Why were climate models so wrong about 2023? Neil deGrasse Tyson learns about why 2023 was hotter than we expected it to be and what effects need to be factored into future climate modeling with climatologist... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 months ago • 137 views • 16:39

Mark Rober puts his pet octopus through a nine-part maze to try to earn a massive stash of her favourite food and, ultimately, her freedom.

posted by noims 5 months ago • 144 views • 17:13

Police in Franklington La tried to falsify accident reports to cover for a fellow officer that was drunk and had driven into oncoming lanes. The cops truck was found on the wrong side of the road surrounded... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year ago • 61 views • 4:49

The scorching temperatures destroyed a major portion of the cherry crop in the Columbia Gorge and beyond just as it was ready for harvest. Many other crops are seeing similar failures across the West... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 10 months ago • 144 views • 2:46

From Youtube, "As it happens yellowcake isn't actually that delicious. Super duper new book, Geometry for Ocelots (you might need to change your region) ► https://tinyurl.com/2e44sbdb Plutonium... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 10 months 1 week ago • 315 views • 6:26

From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 6 months 1 week ago • 510 views • 9:10

In Wichita Falls, Texas, the Newby-McMahon Building stands 480 inches tall. Not 480 feet: 480 inches. There's a story of a smooth-talking scammer that sounds almost too good to be true. But is it?

posted by bobknight33 4 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 1,019 views • 6:47

From Youtube, "Neutron stars are one of the most extreme and violent things in the universe. Giant atomic nuclei, only a few kilometers in diameter but as massive as stars. And they owe their existence... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 766 views • 8:41

YouTube description: The Great Blue Hole is a massive underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize. In the winter of 2018, a submarine crew from Aquatica Submarines ventured to the bottom of the hole... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,683 views • 3:38

YouTube description: The tourist guides promote it as Georgia's Little Grand Canyon: but this is a scar on the Earth, caused by humans either not understanding or not caring about geology. Is it natural?... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,488 views • 2:53

YouTube description: On August 8th, 1918, Allied forces in France launched the Hundred Days Offensive, one of the first combined arms operations of the war that included hundreds of tanks, airplanes,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 397 views • 3:15

This is the story of America's massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America's most advanced machinery - the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines... continue reading

posted by nanrod 5 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 528 views • 12:48

The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25 to 40 percent forest. Within a few centuries, almost all... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 801 views • 5:22

From Transformers to The Martian, Hollywood films are looking to China's massive audiences.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months ago • 660 views • 6:03

Glaciologists will find this video obvious. Everyone else... well, maybe I slept through a bit of sixth-grade geography, but I didn't know this, and I reckon I should have done.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 504 views • 3:01

With all of the global warming a new threat has emerged, the release of methane gas, trapped in methane hydrates on ocean floors. It's release is often referred to as the 'methane bomb'. The last time... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 966 views • 8:37

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 10 months ago • 515 views • 2:59

Published on Mar 11, 2012 Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the world. Sir Harold Evans, the author of They Made America, describes how frustration drove Malcom McLean,... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 8 years 1 week ago • 475 views • 4:47

YouTube description: A massive document leak reveals the secrets of shell companies. Matt Yglesias explains, adapting an analogy from reddit user DanGliesack: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikei... ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month ago • 392 views • 2:07