Mt Etna is known as “Lady of the Rings” because it tends to blow huge vortexes of gas and smoke regularly.
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Why were climate models so wrong about 2023? Neil deGrasse Tyson learns about why 2023 was hotter than we expected it to be and what effects need to be factored into future climate modeling with climatologist... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 months 3 weeks ago • 137 views • 16:39Wildfires in Hawaii fanned by strong winds burned structures in areas including the historic town of Lahaina, forcing evacuations and closing schools in several communities. Rescuers pulled a dozen people... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 months 3 weeks ago • 112 views • 2:14A historian in Huntington Beach, California, schools and destroys a religious nutjob that views books in libraries as "pornographic" and "inappropriate" because they're not the "word of God." The historian... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 months 4 weeks ago • 434 views • 3:05A San Bernardino officer attacked a man being held at knifepoint by his girlfriend, assuming the unarmed man must be the aggressor. The man defended himself, punching the cop, and taking her gun and firing... continue reading
posted by newtboy 10 months ago • 128 views • 10:482023 Florida is home to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants, and many work in the kinds of businesses that would be impacted by the law, known as SB 1718. Many of those affected are also members of mixed-status... continue reading
posted by newtboy 10 months 2 weeks ago • 98 views • 7:323 Florida police stopped a man for walking while black, apparently a felony in Florida, entered his name incorrectly, then tased and beat him for supplying a false name (he gave his full correct name clearly... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 3 weeks ago • 141 views • 14:57Police in Franklington La tried to falsify accident reports to cover for a fellow officer that was drunk and had driven into oncoming lanes. The cops truck was found on the wrong side of the road surrounded... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 3 weeks ago • 61 views • 4:49Each year, billions and billions of people are injured crossing the street because they're distracted on their phones. So Jimmy sent his friend and YouTube superstar Mark Rober out to save the lives of... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 1 week ago • 36 views • 4:11"Flashback to the holiday season of 2001. After years of filming, the first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is due to hit theaters, and expectations... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 4 views • 24:24Washing your hands after using the restroom - most of us only do so because a fellow co-worker is in the bathroom with us, and we wonder if he'll tell other people if we don't.
posted by BSR 1 year 5 months 2 weeks ago • 59 views • 10:28Alaska 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 5 months 3 weeks ago • 104 views • 11:29I used the *Wilhelm tag because I am damn sure I heard someone in the background around @8:23 wilhelm scream
posted by BoneRemake 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 114 views • 19:34Having listen to this and still remember a time.... I deplore this kind of politics. I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded.... continue reading
posted by luxintenebris 2 years ago • 896 views • 4:45The Omega 1 is not only much more powerful than existing technology, but it is also much more efficient. The Omega 1’s rotary mechanism is very efficient because it has very little friction and fluid... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 2 months ago • 480 viewsLet’s not resigns ourselves to fatality. Solutions exist. Together we can do more to decrease risks on the normal route to Mont-Blanc. The Mont-Blanc rising to 4 809 meters is the highest peak in... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 317 views • 4:02From Youtube, "Kurzgesagt is lying to you, in every video, even in this one. Because our videos distill very complex subjects into flashy ten-minute videos and unfortunately, the reality is, well, complicated.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 162 views • 10:28From Youtube, "NERC's Space Geodesy Facility, hidden away in the English countryside, fires lasers at satellites. Because it turns out that knowing a satellite's position exactly is really, really difficult.... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 612 views • 3:17The multiverse hypothesis or theory holds that a group of multiple universes (possibly infinite universes) comprise everything that exists: The entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 11 months ago • 143 views • 10:03Pike 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
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