There is a mysterious cold blob in the North Atlantic that could be a warning sign that the largest heat transfer system on the planet, the AMOC, is on the brink of collapse. But it turns out that the... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 months 3 weeks ago • 67 views • 13:24

From https://boingboing.net/2024/06/23/ever-wondered-how-a-sinkhole-works-this-video-explains-it.html.

posted by ant 8 months 3 weeks ago • 12 views • 29 secs

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 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 106 views • 11:29

From YouTube, "Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 145 views • 16:11

“Most of us can’t imagine what it will be like when the whole ocean system collapses,” says Colin Angus, CTO and cofounder Open Ocean Robotics, a tech startup that makes autonomous boats. The... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years ago • 295 views • 8:44

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 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 42 views • 4:26

In this video we dive deep into some of the more glaring errors in the design of Champlain Towers South and explore the most likely origin of the collapse from a structural engineering perspective. The

posted by BSR 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 17 views • 41:17

Warmer Pacific temperatures are decimating kelp forests, the most diverse and important ecosystems off the West coast. Without these nurseries for ocean fish, their populations are due to collapse quickly.

posted by newtboy 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 368 views • 11:07

YouTube 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) 5 years 9 months 1 week ago • 1,281 views • 8:24

About 10 years ago, the news was packed with reports about something called colony collapse disorder — a mysterious phenomenon that involved the disappearance of enormous numbers of bees. Then, the news... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 2 months ago • 522 views • 3:30

https://youtu.be/cECsj2Bznig The Global Vehicle Target is the new standard for testing autonomous driving and crash test systems. To cameras and radar, it looks like a car: but if you hit it, it'll... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months ago • 846 views • 4:33

China’s economy has indisputably grown enormously over the past thirty years, it has been merged with waste, fraud, and theft of public resources by who is who is the government. Chinese yuan debt has... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 6 years 6 months 1 week ago • 195 views • 11:52

YouTube description: Wind can be one of the most critical and complicated loads on civil structures. The case of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a well-known cautionary tale that’s discussed in engineering... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 707 views • 8:48

YouTube: I have always thought that sex ed and statistics should be the same course. There's no better way to show how vital stats is to your every day life than to look at statistics. Probabilities... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 411 views • 3:56

"At the heart of the European debt crisis is the euro, the currency that tied together 18 countries in an intimate manner. So when one country teeters on the brink of financial collapse, the entire continent... continue reading

posted by messenger 9 years 8 months 1 week ago • 386 views • 12:34

The original PBS story about the massive starfish die offs on both coasts. Scary stuff, as it could be the start of the collapse of both fisheries.

posted by newtboy 1 decade 8 months 2 weeks ago • 593 views • 7:27

an update to the story about the starfish die offs happening on both coasts, which could be the start of the collapse of the fisheries there.

posted by newtboy 1 decade 8 months 2 weeks ago • 557 views • 2:13