What do you get when you cross rodeo with skiing? The wild and wacky Skijoring of course. Every winter, thousands of people descend on the old mining town of Leadville, Colorado, high in the Rocky Mountains,... continue reading
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"... In 1971, three student teachers in Minneapolis, MN created a little computer game about westward expansion in the United States. Over 50 years later, The Oregon Trail series has sold more than 65... continue reading
posted by ant 1 month 1 week ago • 5 views • 1:26:56Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones. Over time this... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 months ago • 49 views • 4:14Why 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 2 weeks ago • 137 views • 16:39The Secret Architecture of America’s $1BN Fortress This is how the US built its most hi-tech and controversial embassy.
posted by BSR 5 months 1 week ago • 118 views • 12:33The Palestinian ambassador to the U.N. speaks to the assembly about the actual Palestinian position on the Israeli war. It bears mentioning that Hamas is not the elected governing body, they seized control... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 months 2 weeks ago • 109 views • 42 secsPrecious 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 7 months 4 weeks ago • 123 views • 2:48Several things you never wanted to know about wombats; mostly focused around the rear half rather than the 'wom'.
posted by noims 8 months ago • 45 views • 2:41We 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 2 weeks ago • 233 views • 14:10The Rio Las Vacas in Guatemala is one of the most polluted rivers on earth. This small river is estimated to contribute 2% of the total plastic pollution we dump in the oceans yearly. The Ocean Cleanup... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 months 2 weeks ago • 111 views • 52 secsWhen it came to subterfuge, lying, intimidation, hypocrisy, bigotry, fraud, and possibly murder, few can touch US President Lyndon Baines Johnson. So, who was the real Lyndon Baines Johnson? Hosted by... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 9 months 2 weeks ago • 32 views • 22:47* This video shows uncensored shooting of feral cats * In Shooting Cats VICE set out to explore the consequences of Australia's feral cat plague, and confront the uncomfortable and violent realities... continue reading
posted by BSR 10 months 4 weeks ago • 55 views • 26:04YouTube description: Adam Savage visits one of the world's most joyful places: Jim Henson's Creature Shop! While there, veteran puppeteers John Tartaglia and Donna Kimball use Gobo and Mokey Fraggle... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 11 months 1 week ago • 133 views • 21:302023 Florida is home to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants, and many work in the kinds of businesses that would be impacted by the law, known as SB 1718. Many of those affected are also members of mixed-status... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 1 week ago • 98 views • 7:32The biggest of instruments. Takes a half hour long video just to explore MOST of it.
posted by BSR 11 months 2 weeks ago • 6 views • 29:53The Parkes Radio Telescope, part of CSIRO, is one of the most famous telescopes in the world: and it's got a unique way of getting equipment up and down from the central section. More about the Telescope: ... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 3 months 4 weeks ago • 43 views • 9:15"Discover how alcohol impacts your body’s processes and causes hangovers, and find out what causes the most common hangover symptoms. The molecule responsible for hangovers is ethanol, which we colloquially... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 4 months 2 weeks ago • 4 views • 4:52Brian Cox - Solving The Fermi Paradox: Intelligent Alien Life in Our Galaxy Brian Cox explains the details behind the Fermi Paradox and why we haven't yet found intelligent alien life. The more interesting... continue reading
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