Finally a science lesson even Homer Simpson would find interesting.
It’s Okay To Be Smart explores the scientific processes behind brewing beer. Host Joe Hanson visited the Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas and spoke with brewer Averie Swanson about the history of beer and the various strains of yeast that the brewery uses.
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Is beer the perfect beverage? Let’s see what science says
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A time-lapse of an Amish barn raising in Ohio.
YouTube user Penny Miller filmed an Amish barnraising in Ohio, which was completed start-to-finish in a mere ten hours. This impressive group effort took place on May 13th of this year. The resulting video is a testament to what people are capable of if they cooperate and work together with a common goal in mind.
This compilation video features puppies of various breeds playing with their moms and seemingly having a grand time doing so.
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There is almost nothing cuter than cute little puppies having fun playing with their moms. Just too adorable!
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Do you want to frighten away animal predators and small children? Get yourself an Elmo doll and tie it by the throat to a wire fence. That’s what one farmer in Japan did.
A suggestion for further improvement: get a talking Elmo doll and a motion sensor. Set them up so that Elmo calls out to passersby.
Baby Black-Footed Cats hunt crickets at the Philadelphia Zoo like stone-cold merciless killers.
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Zoos find themselves in the strange position of buying animals for other animals. In this case, the Philadelphia Zoo got a shipment of live crickets for the Black-footed Cat kittens to play with. You remember when they were little. They’ve grown a lot, and now are almost as big as their mother! Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal are three months old now.
It seems weird to call them Black-foot Cat kittens, instead of just Black-footed kittens. But “Black-footed Cat” is the species. It’s like saying “Sand Cat cubs” instead of just Sand cubs. But wait- at what point do you classifying wild cats as cubs instead of kittens? Black-footed cats are smaller than domestic cats, but they are still wildcats!