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“TRUMP A.C./D.C.” — A short film by Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme
“Trump A.C./D.C.” is an archival documentary short about Donald Trump’s casino businesses in Atlantic City. A short film by Daniel DiMauro and Morgan Pehme Music by Kyle Scott Wilson Motion Graphics by Aaron Hodgins Davis Color by Josh Kanuck Edited … Continue reading
Wim Hof’s Corona Survival Guide! | Russell Brand
A clip from the upcoming Under The Skin podcast with the incredible and inspiring Iceman aka Wim Hof. His ability to control his body and how it reacts to the world seems limitless. In the past Wim has been deliberately … Continue reading
Barbara Blake Hannah: The first black reporter on British TV
By Simi Jolaoso When British TV got its first black reporter in 1968 some viewers strongly objected and she was sacked in less than a year. Now, half a century later, a British Journalism Award has been named in her … Continue reading
How Did The Countries Of Europe Get Their Names?
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Nearly every country on earth is named after one of four things: https://qz.com/1070266/the-name-of-a-… Albania: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Alban… Andorra: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=a… Armenia: http://www.vehi.net/istoriya/armenia/… Austria: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Austr… Azerbaijan: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Azerb… Belarus: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/W…. Belgium: https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingLi… Bosnia: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Bosni… Herzegovina: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Herze… Bulgaria: https://www.etymonline.com/word/bulgaria Croatia: … Continue reading
The 2 Billion Year Old Earth-Based Nuclear Reactor
Sources: Wiles, Donald, The Chemistry of Nuclear Fuel Waste Disposal, Polytechnic International Press, Montreal, 2002 Meshik, Alex, The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor, Scientific American, November 2005, https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar… Mervine, Evelyn, Nature’s Nuclear Reactors: the 2-Billion-Year-Old Natural Fission Reactors in … Continue reading
Animated Maps: Submarine Cables
Deep on the ocean floor you will find communication cables made to carry signals from one land to another. The first undersea communications cables, laid in the 1850s, carried telegraphy. Now these cables carry our phone and Internet traffic. Yet, … Continue reading
Viral ‘molecular scissor’ is next COVID-19 drug target – ScienceBlog.com
American and Polish scientists, reporting Oct. 16 in the journal Science Advances, laid out a novel rationale for COVID-19 drug design – blocking a molecular “scissor” that the virus uses for virus production and to disable human proteins crucial to the … Continue reading
The Case for Reparations – The Atlantic – Ta-Nehisi Coates
“Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”
Little Amal: An Enormous Puppet Is Traveling 8,000km to Shine Light on the Refugee Crisis | Colossal
Photograph by Bevan Roos. To draw attention to the ongoing refugee crisis, an oversized puppet will traverse 8,000 kilometers on a route starting at the Turkey-Syria border. From April to July 2021, “Little Amal” will travel across Greece, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, … Continue reading
How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work
MinutePhysics on permanent magnets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAOXd… Subscribe to Veritasium: http://bit.ly/SuBVe Support Veritasium- get a t-shirt: http://dft.ba/-vetshirt Subscribe to MinutePhysics: http://bit.ly/1eVPynh Magnetism seems like a pretty magical phenomenon. Rocks that attract or repel each other at a distance – that’s really cool … Continue reading
