"Join Duo the Owl and friends on the Duolingo World Cruise with ‪@Carnival‬! Sail across 7 continents ... explore 195 countries ... and learn over 40 languages—all while enjoying premium dining and... continue reading

posted by ant 2 weeks ago • 3 views • 1:27

Another bad apple in an orchard of nothing but bad apples, Indiana Clark County Sheriff Jamie Noel and his family bilked the township out of millions and millions in property alone, along with misappropriating... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month ago • 280 views • 2:28

January the 26th, AKA Australia Day, is the anniversary of British ships arriving in Sydney and beginning colonisation in Australia. While traditionally it's been widely celebrated as a national holiday,... continue reading

posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 2 years 1 month ago • 90 views • 9:59

Extremely high costs, disappearing shipping data & the chip crisis of the war risk in Taiwan.. High costs shipping & the chip crisis and of the war risk in Taiwan..

posted by bobknight33 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 16 views • 14:42

Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor. That’s the vision of FarmPod, a St. Croix-based startup... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 5 months 1 week ago • 18 views • 6:56

One 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 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 119 views • 1:18

From Youtube, "The Postal Service is one of the few government agencies which pre-date the Constitution and creation of the United States. If the Founding Fathers kept it around, it must be important."

posted by w1ndex 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 12 views • 25:54

YouTube description: People use boats for all kinds of reasons, and in the same way, there are all kinds, shapes, sizes, and ages of locks used for waterway navigation across the world. Freight is big... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 week ago • 248 views • 10:37

ASM = Anti-Ship Missile. An interesting look into missile design and behaviors across the globe. From YT: Russia has got them... so does Japan, India, Taiwan, and others. So why doesn't the US?

Ever wonder how fast the ships in Star Trek actually are? How about relative to one another? Source: EC Henry

posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 611 views • 4:07

"Brexit Britain is fed up with experts. These days we only listen to the bloke down the pub. So in this controlled experiment, we put three experts in a pub and recorded the results for your viewing pleasure. ... continue reading

posted by radx 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 58:34

I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 1 month 1 week ago • 1,225 views • 3:54

YouTube description: What’s the environmental impact of online shopping and what are the solutions to make it more sustainable? (H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 651 views • 5:37

Turns out Christopher Columbus wasn't brave, he was just really bad at math.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 639 views • 5:44

This is very much not how I remember it being reported around the time of the repair mission. I'm sure that at the time it was incorrectly reported as being due to the effect of grinding the mirror under... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,191 views • 7:52

(H/T @eric3579)

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,430 views • 11:17