(PG-13 language) Fail Army presents part two of their hilarious round up of ordinary people attempting, and failing miserably at, Olympic sports. See and smile here!… MORE
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Drake in the Morning – Life Before Air Conditioning
How in the world did people deal with the summer heat without air conditioning? Lots of ways, both time-tested and experimental. Cooling homes was not the intended purpose when Willis Carrier invented modern air conditioning in 1902. The earliest air conditioners were for industrial quality control; the comfort of the workers was incidental. However, artificial…… MORE
Drake in the Morning – Why Trains Suck in America
At one time, America’s railroads were king. It’s a very pleasant way to travel. You have more legroom than planes or buses, you don’t have to drive or navigate pr pump gas, and the view along the way is unique. But the last time I rode a train was in the 1970s, and I hear…… MORE
Drake in the Morning – Bumper Music for August 17th
– Alice Cooper: You Drive Me Nervous – Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes: The Time of My Life – Janet Jackson: Black Cat – Marvin Gaye: Trouble Man – Big Star: September Gurls – Ringo Starr: Photograph – Sonny & Cher: I Got You Babe – Huey Lewis & the News: The Power of Love –…… MORE
Drake in the Morning – Why We Might Be Living In A Simulation
Movies such as The Truman Show and The Matrix left viewers forever wondering if perhaps we are in some type of bubble universe, a fake reality shielding us from the real thing. Even Tesla creator Elon Musk believes it is possible we are living in a simulation, says Vox. See it here!… MORE
Drake in the Morning – Hilarious Gymnast Faces From the 2016 Olympics
It takes a ton of skill and concentration to become a world-class gymnast. Here are a few of the sharp looks of extreme determination caught at the Rio Olympics. See them here!… MORE
Drake in the Morning – Video Camera On Hot Wheels Toy Car Riding Down Track
Every kid loves playing with Hot Wheels toy cars. Building intricate and complex tracks for the tiny plastic cars is half the fun. That gave 5MadMovieMakers an awesome idea. So they build an epic track, attached a camera to a Hot Wheels car, and let it loose. The resulting video is better than a roller coaster ride! See…… MORE
Drake in the Morning – Bumper Music for August 10
– Mojo Nixon: Elvis is Everywhere – Phil Lynott: Kings Call – Grand Funk Railroad: Footstompin’ Music – Florence + the Machine: Addicted to Love – Elvis: Are You Lonesome Tonight? – Lee Michael: Do You Know What I Mean – Chuck Berry: C’est La Vie – Kris Kristofferson: Jesus was a Capricorn – Kacey…… MORE
Drake in the Morning – How World War I Affects Us Today
We tend to think of history as a collection of abstract facts that have no bearing on the “real world,” but everything connects across the timeline. Big, world-changing events don’t just change things when they happen; they send out shock waves that reverberate into the present. Like William Faulkner said, “The past is never dead.…… MORE
Drake in the Morning – The Single-celled Organism That Almost Wiped Out Life on Earth
Two-and-a-half billion years ago, the earth was a very different place, but it already had life. Not anything you’d recognize, or could even see, but life of a sort anyway. While those archaic life forms reproduced by splitting, they also managed to mutate like crazy, at least on an evolutionary scale. And some of them…… MORE
