"... In 1971, three student teachers in Minneapolis, MN created a little computer game about westward expansion in the United States. Over 50 years later, The Oregon Trail series has sold more than 65... continue reading
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The Ocean Kite Engine (OKE) incorporates regen kite control technology, enabling it to generate electrical power and/or providing propulsion. This dual functionality allows the OKE to not only propel boats... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 months ago • 184 views • 10:01The act of sniffing black pepper has been explored in some studies for its potential to interrupt and shift habitual behaviors and cravings. The inhalation of black pepper's pungent scent may engage the... continue reading
posted by BSR 4 months 2 weeks ago • 109 views • 4:03Precious 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 • 7:32In 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which house the Museum's renowned collection of Islamic... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 4 months ago • 60 views • 17:44Seems Vitamin D may not be the answer to better Covid outcomes. It seems it may be the other effects of sunlight that is providing protection.
posted by eric3579 2 years 1 month 1 week ago • 516 views • 23:59Artemis 1: Which will consist of an uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon, where the next generation of spacecraft that will take humans to the... continue reading
posted by BSR 2 years 1 month 1 week ago • 59 views • 12:48Instead of shipping food all around the world, imagine your own food coming from your farm in a shipping container, just outside your backdoor. That’s the vision of FarmPod, a St. Croix-based startup... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 6 months 1 week ago • 18 views • 6:56Throughout the month of October, Saildrone performed a 30-day proof-of-concept demonstration for the United States Coast Guard to show how uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) could be used to provide persistent... continue reading
posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 316 views • 3:07February 2017 saw one of the most serious dam-related engineering incidents in history with the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. Whether they realized it or not, the people living and working... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years ago • 465 views • 18:27For over a century, one of the most important salmon runs in the U.S. has had to contend with historic dams in Oregon and California. These dams have been responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 2 weeks ago • 134 views • 3:07When disaster strikes, the flurry of political positioning and fingerpointing can make it difficult to understand what really happened. This video provides a summary of the facts of the 2021 Texas winter storm. ... continue reading
posted by eric3579 3 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 167 views • 16:48Far more than you ever needed to know about dishwashers. Ever wonder how dishwashers work? Are you ever bummed by the performance of yours? Well, this video can answer your question and possibly provide... continue reading
posted by blacklotus90 3 years 4 months 4 weeks ago • 423 views • 32:35YouTube description: While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this unusual anatomy developed in the first place. ... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,094 views • 9:31From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 55 views • 26:02https://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 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 930 views • 7:59Createk third-arm : Supernumerary robotic arm powered by magnetorheological clutches and an hydrostatic transmission. Fast enough to compensate for human motions while being safe for physical human-robot interaction. ... continue reading
posted by newtboy 3 years 11 months 1 week ago • 123 views • 2:51YouTube 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 • 10:37YouTube description: The story of Apollo 13 goes beyond a tale of survival. The mission also successfully completed a science investigation that is still helping to inform our understanding of the Moon... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 1 month 1 week ago • 69 views • 2:46