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 5 days 15 hours 19 minutes 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 2 weeks 5 days 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 7 months ago • 5 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 9 months 3 weeks 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 9 months 3 weeks 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) 11 months 1 week ago • 144 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 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 4 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 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago • 5 views • 4:40

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

posted by ant 1 year 6 months 3 weeks 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 1 year 8 months 1 week 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 1 year 10 months 2 weeks 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 2 years 3 months 2 weeks 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 2 years 4 months 1 week 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 2 years 9 months 1 week 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 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 724 views • 10:48

Pike County Sheriffs beat and mace a man hogtied in a restraint chair so badly the sheriff deputy broke his hand on the man's face. He has applied for workers compensation for the "job related injury". ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 4 weeks ago • 222 views • 1:47

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 1 month 1 week ago • 497 views • 10:15

Larnell Lewis plays Enter Sandman after hearing it for the first time.

posted by Ashenkase 3 years 3 months ago • 805 views • 17:47

"With the first documentary from MinnMax, we travel back to 1971 to tell the surprising story of how a college project from Bill Heinemann, Paul Dillenberger, and Don Rawitsch was donated to the state... continue reading

posted by ant 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 8 views • 23:08