I built a prawn trap from lawyer cane, sticks and vine. Then I caught some prawns and ate them. Prawn (and fish) traps are simple traps designed to catch aquatic life due to their shape. It consists... continue reading
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Join the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Powerwall 2 is a battery for homes and small businesses that stores the sun’s energy and delivers clean, reliable electricity when the sun isn’t... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 279 views • 19:04Texas Border Volunteers founders Dr. Michael and Linda Vickers. Their experiences are a wake up call for the rest of the country. A non ending march of death turns up on their land everyday. Their life... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 18 views • 5:32YouTube description: I still love me some YouTube videos, so I'm always looking for the best ways to watch them and ensure that I get informed when my favorite creators make stuff. If you want to turn... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,109 views • 3:48Three 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 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 16 views • 2:07YouTube: The world has a lot to thank Henrietta Lacks for, and yet many do not know what she has contributed. From helping to create the polio vaccine to the study of radiation, Henrietta and her HeLa... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 20 views • 4:42Who turned Hank into a crazy cat lady?? YouTube: Catnip! Cats roll in it, rub their cheeks on it and paw at it... but what is it about this stuff that gets our feline friends caught up in such a frenzy?
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 235 views • 3:06YouTube description: There's a big fire in the building and suddenly all the sprinklers turn on -- that's not really how works. Let science extinguish this myth. How Fire Burns in Space - http://bit.ly/1OqRB5b ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 366 views • 4:02"Goggle up. Science is about to happen!" YouTube: I always thought firing from the center was the best way to do it. Turns out I'm probably wrong.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months ago • 896 views • 8:44YouTube: Sometimes galaxies eat each other! It's actually pretty common. And it turns out that our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is pretty hungry.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 79 views • 5:12The fascinating video above tells the story of MIT Professor Ioannis Yannas, who was recently inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame alongside such luminaries as the Wright brothers and Steve... continue reading
posted by enoch 8 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 1,844 views • 16:57YouTube: Deep sea creatures like the anglerfish look terrifying. Turns out, there’s a reason for that.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 4 months 1 week ago • 315 views • 3:23From YouTube: Do you want to go to space? Do you want to learn about bending computers and boxes that make clothes smell better and sky boats with turning wings? Then point your pointer here and press down.
posted by Zifnab 8 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,892 views • 2:58YouTube: Is meat going to give you cancer? The answer is a very dubious maybe. Aaron helps you understand the meat announcement from the WHO, and it turns out, you might not need to panic.
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 182 views • 5:53Via How to Turn Your Kid Into a Coder http://www.thinkfun.com/codemaster
posted by lucky760 8 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 566 views • 1:59"A ballpoint pen seems simple: press a button you can write, press again and put it in your pocket. Yet inside a clever mechanisms turns that simple push into all sorts of other motions. This video uses... continue reading
posted by ant 8 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 560 views • 4:44YouTube: 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 8 years 8 months 1 week ago • 55 views • 4:33A distant predecessor of the dreaded hipster perchance? YouTube: Sometimes, big hunks of strange-looking flesh wash up onshore and then people think that they’re dinosaurs or giant octopi or previously... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 18 views • 3:14YouTube: Even if you don't want to eat them, your apple cores still have plenty of energy left to give. SciShow explores how cities are capturing that energy and turning it into fuel
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