"To be a great artist, one must be ready to fail," is just some of the advice offered up by performance artist, Marina Abramović in this recent interview. This idea of failure echoes Samuel Beckett... continue reading
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Schoolteacher Jane Elliott quickly gets her students to discriminate and start hating each other based on the most meaningless of factors. She started doing this in 1968 after Martin Luther King Jr.'s... continue reading
posted by messenger 1 decade 10 months 2 weeks ago • 511 views • 14:37YouTube Description: While in the Rainforest we discovered a "Caterpillar Turbo Mode" How much faster can a group of caterpillars travel than an individual caterpillar on the same course?Here is the raw... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 11 months 1 week ago • 2,047 views • 5:04"Why is the sky blue? It's a question that you'd think kids have been asking for thousands of years, but it might not be that old at all. The ancient Greek poet Homer never used a word for blue in The... continue reading
posted by ant 1 decade 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 47 views • 2:52It's a PARTY! YT: Amazing footage of how little forest dwelling monkeys use Piper leaves (which have insect repellent properties) to protect themselves against the same unpleasant nip a mosquito would... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 year 3 months ago • 161 views • 2:39This is a really nice demonstration, and explanation of, what happens when you drop a magnet down a conducting non-magnetic tube. YouTube Description: Huge thanks to the Royal Institution, Professor... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 year 4 months 1 week ago • 228 views • 3:50Voyager 1 will leave the Solar System and enter interstellar space some time in the next few months... it was actually launched at the exact same day I was born! :) Go Voyager go!
posted by renatojj 1 decade 1 year 10 months ago • 759 views • 7:42Professor Mike Merrifield talks about how all the stars of a galaxy move around at the same speed, which would make the the pretty spiral pattern impossible. He explains the "winding paradox" and how then... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 2,236 views • 7:43Pachelbel's Canon in D, arranged for Music Box! Three music boxes play the same strip of paper in sequence to create the canon, while the basso continuo is played by a fourth music box playing a loop.... continue reading
posted by Nicki Hansen (gwiz665) 1 decade 3 years 5 months ago • 1,460 viewsThe scientists at Sixty Symbols attempt to explain what would happen if you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider. They have a few hypotheses, but nothing that can reach the theory level yet. Other... continue reading
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