Washing your hands after using the restroom - most of us only do so because a fellow co-worker is in the bathroom with us, and we wonder if he'll tell other people if we don't.
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Alaska has cancelled this year's snow crab harvest for the first time ever after 90% of the snow crabs disappeared. BILLIONS of snow crabs vanished from the Bering Sea. By why? Why did billions of crabs... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 104 views • 11:29From 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 years 1 month 1 week ago • 145 views • 16:11The world remains in a state of shock after spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting on the island of Tonga left a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific region. With shocking visuals... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months ago • 42 views • 4:26MBARI sustained our commitment to ocean exploration and discovery in 2021. The year brought more challenges, but exploring our big, blue backyard always inspires awe and wonder—and curiosity about the... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 378 views • 3:16Wondering how to pronounce Frome or Towcester without sounding like an absolute Mousehole?
posted by psycop 2 years 8 months ago • 315 views • 8:14From Youtube, "Hydroponic peppers and spider mites make for an exciting combo! "
posted by w1ndex 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 144 views • 17:11From Youtube, "CREDITS: This video was made in collaboration with Benedikt Pleyer, who is a gifted microscopist and has a wonderful contagious passion for discovering the incredible worlds that exist... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 276 views • 11:43YouTube description: Have you ever wondered what these tiny doors at the #USCapitol are for? Watch to find out. More of the story is at https://www.aoc.gov/blog/meigs-miniat.... (via digg.com)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 4 months ago • 657 views • 1:33Far more than you ever needed to know about dishwashers. Ever wonder how dishwashers work? Are you ever bummed by the performance of yours? Well, this video can answer your question and possibly provide... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 423 views • 32:35Zefrank looks at Army Ants and the beetles that co-exist with them. From Youtube, "Where to buy the Army Ants Book: https://amzn.com/067424155X True Facts Shirts: https://ze-true-store.myshopify.com/ ... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 5 months ago • 928 views • 9:28YouTube description: While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this unusual anatomy developed in the first place. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,094 views • 9:31Zefrank gives his True Facts about Macaques. From Youtube, "CREDITS: MUSIC: https://soundcloud.com/querflote Thanks to Dr. Erin Riley, Dr. Kathryn Devaney, and Dr. Lauren Brent for their time helping ... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 378 views • 10:20"... The eyes are often the first thing we see when we look at someone. And when you look at them up close, everyone’s eye color is a kaleidoscope of shapes and hues. How does eye color work? The answer... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years ago • 543 views • 6:21"... You know you’ve wondered. Do fish actually pee? And what does that make the ocean… one big toilet? ..."
posted by ant 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 44 viewsEver wonder how fast the ships in Star Trek actually are? How about relative to one another? Source: EC Henry
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 611 views • 4:07Police in West Midlands, UK have released footage of criminals stealing a car by relaying a signal from the key inside the home, to the car in the driveway. Source: CNNMoney I've always wondered... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 961 views • 1:30YouTube description: For decades, one of the most abundant kinds of fossils on Earth, numbering in the millions of specimens, was a mystery to paleontologists. But geologists discovered that these mysterious... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 615 views • 7:00Now you might be wondering why is there odd pictures of rabbits in the boarders of medieval manuscripts. Ok this is a very oddly specific thing to wonder and it’s unlikely that this is a question that... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months ago • 96 views • 3:25nerdwriter analyses Goya's scary ass painting. I wonder if this has anything to do with the painting popping up in Altered Carbon? (it appears in a key characters appartment)
posted by ChaosEngine 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 819 views • 8:47