Two bears ended up in a deadly fight in Spain's Cantabrian mountains, which are home to around 350 bears. Video footage shows a female bear protecting her cub from a larger male before both fighting... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 251 views • 1:46

Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 10 months ago • 225 views • 9:55

The World's Biggest Gear Reduction by designer and maker of prototypical machines, devices and tools Daniel de Bruin. This machine visualizes the number googol. That's a 1 with a hundred zeros. A number... continue reading

posted by BSR 5 years 1 week ago • 1,211 views

YouTube description: Hips don’t lie. But a hip x-ray in the Soviet Union of the 1950s might not have been what it appeared to be. In fact, if it was round, it was likely a record. Let us explain.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 361 views • 2:30

"There's a scientific reason behind your 'second stomach.' ... How is it that, after stuffing ourselves full at dinner, we somehow find room to eat again once dessert comes around? Turns out, the thing... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 234 views • 4:15

YouTube 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) 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 428 views • 10:05

YouTube description: This is how we go from single cells to people. EVO-DEVO Huxley B. Mac. Oh Carroll, Carroll Gould, Stephen Jay yeah D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter See One cell divide and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 923 views • 4:46

YouTube description: In the high-speed world of rally car racing, you’re only as good as your co-driver. As these racers speed around hairpin turns on unpaved, narrow roads, drivers must rely on the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month 1 week ago • 540 views • 4:06

Three hundred and sixty degrees, of seven hundred clowns, all in one small room. Use the arrows in the upper left to look around. Turn on CC for bonus information.

posted by newtboy 8 years 7 months ago • 16 views • 2:07

YouTube: Alzheimer’s isn’t contagious -- at least, in the sense that you can’t catch it from being around somebody who has it. But, it turns out, it is transmissible, just not directly.

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 6 months ago • 56 views • 4:33

YouTube description: Make a beautiful colour changing liquid from cabbage juice, and explore the science of indicator solutions in this fun chemistry experiment for children. Download the infosheet... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade ago • 22 views • 3:56

Since it is Labor Day in a good part of the world, here is a video about the incidents at Haymarket Square following the call for workers to strike on May 1st. It picks up on May 3rd. The events would... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,238 views • 5:15