Vetulicolians are weird. First, they were thought to be an arthropod because of their segmentation, but due to the presence of gill slits and nothocord, Vetulicolians are now placed as stem chordates.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 weeks 1 day ago • 109 views • 2:01

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

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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 7 months ago • 7 views • 5:21

It was his first day on the job

posted by BSR 8 months ago • 284 views • 1:01

The original Star Wars trilogy was groundbreaking for its special effects, its world building, its action, and so, so much more. But if you ask George Lucas, it isn't the action, nor the performances,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 9 months 3 weeks ago • 45 views • 10:59

Nasa's take on a popular question, driven by the Discover supercomputer. There are multiple runthroughs, covering first the simple video then a full explanation, a deep dive into some of the details,... continue reading

posted by noims 10 months 1 week ago • 73 views • 4:20

Ted Koppel's interview with Nelson Mandela in 1990 on ABC News. Nelson Mandela visited the U.S. for the first time after being freed from 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa. Here is sectioned out... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 4 months 1 week ago • 6 views • 8:19

We all know Richard Hammond loves a 4x4, and they don’t come much more legendary than the first ever road-going Land Rover, known affectionately as ‘JUE’. Richard takes us through the story of rediscovering... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 7 months ago • 233 views • 14:10

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 7 months 1 week ago • 143 views • 11:09

YouTube description: In 2015, what we knew about Iron Age shields all changed. And it changed in a field in Leicester... Iron Age Curator Sophia Adams explains the construction of the first organic... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 8 months 3 weeks ago • 145 views • 15:29

Zoe the orangutan needed help breastfeeding after failing to nurse her first baby. Zookeepers worked with her tirelessly to kickstart her maternal instincts. When Zoe delivered her second baby, a zookeeper... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 11 months 2 weeks ago • 295 views • 3:12

This deepsea Octopus (or Squid) was filmed in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico by a work class ROV. At first we believed this to be a Cirrate Octopus, but now we believe it to be a Vampire Squid/Umbrella... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago • 75 views • 2:12

At 2994 meters on a never-before-surveyed seamount north of Johnston Atoll, the team made a thrilling discovery — the chance to examine an animal spotted for the very first time in the Pacific Ocean!... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 11 months 3 weeks ago • 213 views • 1:46

"Flashback to the holiday season of 2001. After years of filming, the first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is due to hit theaters, and expectations... continue reading

posted by ant 2 years 4 weeks ago • 5 views • 24:24

In 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which house the Museum's renowned collection of Islamic... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 60 views • 17:44

"... on February 19, 1968, NET, National Educational Television, a precursor to PBS, presented the very first episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, one of television's longest running shows, and one... continue reading

posted by ant 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 5 views • 4:40

"Here's the very 1st episode of a popular educational children's show 'Sesame Street'..."

posted by ant 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 9 views • 58:36

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

What If you took the celestial bodies that have elements names for them (Mercury, Ceres, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), and made them entirely composed of those elements? Minute physics animates and presents... continue reading

posted by noims 2 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 29 views • 3:41