According to a new report from the United Nations, our planet is in worse shape than at any other time in human history. The Trump Administration has done everything they can to do nothing about climate... continue reading
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"... I love coffee. Like, a lot. You know who else loves coffee? Astronauts! And also the people who help them do awesome things in space (I think NASA might be powered by coffee). But how do astronauts... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 124 views • 11:39YouTube description: This millipede uses deadly cyanide gas to keep predators at bay. But one beetle can tolerate the toxic defense and rides the millipede like a bucking bronco. Who will win this showdown... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years ago • 336 views • 4:33The Coffee Break video that started the uproar with Kurzgesagt. -Popular Science is science for the masses. The stock in trade is nifty insights and suprising facts, conclusions that amaze and astound.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 1 week ago • 914 views • 17:49Using foundational computer science theories, Colin Morris focuses on understanding trends in popular music. Borrowing from the areas of bioinformatics and compression algorithms, he shows that the lyrics... continue reading
posted by notarobot 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 140 views • 14:23YT: Two: the inside and the outside (badum tshh)! But taking a more scientific approach, do bananas actually have 5 sides like all the pub quizzes say? Dr Sally Le Page is a British evolutionary biologist... continue reading
posted by Zawash 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 51 views • 10:07YouTube description: The Great Blue Hole is a massive underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. In the winter of 2018, a submarine crew from Aquatica Submarines ventured to the bottom of the hole... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,683 views • 3:38YouTube description: Scientific language can be difficult to parse through for anyone not well-versed in the field. That’s where acclaimed actor Alan Alda comes in. Through the Alda Center for Communicating... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 498 views • 3:16YouTube description: Cheese is delicious, beloved by many, and a teeming mess of microbes. Which microbes, exactly, has long been a mystery, but modern DNA sequencing tech is allowing researchers to... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 241 views • 6:38YouTube description: Technical details about what we're doing: We're working on a time-series problem called a Sequence Classification. Recurrent Neural Networks called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 566 views • 10:41CBC Marketplace investigates the science and marketing behind popular DNA ancestry kits. Host Charlsie Agro and her identical twin sister Carly test five top brands. Find out why ancestry test kits are... continue reading
posted by eric3579 5 years 3 months ago • 1,655 views • 21:15YouTube description: You probably know not to lick something unfamiliar. But there are actually a surprising number of discoveries that have been made because scientists licked things.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 1 week ago • 768 views • 12:19YouTube description: Joe Barnard left his background in videography and music production to launch his life of amateur rocketry, and he shares his DIY adventures in building rockets on his YouTube channel... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 915 views • 9:36YouTube description: Who would have thought baby electric eels would be so cute? I record their electric pulses and think about future research. Catania, K.C., 2015. Electric eels concentrate their... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 665 views • 3:27YouTube description: It's an all-out brawl for prime beach real estate! These Caribbean crabs will tear each other limb from limb to get the best burrow. Luckily, they molt and regrow lost legs in a... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,053 views • 4:59YouTube description: Inventor Manu Prakash thinks you can’t understand Earth’s big problems without looking at the (really) tiny things. So he created Foldscope: an origami microscope that brings... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 138 views • 2:56YouTube description: Their skeletons are prized by beachcombers, but sand dollars look way different in their lives beneath the waves. Covered in thousands of purple spines, they have a bizarre diet... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 510 views • 4:23YouTube description: Voracious, venomous and hella leggy, house centipedes are masterful predators with a knack for fancy footwork. But not all their legs are made for walking, they put some to work... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months ago • 507 views • 4:32