‘Let’s play a game,’ congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says to a panel of government watchdogs. Ocasio-Cortez goes on to dissect US campaign finance laws to make her point about the ‘fundamentally... continue reading
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The Australian Government has made a tourism ad about East Timor, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!
posted by NaMeCaF 5 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 711 views • 2:46In the 1830s, two French brothers, François and Joseph Blanc, pulled off the first telecoms scam in history. The optical telegraph, a line of semaphore towers stretching from hilltop to hilltop, was for... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 526 views • 5:49China’s economy has indisputably grown enormously over the past thirty years, it has been merged with waste, fraud, and theft of public resources by who is who is the government. Chinese yuan debt has... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 195 views • 11:52That Time I Got in Touble With the Government
posted by nanrod 5 years 8 months ago • 442 views • 6:39YouTube description: Denmark has been consistently ranked in the World Happiness Report among the top three happiest countries in the world, owing, in part, to the presence of a stable government, access... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months ago • 421 views • 4:45The Australien Government has made a tourism ad for the Northern Territory and it's surprisingly honest and informative ;)
posted by eric3579 5 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 893 views • 2:27YouTube description: Giant Mine sits near Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Once it was a productive gold mine, but after the gold ran out, the mining company went bankrupt and left... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 1 week ago • 470 views • 4:34Between 1950 and 1970 the number of deaths on Sweden's roads more than doubled. Today though, it has one of the world’s lowest rates of traffic fatalities. This is the story of how the Swedish Government... continue reading
posted by b4rringt0n 5 years 11 months ago • 1,871 views • 3:31YT: The National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, sells Standard Reference Materials, or SRMs for short. They're analysed, quantified, and certified substances: everything from metals, to elements,... continue reading
posted by Fantomas 6 years 8 months ago • 474 views • 4:13Beginning Sept 1, 2017, knife laws in Texas are changing. We teamed up with Bryan Wilson, the Texas Law Hawk, to explain how these new laws affect you. You’ll now be able to carry knives longer than... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 years 8 months ago • 484 views • 58 secsYouTube description: Oslo is the Tesla capital of the world. I spent a day in Oslo before traveling to Svalbard, and noticed that there were Teslas everywhere. Upon further investigation, I learned... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 785 views • 7:10Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump's first 100 days in office as he and Congress face an imminent government shutdown deadline.
posted by simonm 7 years ago • 596 views • 11:33Via YouTube: Fewer than three dozen Gobi bears survive in the Gobi Desert, a harsh landscape that stretches from Mongolia into China. Journalist and wildlife biologist Douglas Chadwick describes the efforts... continue reading
posted by Gratefulmom 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 347 views • 5:25"Larry Smith doesn’t just live with Parkinson’s. He rises above it." "After a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s, Larry has exhausted every conventional method of treatment, every drug, and even... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 635 views • 7:59YouTube description: I thought about saying "secret patterns" or "mysterious patterns" in the title, but that'd be a lie: they're just mostly unknown! So let's talk about tactile paving, about design,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,726 views • 3:13This reputed business genius appears to know nothing about business This anti tax, anti government genius just gave away $7 million of tax dollars (per year?) to Carrier with no guarantee of anything... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 901 views • 5:12The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler explains how... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 250 views • 5:56YouTube: Medicaid is expensive, and critics argue that it get people insured at the expense of the private sector. But study after study find that Medicaid has a huge return on investment for state and... continue reading
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