When grown-up jellyfish love each other very much, they make huge numbers of teeny-tiny potato-shaped larvae. Those larvae grow into little polyps that cling to rocks and catch prey with their stinging... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 months 1 week ago • 38 views • 4:39

Axolotls 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 8 months 1 week ago • 225 views • 5:22

How the Global Auto industry is changing to EV. The winner and the losers over the next decade. Cathie Wood of ARK Invest is well known for making bold calls on innovative companies such as Tesla.... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 13 views • 14:54

YouTube description: I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 1,838 views • 3:58

YouTube description: Jide Ipaye loves sneakers. Growing up, he had a hard time finding cool ones in his size, so he learned to make his own. But why keep a good thing to yourself? His Keexs line, with... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 72 views • 2:28

"... Every once in a while, all the oaks or spruces or other plants in a region suddenly produce a tremendous bounty of seeds – up to 100 times more than usual. But why do they do it, and how do they... continue reading

posted by ant 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 187 views • 2:57

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) 6 years 4 months ago • 725 views • 3:34

The reason they need weevil greenhouses is that the Brazilian weevils don't like Texan winters, and tend to die off over winter. If they mentioned it in this video I missed it. YouTube description: ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 976 views • 3:44

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) 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 923 views • 4:46

Humans emit roughly 30 to 40 billion tons of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere each year. If we keep it up, Earth will continue to heat up and ultimately devastate our way of life. ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 2 weeks ago • 107 views • 2:18

In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 99 views • 6:27

YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 658 views • 3:23

Growing up in a family of 13, Phillip Vowles learned to appreciate the effort it took to feed all his brothers and sisters. So when he started harvesting his own crop, he decided to supersize his venture.... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 645 views • 2:31

From YT: Congrats to Bruce, our latest recruit to pass his Initiation Test into the Cave of Adullam Transformational Training Academy. We decided to share this part of his Initiation Test to encourage... continue reading

posted by iaui 7 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 699 views • 5:26

YouTube description: Bill reveals the stunning engineering underlying the design of a diaper. He describes the five layers of a diaper, including the superabsorbent polymer in the diaper's core. He... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years ago • 337 views • 6:34

My 11 year old shared this with me, telling me he wished he was growing up where this would have been available to him. Via YouTube: Kids Gone Wild: looking at life in kindergarten… Danish-style

posted by Gratefulmom 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,518 views • 10:40

The 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 4 months 4 weeks ago • 1,844 views • 16:57

Must have been wonderful growing up Rashida Jones! YouTube: Actress, screenwriter, comic book author and documentarian, Rashida Jones, muses on the unheralded benefits of a nerdy upbringing, law vs.... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 222 views • 3:42

Uhhh, to hell with the grocer's crap.... 1,000% more productive than conventional gardening & farming. The most robust, most scalable Aquaponics system in the world is the Portable Farms™ Aquaponics... continue reading

posted by chingalera 1 decade 10 months ago • 96 views • 6:31