Physicist Professor Brian Cox breaks down what would ACTUALLY happen if a gigantic comet really was hurtling towards planet Earth.

posted by eric3579 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 281 views • 14:23

Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 8 months ago • 985 views • 2:32

Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 171 views • 57 secs

"... I met Molly Burke a few months ago. She’s awesome. I absolutely love what she’s done on YouTube to bring awareness to living with disability, and turning it into ability. And her guide dog Gallop... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 90 views • 16:32

This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 weeks ago • 516 views • 4:57

How to destroy a people Vote Democrat, Become Liberal Lean toward Socialism Become a Socialist nation become Venezuelans like Destroy the country and its people Leaders eat like kings while... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 6 years 3 weeks ago • 47 views • 45:03

YouTube description: I graduated from Advanced Helo Underwater Egress Training at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. When life gets hard THINK CLEARLY, and take small steps towards safety. Please subscribe... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,831 views • 11:19

YouTube description: The Galton Board is a 7.5” by 4.5” desktop probability machine. This device brings to life the statistical concept of normal distribution. As you rotate the Galton Board... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 810 views • 3:23

YouTube description: Researchers out of the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab have developed a novel imaging system that can gauge the distance of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years ago • 1,189 views • 2:59

At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 weeks ago • 408 views • 7:08

This French PSA is going viral. Fake car noise is blared at jaywalkers in a crosswalk, simulating a car screeching towards them at speed with it's brakes locked. The reactions are priceless, and caught... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 10 months ago • 1,452 views • 1:55

The Voyager 1 space probe is the furthest man-made object from Earth, and the fastest. But right now, it's moving towards us. Relatively speaking. At Mission Control for the Deep Space Network, inside... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 1 week ago • 657 views • 3:26

It was just a routine workers’ compensation fraud case for Ken Sheppard. Show up for a spot check, do some surveillance of the subject and keep it pushing. But on March 3, 2014, it was anything but routine... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,157 views • 5:01

YouTube description: As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 427 views • 9:15

Using a toy Mustang, a trailer with weights attached, and a conveyer belt. This shows why you should always ensure your trailer is weighted towards the front, unless you have a giant hand available to catch you. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 2,547 views • 27 secs

YT: "It's more complex than women earning 79 cents for every dollar a man makes." A good step toward introducing a little more data to the gender wage gap debate.

I 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 8 years 8 months ago • 1,388 views • 4:32

I made this bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials.The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. I don't know the draw weight - safe to say greater than 15 kg... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 12 months ago • 622 views • 5:54

IFLScience: Still baffled by Einstein’s theory of relativity, or even the parts in the movie Interstellar when everyone experiences time differently? Well, this teenager’s explanation of special relativity... continue reading

posted by Zawash 9 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,541 views • 7:34

While bigotry and racism have become increasingly unacceptable in modern society, research indicates even the most accepting persons are not as open-minded as they think. Social psychologist Josh Correll... continue reading

posted by newtboy 9 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 322 views • 4:15