"... 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
posted by ant 1 month 2 weeks ago • 3 views • 27:10Videos (61) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Sewers were one of the earliest and most impactful advents of public health in urban areas, and it’s exciting that we’re still finding new ways to use them to that end.
posted by eric3579 2 years ago • 50 views • 12:10From Youtube, "Black holes are the most powerful and extreme things in the universe and they are wildly weird and complicated. What would happen if you fell inside one and what are they really?"
posted by w1ndex 3 years 3 weeks ago • 235 views • 12:15I highly recommend listening to the song first, or at least the first half. As a drummer for 32 years (8 formally on actual drums / in public, the rest on available surfaces and arguably in rhythm games),... continue reading
posted by moonsammy 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 497 views • 10:15Cuz the ocean is weird.
posted by newtboy 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 318 views • 10:15YouTube description: Robert Moehling has a passion for fruit. Weird tropical fruit. Ever tried canistel? How about mamey sapote or guanabana? Robert is happy to introduce these fresh delights to you.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 538 views • 2:23YouTube 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 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,838 views • 3:58"... We’ve all gotten dizzy before… but have you ever gotten WEIRD DIZZY? I teamed up with Vanessa Hill from BrainCrat to answer the question 'why do we get dizzy?' and in the process we learned about... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 3 weeks ago • 659 views • 9:22Both beautiful and terrifying, this is a quick look at fungi, with a focus on their reproduction. It goes beyond terrifying if you happen to be an @ant, or similar cordyceps-susceptible life form.
posted by noims 5 years 1 month ago • 368 views • 4:44YouTube description: people are weird sometimes -- (my favourite part is 5:54 to 6:43)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month ago • 824 views • 9:55Thanks to a weird golden goal rule. YouTube description: Barbados needed to win by two, but they were only up one. So instead of scoring in the traditional way they intentionally kicked in an own... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 432 views • 5:35YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months ago • 498 views • 6:19So unshelled Brazil nuts are actually seeds found inside a larger fruit that looks like a cannonball. Learn something new everyday.
posted by nanrod 5 years 9 months ago • 396 views • 11:08rarre was an 18th-century French peasant who could eat a quarter of a cow carcass in a single day, among other things.
posted by Ashenkase 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 123 views • 7:49I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,223 views • 3:54Some of my favourite Australian animals (they're cute, and don't try to kill you). YouTube description: It’s pretty well known that Australia is home to some strange animals, but echidnas are especially... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months ago • 425 views • 6:37https://youtu.be/IcLZqpB_QPg You might be benefiting from the weird units you've never heard every time you put on your shoes or read about dark matter. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon (H/T @eric3579)
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,465 views • 12:43"... Even the parts of our brains that don't control physical movement show a lot of rhythm, and that might be integral to how our brains work..."
posted by ant 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 213 views • 2:55YouTube description: On the river Rhine in Switzerland, there are reaction ferries: boats with no engine, no paddles, no onboard motive power at all. Here's how they work -- and a question about what... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 601 views • 2:30