YouTube description: View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-transistors-work-gokul-j-krishnan Modern computers are revolutionizing our lives, performing tasks unimaginable only decades ago.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,489 views • 4:54Videos (78) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
"Fighting Nazis? This guy's been there. Avenging? This guy does it in his sleep. Netflix and Chill? This guy did it for 70 years (well, without the Netflix). He's the HYDRA-fightin' super-soldier-serum... continue reading
posted by ant 7 years 12 months ago • 21 views • 25:57Published on Mar 11, 2012 Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean,... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 12 months ago • 475 views • 4:47Love these cat behaviorist advice videos from Simon. Really hit the mark. YouTube: IN OR OUT? - WHY ARE CATS SO INDECISIVE? Simon’s Cat Logic is a fun new series where we speak to a Cat Behaviour... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years ago • 646 views • 7:01Economics Professor Randy Wray answers the questions: What is Money? Why is at accepted? What is the relationship between money & government? What backs up our money? Can the US government run out of money? ... continue reading
posted by radx 8 years 2 months ago • 153 views • 27:04This is a great idea for a new series from Simon Tofield! Love it! YouTube: Simon’s Cat Logic is a fun new series where we speak to a Cat Behaviour Expert at Cats Protection (http://www.cats.org.uk)... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 1,383 views • 4:53"How exactly do homing pigeons find their way back to their lofts? A couple of bird enthusiasts share their theories..." From http://www.reddit.com/r/pigeons/comments/3jj361/how_do_homing_pigeons_get_home_bbc/... continue reading
posted by ant 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 85 views • 2:26YouTube Description: Jellyfish don’t have a heart, or blood, or even a brain. They’ve survived five mass extinctions. And you can find them in every ocean, from pole to pole. What’s their secret?... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 6 months 1 week ago • 170 views • 2:56..And this time it's P for Perception! YT: Following total atomic annihilation, the rebuilding of this great nation of ours may fall to you. That’s why Vault-Tec has prepared this educational video... continue reading
posted by Zawash 8 years 7 months 1 week ago • 486 views • 2:36Bits and Bytes was a Canadian television series, produced by TVOntario in 1983. It starred Luba Goy as the instructor, and Billy Van as the student.
posted by Ashenkase 8 years 10 months ago • 19 views • 9:41"Since the 1960s, developmental psychologists point to the 'Visual Cliff'—an experiment that plops babies on a fake precipice—as proof that infants learn to fear heights as they learn to crawl. Yet,... continue reading
posted by ant 9 years 2 weeks ago • 386 views • 5:31This explains a lot! YouTube: It’s supposed to help keep your body healthy in stressful situations. But the constant stress of our everyday lives means we’re getting overexposed to cortisol. Raychelle... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 3 weeks ago • 108 views • 2:52YouTube description: Make a beautiful colour changing liquid from cabbage juice, and explore the science of indicator solutions in this fun chemistry experiment for children. Download the infosheet... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 22 views • 3:56YouTube description: Teach children how to find the beautiful hidden colours in ink and use chromatography to solve mysteries. For info sheets and printable badges, click here: http://rigb.org/experimental/series-2/c... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 276 views • 3:58Learnfun and Playfun are software written to automate the playing of Nintendo games, with no game-specific options, only deriving objective functions by reading memory values. In this series the author... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 9 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 65 views • 25:35"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark."
posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 4 months ago • 342 views • 3:46YouTube Description: I have narcolepsy with cataplexy, and it can be very frustrating to try to explain what it's like to people who have never seen narcolepsy in real life, and how much of a struggle... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,480 views • 4:464th video in a series showing Twain Harte Rock (North of Yosemite) fracturing. Neat stuff!
posted by newtboy 9 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 766 views • 1:00Via Brainpickings. Part 1. All of history's greatest figures achieved success in almost exactly the same way. But rather than celebrating this part of the creative process we ignore it. This missing... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 496 views • 5:49Via Brainpickings. Part 2. Do you ever have that feeling that everyone else is more successful than you? If you think that's bad - try being Leonardo Da Vinci. This is the first of a two-part... continue reading
posted by Trancecoach 9 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 812 views • 4:25