The reason they need weevil greenhouses is that the Brazilian weevils don't like Texan winters, and tend to die off over winter. If they mentioned it in this video I missed it. YouTube description: ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months ago • 976 views • 3:44Videos (47) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
https://youtu.be/mbKAwk-OG_w Who knew there was so much science in a bowl of cereal? Ever notice how cereal clumps up in your bowl, or how cereal sticks to the edges of the bowl? Bubbles in beverages... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,107 views • 5:36There's a tiny island on the East River that you've probably never heard of, and you're not allowed to visit it.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,633 views • 3:56YouTube: I have always thought that sex ed and statistics should be the same course. There's no better way to show how vital stats is to your every day life than to look at statistics. Probabilities... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 411 views • 3:56Published on Dec 27, 2016 This is the story of how a tiny, magical creature was transformed into a cultural phenomenon by inventor, marketing genius and complicated eccentric Harold von Braunhut. Full... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 6 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,442 views • 16:47YouTube: While we have long known about the existence of microbes — the tiny bacteria, fungi and archaea that live all around, on and in us — our full relationship has become one of the hottest topics... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 11 months ago • 15 views • 6:39Turns out even the tiniest of screw-ups can result in major problems. From metric math mistakes at NASA to impatient generals dooming their own men. -yt
posted by eric3579 6 years 12 months ago • 440 views • 10:56YouTube description: In the high-altitude city of La Paz, Bolivia, rates of heart problems dwarf those of cities at sea level. But an unexpected partnership between medicine and art is helping address... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 week ago • 67 views • 3:08YouTube description: More than five million people die every year from pollution-related illnesses, and nearly 10,000 of those deaths occur in London. But Romain LaCombe has made it his mission to change... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 weeks ago • 170 views • 3:27YouTube description: They're just tiny marks on the page, but a lot can depend on them. Produced for Mental Floss.
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 weeks ago • 399 views • 1:42YouTube: In which John Green considers the historical distance between Rome's Pantheon, the cave paintings at Lascaux, a different community's cave paintings at Chauvet, and the current day. Too often,... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 518 views • 3:42"Australian Geographic presents Christmas Island - Part 4: The Red Crab Migration". "Australian Geographic presents the very Best of Australia: Christmas Island. Part 4 illustrates the enormity of Christmas... continue reading
posted by ant 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 18 views • 4:30YouTube description: Foraminifera – tiny, single-celled marine life forms – build gorgeous houses that record how much ice there is on the planet. Special thanks to Professor Lee Kump of Penn... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 489 views • 2:51YouTube: The crazy story of the arbitrary temperature scale used in a tiny minority of countries.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months ago • 665 views • 5:24YouTube: In freezing cold sand, a burning hot mine, or even inside solid rock – these extremophiles live anywhere that you wouldn’t want to live. What are they? How can they live in such extreme places?
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 4:01YouTube 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 1 week ago • 658 views • 3:23I invented the Bow Blower, a combination of the bow drill and forge blower to make a device that can force air into a fire while being easy to construct from commonly occurring natural materials using... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,388 views • 4:32The Speke’s gazelle is the world's smallest gazelle, and is also one of the most endangered. This Bambi lookalike lives in the semidesert areas in the Horn of Africa. Named after English explorer John... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 202 views • 1:07YouTube 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 2 weeks ago • 404 views • 2:49