It's time the news organizations began questioning the actions of police.

Some of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s videos are so unbelievably over the top, they seem like sketches from “Saturday Night Live.” So much so that we went out on the street and showed people clips... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 months 3 weeks ago • 184 views • 3:20

Axolotls are one of science’s most studied animals. Why, you ask? These extraordinary salamanders are masters of regeneration: they can flawlessly regenerate body parts ranging from amputated limbs and... continue reading

posted by newtboy 8 months 3 weeks ago • 117 views • 5:22

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 10 months 2 weeks ago • 1,828 views • 2:12

Presidential Historian Tom Naftali explains a CSPAN survey that asked 142 presidential historians and historical observers of the presidency to rate all the US presidents. Abraham Lincoln came in at the... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year ago • 11 views • 3:44

YouTube description: Have you ever asked yourself what is going on when using a lighter? Let's go macro and see the process in detail with extreme slow motion. Filmed with Photron Fastcam at 20.000... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 year 4 weeks ago • 992 views • 1:23

Funerals in the Age of Coronavirus - Ask A Mortician

posted by BSR 2 years 3 months ago • 241 views • 15:27

They keep asking me. I keep telling them I am notarobot, but they never seem to remember. At least not for very long.

posted by notarobot 2 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 387 views • 7:40

YouTube description: 1.8 billion years ago, a cell ate another cell, but it didn't digest it, and without that happening, we would not exist. This week we explore the origins of eukaryotic cells and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 333 views • 10:00

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 3 years 3 weeks ago • 166 views • 20:41

YouTube description: The Citicorp Center repair is a classic engineering case study of how mistakes must be avoided in engineering and construction of public works. A skyscraper in New York City needed... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 4 weeks ago • 1,277 views • 8:24

YouTube description: I kept getting asked about a sequence from the Apollo 11 documentary showing the ignition of a Saturn V upper Stage, known as the S-IVB, in space. After asking around I tracked... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 3 months 1 week ago • 322 views • 11:08

YouTube description: It takes blood, sweat, tears and a whole lot of long hours to be one of the best marching bands in the country. Just ask Abraham Duffie, Jr., head drum major for the Sonic Boom... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 804 views • 2:55

YouTube description: At 30-years-old, Yu Kikuchi was tired of his job. Working in an assembly line that made turbines, he was aching to find a new lease on life. So when he heard about 80-year-old master... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 301 views • 2:46

"It’s more than just dancing around. ... If you’ve ever seen an orchestra perform you’ve probably had a difficult time looking away from the person dead center on the stage – the conductor. It’s... continue reading

posted by ant 3 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 14 views • 4:42

"Are You Smarter Than A Slime Mold? Let’s go ask Joe Hanson: https://youtu.be/K8HEDqoTPgk ..."

posted by ant 4 years 2 months ago • 11 views • 3:06

I'd never heard of moiré effect beacons until I got an email asking me about them. It seemed like a really clever idea - but it was really hard to research. Or at least it was, until I stumbled upon one... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 3 months 4 weeks ago • 1,221 views • 3:54

No one signed up to read to Sting, so the library put out a call for 4-8 year olds. Now he's booked solid, so I gotta ask, Sting....why the long face?

posted by newtboy 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 278 views • 1:41