From Youtube, "Some places are more threatened by rising sea levels than others, but in the end, we'll all be paying a price. Alternate titles include: "Where You Shouldn't Invest in Real Estate," "Places... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 1 month 3 weeks ago • 287 views • 20:12

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 2 months 2 weeks ago • 459 views • 9:10

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 months 2 weeks ago • 86 views • 9:04

From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 5 months 1 week ago • 18 views • 26:02

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 5 months 3 weeks ago • 926 views • 2:32

In this episode of Forgotten Failures, I take a look back at the long forgotten TV spinoff of "Blazing Saddles". This sitcom tried to capture the humor and success of the film that inspired it but would... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 months 2 weeks ago • 906 views • 7:36

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 7 months ago • 109 views • 2:51

All about the business end of being a pirate.

posted by eric3579 7 months 2 weeks ago • 129 views • 7:21

Writing in the Geophysical Research Letters, NASA says a review of Voyager 2’s old data from 1986 showed that Uranus vented a giant blob of gas into space. This pocket of ionized gas, a plasma structure... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,102 views • 6:40

YouTube 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) 9 months 1 week ago • 68 views • 2:46

Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate coronavirus. Read more about the coronavirus pandemic at http://vox.com/coronavirus You've been told a thousand times: wash your hands to stop the spread... continue reading

posted by eric3579 10 months ago • 378 views • 3:45

From Youtube, Brenda...Where's my egg? Join the Community: http://www.patreon.com/truefacts CREDITS: MUSIC: https://soundcloud.com/querflote Footage of the mating ostrich: Jackson Hart Grady ... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 12 months ago • 15 views • 5:46

More than a little ironic how this video about fighting the corporate stranglehold on the music industry begins and ends as a commercial for audible.

posted by newtboy 1 year 3 weeks ago • 345 views • 8:40

YouTube description: The extraordinary story of a runaway Soviet Air Force MiG-23 that flew from Poland to Belgium in 1989, sparking a major security scare between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and ended... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 4 months ago • 418 views • 4:46

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 1 year 4 months 1 week ago • 367 views • 11:07

YouTube description: A recent study has concluded that people all over the world are probably ingesting microscopic plastic all the time. Now scientists want to know where this plastic is coming from,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 11 months 1 week ago • 348 views • 5:06

YouTube description: Follow along as Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration in Chicago works to conserve and restore this icon of Ave Maria. This piece was likely created in a workshop... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 1 week ago • 415 views • 11:31

YT: In a field near Elberton, Georgia, USA, sit a set of mysterious standing stones: mysterious not because they're ancient, but because they were funded by someone anonymous in 1980, perhaps as a message... continue reading

posted by Fantomas 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 397 views • 3:08