"... 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

posted by ant 6 days 9 hours 35 minutes ago • 5 views • 1:26:56

The endless expanse of the ocean’s midnight zone offers plenty of room to stretch out. Here, some animals can grow to great lengths. Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 month ago • 126 views • 3:36

Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern (Merriam-Webster) This one minute film uses pareidolia as a tool to convey the importance... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 month 1 week ago • 229 views • 1:01

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 ago • 131 views • 17:05

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

posted by newtboy 2 months ago • 46 views • 4:14

The Secret Architecture of America’s $1BN Fortress This is how the US built its most hi-tech and controversial embassy.

posted by BSR 4 months 1 week ago • 118 views • 12:33

It's SO fun to play! Build an aquarium and send me and your friends a picture or video capture of it!

posted by BSR 5 months 3 weeks ago • 51 views • 28:57

"A truly X-cellent and X-ceptional video… ... Despite being one of the rarest letters in English, the letter X is everywhere. We sign letters with it, we rate movies with it, we name all sorts of things... continue reading

posted by ant 6 months 4 weeks ago • 1 view • 11:39

MAGA can’t count to one.

posted by newtboy 7 months 2 weeks ago • 105 views • 19 secs

We all know Richard Hammond loves a 4x4, and they don’t come much more legendary than the first ever road-going Land Rover, known affectionately as ‘JUE’. Richard takes us through the story of rediscovering... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 months 1 week ago • 233 views • 14:10

Few 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 8 months 1 week ago • 143 views • 11:09

The Rio Las Vacas in Guatemala is one of the most polluted rivers on earth. This small river is estimated to contribute 2% of the total plastic pollution we dump in the oceans yearly. The Ocean Cleanup... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 months 2 weeks ago • 111 views • 52 secs

Odd how often those tasked with enforcing the law break them. 18 U.S. Code § 700 - Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties (1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 9 months 1 week ago • 23 views • 59 secs

YouTube description: Adam Savage visits one of the world's most joyful places: Jim Henson's Creature Shop! While there, veteran puppeteers John Tartaglia and Donna Kimball use Gobo and Mokey Fraggle... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 10 months ago • 133 views • 21:30

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 1 week 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 2 weeks ago • 142 views • 2:36

The 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 1 week ago • 268 views • 6:23

"Flashback to the holiday season of 2001. After years of filming, the first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is due to hit theaters, and expectations... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 2 months ago • 4 views • 24:24

The Parkes Radio Telescope, part of CSIRO, is one of the most famous telescopes in the world: and it's got a unique way of getting equipment up and down from the central section. More about the Telescope: ... continue reading

posted by BSR 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago • 43 views • 9:15

"Slim Goodbody shows teaches kids about the amazingly powerful human heart and the system of circulation. We take a trip back in history to see Dr. William Harvey and we see what an actual heart looks like."

posted by ant 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 2 views • 13:35