Wildfires in Hawaii fanned by strong winds burned structures in areas including the historic town of Lahaina, forcing evacuations and closing schools in several communities. Rescuers pulled a dozen people... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 months 3 weeks ago • 112 views • 2:14

A San Bernardino officer attacked a man being held at knifepoint by his girlfriend, assuming the unarmed man must be the aggressor. The man defended himself, punching the cop, and taking her gun and firing... continue reading

posted by newtboy 10 months 1 week ago • 129 views • 10:48

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 3 weeks ago • 98 views • 7:32

An apparent case of mistaken identity in Galveston landed a man in jail for days in May after police thought the innocent patient leaving the hospital was an escaped prison inmate. There were no escapees. ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 11 months 4 weeks ago • 144 views • 2:36

The 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 2 weeks ago • 83 views • 14:21

Alaska has cancelled this year's snow crab harvest for the first time ever after 90% of the snow crabs disappeared. BILLIONS of snow crabs vanished from the Bering Sea. By why? Why did billions of crabs... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months ago • 104 views • 11:29

From Youtube, "You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 6 months ago • 313 views • 11:46

Police video: Use of force incident at Walmart in East Syracuse NY

posted by bobknight33 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 163 views • 6:44

Casual shoplifting in California is forcing businesses to close after laws made it a misdemeanor to steal anything up to $950.

posted by bobknight33 2 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 352 views • 3:13

Some boaters were left stunned after witnessing an orca's extraordinary leap 15-feet out of the water during a dolphin hunt in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. (Credit: Miguel Cuevas) While battering their... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 839 views • 45 secs

Trump found the silver lining in Covid early on. It means he no longer has to touch all those disgusting people at his rallies. In 2016 Olivia Troye, Vice President Pence's former Homeland Security... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 477 views • 1:01

Createk third-arm : Supernumerary robotic arm powered by magnetorheological clutches and an hydrostatic transmission. Fast enough to compensate for human motions while being safe for physical human-robot interaction. ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 123 views • 2:51

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 877 views • 3:16

YouTube description: The extraordinary story of a runaway Soviet Air Force MiG-23 that flew from Poland to Belgium in 1989, sparking a major security scare between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and ended... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 424 views • 4:46

After more than four decades of forced silence, some of the last surviving atomic soldiers share their unfathomable experiences of the atomic bomb tests in the 1950s

posted by bobknight33 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 119 views • 22:53

Would college students support a policy that would force those with high GPAs to donate part of their own GPA to help those with lower grades?

posted by bobknight33 5 years 1 month ago • 83 views • 4:45

YouTube description: After being diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal brain condition known as Moyamoya, Jennifer Lee was forced to face her own mortality and consider the things in life she held... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 589 views • 10:01

YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 397 views • 3:15