A video for any of you who are wondering how the Amish dealt with covid.

posted by Buttle 1 month 1 week ago • 190 views • 5:38

University of Chicago on the Ukraine crisis of 2015. This crisis has been happening for a good long time. It is a long lecture, not a bunch of happy war memes. It's by a guy who understands the causes... continue reading

posted by Buttle 3 months 2 weeks ago • 52 views • 1:14:16

Sentimental, with a twist.

posted by Buttle 6 months 3 weeks ago • 126 views • 11:36

New Hampshire high school track and field coach refuses to make athletes wear masks outdoors, gets the sack. For reference, here's what the World Health Organization says: Q: Can people wear masks... continue reading

posted by Buttle 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago • 171 views • 1:51

Vintage TV ad.

posted by Buttle 1 year 6 months ago • 13 views • 1:03

Los Alamos nuclear wonks tout their product, a small, simple fission reactor that uses a Stirling engine to produce roughly a kilowatt of electric power. Some thoughts on why this is good for Mars exploration,... continue reading

posted by Buttle 1 year 11 months ago • 99 views • 2:13

From https://twitter.com/YusufCatStevens God bless the ineffable Peter Green, one of the unsung heroes of musical integrity, innovation and spirit. When I heard he left Fleetwood Mac in 1970 to get... continue reading

posted by Buttle 1 year 11 months ago • 95 views • 1:22

The wife found one of these wierd little guys crawling on the patio table yesterday, so I had to figure out what it was. They're not very big, the one we saw was about 1/8" or 3mm long. According to... continue reading

posted by Buttle 1 year 11 months ago • 70 views • 1:59

Shows a man holding a sign saying ""the right to openly discuss ideas must be defended", in Hackney, England. Apparently this is not an acceptable sentiment these days; I guess classical liberalism had... continue reading

posted by Buttle 1 year 11 months 2 weeks ago • 294 views • 2:21

YT: Inspection, remove queen, and then ultimately decide to euthanize the colony. Shows the process undertaken, including the euthanization. The beekeeper is EAS Master Beekeeper Kevin Inglin --------------------... continue reading

posted by Buttle 1 year 11 months 4 weeks ago • 129 views • 35:01

Final scene of All That Jazz, a semi-autobiographical take on the not yet accomplished death of Bob Fosse, who directed it in painstaking detail, and made it look really good. A fine example of artistic... continue reading

posted by Buttle 2 years 1 week ago • 12 views • 10:58

John Prine sings and song he co-wrote with Steve Goodman. I miss them both.

posted by Buttle 2 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 9 views • 6:29

Draganfly, an Australian company, tout their COVID-19 surveillance drone, able, supposedly, to detect a feverish citizen from the air. Looks like a potential foot in the door to constant drone surveillance... continue reading

posted by Buttle 2 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 160 views • 1:32

Animation to accompany one of those old, dire country songs, beatifully sung.

posted by Buttle 3 years 10 months 1 week ago • 111 views • 4:11

Pulpwood logging and river drive in Quebec in the 1950s. Back when men made their living pulling an oar or swinging an axe. None of this mamby-pamby one tree at a time stuff. Thousands and thousands... continue reading

posted by Buttle 2 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 11 views • 29:22

Felling a tree old school -- nice and quiet right up to the end.

posted by Buttle 2 years 7 months ago • 38 views • 7:19

Parasitologist voluntarily infests himself with a leech that crawls up his nose. Hard core science is not pretty. Eventually it grew to be many times its infant size, and began to poke its head out whenever... continue reading

posted by Buttle 2 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 28 views • 1:17

Not your grandma's 2x4.

posted by Buttle 2 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 22 views • 15:59

Dr. Crockford is an authority on polar bears. YT: Dr. Susan Crockford looks back at the story which linked a starving polar bear to climate change, but which its authors now admit 'went too far'.

posted by Buttle 3 years ago • 29 views • 4:35