YouTube description: Reggaeton is one of the most popular music genres in the world. Its history is rooted in diaspora migration, censorship, poverty and the reclaiming of Afro-Caribbean identity. We... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months ago • 704 views • 10:49

Bill nominates, perhaps only provocatively, James Bosnack's cigarette machine as the invention with the greatest economic impact on the 20th century. Cigarettes, as compared to pipes and cigars, are and... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 6 years 2 months 1 week ago • 90 views • 2:41

Concorde had a cruising speed of 2,179 kilometers or 1,354 miles per hour, which was Mach 2 - twice the speed of sound. A New York to London flight would only take 3 hours, therefore making it much... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 57 views • 2:58

There's a tiny island on the East River that you've probably never heard of, and you're not allowed to visit it.

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 1,633 views • 3:56

‘I was stunned when the pieces started falling into place,’ recalls specialist Howard Dixon of the moment an unassuming folio of photographs was presented to him in a restaurant in Texas earlier this year. ... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 1,174 views • 3:34

John Oliver is not afraid to put his money where his mouth is. Back in February, realizing that President Trump gets most of his ideas from cable news, the Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight host purchased... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 2 weeks ago • 601 views • 1:37

How does the President go from the White House to the UN headquarters in New York in just 1 hour?

posted by fuzzyundies 7 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 443 views • 12:03

At YouTube Space New York, there's the Mixed Reality lab: a virtual reality setup using an HTC Vive, a third controller, and some fancy compositing equipment. It's brilliant, and I got to visit and look... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 104 views • 4:26

Extreme Ownership | Jocko Willink | TEDxUniversityofNevada From YouTube: War is hell, but war is also a brutal teacher. War teaches you about brotherhood, honor, humility, and leadership. In this riveting... continue reading

posted by chicchorea 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 115 views • 13:50

YouTube description: One woman's face is all over New York, although you've probably never heard of her. This was written with Amor Sciendi: go check it out! https://www.youtube.com/user/AmorSciendi ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 157 views • 2:36

YouTube description: As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 426 views • 9:15

Warning: May cause a germophobic episode! YouTube: We covered the Five Second Rule a couple years ago. And, just a few weeks ago, colleagues at the New York Times (and many other news sources) wrote... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months 1 week ago • 96 views • 5:43

Not sure how this fits in and not very topical but I found it interesting.

posted by vil 7 years 6 months ago • 191 views • 10:05

YouTube: Three times in the last two weeks, people — a patient, a colleague and my wife — told me stories about how out of control the price of EpiPens were. Monday, my New York Times colleagues recounted... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 724 views • 7:02

The sound of the collision from a billion light-years away is the first direct evidence of gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago.

posted by blacklotus90 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 778 views • 4:36

A'yup YouTube: A new technology could make diseases like Zika a thing of the past. But should we use it? The CDC on Zika: http://www.cdc.gov/zika/ Vox explains Zika virus in 6 charts: http://bit.ly/1POrNjA... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 123 views • 5:36