YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months ago • 1,838 views • 3:58Videos (240) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
From Youtube, "I bought 10,000 shade balls and tried to swim in them. They appear to act like a non-Newtonian fluid: rigid under high shear stress, but they flow like a liquid under low shear."
posted by w1ndex 4 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 104 views • 10:42YouTube description: Thanks to all the Dunedin Railways team! You can find out more about them here: https://www.dunedinrailways.co.nz/ Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) I'm at http://tomscott.com ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 338 views • 2:27YouTube description: There was so much I wasn't able to tell you. Like, for example, most of the jellyfish on display at the aquarium are born and bred at the aquarium. They do active research on jellyfish... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months ago • 1,388 views • 8:03Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you—they’ll simply cause a severe headache or vomiting. Death-cap mushrooms are not like the others. As little as half an Amanita phalloides contains enough toxin... continue reading
posted by BSR 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 687 views • 2:34"... The eyes are often the first thing we see when we look at someone. And when you look at them up close, everyone’s eye color is a kaleidoscope of shapes and hues. How does eye color work? The answer... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 543 views • 6:21From Youtube, "In today's episode of Some More News, Cody explores how easy it is to elect lawmakers who make it easier to elect lawmakers who don't have to answer to the people who elect them."
posted by w1ndex 4 years 12 months ago • 16 views • 18:04"... 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 12 months ago • 124 views • 11:39Using 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 3 weeks ago • 140 views • 14:23ASM = Anti-Ship Missile. An interesting look into missile design and behaviors across the globe. From YT: Russia has got them... so does Japan, India, Taiwan, and others. So why doesn't the US?
posted by admiralronton 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 491 views • 17:52From Youtube, "Can you trust our videos? How do we research them nowadays? And what about our older videos? "
posted by w1ndex 5 years 2 months ago • 653 views • 6:10YouTube description: In an effort to retain heritage, reduce waste and overcome the challenge of finding sites in urban areas, architects, engineers and developers are breathing new life into existing... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 628 views • 7:15YouTube description: We all know that many planets have moons orbiting them, but is it possible for those moons have little moons of their own? Hosted by: Michael Aranda... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months ago • 177 views • 2:58YouTube description: What would it be like if our eyes could see more colors? We may never be able to answer that, but we can build devices that can do the work for us. Over the last three weeks we've... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 449 views • 9:29Thanks to a weird golden goal rule. YouTube description: Barbados needed to win by two, but they were only up one. So instead of scoring in the traditional way they intentionally kicked in an own... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 432 views • 5:35YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 426 views • 10:05YouTube description: 50 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 526 views • 5:47"Pacific mole crabs, also known as sand crabs, make their living just under the surface of the sand, where they're safe from breaking waves and hungry birds. Some very special physics help them dig with... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 90 views • 3:52"Most firefly flashes are pure romance, a sexy form of skywriting. But one variety copies the mating signals of others to lure them to their demise..."
posted by ant 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 20 views • 3:33YouTube 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 3 weeks ago • 510 views • 4:23