"... In 1971, three student teachers in Minneapolis, MN created a little computer game about westward expansion in the United States. Over 50 years later, The Oregon Trail series has sold more than 65... continue reading
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This car goes from 0-62 miles per hour (100kph) in 0.956 of a second. This is the classic acceleration test, one that we all grew up using to compare cars. A Formula 1 car will do it in about two and... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 months 4 weeks ago • 132 views • 17:05Proudly Presenting: "Corporate Ping Pong" This engineered mechanical sculpture is a representation of the hum and haw and constant, slow churn of the big corporate machine. Jumping through hoops, creating... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 months ago • 72 views • 6:35Hemp is a plant whose vegetable fibers have been used in the making of fabrics, the manufacture of espadrilles and in rope making. Manuel Abad was an expert ropemaker from Cornago (La Rioja) who showed... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 months 3 weeks ago • 56 views • 8:44Few of the monsters that evolution created have been so successful at hurting us as the variola virus, responsible for smallpox. The carnage it caused was so terrible and merciless that it compelled humankind,... continue reading
posted by eric3579 9 months 1 week ago • 143 views • 11:09YouTube description: In 2015, what we knew about Iron Age shields all changed. And it changed in a field in Leicester... Iron Age Curator Sophia Adams explains the construction of the first organic... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months 3 weeks ago • 144 views • 15:29Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, co-led a hearing of the full Judiciary... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 2 weeks ago • 277 views • 5:49The American Grumman Hellcat fighter dominated what used to be a feared aircraft in the skies over the Pacific, the Mitsubishi Zero. In this video we look at what made the Hellcat so potent.
posted by eric3579 1 year 1 month 1 week ago • 267 views • 12:32At 2994 meters on a never-before-surveyed seamount north of Johnston Atoll, the team made a thrilling discovery — the chance to examine an animal spotted for the very first time in the Pacific Ocean!... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 213 views • 1:46In 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which house the Museum's renowned collection of Islamic... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 4 months ago • 60 views • 17:44From YouTube, In this lab, they use different flow visualization techniques to help detect contraband and residues and develop trace particle detection methods... Thanks to Rich Press and NIST for... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 204 views • 21:48In this video, Vaclav will teach you how to read Prague Astronomical Clock, step by step. You will learn how to read the Old Czech Time, Old German Time, Babylonian Time, and Vaclav will also tell you... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 28 views • 6:26OK, so straight up..... This might be one of my favorite Smarter Every Day videos ever. It has everything I love.... hard work, fluid dynamics, mechanics, control systems, nature, beautiful shots, teamwork,... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 214 views • 19:58Enter the world of an undertaker whose family for three generations has cared for both the living and the dead in a small Michigan town, as families navigate loss, grief and mortality. (Aired 2007) ... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago • 52 views • 53:38What If you took the celestial bodies that have elements names for them (Mercury, Ceres, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), and made them entirely composed of those elements? Minute physics animates and presents... continue reading
posted by noims 1 year 7 months 4 weeks ago • 29 views • 3:41"Sugar Smith Greg Cohen and the staff from Lofty Pursuits make traditional Christmas candy using century’s old techniques and equipment at their shop in Tallahassee, Florida. Watch and see how Greg and... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 8 months 4 weeks ago • 218 views • 13:22God made a missnake, and Alan Pan is going to fix it. Alan tries to repair his reputation by creating mechanical legs for snakes.
posted by newtboy 1 year 8 months 4 weeks ago • 274 views • 9:53See how the sausage is made... literally!
posted by BSR 1 year 9 months 1 week ago • 35 views • 30:20How Does Kodak Make Film Light Sensitive? (How Film is Made, Part 2) I had no idea Kodak uses LAMINAR FLOW to make film. Imagine my surprise when I walked in and saw this beautiful waterfall and realized... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 9 months 4 weeks ago • 32 views • 59:57Jul 12, 2022 Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., gave a closing statement on July 12 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. The focus of the hearing was on extremist... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 10 months 1 week ago • 81 views • 4:25