From Youtube, "You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 8 months ago • 309 views • 11:46

Metals have a crystal structure. But they're not one big crystal, they're lots of small crystals called grains. The size of the grains affects the physical properties of the metal, like hardness, toughness,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 months 3 weeks ago • 135 views • 8:45

From Youtube, "In and out, in and out. Staying alive is about doing things. This very second, your cells are combusting glucose molecules with oxygen to make energy available, which keeps you alive for... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago • 324 views • 11:05

YouTube description: People use boats for all kinds of reasons, and in the same way, there are all kinds, shapes, sizes, and ages of locks used for waterway navigation across the world. Freight is big... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 243 views • 10:37

YouTube description: This translucent Deepstaria jelly unfurled as it whorled and shapeshifted in currents created by ROV Hercules' thrusters. Its bright red resident isopod, a relative of the pillbug,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 9 months 1 week ago • 789 views • 5:43

YouTube 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) 2 years 12 months ago • 1,834 views • 3:58

YT: Bill describes how the minimization of surface area and inertia compete to form droplets. He then shows how engineers use this knowledge to create precisely-sized droplets in a commercial inkjet printer... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 729 views • 5:52

YouTube description: Dams serve a wide variety of purposes from hydropower to flood control to storage of water for municipal and industrials uses. But when a dam’s useful purpose fades away, the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 3 months 1 week ago • 1,291 views • 8:40

YouTube description: Ruben Orozco Loza is an artist from Guadalajara, Mexico. He is a self-taught sculptor. He creates sculptures of celebrities and everyday people using modeling clay, silicone, resin,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 4 months ago • 1,431 views • 3:06

YouTube description: A bisected grape in the microwave makes plasma. But how does it work? A grape is the right size and refractive index to trap microwaves inside it. When you place two (or two halves)... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 730 views • 8:16

YouTube description: What would it be like if our eyes could see more colors? We may never be able to answer that, but we can build devices that can do the work for us. Over the last three weeks we've... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 444 views • 9:29

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

YouTube description: Picture this: you're gorging on leftover Halloween candy. You take a bite of a fun-size chocolate bar and instead of sugary goodness, you get a flash of blinding pain in your tooth!... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 8 months ago • 236 views • 2:59

YouTube description: Jide Ipaye loves sneakers. Growing up, he had a hard time finding cool ones in his size, so he learned to make his own. But why keep a good thing to yourself? His Keexs line, with... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 72 views • 2:28

YT - BRIGHT SIDE Published on Jul 14, 2017 We have 16 amazing maps that will change your perspective of the world forever. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz For copyright matters... continue reading

posted by Buck 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 268 views • 6:19

We talked to the co-founder of Tesla, JB Straubel, about why giant batteries are crucial to the future of power grids everywhere. Batteries are becoming more useful at powering bigger things like bikes,... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 498 views • 6:15

This animated map created from the NOAA, NWS, and PTWC shows every recorded earthquake in chronological order from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2015. The size of the circle shows the magnitude of the... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 3 years 11 months 1 week ago • 870 views • 3:43

"We've all seen TV snow. Whether because the TV is detuned, or just because we're trying to tune our Mega Drive into a new channel. But why, on a colour TV is this static still presented in a monochrome... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 1 month ago • 148 views • 7:20

We show you all the six types of charisma in MCU that seems so irresistible to women. One of the most common misconceptions of charisma is that one size must fit all. The truth is that while there are... continue reading

posted by wifidogs 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 22 views • 15:49