"Wake me up when spring is here ... Nature has had to come up with some crazy ways to survive harsh winters. But none are weirder than hibernation. Turns out there is more than one kind of hibernation,... continue reading

posted by ant 6 months ago • 14 views • 12:02

=== Lyrics === Why are there so many Trials and indictments And why am I greatly reviled? Things all got Stormy (For just a few minutes) While my wife was having our child That would not seem... continue reading

posted by newtboy 11 months 3 weeks ago • 158 views • 3:07

Precious samples collected from an asteroid are to be moved to a specialist laboratory in Texas. Material taken from what has been described as “the most dangerous rock in our Solar System” came... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 123 views • 2:48

The F-15 was born from the difficult lessons learned during the Vietnam War. In the late 1950s, Air Force planners were confident that the advent of powerful new radars and long-range air-to-air missiles... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 year 12 months ago • 84 views • 14:21

The Parkes Radio Telescope, part of CSIRO, is one of the most famous telescopes in the world: and it's got a unique way of getting equipment up and down from the central section. More about the Telescope: ... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 43 views • 9:15

Scientists Discover Superworm Eats Plastic | Zophobas Morio 243,647 views Jun 26, 2022 Australian scientists have found the Zophobas morio - commonly known as the Superworm - can survive eating only... continue reading

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 3 months 1 week ago • 281 views • 14:23

Roger Reaves is a former pilot and drug smuggler who employed Barry Seal & ended up in prison for 33 years in 26 different prisons, in 7 different countries spanning 4 continents. His friends and associates... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 7 views • 2:39:50

From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 8 months ago • 60 views • 26:02

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 877 views • 3:16

YouTube description: Hi :) I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,280 views • 2:37

YouTube description: Something about the Apollo missions always confused me, sure, the step off of the lunar lander’s 91 cm footpad was a small step, but the step just before that was actually enormous! ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 483 views • 14:48

YouTube description: After being diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal brain condition known as Moyamoya, Jennifer Lee was forced to face her own mortality and consider the things in life she held... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 2 months ago • 590 views • 10:01

YouTube description: How many tries does it take an average player to do what professional pool players do on the first try? Your Average Pool Player attempts Corey Deuel's famous 2004 US Open draw... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 1,734 views • 5:07

"Brexit Britain is fed up with experts. These days we only listen to the bloke down the pub. So in this controlled experiment, we put three experts in a pub and recorded the results for your viewing pleasure. ... continue reading

posted by radx 6 years 8 months 1 week ago • 72 views • 58:34

Rick Beato breaks down the System of a Down song Chop Suey from the album Toxicity. (Thanks to spawnflagger for the heads up on my stoned self posting the wrong song name)

posted by w1ndex 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 97 views • 12:30

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 1 month ago • 408 views • 7:08

YouTube description: In Göttingen, Germany, there's a four-tonne steel ball that can be raised up a 14-metre tower -- and then dropped in less than two seconds, crashing back to earth. It makes tiny,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 726 views • 3:34

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 6 months 1 week ago • 923 views • 4:46