In 1864, Jourdon Anderson and his wife escaped a life of slavery and moved to Ohio. A year later, he received a desperate letter from the man who used to own him, in which he was asked to return to work... continue reading
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Chicago's "Defund the Police" Goes Horribly Wrong. Asks Feds for Help
posted by bobknight33 8 months ago • 29 views • 14:02"Joe Biden put an empty picture frame in the Oval Office and it's got a lot of people asking questions. Has a photo been removed? Is something being censored and hidden from the public? I have the answer!... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 1 month ago • 41 views • 7:34It's time the news organizations began questioning the actions of police.
posted by dedstick 2 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 418 views • 13:45Some of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s videos are so unbelievably over the top, they seem like sketches from “Saturday Night Live.” So much so that we went out on the street and showed people clips... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 189 views • 3:20Axolotls are one of science’s most studied animals. Why, you ask? These extraordinary salamanders are masters of regeneration: they can flawlessly regenerate body parts ranging from amputated limbs and... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 225 views • 5:22It'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 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,835 views • 2:12Presidential Historian Tom Naftali explains a CSPAN survey that asked 142 presidential historians and historical observers of the presidency to rate all the US presidents. Abraham Lincoln came in at the... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 11 views • 3:44YouTube description: Have you ever asked yourself what is going on when using a lighter? Let's go macro and see the process in detail with extreme slow motion. Filmed with Photron Fastcam at 20.000... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 11 months ago • 995 views • 1:23Funerals in the Age of Coronavirus - Ask A Mortician
posted by BSR 4 years 1 month ago • 243 views • 15:27They keep asking me. I keep telling them I am notarobot, but they never seem to remember. At least not for very long.
posted by notarobot 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 388 views • 7:40YouTube description: 1.8 billion years ago, a cell ate another cell, but it didn't digest it, and without that happening, we would not exist. This week we explore the origins of eukaryotic cells and... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 335 views • 10:00“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading
posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 4 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 168 views • 20:41YouTube description: The Citicorp Center repair is a classic engineering case study of how mistakes must be avoided in engineering and construction of public works. A skyscraper in New York City needed... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months ago • 1,280 views • 8:24YouTube description: I kept getting asked about a sequence from the Apollo 11 documentary showing the ignition of a Saturn V upper Stage, known as the S-IVB, in space. After asking around I tracked... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 325 views • 11:08YouTube description: It takes blood, sweat, tears and a whole lot of long hours to be one of the best marching bands in the country. Just ask Abraham Duffie, Jr., head drum major for the Sonic Boom... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 808 views • 2:55YouTube description: At 30-years-old, Yu Kikuchi was tired of his job. Working in an assembly line that made turbines, he was aching to find a new lease on life. So when he heard about 80-year-old master... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 303 views • 2:46"It’s more than just dancing around. ... If you’ve ever seen an orchestra perform you’ve probably had a difficult time looking away from the person dead center on the stage – the conductor. It’s... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 16 views • 4:42