The new administration fired the FAA director, froze hiring of new controllers, disbanded the aviation safety advisory board, fired the head of the Coast Guard, and the head of the TSA (both on air safety... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 months 2 weeks ago • 71 views • 16 secs

Examine the myth of the Lost Cause: a campaign created by pro-Confederates after the Civil War to promote the lie that they seceded for state's rights. -- In the 1860’s, 11 southern states withdrew... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 months 3 weeks ago • 63 views • 4:43

CNN investigation finds that a startup, AppHarvest, one of the first promoted and funded by JD Vance failed as a business hired foreign workers and subjected its workers to intolerable conditions, according... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 months ago • 7 views • 5:21

"... In 1971, three student teachers in Minneapolis, MN created a little computer game about westward expansion in the United States. Over 50 years later, The Oregon Trail series has sold more than 65... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year ago • 6 views • 1:26:56

The act of sniffing black pepper has been explored in some studies for its potential to interrupt and shift habitual behaviors and cravings. The inhalation of black pepper's pungent scent may engage the... continue reading

posted by BSR 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 109 views • 4:03

Proudly Presenting: "Corporate Ping Pong" This engineered mechanical sculpture is a representation of the hum and haw and constant, slow churn of the big corporate machine. Jumping through hoops, creating... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 5 months ago • 72 views • 6:35

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 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 143 views • 11:09

The Rio Las Vacas in Guatemala is one of the most polluted rivers on earth. This small river is estimated to contribute 2% of the total plastic pollution we dump in the oceans yearly. The Ocean Cleanup... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 8 months 1 week ago • 112 views • 52 secs

Sam Harris speaks with Matt Ridley and Alina Chan about the origins of the COVID pandemic. They discuss the evidence of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, media and academic censorship of... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 276 views • 58:27

God made a missnake, and Alan Pan is going to fix it. Alan tries to repair his reputation by creating mechanical legs for snakes.

posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 275 views • 9:53

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 3 months ago • 83 views • 14:39

In this Dog Nation Episode, I give some Take Home Tips in Los Angeles! 00:50 - How To Create Boundaries Around Food 03:45 - This Dog Chases Everything! 06:00 - This Dog Attacks the Vacuum! 08:20... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 100 views • 10:51

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.⁠ ⁠ It sounded like a pitch for a Hollywood... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 560 views • 10:12

Zefrank's True Facts about Wild Hogs From Youtube, "...Terra Mater has created a wide array of amazing full-length documentaries and they have a YouTube channel which you should check out and subscribe to! ... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months ago • 387 views • 8:32

When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and fingerpointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. This video provides a summary of the facts of the 2021 Texas winter storm. ... continue reading

posted by eric3579 4 years 3 weeks ago • 167 views • 16:48

YouTube description: If you grew up watching “Sesame Street,” you know Jim Henson’s characters well. The late puppeteer brought Kermit and Ernie and so many others to life before he went on to... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 439 views • 4:58

From Youtube, "Deep in tropical jungles lie floating kingdoms ruled by beautiful and deadly masters: They are sort of the high elves of the ant kingdoms: Talented architects that create castles and city... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 94 views • 9:04

This video explains the process by which I created the flattest CPU in the world, bringing a Ryzen 3950x to within 0.3 microns of flatness error, two orders of magnitude more accurate than what is possible... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 63 views • 10:09