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 1 year 7 months 3 weeks ago • 278 views • 5:49

I highly recommend listening to the song first, or at least the first half. As a drummer for 32 years (8 formally on actual drums / in public, the rest on available surfaces and arguably in rhythm games),... continue reading

posted by moonsammy 3 years 8 months 1 week ago • 498 views • 10:15

The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 15 views • 3:56

From Youtube, "The logistic map connects fluid convection, neuron firing, the Mandelbrot set and so much more. Animations, coding, interactives in this video by Jonny Hyman

posted by w1ndex 4 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1,114 views • 18:39

As an American living in Thailand, I sometimes see Buddhist (and other Eastern religion) symbols that are pretty close to being swastikas. In many cases, I think that is done without knowledge of the... continue reading

At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 408 views • 7:08

At this time of year we have to start being extra watchful – our lambs are vulnerable to attack from this silent killer.. Not everyone is going to agree with this thesis – but I’ve been rescuing... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,496 views • 3:32

YouTube: We live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it’s natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 297 views • 4:14

YouTube: This video is about the local and global geometry and curvature of space and spacetime, aka, is space flat? Negatively curved? Positively curved? etc.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months ago • 317 views • 3:39

YouTube: This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months ago • 582 views • 2:02

Cooking and leaching Black bean to remove the poison making it safe to eat. A basket was made to leach the poison out in a stream. Also shown are Atherton Oak nuts. The Aboriginal artifacts found near... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 299 views • 4:51

YouTube description: Have ever wondered how digital illustrations are made? This video explains the basics. Help us keep making videos by supporting us in https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth We try... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 483 views • 3:49

YouTube Description: Visit Rob's Channel the Obsolete Geek: https://www.youtube.com/user/robivy64 Visit me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/the8bitguy In this video, we'll cover 3 different... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 9 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 595 views • 8:45

From YT: How does a transistor work? Our lives depend on this device. When I mentioned to people that I was doing a video on transistors, they would say "as in a transistor radio?" Yes! That's exactly... continue reading

posted by mxxcon 1 decade 1 year 5 months ago • 55 views • 6:00