The Perlan 2 sailplane has soared to altitudes of more than 70,000 feet above the mountains of Argentina, with the goal of eventually reaching 90,000 feet. Its visit to Oshkosh last summer was one of the... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 268 views • 6:23search results matching tag: highlights
Search took 0.000 seconds
- 1
Videos (17) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
One home went undamaged when all the homes around it were badly damaged or completely washed away. Similar look to the last house standing in Mexico Beach after Hurricane Michael. It clearly has high end... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago • 419 views • 1:19YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 69 views • 2:46This successful test of the upgraded and now human rated Dragon capsule is the first step towards the USA being able to send astronauts to the ISS without hitching a lift on Russian Soyuz spacecraft. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 516 views • 4:57YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 397 views • 3:15YouTube description: Thunderstorm time lapse and spectacular phenomenon with facts and information of where to witness these fascinating sights. Upward lightning, mammatus, sprites, gustnadoes and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months ago • 498 views • 6:19YouTube description: Watch a time-lapse video of the installation and deinstallation (rotation) of large carpets and mounted textiles in The Met's galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 337 views • 1:21YouTube 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) 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 620 views • 1:43The network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO What happened with Cambridge Analytica highlights this perfectly. ... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 520 views • 5:35From YT: Video highlighting my research on PowerPoint Turing Machines for CMU's SIGBOVIK 2017 From me: So it turns out PowerPoint is Years ago when I discovered you could export PowerPoint files... continue reading
posted by Ickster 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 58 views • 5:34YouTube: It’s been a pretty cool year for science around the globe, and we here at SciShow like to highlight the superlatives: some of the biggest, oldest, fastest, and most amazing discoveries of 2016.
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 21 views • 4:26It's not about how many times one does it. YouTube: I spend a fair amount of time talking about how social determinants of health come into play, with respect to health care outcomes. I also talk a... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 568 views • 3:35The materials collection, at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, MA, houses thousands of pigments, including some of the world’s rarest. Dragon's blood, mummy, Indian yellow: these are but a few flashy... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 8 years 1 month ago • 639 views • 2:35YT "Bill shows the world's smallest atomic clock and then describes how the first one made in the 1950s worked. He describes in detail the use of cesium vapor to create a feedback or control loop to control... continue reading
posted by blackfox42 8 years 11 months ago • 544 views • 4:33YouTube Description: Tuning forks are wonderful tools for teaching physics. In this video and accompanying article, James Lincoln, Physics Teacher at Tarbut V Torah High School highlights 10 enriching... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 5 months 1 week ago • 207 views • 5:16YouTube Description: Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and flares are both solar events, but they are not the same. This video shows the differences between the two by highlighting specific features of... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 375 views • 1:59- 1