YouTube description: If you grew up watching “Sesame Street,” you know Jim Henson’s characters well. The late puppeteer brought Kermit and Ernie and so many others to life before he went on to... continue reading
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From 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 3 weeks ago • 93 views • 9:04The stereotypical modern playground — with its bright colors and rubberized flooring — is designed to be clean, safe, and lawsuit-proof. But that isn't necessarily the best design for kids. US playground... continue reading
posted by BSR 4 years ago • 112 views • 5:44From Youtube, "Well... this took longer than expected. I am sorry you had to wait so long for me to finish this video, I had some reading to do, then write the video, record the audio, and then the... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 1 week ago • 19 views • 1:09:23In the debut episode of the Logistics of D-Day we explore the logic and planning that resulted in Normandy being chosen as the location for the largest amphibious invasion in the history of human kind. -yt
posted by eric3579 4 years 2 weeks ago • 803 views • 14:54On a hike looking for rare limestone endemic plants in Death Valley, we spotted the wreckage of a plane! After several hours of hiking and many interesting plants, we managed to scramble over to the wreck.... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 2 weeks ago • 1,776 views • 5:01Michael Osterholm is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology. He is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for... continue reading
posted by eric3579 4 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,286 views • 6:59From Youtube, "In nearly every corner of the Earth, ants wage war against each other. Their weapons are what nature gave them. Some have strong armour, deadly stingers or sharp mandibles. And then there... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 521 views • 9:23YouTube description: In 1951, the American F-86 Sabre went head-to-head with the Soviet MiG-15 in the skies above North Korea. Both sides wanted to capture examples of each others aircraft. The Soviets... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months ago • 824 views • 6:07After more than four decades of forced silence, some of the last surviving atomic soldiers share their unfathomable experiences of the atomic bomb tests in the 1950s
posted by bobknight33 4 years 11 months ago • 119 views • 22:53US China Trade War: This is a War of Values’—Curtis Ellis Curtis Ellis, who was special advisor to the Secretary of Labor in the Trump-Pence administration, and is now a Senior Policy Advisor... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 5 years ago • 25 views • 38:22After fourteen years of pretty much uncontested domination, Goodyear saw their reign challenged by a small band of Indiana tire makers named Hoosier Racing Tires. What ensued was one of the bloodiest conflicts... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 5 years 1 week ago • 74 views • 18:28TOLKIEN explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 3 months ago • 18 views • 56 secsYouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 1 week ago • 417 views • 11:31YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 397 views • 3:15This is the story of America's massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America's most advanced machinery - the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines... continue reading
posted by nanrod 5 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 528 views • 12:48YouTube description: What happens when you fire a Civil War mortar at a caravan? We invited YouTuber Tom Scott to find out. The mortar used is a replica of Roaring Meg, which destroyed large parts... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months ago • 545 views • 7:11