Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones. Over time this... continue reading
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2023 Florida is home to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants, and many work in the kinds of businesses that would be impacted by the law, known as SB 1718. Many of those affected are also members of mixed-status... continue reading
posted by newtboy 10 months 2 weeks ago • 98 views • 7:32The 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 1 month 3 weeks ago • 268 views • 6:23OK, 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 ago • 214 views • 19:58From YouTube, "A CSB safety video about the June 21, 2019, fire, explosions, and toxic hydrofluoric acid (HF) release at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A severely... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 6 months ago • 260 views • 18:02Jul 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 9 months 2 weeks ago • 81 views • 4:25The executive desk toy is alright for about 25 seconds. But what if it went a little bit faster? Nothing that a compressed air cannon can't solve while Gav and Dan film it 4000 times slower than you can see. ... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 2 weeks ago • 135 views • 12:17Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 82 views • 14:39YouTube description: Have you ever asked yourself what is going on when using a lighter? Let's go macro and see the process in detail with extreme slow motion. Filmed with Photron Fastcam at 20.000... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 995 views • 1:23Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi has dedicated his life to ending child trafficking in India. Despite getting attacked and beaten on many occasions, Kailash remains relentless in his mission.... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 3 years 1 week ago • 8 views • 10:28From YT: In This Video I Show You A Comparison Between The Greatest Space Telescope Ever, My Universities $32,000 Telescope and my very own Telescope!
posted by Nephelimdream 3 years 3 weeks ago • 476 views • 14:32Mark Laita is a photographer who runs the youtube channel Soft White Underbelly where he interviews people who have a dark past. The channel shows inside sex offenders, prostitutes, the homeless, and more. ... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 3 years 4 months ago • 959 views • 17:41From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 211 views • 11:41YouTube description: Terrified residents of Italian cities record messages to themselves 10 days ago, when the pandemic hadn't yet killed 1,809 people and infected more than 24,000 across the country.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 297 views • 3:31YouTube description: Bob Ross painted more than 1,000 landscapes for his television show — so why are they so hard to find? Solving one of the internet’s favorite little mysteries.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 434 views • 10:50From Youtube, "I bought 10,000 shade balls and tried to swim in them. They appear to act like a non-Newtonian fluid: rigid under high shear stress, but they flow like a liquid under low shear."
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posted by b4rringt0n 4 years 12 months ago • 1,355 views • 16:13Nestle, the world’s largest food and beverage company, bottles Michigan’s water for next to nothing and sells it at great profit. And the state has just approved its request to pump even more, despite... continue reading
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