OK, so straight up..... This might be one of my favorite Smarter Every Day videos ever. It has everything I love.... hard work, fluid dynamics, mechanics, control systems, nature, beautiful shots, teamwork,... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago • 214 views • 19:58Videos (21) | Sift Talk (1) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
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 2 months 1 week ago • 599 views • 4:21YouTube description: The history of the Earth from its formation to present day, covering major events throughout its 4-billion-year history. Estimates of average temperature, atmospheric composition,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 4 months ago • 807 views • 11:36"Ant venom delivery captured, for the first time, in slow-motion (1,000fps) & up-close video. The ants (and stingers) featured in this video are the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius and the trap-jaw... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 700 views • 3:31YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months ago • 441 views • 4:19YouTube description: A new technique is allowing researchers to study the inner workings of a cuttlefish brain by tracking colour changing cells in their skin. These cell are directly controlled by... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 462 views • 6:19YouTube description: A fractal pattern is a kind of equation occurring all around us in nature. So what's a fractal and what does it have to do with nautiluses, romanesco broccoli, Star Trek II: The... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months ago • 442 views • 2:09YT - ThePanthNetwork Published on Feb 20, 2012 This video answers the questions "What is Pantheism?" and "What do Pantheists believe?" Please watch this video with your volume up, as it does not... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 66 views • 3:26YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 606 views • 8:27I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 454 views • 5:46YouTube description: Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 1 month ago • 458 views • 7:42"Fire Ants vs Flood: Will these fire ants of The Fire Nation survive this natural disaster? How do ants deal with a mass flood inside their nest? Today we find out in this epic fire ant farm video! ..."
posted by ant 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 109 views • 16:59YouTube 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 8 months 4 weeks ago • 658 views • 3:23This video explores the nature of self-perception and various illusions related to body ownership. - YT
posted by blacklotus90 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 162 views • 9:16An important video that gets to the root of tackling bigotry and hate. An excellent lecture by Prof. Laith Saud
posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 29 views • 14:32YouTube description: There is extreme fishing and then is going to such extremes that you have a rod and a worm-like lure fused to your face. Quite frankly it's the type of commitment we admire. Meet... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month ago • 271 views • 6:32The 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 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,844 views • 16:57Ugggg ... I hate when the time changes [espcially in the Spring!] YouTube: Daylight saving time is the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour during the spring and back again in the fall in... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 351 views • 2:20A whole lot, apparently. Recent surveys and modelling techniques have allowed scientists to get a much more accurate picture of the tree population of planet earth.
posted by Fantomas 8 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 20 views • 2:444th video in a series showing Twain Harte Rock (North of Yosemite) fracturing. Neat stuff!
posted by newtboy 9 years 8 months 1 week ago • 766 views • 1:00- 1
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