CNN investigation finds that a startup, AppHarvest, one of the first promoted and funded by JD Vance failed as a business hired foreign workers and subjected its workers to intolerable conditions, according... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 months ago • 7 views • 5:21

In just over a week since the last episode, a lot has happened with Boeing. From planes diving out of the sky and wheels falling off to the death of a whistle blower. In this episode we'll take a look... continue reading

posted by Spacey 12 months ago • 322 views • 11:50

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 11 months ago • 84 views • 14:21

From YouTube, "Here in the Kurzgesagt labs, we test very important ideas to see what happens when you blow things up or play with black holes. Many of you suggested that we look into an idea that sounds... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 4 months ago • 89 views • 10:55

"... Extreme weather sometimes happens in very specific areas thanks to extreme surface temperature differences..."

posted by ant 3 years 3 months ago • 52 views • 2:29

For over a century, one of the most important salmon runs in the U.S. has had to contend with historic dams in Oregon and California. These dams have been responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 135 views • 3:07

From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 4 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 512 views • 9:10

Most poisonous mushrooms won’t kill you—they’ll simply cause a severe headache or vomiting. Death-cap mushrooms are not like the others. As little as half an Amanita phalloides contains enough toxin... continue reading

posted by BSR 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 687 views • 2:34

According to a new report from the United Nations, our planet is in worse shape than at any other time in human history. The Trump Administration has done everything they can to do nothing about climate... continue reading

posted by newtboy 5 years 10 months 1 week ago • 1,059 views • 3:01

Electric cars are touted as a solution for reducing emissions and improving the environmental impacts of transportation, but are electric cars actually any better for the environment than gasoline cars?... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 475 views • 13:47

In the last few years, wildfires have been getting worse - and, oddly, it's because humans have been preventing them. From a helicopter above the forests of British Columbia, and from the Tree Ring Lab... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 125 views • 3:46

YouTube: You might think you know how to survive if you end up stranded in the wild, but those tips you read on the internet might just make things worse!

posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 532 views • 11:02

YouTube description: It's not your imagination; hold music on phones really did sound better in the old days. Here's why, as we talk about old telephone exchanges and audio compression. Thanks to... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 410 views • 3:36

YouTube: It’s clearly, provably better for patients to have Medicaid coverage than to be uninsured, despite what critics of the program claim. Recently, bills in the Senate and the House of Representatives... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 504 views • 7:51

Infuriating [E!] YouTube: The US has a problem with income inequality. The current tax code makes it worse.

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 5 months ago • 596 views • 8:47

I never thought of sand as a non-renewable resource, but there's only a limited supply: and to make things worse, it keeps getting washed into the sea. At Cape May, New Jersey, the US Army Corps of Engineers... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 8 years 3 weeks ago • 1,756 views • 3:22

YouTube: The Queen is looking a bit worse for wear lately. [HAHAHAHAHA!]

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 1 month ago • 2,577 views • 1:27

YouTube: Many people have to wait too long to see a doctor. And it could get worse. If, as many people believe, we have a shortage of doctors in the United States, then it follows that we can fix this... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 461 views • 6:02