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 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,829 views • 2:12

COLUMBIA, SC Three former Orangeburg County law officers caught in an FBI sting where federal agents pretended to be members of a Mexican drug-smuggling cartel have been sentenced to prison, according... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 4 months 3 weeks ago • 14 views • 1:20

"Why some Americans’ votes count more than others. Watch more of our election coverage: http://vox.com/ElectionVideos In the 2000 US presidential election, the Democratic candidate got half a million... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 9 months 1 week ago • 85 views • 8:09

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 2 years ago • 922 views • 7:59

From Youtube, "Who FILES A LAWSUIT UNDER THE SEA? A depressed Plankton wakes up and goes to the Krusty Krab one morning without a plan to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula, telling Karen that... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 44 views • 23:21

An American explorer has descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. Victor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench... continue reading

posted by newtboy 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 1,318 views • 2:14

YouTube description: After being diagnosed with a rare, potentially fatal brain condition known as Moyamoya, Jennifer Lee was forced to face her own mortality and consider the things in life she held... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 6 months ago • 588 views • 10:01

Polyphonic explores the start of Metal rock, to several individual songs that could be considered the start, and one point where it couldn't be any later than.

posted by RFlagg 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 489 views • 11:39

YouTube description: Kittie Weston-Knauer loves a challenge, so best not get in her way. She started BMX racing at 40 years old, initially competing against men and later working with the sport’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 149 views • 3:20

YouTube description: Watch a time-lapse video of the installation and deinstallation (rotation) of large carpets and mounted textiles in The Met's galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 11 months 1 week ago • 337 views • 1:21

In the far north of Canada sit the DEW Line stations: "Distant Early Warning". Built in the 1950s, these were the sites that would have sounded the alarm if the Soviet Union ever attacked North America.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 1 month ago • 21 views • 2:59

Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. Most people knew someone affected by the lethal drug. Just two decades later, the country has one of the lowest drug-related death rates in the world.... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 2 months 1 week ago • 497 views • 3:43

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 4 years 5 months ago • 405 views • 7:08

YT: I built an A frame hut as a large work space for projects. First I made a celt hatchet to cut timber for the hut. The axe head was made of amphibolite and the handle was made of a species of wattle.... continue reading

posted by nanrod 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 520 views • 9:05

John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill was born in Hong Kong, and graduated from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in 1926. He would later earn the nickname “Mad Jack” or “Fighting Jack”... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,748 views • 6:57

3 weeks later, it's a stunning masterpiece. London-based stonecarver Anna Rubincam creates a portrait from start to finish -- all shot within a span of three weeks.

posted by BSR 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 87 views • 8:36

He's given a TED talk too, https://www.ted.com/talks/andres_ruzo_the_mythical_boiling_river_of_the_amazon YouTube description: When Andrés Ruzo was a boy, his grandfather would tell him tales of... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 2,025 views • 2:34

Jessica McCabe tell us the story of her life. Once a gifted child with bright future, who later lives a life of a constant failures, because one thing - her ADHD diagnosis. Until one thing changed everything... continue reading

posted by notarobot 4 years 10 months ago • 1,412 views • 17:13

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 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 123 views • 10:14