In this video, we explore the fascinating story of the Brennan Monorail, an innovative train from the early 1900s designed by Louis Brennan. This monorail defied conventional physics by balancing on a... continue reading
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An 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 11 months 3 weeks ago • 143 views • 2:36Police in Franklington La tried to falsify accident reports to cover for a fellow officer that was drunk and had driven into oncoming lanes. The cops truck was found on the wrong side of the road surrounded... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 3 weeks ago • 61 views • 4:49The 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 • 14:21At 2994 meters on a never-before-surveyed seamount north of Johnston Atoll, the team made a thrilling discovery — the chance to examine an animal spotted for the very first time in the Pacific Ocean!... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month ago • 213 views • 1:46Disney researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that seemingly makes it far easier to make an actor appear younger or older in a scene. While artists will still be able to make manual... continue reading
posted by simonm 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 418 views • 6:48From YouTube, "The Earth is a gigantic ball of semi-molten rock, with a heart of iron as hot as the surface of the Sun. Titanic amounts of heat left over from its birth and the radioactive decay of trillions... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 1 year 6 months 1 week ago • 354 views • 11:59The 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 2 years 3 months ago • 42 views • 4:26In this video my wife Brooke and I build a very simple, very affordable cabin. With a simple single pitch roof and only 2 windows. While I was filming this building project so was Brooke. You can check... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 23 views • 28:38From Youtube, "Well... this took longer than expected. I am sorry you had to wait so long for me to finish this video, I had some reading to do, then write the video, record the audio, and then the... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 19 views • 1:09:23https://youtu.be/PZoaKzEXzi8 It's time to meet a single-celled organism that is bigger than a tardigrade! We'll learn how Stentors reproduce, why they look like trumpets, and why some of them are just SO BLUE! ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 599 views • 9:49From Youtube, "Most of our pop culture assumptions about the Heaven and Hell come from a single source: Dante's Divine Comedy. A work that was so important that it may have sparked a reformation in the... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 5 years 1 month ago • 19 views • 30:42Filmmaker Jan van IJken's Becoming reveals the fascinating genesis of animal life. A single cell is transformed into a complete, complex living organism with a beating heart and running bloodstream. Observe... continue reading
posted by newtboy 5 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 495 views • 6:43Seems we can run pretty much everything on a single-phase AC, then why bother with 3 phases??
posted by Mordhaus 6 years ago • 24 views • 10:57rarre was an 18th-century French peasant who could eat a quarter of a cow carcass in a single day, among other things.
posted by Ashenkase 6 years 2 weeks ago • 123 views • 7:49YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 606 views • 8:27On the morning of July 7, 1944, Captain Ben L. Salomon of the U.S. Army’s 105th Infantry, commissioned as a dentist, single-handedly held off a fierce attack of an overwhelming force of Japanese soldiers... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 6:24YouTube description: This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallacy where seemingly contradictory results are implied by a single set of data depending on how it's... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 1,980 views • 4:40There’s a saying in the sea, 'If it’s a cone, leave it alone'. Although they look pretty harmless cone nails are pretty deadly. They're a chemical making factory that travels around an a giant sticky... continue reading
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