CNN investigation finds that a startup, AppHarvest, one of the first promoted and funded by JD Vance failed as a business hired foreign workers and subjected its workers to intolerable conditions, according... continue reading
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"... Have you ever looked at the front of a car and seen a face? Or an electrical outlet and seen a face? You definitely have. We all see faces everywhere we look thanks to a fun quirk of the human brain... continue reading
posted by ant 1 month 3 weeks ago • 45 viewsAlaska has cancelled this year's snow crab harvest for the first time ever after 90% of the snow crabs disappeared. BILLIONS of snow crabs vanished from the Bering Sea. By why? Why did billions of crabs... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 11 months ago • 104 views • 11:29This month a paper came out that honestly chilled me. It was about tipping points in climate - a well-known concept that the climate can change abruptly if certain conditions are met in certain elements... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years ago • 78 views • 11:01COLUMBIA, SC Three former Orangeburg County law officers caught in an FBI sting where federal agents pretended to be members of a Mexican drug-smuggling cartel have been sentenced to prison, according... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 14 views • 1:20Writing 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 4 years 5 months ago • 1,201 views • 6:40Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election will be read live in New York City. According to Reuters, there will be around 20 actors performing the reading. Those include,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 3 months ago • 132 views • 33 secsAccording to a new report from the United Nations, our planet is in worse shape than at any other time in human history. The Trump Administration has done everything they can to do nothing about climate... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,059 views • 3:01The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration observed the supermassive black holes at the center of M87 and our Milky Way galaxy (SgrA*) finding the dark central shadow in accordance with General Relativity,... continue reading
posted by eric3579 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 332 views • 5:24Measuring time is a complicated thing. Computers, banks, and stock markets in Denmark all use UTC, the international standard: but according to the law, they shouldn't.
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 316 views • 6:30"Elevator. It’s a fascination and a fear for many. Countless action movies and TV shows feature stuck elevators, fights in elevators, and, of course falling elevators. How many times when an elevator... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 219 views • 7:36Published on Mar 23, 2017 The Democratic Party’s top officials will meet with some of their wealthiest donors in Washington, D.C., this week to plot the Trump resistance, according to documents obtained... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 49 views • 18:39Brilliant Earth has scammed thousands of customers They claim to: 1) Provide their customers with the exact origin of their diamonds, and 2) Track their diamonds from mine to consumer- making sure... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 1,739 views • 5:02It was just a routine workers’ compensation fraud case for Ken Sheppard. Show up for a spot check, do some surveillance of the subject and keep it pushing. But on March 3, 2014, it was anything but routine... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,157 views • 5:01for Workers, Employers, and Pretty Much Everybody YouTube: Maybe the person working near you, the one who dragged himself to work and is now coughing and sneezing, couldn’t afford to stay home. Each... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 521 views • 5:25YouTube description: Behind any commercial flight is centuries of political negotiations and accords that dictate who, how, and where airlines can fly. (H/T @eric3579)... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 10 months 1 week ago • 411 views • 14:05YT: Victor Gruen is, according to history, the man who invented the shopping mall... but that wasn't quite what he was aiming for. And it seemed like an appropriate day to do a video about suburban sprawl.
posted by Fantomas 8 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 575 views • 2:26YouTube description: Approaching the Unknown, Mark Elijah Rosenberg's film about an astronaut whose Mars journey does not go according to plan, combines old school non-CGI special effect techniques... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,234 views • 5:40YouTube: Americans remain very overweight. According to the CDC, about 38% were obese in 2014, meaning that they had a body mass index of at least 30, compared to 32% just a decade ago. This is in spite... continue reading
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