"... 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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I offered people $100 if they could read a paragraph from a book out loud. Things got a little crazy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_tone
posted by newtboy 6 months 3 weeks ago • 374 views • 11:262023 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 • 7:323 Florida police stopped a man for walking while black, apparently a felony in Florida, entered his name incorrectly, then tased and beat him for supplying a false name (he gave his full correct name clearly... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 3 weeks ago • 141 views • 14:57The F-15 was born from the difficult lessons learned during the Vietnam War. In the late 1950s, Air Force planners were confident that the advent of powerful new radars and long-range air-to-air missiles... continue reading
posted by eric3579 1 year 1 week ago • 83 views • 14:21This moment comes from 2016 offshore of Los Angeles in the in NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Our Corps of Exploration originally guessed this purple orb could be a pleurobranch sea slug... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month ago • 89 viewsMontana's Giant Springs State Park, and Lake Sumiainen in Finland, have very short rivers. Finding the shortest in the world, though: that could be trickier.
posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 231 views • 3:26Disney researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that seemingly makes it far easier to make an actor appear younger or older in a scene. While artists will still be able to make manual... continue reading
posted by simonm 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 418 views • 6:48This month a paper came out that honestly chilled me. It was about tipping points in climate - a well-known concept that the climate can change abruptly if certain conditions are met in certain elements... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 7 months 1 week ago • 78 views • 11:01Oh, and it can also play the world's hardest song... sort of. Shout out to Sheet Music Boss. Go check out and sub to their channel!- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzTR... Finally, the piano... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 1 month ago • 140 views • 11:34The world remains in a state of shock after spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting on the island of Tonga left a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific region. With shocking visuals... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 1 week ago • 42 views • 4:26Dorothea 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 • 14:39What is you could solve the shape puzzle with only one piece instead of 3? Modelling using Boolean Intersections may be rarely used, but the results are really interesting and well worth experimenting with!
posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 131 views • 6:44Throughout the month of October, Saildrone performed a 30-day proof-of-concept demonstration for the United States Coast Guard to show how uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) could be used to provide persistent... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 316 views • 3:07It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading
posted by SFOGuy 2 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,835 views • 2:12Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened. It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 9 months ago • 560 views • 10:12From 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 2 months 2 weeks ago • 276 views • 11:43Who knew cracking nuts could be so interesting
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 65 views • 18:57Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 9 months ago • 984 views • 2:32From Youtube, "The sun. Smooth and round and peaceful. Except when it suddenly vomits radiation and plasma in random directions. These solar flares and coronal mass ejections, or CMEs can hit earth and... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 135 views • 9:43