The sanctions on Russia’s financial system were used to deter Putin from further escalation in the war, but what are the risks?

posted by eric3579 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 269 views • 14:05

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

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 3 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 313 views • 11:46

The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 8 months 1 week ago • 726 views • 10:48

Pasco 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 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 560 views • 10:12

"Why some Americans’ votes count more than others. Watch more of our election coverage: http://vox.com/ElectionVideos In the 2000 US presidential election, the Democratic candidate got half a million... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 86 views • 8:09

The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s... continue reading

posted by mxxcon 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 12 views • 7:14

Dr. Robin DiAngelo speaks about her book, "White Fragility" and systemic racism, "bringing language to the emotional structures that make true discussions about racial attitudes difficult. With clarity... continue reading

From Youtube, "The launch of SpaceX's DM-2 mission taking NASA astronauts to the Space Station was the culmination of years of development, and more importantly years of political and management decisions... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 45 views • 15:55

Global Warming is taking a rare back seat in the news right now, as we deal with the more immediate existential crisis afflicting our civilisation and way of life. But as entire countries are getting shut... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 2 weeks ago • 347 views • 13:56

"Why does America's system for picking the president start in Iowa? Before Americans vote on the next president in November, both major political parties have to settle on a nominee. That process is... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 309 views • 8:03

From Youtube, "A brief overview of this ingenious method of compressing air using only the power of water. The way a trompe harnesses the power of water to generate compressed air with no moving parts... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 3 months ago • 1,220 views • 8:50

YouTube description: Life is chemistry. From diatom to Diana, life is not a magical imbued trait, is a process of the physics of our universe. The precise and convoluted chemistry of life requires specific... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months ago • 510 views • 10:13

YouTube description: Hi :) I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 1,280 views • 2:37

YouTube description: The Citicorp Center repair is a classic engineering case study of how mistakes must be avoided in engineering and construction of public works. A skyscraper in New York City needed... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,281 views • 8:24

From Youtube, "In today's episode of Some More News, Cody explores how easy it is to elect lawmakers who make it easier to elect lawmakers who don't have to answer to the people who elect them."

posted by w1ndex 5 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 18:04

"... We’ve all gotten dizzy before… but have you ever gotten WEIRD DIZZY? I teamed up with Vanessa Hill from BrainCrat to answer the question 'why do we get dizzy?' and in the process we learned about... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 659 views • 9:22

‘Let’s play a game,’ congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says to a panel of government watchdogs. Ocasio-Cortez goes on to dissect US campaign finance laws to make her point about the ‘fundamentally... continue reading

posted by BSR 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,172 views • 3:19