Pareidolia is the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern (Merriam-Webster) This one minute film uses pareidolia as a tool to convey the importance... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 month 4 weeks ago • 231 views • 1:01

The Secret Architecture of America’s $1BN Fortress This is how the US built its most hi-tech and controversial embassy.

posted by BSR 4 months 4 weeks ago • 118 views • 12:33

We 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 ago • 233 views • 14:10

Few of the monsters that evolution created have been so successful at hurting us as the variola virus, responsible for smallpox. The carnage it caused was so terrible and merciless that it compelled humankind,... continue reading

posted by eric3579 9 months ago • 143 views • 11:09

2023 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 ago • 98 views • 7:32

"... on February 19, 1968, NET, National Educational Television, a precursor to PBS, presented the very first episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, one of television's longest running shows, and one... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 6 months ago • 5 views • 4:40

Alaska has cancelled this year's snow crab harvest for the first time ever after 90% of the snow crabs disappeared. BILLIONS of snow crabs vanished from the Bering Sea. By why? Why did billions of crabs... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months 1 week ago • 104 views • 11:29

Zefrank1 informs us of some true facts about parasitic birds.

posted by w1ndex 1 year 8 months ago • 128 views • 11:13

From YouTube, "John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws."

posted by w1ndex 2 years 4 weeks ago • 202 views • 25:10

In 2003, one of the most severe power outages in history affected the northeastern US and parts of eastern Canada. This video summarizes the events leading up to and during the blackout.

posted by eric3579 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 54 views • 20:39

Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 82 views • 14:39

The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain, and yet, most of us never learn how it works. Or what it is. Your immune System consists of hundreds of tiny... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 9 months ago • 724 views • 10:48

In this Dog Nation Episode, I help Victor and Anngel Benoun, with their dog Fergus. Fergus is a golden retriever who is a burn survivor. Fergus has one issue, he is aggressive on the leash. Whenever... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 10 months ago • 10 views • 9:18

"With the first documentary from MinnMax, we travel back to 1971 to tell the surprising story of how a college project from Bill Heinemann, Paul Dillenberger, and Don Rawitsch was donated to the state... continue reading

posted by ant 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 8 views • 23:08

From Youtube, "The Postal Service is one of the few government agencies which pre-date the Constitution and creation of the United States. If the Founding Fathers kept it around, it must be important."

posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 1 week ago • 12 views • 25:54

YouTube description: Ahmed Darwish el Fakhouri spends his days surrounded by olive oil soap stacked up high—each precious bar waiting to be wrapped and sold after a drying out period of two to three... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months ago • 351 views • 2:24

"Everyone has their favorite classic Sesame Street animated segment from the last 50 years! Now, in this hour long compilation, they're all in one place! Watch live with us and share your favorite Sesame... continue reading

posted by ant 4 years 6 months ago • 20 views • 1:00:10

YouTube description: People get nervous when they see Märten Ajne ice skating. He intentionally skates on extremely thin ice. Ajne has pursued this dangerous hobby for 40 years and has skated on more... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 860 views • 2:34

YouTube description: If you want to drink a cup of tea at the Huashan Teahouse on Mount Hua, you’re going to have to put in the effort to get there. The journey starts with a 20-minute cable car ride.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 1 week ago • 465 views • 2:39

Eric Bazilian was explaining 4 track recording to a friend, and in the process wrote this song. YouTube description: The story behind the song One Of Us by Joan Osborne, written by Eric Bazilian.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 216 views • 6:37