"... 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 week 6 days ago • 5 views • 1:26:56

The F-15 was born from the difficult lessons learned during the Vietnam War. In the late 1950s, Air Force planners were confident that the advent of powerful new radars and long-range air-to-air missiles... continue reading

posted by eric3579 1 year 1 week ago • 83 views • 14:21

Pixar’s a studio that’s known for delivering quality animated classics, but little is known publicly about their development process. Indeed, the studio has a reputation for excellent quality control,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 184 views

In 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which house the Museum's renowned collection of Islamic... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 60 views • 17:44

In this episode, I meet Kim and her rescue three-legged shepherd mix, Luke. Luke is from Cambodia with a very difficult past. He has developed trust issues with humans. He gets aggressive when people... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 58 views • 15:23

From Youtube, "Bowling has been reinvented many times over the past seven thousand years but especially in the last 30. This is the fascinating physics of balls, oil, lane and pins. Huge thanks to... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 7 months ago • 485 views • 28:01

The multiverse hypothesis or theory holds that a group of multiple universes (possibly infinite universes) comprise everything that exists: The entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and... continue reading

posted by BSR 2 years 10 months 4 weeks ago • 143 views • 10:03

Mark Laita is a photographer who runs the youtube channel Soft White Underbelly where he interviews people who have a dark past. The channel shows inside sex offenders, prostitutes, the homeless, and more. ... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 3 years 4 months ago • 959 views • 17:41

"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 1 week ago • 8 views • 23:08

From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 55 views • 26:02

The historian Allan Lichtman was the lonely forecaster who predicted Mr. Trump’s victory in 2016 — and also prophesied the president would be impeached. That’s two for two. But Professor Lichtman’s... continue reading

posted by mxxcon 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 12 views • 7:14

Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 877 views • 3:16

"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 5 months 2 weeks ago • 20 views • 1:00:10

In a quiet corner of Kent State University, scientists are exploring innovative ways to study the past. We joined our friends at Gizmodo to visit Kent State University's Experimental Archaeology lab, where... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 45 views • 7:30

The frozen continent of Antarctica contains the vast majority of all freshwater on Earth. Now that ice is melting at an accelerating rate, in part because of climate change. What does this transformation... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 1 week ago • 36 views • 10:16

YouTube description: Sabra Kauka finds great joy in making the past present. A cultural practitioner on Kauai, she teaches Hawaiian children the arts of their ancestors, including kapa. In this physically... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 2 months ago • 347 views • 4:13

YouTube description: At first this ghostly octopus drifted past the camera on ROV Hercules flapping wing-like fins, then inverted its webbed arms, ballooning out to reveal eight rows of suckers. This... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 499 views • 2:27

China’s economy has indisputably grown enormously over the past thirty years, it has been merged with waste, fraud, and theft of public resources by who is who is the government. Chinese yuan debt has... continue reading

posted by bobknight33 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 195 views • 11:52

YouTube description: For the past 30 years, Paul Francis has been crafting the perfect sound, honing his skills at a company that has been in the business of making cymbals for 400 years. Making cymbals... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 831 views • 2:41