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 2 months 1 week ago • 48 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 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 4 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 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 115 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 1 year 7 months 1 week ago • 78 views • 11:01

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

posted by eric3579 2 years 2 months 3 weeks 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 2 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 82 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 2 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 4 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 2 years 8 months 1 week ago • 1,835 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 3 years 2 months 1 week 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 3 years 6 months ago • 510 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 3 years 6 months 1 week 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 3 years 8 months 1 week 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 3 years 9 months ago • 984 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 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 123 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 2 weeks ago • 29 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 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 19 views • 25:20

"... After seeing his picture on World Book Day we invited 'Mini Mark' to Guinness World Records HQ. He underwent intensive training with Mark 'Big Mark' McKinley, to become Guinness World Record's Unofficial... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 10 views • 4:30

YouTube description: Rising to a height of 1.3 kilometres, Dubai Creek Tower is set to become the tallest man-made structure in history. For more by The B1M subscribe now: http://ow.ly/GxW7y Read... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month ago • 693 views • 4:56

YouTube description: Thierry Coursier had a good life as a logistics worker. His salary was great, his work was comfortable and he sat at a desk all day. But, Thierry wasn’t happy. He gave up his... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 486 views • 2:43

Using foundational computer science theories, Colin Morris focuses on understanding trends in popular music. Borrowing from the areas of bioinformatics and compression algorithms, he shows that the lyrics... continue reading

posted by notarobot 5 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 140 views • 14:23