The Whitehouse paused all federal funding, halting most federal programs by illegal presidential decree, throwing tens of millions of Americans into limbo, paralyzing the entire medical system in America,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 month 1 week ago • 17 views • 2:21

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, co-led a hearing of the full Judiciary... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 10 months 2 weeks ago • 278 views • 5:49

UC Davis and other institutions have been experimenting with seaweed added to cattle feed to reduce methane emissions. Results are very encouraging, showing reductions in methane production from between... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 2 months ago • 145 views • 1:31

"... Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-slaver-ants/?pli=1 Everything changed when the slaver nation attacked. What used to be a thriving colony is now a captured country.... continue reading

posted by ant 2 years 3 months ago • 52 views • 10:44

The world remains in a state of shock after spectacular satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting on the island of Tonga left a giant mushroom cloud in the Pacific region. With shocking visuals... continue reading

posted by eric3579 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 42 views • 4:26

You’re alive right now… at least I’m pretty sure you are. But you’re not TOTALLY alive. Bits of you are always breaking down, being thrown out, and being replaced. Even right now, parts of you... continue reading

posted by BSR 3 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 81 views • 13:12

It's hard to know if she actually had a coherent point to make here--it sure didn't look like it. At the least, she was poorly served by her staff, which didn't educate her, didn't program her questions,... continue reading

posted by SFOGuy 3 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 1,836 views • 2:12

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posted by saimjohn 4 years 12 months ago • 15 views • 9:16

What do you get when you take a boxy little hatchback, replace the backseat with a high-performance engine, and add a turbo? You get one of the most badass pieces of automotive engineering thought up by... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 6 years 4 weeks ago • 63 views • 13:02

At the old hut site (the new one being temporarily cut off by flooding) I made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails by firing them in a kiln, slaking them in water, mixing them into lime putty.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years ago • 408 views • 7:08

I built a natural draft furnace to test ideas about how hot a furnace could get without the use of bellows. Natural draft is the flow of air through a furnace due to rising hot air. The hot gasses in the... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 454 views • 5:46

YouTube: We live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it’s natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 297 views • 4:14

The Lahti L-39 is a Finnish 20 mm anti-tank rifle used during the Second World War. It had excellent accuracy, penetration and range, but its size made transportation difficult. It was nicknamed "Norsupyssy"... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 150 views • 10:14

YouTube: You probably know where to pump the cheapest gas and how to get price comparisons online in seconds for headphones and cars. But how would you find the best deal on an M.R.I. or a knee replacement?... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 10 months ago • 82 views • 6:09

I built a water powered hammer called a “Monjolo”. I started by making a water spout from half a hollow log to direct water from the creek. This was set up in the creek and water flowed through it.... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 7 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,217 views • 8:51

I built this pottery kiln and some pottery from termite mound clay to test an alternative clay source to my usual one from the creek bank. I started by making a large grate from ordinary clay. It was just... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 420 views • 11:27

YouTube: Obamacare’s marketplaces were supposed to give consumers choices of health plans from insurers that compete to keep premiums down. But fewer insurers are participating, and premiums are increasing sharply. ... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 237 views • 7:05

YouTube: Here's a little video about a something that caught my interest recently: Anglish, a new "pure" Germanic variety of English with all of its non-Germanic vocabulary removed and replaced by Germanic... continue reading

posted by Janine V. (Lilithia) 8 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 367 views • 5:33

"Let's discuss." YouTube: What policy changes would be minimally necessary for Republicans to claim that they’ve succeeded in “replacing” Obamacare? Health wonk and Incidental Economist Editor... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 59 views • 7:04