Few of the monsters that evolution created have been so successful at hurting us as the variola virus, responsible for smallpox. The carnage it caused was so terrible and merciless that it compelled humankind,... continue reading

posted by eric3579 8 months 3 weeks ago • 143 views • 11:09

2023 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 • 7:32

3 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 • 14:57

Police 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 • 4:49

January the 26th, AKA Australia Day, is the anniversary of British ships arriving in Sydney and beginning colonisation in Australia. While traditionally it's been widely celebrated as a national holiday,... continue reading

posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 year 1 month 2 weeks ago • 90 views • 9:59

"Discover how alcohol impacts your body’s processes and causes hangovers, and find out what causes the most common hangover symptoms. The molecule responsible for hangovers is ethanol, which we colloquially... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 3 months 3 weeks ago • 4 views • 4:52

Alaska 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 • 11:29

From YouTube, "A CSB safety video about the June 21, 2019, fire, explosions, and toxic hydrofluoric acid (HF) release at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A severely... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 260 views • 18:02

In this episode, I meet Kim and her rescue three-legged shepherd mix, Luke. Luke is from Cambodia with a very difficult past. He has developed trust issues with humans. He gets aggressive when people... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 58 views • 15:23

Let’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 • 4:02

The world remains in a state of shock after spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting on the island of Tonga left a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific region. With shocking visuals... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months ago • 42 views • 4:26

February 2017 saw one of the most serious dam-related engineering incidents in history with the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. Whether they realized it or not, the people living and working... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 465 views • 18:27

Pike 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

posted by newtboy 2 years 12 months ago • 222 views • 1:47

For the first time in it's 175 year history Scientific American has endorsed a presidential candidate, Joe Biden. They recognize the importance of basing our actions on fact and science, and the disasters... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 361 views • 3:42

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

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

One for the ages - Samuel L Jackson revisits an old classic with an important message - and reads "Stay the F*** at Home". YT: While Jimmy is in quarantine, he checks in with the great Samuel L. Jackson... continue reading

posted by Zawash 4 years 3 weeks ago • 281 views • 8:35

Global Warming is taking a rare back seat in the news right now, as we deal with the more immediate existential crisis afflicting our civilisation and way of life. But as entire countries are getting shut... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 3 weeks ago • 347 views • 13:56

After being exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19, it can take as few as two and as many as 14 days for symptoms to develop. Cases range from mild to critical. The average timeline from the first symptom... continue reading

posted by eric3579 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 529 views • 5:19

NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has discovered “layers” and “rifts” in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon... continue reading

posted by eric3579 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 341 views • 2:19