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Youtube description: Peter Lee, Microsoft Research corporate vice president, shares insights and a sneak peek into the Skype Translator, derived from decades of research in speech-recognition, automatic-translation,... continue reading
posted by alcom 1 decade ago • 130 views • 2:03Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading
posted by Zawash 1 decade ago • 255 views • 43:41YouTube Description: Hank shares the latest developments in science, this week demystifying three freaky things in nature: the polar vortex, why some bugs are infertile, and how a chain can appear to defy... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 4 months 1 week ago • 289 views • 4:46Stupid movies and their gun lying.
posted by brycewi19 1 decade 5 months 1 week ago • 1,644 views • 4:09YT: At last year's Academy new member reception, Bryan Cranston shared his advice to aspiring actors.
posted by ravioli 1 decade 8 months ago • 132 views • 1:23(Description via YouTube) Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we... continue reading
posted by Procrastinatron 1 decade 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,300 views • 21:47In which Hank Green attempts to explain the revolution going on in Egypt (seemingly again). From YT: The situation in Egypt is extremely complicated and changing constantly. The arguments between... continue reading
posted by RFlagg 1 decade 10 months 4 weeks ago • 1,794 views • 7:42"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 2 months 2 weeks ago • 47 views • 2:52A terrific video from The New Yorker in which famed pickpocket Apollo Robbins reveals some of his favorite tricks. Unlike, say, most magicians, Robbins isn’t shy about sharing his secrets:
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 1 year 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,589 views • 6:52