YouTube description: These world travelers might be, well, almost everywhere, but there is a still a lot we don't know about the famous paramecium.
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The White Horse, in Uffington, is one of the oldest surviving works of art in Britain: carved into a hillside in Oxfordshire 3,000 years ago. Every year, it's rechalked by volunteers co-ordinated through... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 624 views • 2:50"Brexit Britain is fed up with experts. These days we only listen to the bloke down the pub. So in this controlled experiment, we put three experts in a pub and recorded the results for your viewing pleasure. ... continue reading
posted by radx 5 years 10 months ago • 72 views • 58:34Stumpy Brown is a Wangkujanka woman who lives at Christmas Creek in the Kimberley. Stumpy has seen many changes throughout her lifetime but nothing so dramatic, when as a teenager, she saw a white man... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 795 views • 5:21At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 407 views • 7:08The officer who responded to a captain's white privilege comments with anger was suspended for his remarks. The Plainfield captain who made the comment is on administrative leave until the police board... continue reading
posted by C-note 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 232 views • 1:06I 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 7 months ago • 454 views • 5:46YouTube description: How Schlieren imaging works in color, black and white and slow-mo. Filming by Raquel Nuno Sound Effects by A Shell in the Pit (H/T @eric3579)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 8 months ago • 311 views • 8:59"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 • 5:28A campaign to identify the marchers spread on social media following the bloody right-wing rally in Charlottesville. The fallout for those who went to Charlottesville to march for hate has begun. Identify... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 265 views • 1:49Every airline has their own branding on their planes, but for the most part, they're all painted white.
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 466 views • 2:21YouTube description: Why so many languages invented words for colors in the same order. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 1969, two Berkeley researchers, Paul Kay and Brent Berlin,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 weeks ago • 634 views • 6:45Everything will end. Even the universe. But in a future so far away that it defies description, there will still be light and therefore a chance for life. It will be around White Dwarfs, the corpses of... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 weeks ago • 146 views • 6:29YouTube: When President Trump's White House revealed its proposed budget recently. A lot of things got cut, and much public outrage was expressed about cuts to funding for Meals on Wheels. White House... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 396 views • 5:12This goblet is made using filigrana, a style of blown glass made with colorless, white, and sometimes colored canes that originated on the island of Murano in the 16th century. The canemaking and glassblowing... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months ago • 262 views • 10:27How does the President go from the White House to the UN headquarters in New York in just 1 hour?
posted by fuzzyundies 7 years 3 months ago • 443 views • 12:03