs

Jupiter's second Galilean Moon, Europa

posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 113 views • 13:24

The multiverse hypothesis or theory holds that a group of multiple universes (possibly infinite universes) comprise everything that exists: The entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 143 views • 10:03

Writing in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA says a review of Voyager 2’s old data from 1986 showed that Uranus vented a giant blob of gas into space. This pocket of ionized gas, a plasma structure... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,201 views • 6:40

YouTube description: A new technique is allowing researchers to study the inner workings of a cuttlefish brain by tracking colour changing cells in their skin. These cell are directly controlled by... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 462 views • 6:19

YouTube description: Amazing high resolution photos of the Earth should show that the earth is oblate, but it's hard to see because the difference is about 0.3%. So here's a quick demo highlighting the difference. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 624 views • 1:43

A surprisingly informative tongue-in-cheek talk about wrangling the beast that is Microsoft Excel to actually perform HDR transformations on high-resolution photos, pixel-by-pixel.

posted by blacklotus90 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 24 views • 11:47

YouTube: To tell you the truth, using SEEK camera is like putting on glasses for someone with poor eyesight! You just see so much of new things.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 12 views • 5:40

There are a few communities, up in northern Canada, with a dark history and a worrying future. Resolute is one of them, sat at the east of the once-legendary Northwest Passage. In a few years, it might... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 503 views • 4:28

New Year's resolutions bad

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months 1 week ago • 12 views • 3:41

YouTube: You know that feeling, when you know a word but it’s just out of reach, stuck on the tip of your tongue? Well, why does it happen? And what can you do about it?

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 4 months 1 week ago • 137 views • 4:05

YouTube: Hanu Dixit music: https://www.youtube.com/user/HanuDixit0003 Vsauce video about the FRAME RATE of the eye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buSaywCF6E8 Feature Film numbers [PDF]: http://www.uis.unesco.org... continue reading

posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 1 decade 1 year ago • 383 views • 9:43

Since it is Labor Day in a good part of the world, here is a video about the incidents at Haymarket Square following the call for workers to strike on May 1st. It picks up on May 3rd. The events would... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,238 views • 5:15