This collection of Historical Photos might just become one of your favorites. I certainly enjoyed making this video. Even though some of the pictures are hard to see, they tell a story. Captured in old... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 months ago • 64 views • 26:17

The Kessler syndrome is a scenario where, if too many collisions occur between pieces of space debris, low earth orbit will become filled with clouds of tiny particles. All those particles floating around... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 months 3 weeks ago • 55 views • 7:34

"Wake me up when spring is here ... Nature has had to come up with some crazy ways to survive harsh winters. But none are weirder than hibernation. Turns out there is more than one kind of hibernation,... continue reading

posted by ant 5 months ago • 14 views • 12:02

Have you ever wondered what happens when a star explodes? In this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson dives into the fascinating phenomenon of a star explosion in the constellation Corona Borealis, specifically... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 months 1 week ago • 58 views • 8:45

Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones. Over time this... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 3 weeks ago • 59 views • 4:14

"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 2 years 4 weeks ago • 5 views • 24:24

posting this video so others can become aware of the failure of iRobot to secure sensitive photos from reaching the internet. this video assures customers that no photos are shared on the cloud - -... continue reading

posted by luxintenebris 2 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 116 views • 1:28

This 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 5 months 3 weeks ago • 78 views • 11:01

Fascinating stuff about how and why a plant becomes a meat eater

posted by eric3579 3 years 1 month 1 week ago • 56 views • 16:11

Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 2 months ago • 83 views • 14:39

creative persons who succeed in their life. Among the general population of the people there is only a tiny fraction of those who become famous and rich.

posted by bobknight33 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 5 views • 8:06

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 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,836 views • 2:12

After captaining the film industry for more than a century, LA has become a victim of its own success and allowed a new production hub to rise across the Atlantic. -yt

posted by eric3579 4 years 3 weeks ago • 64 views • 6:47

From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 512 views • 9:10

"With the first documentary from MinnMax, we travel back to 1971 to tell the surprising story of how a college project from Bill Heinemann, Paul Dillenberger, and Don Rawitsch was donated to the state... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 8 views • 23:08

"Take a look inside a hive as a wasp queen begins her reign; founding a colony, hunting to feed her brood and defending against intruders. As the sun rises, something royal stirs inside a pile of firewood.... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 16 views • 5:23

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 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 985 views • 2:32

Createk third-arm : Supernumerary robotic arm powered by magnetorheological clutches and an hydrostatic transmission. Fast enough to compensate for human motions while being safe for physical human-robot interaction. ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 124 views • 2:51

YouTube description: 50 Years Ago Apollo 13 was preparing to launch on a mission that would become famous for the wrong reasons, 56 Hours into the mission an oxygen tank would explode, blowing the side... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 30 views • 12:18

From Youtube, "Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. Did Rami Malek do a good job speaking through prosthetics to become... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 19 views • 25:20