The original Star Wars trilogy was groundbreaking for its special effects, its world building, its action, and so, so much more. But if you ask George Lucas, it isn't the action, nor the performances,... continue reading
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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
posted by newtboy 1 month 4 weeks ago • 65 views • 2:27=== Lyrics === Why are there so many Trials and indictments And why am I greatly reviled? Things all got Stormy (For just a few minutes) While my wife was having our child That would not seem... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 months ago • 155 views • 3:07"... 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 2 months 2 weeks ago • 5 views • 1:26:56The endless expanse of the ocean’s midnight zone offers plenty of room to stretch out. Here, some animals can grow to great lengths. Siphonophores are gelatinous animals composed of specialized parts... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 months 2 weeks ago • 128 views • 3:36Pareidolia 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 3 months 2 weeks ago • 231 views • 1:01This car goes from 0-62 miles per hour (100kph) in 0.956 of a second. This is the classic acceleration test, one that we all grew up using to compare cars. A Formula 1 car will do it in about two and... continue reading
posted by newtboy 4 months 1 week ago • 132 views • 17:05Plimpton 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 4 months 2 weeks ago • 49 views • 4:14The Secret Architecture of America’s $1BN Fortress This is how the US built its most hi-tech and controversial embassy.
posted by BSR 6 months 2 weeks ago • 118 views • 12:33It's SO fun to play! Build an aquarium and send me and your friends a picture or video capture of it!
posted by BSR 8 months ago • 51 views • 28:57"A truly X-cellent and X-ceptional video… ... Despite being one of the rarest letters in English, the letter X is everywhere. We sign letters with it, we rate movies with it, we name all sorts of things... continue reading
posted by ant 9 months 1 week ago • 1 view • 11:39MAGA can’t count to one.
posted by newtboy 10 months ago • 107 views • 19 secsWe 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 10 months 3 weeks ago • 233 views • 14:10Few 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 10 months 3 weeks ago • 143 views • 11:09The 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 10 months 3 weeks ago • 111 views • 52 secsOdd how often those tasked with enforcing the law break them. 18 U.S. Code § 700 - Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties (1) Whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles,... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 3 weeks ago • 23 views • 59 secsYouTube 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) 1 year 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 1 year 2 weeks ago • 98 views • 7:32An apparent case of mistaken identity in Galveston landed a man in jail for days in May after police thought the innocent patient leaving the hospital was an escaped prison inmate. There were no escapees. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 145 views • 2:36The Perlan 2 sailplane has soared to altitudes of more than 70,000 feet above the mountains of Argentina, with the goal of eventually reaching 90,000 feet. Its visit to Oshkosh last summer was one of the... continue reading
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