YouTube: Three times in the last two weeks, people — a patient, a colleague and my wife — told me stories about how out of control the price of EpiPens were. Monday, my New York Times colleagues recounted... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months ago • 724 views • 7:02Videos (134) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 658 views • 3:23YT: As the world switches to renewable energy - and we are switching - there's a problem you might not expect: balancing the grid. Rotational mass and system inertia are the things that keep your lights... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 828 views • 4:06As urban populations continue to rise, innovators are looking beyond traditional farming as a way to feed everyone while having less impact on our land and water resources. Vertical farming is one solution... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months ago • 832 views • 3:38It seems like every few months, there’s some kind of news about problems with the scientific publishing industry. Why does this keep happening? And what can be done to fix the system?
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 409 views • 9:11YouTube description: There's a big fire in the building and suddenly all the sprinklers turn on -- that's not really how works. Let science extinguish this myth. How Fire Burns in Space - http://bit.ly/1OqRB5b ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 366 views • 4:02YouTube description: How did Q and U get to be partners? It's a tiny window back to the origins of our writing system. Produced for Mental Floss.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 404 views • 2:49The Interstate Highway System was one of America's most revolutionary infrastructure projects. It also destroyed urban neighborhoods across the nation.
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 452 views • 4:39YouTube: It may not look like it sitting in that cute bear bottle, but honey is a supercharged bacteria-killing powerhouse!
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 724 views • 4:20Destin livin' and lovin' life! YouTube: GET SMARTER SECTION Watch all the Smarter Every Day videos about helicopters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL... Tail Number CGYYW is a 2011 Robinson R44 II ... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 week ago • 650 views • 9:12Triton is an underwater breathing apparatus that looks from a James Bond or Star Wars movie. Problem is - it cannot possibly work. Massive debunkage in the video. YT: So over the last couple of weeks... continue reading
posted by Zawash 8 years 1 month ago • 234 views • 17:43Just how far is the supposed planet 9?
posted by lv_hunter 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 738 views • 9:28The last star in the universe will be a red dwarf. Red dwarfs in general might be great places to look for aliens – or planets for humans to find a new home after our solar system has died.
posted by ChaosEngine 8 years 3 months ago • 515 views • 5:51YouTube: Juice cleanses or fasts are thought of as a popular way to detox and reboot the digestive system. But, like most fad diets, juice cleanses might not be doing what you think they are.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 35 views • 3:46YouTube 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 3 weeks ago • 170 views • 2:56From YT: On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.
posted by RFlagg 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 2,598 views • 7:07YT-I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 years 8 months ago • 1,709 views • 14:09Depends on your species.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 8 months ago • 125 views • 8:49The human visual system is extremely complex, but it makes repeated use of some tricks that can be exploited to produce interesting visual illusions. With even a high-level understanding of how the brain... continue reading
posted by cricket 8 years 8 months ago • 1,207 views • 4:56The iBookGuy delves into how systems engineers and software developers solved the problem of creating rich graphics in systems where memory is scarce.
posted by iaui 8 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 3,237 views • 7:08