From YouTube, "Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 months 3 weeks ago • 143 views • 16:11

Daffy Duck for President is a children's book, published by Warner Bros. and the United States Postal Service in 1997 to coincide with the release of the first Bugs Bunny U.S. postage stamp. The book... continue reading

posted by BSR 4 months 3 weeks ago • 100 views • 4:32

"Opossums and possums are awesome. Here’s how to tell the difference. #shorts..."

posted by ant 10 months ago • 73 views • 22 secs

Imagine pole-vaulting across dangerous terrain, down steep slopes and ravines. "Salto del pastor"—translated from Spanish as "the shepherd's leap"—is just that. Now a folk sport and hobby, it was once... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 2 months ago • 746 views • 3:53

The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months ago • 15 views • 3:56

Morgan explains the subtle difference between these two personality types

A drunk history short.

posted by newtboy 1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago • 332 views • 3:33

YouTube description: Terrified residents of Italian cities record messages to themselves 10 days ago, when the pandemic hadn't yet killed 1,809 people and infected more than 24,000 across the country.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 295 views • 3:31

From Twitter: Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson Astrophysicist In the tropics, the Sun sets vertical to the horizon; Twilight doesn’t last very long; and the Full Moon rises shortly after sunset,... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 47 views • 30 secs

YouTube description: A short video of the result :) Thanks for watching! Like, comment, subscribe! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kris.temmerman/ check out the previous video: https://youtu.be/E_6e71BJOzM... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 3 months ago • 338 views • 2:51

YT: The Forbes Pigment Collection, at the Harvard Art Museums, is a collection of pigments, binders, and other art materials for researchers to use as standards: so they can tell originals from restorations... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 3 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 443 views • 5:13

YouTube description: Technical details about what we're doing: We're working on a time-series problem called a Sequence Classification. Recurrent Neural Networks called Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 566 views • 10:41

"Enjoy counting to 12 with every pinball animation short in this compilation! ..."

posted by ant 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 44 views • 12:33

YouTube description: Until the mid 1950’s, small short-range airliners like the twin engined IL-14 were really the only type the Soviet Union produced. And that meant flying across the country’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 6 months ago • 423 views • 10:05

In the animated short “Drawn & Recorded: Teen Spirit” by Drew Christie of Kalakala Animation, narrator T-Bone Burnett tells the story behind the famous 1991 Nirvana song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 689 views • 2:55

YouTube description: Amazing high resolution photos of the Earth should show that the earth is oblate, but it's hard to see because the difference is about 0.3%. So here's a quick demo highlighting the difference. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 4 weeks ago • 618 views • 1:43

YouTube description: It’s an 1980s pop music cliche that dates back to 1910. If you listen to the first few seconds of Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” (hint: listen to the Cardi B remix) you’ll hear... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 594 views • 9:26

YouTube description: Let's find out how they put 3D images into glass objects. Known as a 'Bubblegram', vitrography or sub-surface laser engraving, this technology has been around for a very long time... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 308 views • 6:28