This national icon sat abandoned for decades.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, co-led a hearing of the full Judiciary... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 3 weeks ago • 277 views • 5:49Alaska 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 2 weeks ago • 104 views • 11:29Known as the ‘Hollywood Glacier,’ Europe’s largest ice cap has been the picturesque and otherworldly scene of movies and TV shows for decades. But the real drama lies underneath; Vatnajökull glacier... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago • 66 views • 16:43We are on the cusp of a major disruption in how we feed ourselves. This video is a quick summary of a report from RethinkX on where agriculture is headed over the next decade, and it's mind blowing!
posted by bobknight33 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago • 66 views • 8:46The winds of change has started. The ICE age is ending. This is the decade of the EV. This will be exceedingly painful for the auto industry
posted by bobknight33 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 42 views • 8:44The 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 2 months 4 weeks ago • 42 views • 4:26Dorothea 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 1 week ago • 82 views • 14:39How the Global Auto industry is changing to EV. The winner and the losers over the next decade. Cathie Wood of ARK Invest is well known for making bold calls on innovative companies such as Tesla.... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 13 views • 14:54For over a century, one of the most important salmon runs in the U.S. has had to contend with historic dams in Oregon and California. These dams have been responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 134 views • 3:07From 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 5 months 3 weeks ago • 510 views • 9:10The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s... continue reading
posted by mxxcon 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 12 views • 7:14The stereotypical modern playground — with its bright colors and rubberized flooring — is designed to be clean, safe, and lawsuit-proof. But that isn't necessarily the best design for kids. US playground... continue reading
posted by BSR 3 years 11 months ago • 112 views • 5:44YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 week ago • 69 views • 2:46From Youtube, "Well, looks like it's that time of year again. When Ben Shapiro (or anyone else) argues that rap and hip hop aren't technically considered music, they're flying in the face of basically... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 21 views • 13:55"... It sounds like such an incredible fact. “Our own cells are outnumbered by our microbes 10 to 1!” I don’t remember where I first heard it. But I read it in science papers and articles by journalists,... continue reading
posted by ant 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,355 views • 13:23YouTube description: It's been a decade since the first hybrid victory in F1, at the 2009 Hungarian GP. How has hybrid technology evolved since then? Andy Cowell, Managing Director of Mercedes-AMG High... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 629 views • 4:21YouTube description: A decade ago, engineers found the Humber Bridge had the same problem as many of the world's suspension bridges: unexpectedly fast corrosion. Here's how they fixed it, and how they're... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 941 views • 5:05After more than four decades of forced silence, some of the last surviving atomic soldiers share their unfathomable experiences of the atomic bomb tests in the 1950s
posted by bobknight33 4 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 119 views • 22:53Using 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 1 week ago • 140 views • 14:23