In 1864, Jourdon Anderson and his wife escaped a life of slavery and moved to Ohio. A year later, he received a desperate letter from the man who used to own him, in which he was asked to return to work... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 months ago • 78 views • 6:30Videos (96) | Sift Talk (0) | Blogs (0) | Comments (1000) |
Proudly Presenting: "Corporate Ping Pong" This engineered mechanical sculpture is a representation of the hum and haw and constant, slow churn of the big corporate machine. Jumping through hoops, creating... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 months ago • 72 views • 6:35Magnetohydrodynamic thrust uses no moving parts in order to accelerate water. It has been known for half a century, but it may be possible that we're only now beginning to explore it for use in Marine... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 months 1 week ago • 275 views • 12:11Precious samples collected from an asteroid are to be moved to a specialist laboratory in Texas. Material taken from what has been described as “the most dangerous rock in our Solar System” came... continue reading
posted by newtboy 7 months 3 weeks ago • 123 views • 2:482023 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 • 7:32The Parkes Radio Telescope, part of CSIRO, is one of the most famous telescopes in the world: and it's got a unique way of getting equipment up and down from the central section. More about the Telescope: ... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 3 months 3 weeks ago • 43 views • 9:15Relative velocity | Demonstration of constant speed with a moving trampoline
posted by BSR 1 year 4 months 2 weeks ago • 406 views • 57 secsEnter the world of an undertaker whose family for three generations has cared for both the living and the dead in a small Michigan town, as families navigate loss, grief and mortality. (Aired 2007) ... continue reading
posted by BSR 1 year 6 months 4 weeks ago • 52 views • 53:38Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of... continue reading
posted by eric3579 2 years ago • 225 views • 9:55have questions about why the videoing auto kept driving into a storm that is spinning a pickup like a top?
posted by luxintenebris 2 years 1 month 4 weeks ago • 380 views • 4:58From Youtube, "You are not a person, you are a planet, made of roughly 40 trillion cells. There is so much of you, that if your cells were human-sized, you would be as big as 20 Mount Everests. For your... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 2 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 313 views • 11:46We were lucky enough to notice when a swarm was moving in to the trap behind our house, and caught the whole process on video!
posted by newtboy 3 years ago • 119 views • 16:22Imagine pole-vaulting across dangerous terrain, down steep slopes and ravines. "Salto del pastor"—translated from Spanish as "the shepherd's leap"—is just that. Now a folk sport and hobby, it was once... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 2 weeks ago • 751 views • 3:53last post was day 153. what progress in 100 days. I thought it would be done but still moving along.
posted by bobknight33 3 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 5 views • 17:10The Nenet reindeer herders need to move their tent every few days throughout most of the year. Every time they migrate they must pack the whole tent away, drag it across the tundra on sledges, and erect... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 499 views • 32:14Beau talks about an old video and hows close America has come to fascism.
posted by w1ndex 3 years 5 months ago • 127 views • 3:32Each season has its own distinctive flowers, and in Japan early May sees the wisteria blossom. Many people travel at that time to see fine examples of wisteria, a spreading vine that can be arranged over... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 388 views • 4:28From Youtube, "At this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life and death. You probably don’t feel it, but there is an incredible amount of activity going on inside you. And this activity... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 1 week ago • 559 views • 11:31YouTube description: People use boats for all kinds of reasons, and in the same way, there are all kinds, shapes, sizes, and ages of locks used for waterway navigation across the world. Freight is big... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 248 views • 10:37