"... Over the last year, we at MinuteEarth and MinutePhysics have had the privilege of working with NASA's Heliophysics Education Activation Team make a series of videos about the awesomeness of solar... continue reading
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This car goes from 0-62 miles per hour (100kph) in 0.956 of a second. This is the classic acceleration test, one that we all grew up using to compare cars. A Formula 1 car will do it in about two and... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 months 2 weeks ago • 132 views • 17:05"... Electric eels can emit some of the largest shocks in the animal kingdom - but why don't they shock themselves? ..."
posted by ant 4 months 2 weeks ago • 142 views • 3:592023 Florida is home to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants, and many work in the kinds of businesses that would be impacted by the law, known as SB 1718. Many of those affected are also members of mixed-status... continue reading
posted by newtboy 10 months 3 weeks ago • 98 views • 7:32An apparent case of mistaken identity in Galveston landed a man in jail for days in May after police thought the innocent patient leaving the hospital was an escaped prison inmate. There were no escapees. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 12 months ago • 144 views • 2:36The common wisdom is that, once an invasive species is truly established, it can't be eradicated — but I talked to the team from Predator Free Wellington, who think they can do just that. ■ Predator... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 2 months ago • 84 views • 9:17"... Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-slaver-ants/?pli=1 Everything changed when the slaver nation attacked. What used to be a thriving colony is now a captured country.... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 5 months ago • 51 views • 10:44From YouTube, "John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws."
posted by w1ndex 2 years 3 weeks ago • 202 views • 25:10From YouTube, "Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 3 weeks ago • 145 views • 16:11How do you rebuild one of the biggest spillways in the world after a catastrophic failure with the next flood season right around the corner? This video covers the engineering and construction required... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 280 views • 20:38In this video, I help a Labrador mix, Jet. Jet has been having aggressive problems. It is important to pay attention to what the dog is telling you through its energy and body language. A dog... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 46 views • 4:55Axolotls are one of science’s most studied animals. Why, you ask? These extraordinary salamanders are masters of regeneration: they can flawlessly regenerate body parts ranging from amputated limbs and... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 225 views • 5:22From Youtube, "The Orkney Islands, off the northern tip of Scotland, have so much electricity that it's actually a problem. Here's why: and here's what they're doing about it."
posted by w1ndex 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 337 views • 5:29After women complain about a biological man walking around naked in the women's locker room, the employees say the person is transgender and there's nothing they can do about it.
posted by bobknight33 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 941 views • 3:45From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 510 views • 9:10"What different clouds mean, explained for kids. Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids! If you’re standing outside and you look up, you’ll likely see something familiar above... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 8 months ago • 67 views • 8:03Red 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 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 985 views • 2:32From Youtube, "The sun. Smooth and round and peaceful. Except when it suddenly vomits radiation and plasma in random directions. These solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs can hit earth and... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 11 months ago • 135 views • 9:43From Youtube, "As the spread of coronavirus worsens in the US, John Oliver discusses how the government is handling the outbreak, how they’re not, and what we can do to help."
posted by w1ndex 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 459 views • 22:11NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has discovered “layers” and “rifts” in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 341 views • 2:19