Plimpton 322 is the name given to a 3,800-year-old clay tablet discovered in Iraq in the early 20th Century by archeologist Edgar J Banks, the man believed to have inspired Indiana Jones. Over time this... continue reading
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Why were climate models so wrong about 2023? Neil deGrasse Tyson learns about why 2023 was hotter than we expected it to be and what effects need to be factored into future climate modeling with climatologist... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 months 2 weeks ago • 137 views • 16:39Wildfires in Hawaii fanned by strong winds burned structures in areas including the historic town of Lahaina, forcing evacuations and closing schools in several communities. Rescuers pulled a dozen people... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 months 1 week ago • 113 views • 2:142023 Florida is home to about 800,000 undocumented immigrants, and many work in the kinds of businesses that would be impacted by the law, known as SB 1718. Many of those affected are also members of mixed-status... continue reading
posted by newtboy 11 months 1 week ago • 98 views • 7:32An 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 1 year 1 week ago • 144 views • 2:36The 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 month ago • 83 views • 14:21This deepsea Octopus (or Squid) was filmed in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico by a work class ROV. At first we believed this to be a Cirrate Octopus, but now we believe it to be a Vampire Squid/Umbrella... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 75 views • 2:12At 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 3 weeks ago • 213 views • 1:46"Flashback to the holiday season of 2001. After years of filming, the first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is due to hit theaters, and expectations... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 4 views • 24:24A group of police recruits were hit be a car during a morning run. For some reason, a group of at least 40 recruits were running in the road instead of using sidewalks, without a permit, and were hit by a car. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months ago • 138 views • 2:07One home went undamaged when all the homes around it were badly damaged or completely washed away. Similar look to the last house standing in Mexico Beach after Hurricane Michael. It clearly has high end... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago • 419 views • 1:19Sewers were one of the earliest and most impactful advents of public health in urban areas, and it’s exciting that we’re still finding new ways to use them to that end.
posted by eric3579 2 years ago • 50 views • 12:10Oh, and it can also play the world's hardest song... sort of. Shout out to Sheet Music Boss. Go check out and sub to their channel!- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzTR... Finally, the piano... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 140 views • 11:34The sanctions on Russia’s financial system were used to deter Putin from further escalation in the war, but what are the risks?
posted by eric3579 2 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 269 views • 14:05Let’s not resigns ourselves to fatality. Solutions exist. Together we can do more to decrease risks on the normal route to Mont-Blanc. The Mont-Blanc rising to 4 809 meters is the highest peak in... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 317 views • 4:02The 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 4 months ago • 42 views • 4:26Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 82 views • 14:39How do you rebuild one of the biggest spillways in the world after a catastrophic failure with the next flood season right around the corner? This video covers the engineering and construction required... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 280 views • 20:38Some 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
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