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

I had similar reaction when I was 12

posted by BSR 3 months 3 weeks ago • 94 views

Plimpton 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 1 year 3 weeks ago • 59 views • 4:14

3 Florida police stopped a man for walking while black, apparently a felony in Florida, entered his name incorrectly, then tased and beat him for supplying a false name (he gave his full correct name clearly... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 10 months 1 week ago • 141 views • 14:57

"Flashback to the holiday season of 2001. After years of filming, the first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is due to hit theaters, and expectations... continue reading

posted by ant 2 years 4 weeks ago • 5 views • 24:24

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 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 106 views • 11:29

One home went undamaged when all the homes around it were badly damaged or completely washed away. Similar look to the last house standing in Mexico Beach after Hurricane Michael. It clearly has high end... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 5 months 1 week ago • 420 views • 1:19

The scorching temperatures destroyed a major portion of the cherry crop in the Columbia Gorge and beyond just as it was ready for harvest. Many other crops are seeing similar failures across the West... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 8 months 1 week ago • 144 views • 2:46

The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the earliest great work of literature that we know of, and was first written down by the Sumerians around 2100 B.C. Ancient Sumer was the land that lay between the two rivers,... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 15 views • 3:56

https://www.iter.org/ In southern France, 35 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a... continue reading

posted by eric3579 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 931 views • 7:59

Red sprites, secondary jets and newly discovered green afterglow called "ghosts" triggered by red sprites. A dozen vibrant red sprites were recorded on this evening and only two events had the green afterglow.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 985 views • 2:32

Both beautiful and terrifying, this is a quick look at fungi, with a focus on their reproduction. It goes beyond terrifying if you happen to be an @ant, or similar cordyceps-susceptible life form.

posted by noims 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 370 views • 4:44

As an American living in Thailand, I sometimes see Buddhist (and other Eastern religion) symbols that are pretty close to being swastikas. In many cases, I think that is done without knowledge of the... continue reading

The Trebuchet was similar to a giant catapult or stave sling, and launched heavy stones into enemy castles or walls.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 209 views • 2:34

The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is considered by the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy to be the "best drink in existence". While almost impossible to make on planet Earth, I needed to see if its effects... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 24 views • 6:55

Although she only talks about English, irregular verbs in Spanish (and probably other languages) are really quite similar - frequently used words tend to be more resistant to change than less frequently used ones. ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 57 views • 3:59

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

Caesium is an alkali metal and has physical and chemical properties similar to those of rubidium and potassium. The metal is extremely reactive and pyrophoric, reacting with water even at −116 °C (−177... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 1 week ago • 716 views • 7:36

In this video I build a garden to grow Cassava and yams, two staple food crops. Cassava is a shrub that develops large edible roots. Yams are a climbing vine that produce large, edible underground bulbs... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 2 weeks ago • 100 views • 6:27