Precious samples collected from an asteroid are to be moved to a specialist laboratory in Texas. Material taken from what has been described as “the most dangerous rock in our Solar System” came... 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 11 months 2 weeks ago • 98 views • 7:32"... on February 19, 1968, NET, National Educational Television, a precursor to PBS, presented the very first episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, one of television's longest running shows, and one... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago • 5 views • 4:40When humans first populated North America and how they arrived has long been a matter of spirited debate. A recent study detailing what archeologists believe are the oldest known footprints in the United... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 197 views • 6:26"The idea came to me in a dream I had this morning. I didn't really like how the classic Sesame Street "Ladybug's Picnic" song (a staple from my childhood) was performed on the new stop-motion version... continue reading
posted by ant 2 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 34 views • 57 secsOne year ago, Spot graduated from its early adopter program and began shipping out to workplaces around the world. From construction sites and power plants to mines and universities, today Spot is up-and-running... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 117 views • 1:18From Youtube, "...66 million years ago, maybe on a Tuesday afternoon, life was the same as it had been the day before or a thousand years before or pretty much a million years before. Things were good... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 305 views • 12:02From Youtube, "CREDITS: This video was made in collaboration with Benedikt Pleyer, who is a gifted microscopist and has a wonderful contagious passion for discovering the incredible worlds that exist... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 276 views • 11:43From Youtube, "This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 82 views • 10:36Each season has its own distinctive flowers, and in Japan early May sees the wisteria blossom. Many people travel at that time to see fine examples of wisteria, a spreading vine that can be arranged over... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 388 views • 4:28YouTube description: 50 Years Ago Apollo 13 was preparing to launch on a mission that would become famous for the wrong reasons, 56 Hours into the mission an oxygen tank would explode, blowing the side... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 29 views • 12:18YouTube description: 1.8 billion years ago, a cell ate another cell, but it didn't digest it, and without that happening, we would not exist. This week we explore the origins of eukaryotic cells and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 335 views • 10:00In 1957, Grace Braeger of West Bend traded in her old car, threw down $2,250 hard-earned dollars and bought a '57 Chevy. Since that day long ago, it's been her only car.
posted by bobknight33 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 57 views • 4:42One key ingredient in the cuisine of Puglia is cheese, and there is a great variety to choose from. One cheese that stands out from the crowd is Burrata, a cheese created only about 50 years ago.
posted by Mordhaus 4 years 11 months ago • 16 views • 3:13About 10 years ago, the news was packed with reports about something called colony collapse disorder — a mysterious phenomenon that involved the disappearance of enormous numbers of bees. Then, the news... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 522 views • 3:30YouTube description: 50 years ago, three NASA astronauts embarked on a journey that would take them “Round the moon and back”. The Apollo 8 mission proved the performance of the command and service... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months ago • 526 views • 5:47YouTube description: There is a revolution in the Type 1 diabetes community and thousands of people are now hacking their insulin pumps for better blood sugar management. CNBC's Erin Black, who was... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 761 views • 7:09YT: What wiped out the dinosaurs? Most of us were taught it was a killer asteroid—which is true. But it turns out there was more than one disaster movie playing at the cineplex that was Earth 66 million... continue reading
posted by Lumm 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 122 views • 10:45YouTube description: View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-really-happened-to-the-library-of-alexandria-elizabeth-cox 2,300 years ago, the rulers of Alexandria set out to fulfill a very... continue reading
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