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
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February 2017 saw one of the most serious dam-related engineering incidents in history with the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. Whether they realized it or not, the people living and working... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 465 views • 18:27I highly recommend listening to the song first, or at least the first half. As a drummer for 32 years (8 formally on actual drums / in public, the rest on available surfaces and arguably in rhythm games),... continue reading
posted by moonsammy 3 years 3 weeks ago • 497 views • 10:15YouTube description: About 25 generations of one family have made roasted rice cakes at Ichimonjiya Wasuke in Kyoto, Japan. Worshippers praying for good health at the Shinto shrine next door eat them... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 1 month ago • 160 views • 8:01The Nenet reindeer herders need to move their tent every few days throughout most of the year. Every time they migrate they must pack the whole tent away, drag it across the tundra on sledges, and erect... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 499 views • 32:14Fantastic Infosec sea chanty - how to secure your online presence. Twitter: To reach the ~youth~ we're going to have to make infosec sea shanties, aren't we? Guess so! Behold the tale of kid who reuses... continue reading
posted by Zawash 3 years 3 months ago • 1,241 views • 1:17From Youtube, "CREDITS: This video was made in collaboration with Benedikt Pleyer, who is a gifted microscopist and has a wonderful contagious passion for discovering the incredible worlds that exist... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 3 months ago • 276 views • 11:43The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 15 views • 3:56Zefrank looks at Army Ants and the beetles that co-exist with them. From Youtube, "Where to buy the Army Ants Book: https://amzn.com/067424155X True Facts Shirts: https://ze-true-store.myshopify.com/ ... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 928 views • 9:28YouTube description: Around 750-1250 CE, the Islamic empire made incredible scientific advancements that still influence many fields of research today. What we know about some of the great minds of... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 81 views • 10:44YouTube description: While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this unusual anatomy developed in the first place. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,094 views • 9:31From Youtube, "Torsional eye movement, known as cycloversion and cyclovergence have a fascinating evolutionary history via our evolutionary ancestors that had eyes on the sides of their heads. Your eyes... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 49 views • 12:51From Youtube, "Dairy Queen has been the queen of frozen treats since the 1940's. Find out how they got their start on this edition of Unwrapped."
posted by w1ndex 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 34 views • 4:32YouTube description: The Roadmachines Mono-Rail may have been the only truly useful, fit-for-purpose monorail in the world. Of the hundreds that were built, most were never meant for passengers. But... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 443 views • 3:24"Not every yellow bloom ― or fluffy white globe ― taking over your backyard is a dandelion. Some of them are close relatives called catsears. But both of them have a little secret. To tell them apart... continue reading
posted by ant 3 years 8 months ago • 82 views • 4:50From Youtube, "Deep in tropical jungles lie floating kingdoms ruled by beautiful and deadly masters: They are sort of the high elves of the ant kingdoms: Talented architects that create castles and city... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 8 months 1 week ago • 93 views • 9:04From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months ago • 55 views • 26:02From Youtube, "The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 211 views • 11:41Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 985 views • 2:32After long nights of tear gas and rubber bullets, some protesters, news crews, and medics in Minneapolis last weekend found themselves stranded: The tires of their cars had been slashed. In a city... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 665 views • 1:15