Wildfires in Hawaii fanned by strong winds burned structures in areas including the historic town of Lahaina, forcing evacuations and closing schools in several communities. Rescuers pulled a dozen people... continue reading
posted by newtboy 8 months 2 weeks ago • 112 views • 2:14Videos (37) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
In this Dog Nation video, I help a couple who rescued a badly burned dog to achieve an incredible goal to be a therapy dog for burn survivors. Fergus, a golden retriever, has leash aggression. He barks... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 12 months ago • 95 views • 12:17Dorothea 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 2 weeks ago • 82 views • 14:39The 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 • 10:03From 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 • 26:02From Youtube, "A wolf pulling over a wolf" Michael Lawrence got pulled over by a white cop in Prince Georges County, Maryland Michael's advice will hopefully save black AND white lives, make sure... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 1,113 views • 3:57Wave 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 • 3:16YouTube description: Hi :) I’m a student in Network & Systems Engineering (Robots, networks and programming and stuff) and I built a dinosaur in my spare time. I got the idea in my head, thought... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,278 views • 2:37YouTube description: To prepare him for landing the lunar module, Neil Armstrong practiced on a training vehicle, right here on Earth. It was designed to replicate flying within a gravitational pull... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months ago • 462 views • 2:14In the animated short “Drawn & Recorded: Teen Spirit” by Drew Christie of Kalakala Animation, narrator T-Bone Burnett tells the story behind the famous 1991 Nirvana song “Smells Like Teen Spirit”... continue reading
posted by eric3579 5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 691 views • 2:55In the 1830s, two French brothers, François and Joseph Blanc, pulled off the first telecoms scam in history. The optical telegraph, a line of semaphore towers stretching from hilltop to hilltop, was for... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 526 views • 5:49YouTube description: He was inside Jabba the Hut in “Return of the Jedi,” helped make “The Muppets” come alive and has been pulling the strings on Yoda since he was 19 years old. Meet Dave Barclay,... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 1 week ago • 285 views • 3:12During the evacuation of Gallipoli by the Allies, which started in December 1915, an ingenious invention was constructed on the battlefield by ANZAC forces to deceive the ottoman enemy into thinking a... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 102 views • 2:08The Saudis and Iranians have never actually declared war on each other. Instead, they fight indirectly by supporting opposing sides in other countries and inciting conflicts. This is known as proxy warfare. ... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 319 views • 10:19"While pulling a load ..." YouTube: Sled dogs are the best endurance athletes in the world thanks to a weird quirk in their metabolism.
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 282 views • 2:39YouTube: I came across these four physics puzzles over the years in discussions with Neil deGrasse Tyson (riddle 4: which part(s) of a moving train are going backwards with respect to the ground?), Simon... continue reading
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