The original Star Wars trilogy was groundbreaking for its special effects, its world building, its action, and so, so much more. But if you ask George Lucas, it isn't the action, nor the performances,... continue reading
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Nasa's take on a popular question, driven by the Discover supercomputer. There are multiple runthroughs, covering first the simple video then a full explanation, a deep dive into some of the details,... continue reading
posted by noims 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 4:20Ted Koppel's interview with Nelson Mandela in 1990 on ABC News. Nelson Mandela visited the U.S. for the first time after being freed from 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa. Here is sectioned out... continue reading
posted by newtboy 6 months 3 weeks ago • 5 views • 8:19We all know Richard Hammond loves a 4x4, and they don’t come much more legendary than the first ever road-going Land Rover, known affectionately as ‘JUE’. Richard takes us through the story of rediscovering... continue reading
posted by newtboy 9 months 2 weeks ago • 233 views • 14:10Few of the monsters that evolution created have been so successful at hurting us as the variola virus, responsible for smallpox. The carnage it caused was so terrible and merciless that it compelled humankind,... continue reading
posted by eric3579 9 months 2 weeks ago • 143 views • 11:09YouTube description: In 2015, what we knew about Iron Age shields all changed. And it changed in a field in Leicester... Iron Age Curator Sophia Adams explains the construction of the first organic... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 11 months ago • 144 views • 15:29Zoe the orangutan needed help breastfeeding after failing to nurse her first baby. Zookeepers worked with her tirelessly to kickstart her maternal instincts. When Zoe delivered her second baby, a zookeeper... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 1 month 3 weeks ago • 293 views • 3:12This 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 4 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 • 24:24In 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 1 week ago • 60 views • 17:44"... on February 19, 1968, NET, National Educational Television, a precursor to PBS, presented the very first episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, one of television's longest running shows, and one... continue reading
posted by ant 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 5 views • 4:40"Here's the very 1st episode of a popular educational children's show 'Sesame Street'..."
posted by ant 1 year 6 months 2 weeks ago • 9 views • 58:36Alaska has cancelled this year's snow crab harvest for the first time ever after 90% of the snow crabs disappeared. BILLIONS of snow crabs vanished from the Bering Sea. By why? Why did billions of crabs... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 6 months 3 weeks ago • 104 views • 11:29What If you took the celestial bodies that have elements names for them (Mercury, Ceres, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto), and made them entirely composed of those elements? Minute physics animates and presents... continue reading
posted by noims 1 year 8 months ago • 29 views • 3:41Amazon has shared surveillance video recorded by its doorbell camera system without attempting to contact users for their prior consent and without police obtaining a warrant. The company has now admitted... continue reading
posted by newtboy 1 year 10 months 1 week ago • 66 views • 1:27The first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope are finally here! Let's take a look, talk about what we're seeing, and compare them to the most detailed version of these images we had before.
posted by BSR 1 year 10 months 1 week ago • 210 views • 7:48A quick basic-level tour through the first official image released by JWST, of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
posted by eric3579 1 year 10 months 2 weeks ago • 314 views • 7:18When humans first populated North America and how they arrived has long been a matter of spirited debate. A recent study detailing what archeologists believe are the oldest known footprints in the United... continue reading
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