Reaching the Andromeda Galaxy in Just a Minute! Brian Cox discusses the concept of time and distance contraction at speeds close to the speed of light. He explains that for objects moving near light... continue reading

posted by BSR 4 months 2 weeks ago • 93 views

I gave a talk on my Masters Thesis Project in Architecture focusing on Altering Soundscapes in Exterior Environments using Helmholtz Resonators in Ceramic Bricks to absorb Low Frequency Traffic Noise. ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month 4 weeks ago • 83 views • 34:05

Precious samples collected from an asteroid are to be moved to a specialist laboratory in Texas. Material taken from what has been described as “the most dangerous rock in our Solar System” came... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 5 months 2 weeks ago • 123 views • 2:48

A group of police recruits were hit be a car during a morning run. For some reason, a group of at least 40 recruits were running in the road instead of using sidewalks, without a permit, and were hit by a car. ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 138 views • 2:07

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

MBARI sustained our commitment to ocean exploration and discovery in 2021. The year brought more challenges, but exploring our big, blue backyard always inspires awe and wonder—and curiosity about the... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 382 views • 3:16

"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

It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading

posted by SFOGuy 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,836 views • 2:12

One year ago, Spot graduated from its early adopter program and began shipping out to workplaces around the world. From construction sites and power plants to mines and universities, today Spot is up-and-running... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 119 views • 1:18

Marcin Wichary gives a really entertaining talk on looped videos, as a live looped video with no post production. Vimeo description: This is a remote Ignite talk I gave at Figma on May 27, 2021.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 140 views • 5:18

The Nenet reindeer herders need to move their tent every few days throughout most of the year. Every time they migrate they must pack the whole tent away, drag it across the tundra on sledges, and erect... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 4 years 2 weeks ago • 499 views • 32:14

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 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 3:56

The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s... continue reading

posted by mxxcon 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 12 views • 7:14

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 4 years 8 months 1 week ago • 943 views • 7:36

NASA's current fleet of spacesuits was built in 1974, and each was reported to cost between $15 million and $22 million. Today, that would be about $150 million. Having not built any new mission-ready... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 100 views • 10:41

YouTube description: It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. At the Cooper Union Foundation Building in New York, there's the world's first elevator shaft: constructed four years before the safety elevator... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 731 views • 5:10

"... It sounds like such an incredible fact. “Our own cells are outnumbered by our microbes 10 to 1!” I don’t remember where I first heard it. But I read it in science papers and articles by journalists,... continue reading

posted by ant 5 years 6 months 1 week ago • 1,356 views • 13:23

On April 3rd, 2018, resident Mark Robinson gave an impassioned speech at the Greensboro, NC, city council meeting in support of the Second Amendment. This speech is the best four minutes you'll ever watch... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 19 views • 4:21

After more than four decades of forced silence, some of the last surviving atomic soldiers share their unfathomable experiences of the atomic bomb tests in the 1950s

posted by bobknight33 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 119 views • 22:53