YT - Everyday Astronaut Published on Jan 24, 2018 It’s ALIVE!!!!! For the very first time, the Falcon Heavy has successfully lit all 27 of its mighty Merlin engines in preparation for its maiden launch.... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 175 views • 8:38Videos (51) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
YouTube description: Antibiotic-resistant bacteria kill 23,000 people every year in the United States, and the United Nations estimates that by 2050, more people will die from antibiotic-resistant infections... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 397 views • 14:33All nuclear waste is currently in temporary storage. Finland is building the first long term permanent storage site in the world. How do you convey a warning not to tamper with such a place tens of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 777 views • 11:09The 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 ago • 976 views • 3:44Infuriating [E!] YouTube: The US has a problem with income inequality. The current tax code makes it worse.
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 596 views • 8:47youtube- TEDx Talks Published on Sep 7, 2017 Imagine a global "Hive Mind" that can tap the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people, and produce a super-intelligence that is... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 119 views • 15:59"Protection from deportation and the chance to work have been life-changing for DACA recipients. But if Congress and the White House can’t agree on a bill to protect them within a six-month timeframe,... continue reading
posted by ant 6 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 220 views • 5:28YouTube description: When dancer David Chanishvili is on stage, he believes that he can fly. Indeed, he appears to glide through the air with ease while performing for the traditional Sukhishvili Georgian... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months ago • 1,315 views • 2:33For nearly 700 years, the shrimpers of Oostduinkerke, Belgium, have been training draft horses to help them pursue the local catch. Typically weighing more than 2,000 pounds, these horses are well suited... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 95 views • 2:39YouTube: Go see if Eons is for you: http://www.youtube.com/eons Other cool things about Trilobites People have been collecting them for at least tens of thousands of years, as they've been found in... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 11 months ago • 103 views • 3:39Near Bodø in Norway, there's the strongest tidal current in the world: Saltstraumen Maelstrom, a constantly-changing rush of whirlpools, boils and vortices. It might not be quite the whirlpools of myth... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 week ago • 241 views • 2:32SAD! YouTube: I don't really know what this budget is meant to do aside from raise military spending dramatically while keeping spending almost exactly the same as it is now. It's remarkable how close... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 338 views • 5:03YouTube description: Osaka's Gate Tower Building is an amazing sight to see because ... well, how should I put this? A highway goes through the building. It literally does, and there is a story behind it. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,610 views • 5:48The Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit (Black Mamba APU) is a mostly female ranger unit founded with the purpose of protecting wildlife in South Africa. They are on the front-line protecting dwindling numbers... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 89 views • 2:35YouTube: In which John Green considers the historical distance between Rome's Pantheon, the cave paintings at Lascaux, a different community's cave paintings at Chauvet, and the current day. Too often,... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 518 views • 3:42I underestimated by three! Yikes YouTube: Can you guess how many countries the United States is currently bombing?
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months ago • 904 views • 4:32Last month I brought attention to a particularly nasty product currently promoted online to vulnerable people as a cancer cure. Black salve is a paste made from a mixture of Bloodroot extract and zinc... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months ago • 330 views • 8:10UPDATE: We're still working on a species ID with our science partners at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, but currently we're thinking the purple orb is a pleurobranch, a nudibranch relative.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 219 views • 3:12With all of the global warming a new threat has emerged, the release of methane gas, trapped in methane hydrates on ocean floors. It's release is often referred to as the 'methane bomb'. The last time... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 966 views • 8:37Graphite is one of the many interesting forms of carbon. And carbon I love! It morphs into coal, diamond, graphite, graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes, buckyballs and more, all with their own set of fantastic... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,655 views • 4:58