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

"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

"... 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

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

A quick basic-level tour through the first official image released by JWST, of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723

posted by eric3579 2 years 8 months ago • 314 views • 7:18

Daffy Duck for President is a children's book, published by Warner Bros. and the United States Postal Service in 1997 to coincide with the release of the first Bugs Bunny U.S. postage stamp. The book... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 years 1 month ago • 103 views • 4:32

The 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 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 42 views • 4:26

"Olympic sports are contested in the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. They are Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. Besides, there are two more Olympics. They are Special Olympics and Paralympics.... continue reading

posted by ant 3 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 2:40

The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 7 months ago • 726 views • 10:48