YouTube description: If you grew up watching “Sesame Street,” you know Jim Henson’s characters well. The late puppeteer brought Kermit and Ernie and so many others to life before he went on to... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 439 views • 4:58

Red 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 4 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 985 views • 2:32

YouTube description: Tejas Sidnal is an architect who believes people in his profession have a responsibility to rid the world of air pollution. Which is why he founded Carbon Craft Design, a startup... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 85 views • 2:25

In this episode of Forgotten Failures, I take a look back at the long forgotten TV spinoff of "Blazing Saddles". This sitcom tried to capture the humor and success of the film that inspired it but would... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 941 views • 7:36

Video contains disturbing images and sound. Viewer discretion is advised. Atlanta Police have released bodycam and dashcam footage showing the moments leading to the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 4 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 36 views • 43:01

Zefrank talks about felines senses. From Youtube, "CREDITS:Thank you to Dr. Alexis Noel at http://www.noel.gatech.edu for allowing me to show her work. Click on the link to see other remarkable work... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 5 months ago • 1,035 views • 12:50

Captain Disillusion shows how a viral UFOs on the moon video is a fake.

posted by w1ndex 4 years 5 months 1 week ago • 290 views • 6:26

Writing in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA says a review of Voyager 2’s old data from 1986 showed that Uranus vented a giant blob of gas into space. This pocket of ionized gas, a plasma structure... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,201 views • 6:40

YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 70 views • 2:46

Alton Brown shows us how to properly wash our hands.

posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 203 views • 4:49

Mark Rober shows how easily germs can spread using blacklight reactive powder and a classroom of kids.

posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 208 views • 10:21

YouTube description: Kea, a type of parrot from New Zealand, have been surprising scientists with their smart predictions. Researchers set them a series of intelligence tests based around probabilities... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 599 views • 4:21

NASA’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 9 months 1 week ago • 349 views • 2:19

For three centuries, farmers living in the remote mountains of northern Turkey have communicated great distances by whistling. It’s a language called kuş dili that is still used to this day, though... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 101 views • 2:41

What's the best way to convince humans to conserve nature? Is it to put it on display for entertainment despite the fact that this undeniably harms the animals? Sadly, that's one of the more effective... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 467 views

YouTube description: It’s amazing what Anne Rosat can do with a pair of scissors. This 83-year-old artist has been depicting life in the Swiss Alps through the folk art known as papercutting for 50... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 450 views • 2:58

While testifying before the House Financial Services Committee, comedian Hasan Minhaj called out members of Congress for the student loan crisis by comparing current tuition costs to what they originally... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 2 months ago • 470 views • 3:05