You’re alive right now… at least I’m pretty sure you are. But you’re not TOTALLY alive. Bits of you are always breaking down, being thrown out, and being replaced. Even right now, parts of you... continue reading

posted by BSR 16 hours 30 minutes ago • 24 views • 13:12

Throughout the month of October, Saildrone performed a 30-day proof-of-concept demonstration for the United States Coast Guard to show how uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) could be used to provide persistent... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 week 3 days ago • 304 views • 3:07

It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading

posted by SFOGuy 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,809 views • 2:12

YouTube description: Check out Otherwords, a new show about language & linguistics! https://youtu.be/d2UccTPnl4w It might surprise you but cephalopods have a pretty good fossil record, with one major... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 months ago • 378 views • 8:22

From Youtube, "...66 million years ago, maybe on a Tuesday afternoon, life was the same as it had been the day before or a thousand years before or pretty much a million years before. Things were good... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 months ago • 302 views • 12:02

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

posted by newtboy 4 months 4 weeks ago • 835 views • 45 secs

We were lucky enough to notice when a swarm was moving in to the trap behind our house, and caught the whole process on video!

posted by newtboy 5 months ago • 119 views • 16:22

Pike County Sheriffs beat and mace a man hogtied in a restraint chair so badly the sheriff deputy broke his hand on the man's face. He has applied for workers compensation for the "job related injury". ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 months 2 weeks ago • 213 views • 1:47

S&H Green Stamps was one of the first customer reward programs handed out by various retailers. They were collected with great excitement by American families from the 1930s through the 1980s.

posted by bobknight33 7 months ago • 24 views • 8:07

The president's words and behavior on the day of the Capitol Riots were reprehensible, but does it constitute criminal incitement? Are there any other options?

posted by blacklotus90 9 months ago • 291 views • 21:13

The 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 9 months 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 3:56

YouTube 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) 1 year 3 weeks ago • 439 views • 3:24

Michael Bloomberg read a Washington Post climate article, and actually believed that they were telling the truth. At his age, he should know better.

posted by bobknight33 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 27 views

In 1834, Parliament burned down, and the Standards of Measurement were melted or destroyed.

posted by Mordhaus 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 106 views • 5:05

Red 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 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 948 views • 2:32

From Youtube, "This video is part of a series about climate change supported by Breakthrough Energy – a coalition founded by Bill Gates, that is working to expand clean-energy investment and support... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 3 months ago • 79 views • 10:36

In this episode of Forgotten Failures, I take a look back at the long forgotten TV spinoff of "Blazing Saddles". This sitcom tried to capture the humor and success of the film that inspired it but would... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 922 views • 7:36

After 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 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 664 views • 1:15

He was sentenced to prison but released early, as he was one of the people who were going to die from the radiation poisoning.

posted by Mordhaus 1 year 4 months 1 week ago • 70 views • 3:38

Writing in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA says a review of Voyager 2’s old data from 1986 showed that Uranus vented a giant blob of gas into space. This pocket of ionized gas, a plasma structure... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,107 views • 6:40