"... 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 3 weeks 2 days ago • 5 views • 1:26:56

From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 510 views • 9:10

YouTube description: A recent study has concluded that people all over the world are probably ingesting microscopic plastic all the time. Now scientists want to know where this plastic is coming from,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 351 views • 5:06

YT: In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they were funded by someone anonymous in 1980, perhaps as a message... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 400 views • 3:08

YouTube description: View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-really-happened-to-the-library-of-alexandria-elizabeth-cox 2,300 years ago, the rulers of Alexandria set out to fulfill a very... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 824 views • 4:53

YouTube description: In which John gets curious about the last time global human population declined and ends up learning about a period of human history called The General Crisis. Thanks to Our World... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 674 views • 3:59

The dominoes are neat, it's the end that amazes me. - Buck YT - iTunez Published on May 25, 2017 Real world brick DOMINO! ^.^ source: https://goo.gl/KjwSMN

posted by Buck 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 23 views • 1:26

American healthcare might not be the best world, but it is the most expensive. *** It's true, ask for an itemized bill sometime. I had a panic attack a few months ago and ended up in the hospital. Since... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 2,092 views • 5:33

The Lahti L-39 is a Finnish 20 mm anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It had excellent accuracy, penetration and range, but its size made transportation difficult. It was nicknamed "Norsupyssy"... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 140 views • 10:14

YouTube description: Should we double down or give up and go our separate ways? This video will probably not make everybody happy. Probably for completely opposite reasons. Some people want less... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 weeks ago • 458 views • 7:42

YouTube: May 23rd, 1967 could have been the beginning of the end - all thanks to the sun.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 175 views • 4:34

YouTube: Switzerland has a reputation for being... not paranoid, exactly, but certainly careful with their own safety. Zurich exemplifies this: not just with its fallout shelters, but with an entire backup... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,690 views • 2:10

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 10 months ago • 515 views • 2:59

Kablooey YouTube: Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene explains supernovas and demonstrates how a star like ours eventually dies. Oh, and he breaks a world record, too

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 695 views • 5:30

It was the change that no-one saw coming: the idea that we could take a book, a painting or a song and send it through cables and wires and even thin air to the other end of the world - and it would be... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 9 years 10 months ago • 653 views • 5:43

YouTube Description: In which John Green teaches you about the United States as it was in the 1990s. You'll remember from last week that the old-school Republican George H.W. Bush had lost the 1992 presidential... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 3 months 1 week ago • 247 views • 15:38

YouTube Description: If it wasn't for spiders, the world would probably end.

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 6 months ago • 507 views • 2:08

Single cells with TV and private bathroom. No bars on windows. Daily life spent between work and school. Even a cottage where inmates can spend weekends with their families. Welcome to new Halden Prison,... continue reading

posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 10 months 2 weeks ago • 564 views • 8:05