YouTube description: Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 6 months 1 week ago • 634 views • 6:45

John talks about Trump's Executive Order on Immigration in detail, what it means short term for refugees and permanent residents, and what we are still unsure about.

posted by eric3579 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 565 views • 7:22

YouTube: Virtual particles are a way of talking about fields and their interactions as though particles are doing all the work. This is why there is some controversy around using the term 'virtual particles'.... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 26 views • 8:43

Via YouTube: http://www.injunuity.org - Two Spirit: A person of First Nations or Native American descent possessing both a male and female spirit. An umbrella term used to describe the fluidity of First... continue reading

posted by Gratefulmom 8 years 3 months ago • 33 views • 4:20

YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 months ago • 812 views • 14:23

"The avocado is highly regarded by many people as delicious and nutritious, but the most extraordinary thing about avocados may be their very existence..." From http://boingboing.net/2016/04/01/in-plant-evolution-term... continue reading

posted by ant 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 832 views • 3:54

Senator Elizabeth Warren delivers a floor speech on March 9, 2016, urging Senate Republicans to give timely consideration and an up-down-vote to President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee. "SHALL... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 800 views • 8:23

From http://boingboing.net/2015/06/16/the-evolution-of-the-word-du.html ...

posted by ant 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 898 views • 2:25

Perhaps you can imagine how poor my short term memory is. What's your name again?

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 153 views • 2:07

YouTube: Finally, after what seems like eons and eons, the end is nigh. We're talking not only about the end of Crash Course Big History, but also the end of everything. The end of humanity and the end... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 71 views • 13:31

YouTube: Why do people sometimes do bad things just because someone else told them to? And what does the term Groupthink mean? In today's episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks about the ideas... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 1 week ago • 167 views • 10:08

Simulated tornado being generated by a supercomputer (Blue Waters) with 20,000 processing cores. I need a dictionary to figure out half of the terms used in the talk, but the simulations are stunning.

posted by Ashenkase 1 decade 2 weeks ago • 89 views • 16:43

(YT description via Vice) You might not know who Arjan Roskam is, but you've probably smoked his weed. Arjan's been breeding some of the most famous marijuana strains in the world—like White Widow,... continue reading

From YT: Axial precession is the reason the Earth's axis has a long-term but quite dramatic "wobble", as explained here by Roger Bowley and Mike Merrifield.

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 3 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,686 views • 7:57

From YT: With the term "millisieverts" being used in relation to the Japanese nuclear crisis, we explain how radiation is measured and show you some radiation in action.

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,260 views • 9:55