The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics
AdultsEducationPhysicsScienceA huge thank you to those who helped us understand different aspects of this complicated topic - Dr. Ashmeet Singh, Supriya Krishnamurthy, Dr. Jos Thijssen, Dr. Bijoy Bera, Dr. Timon Idema, Álvaro Bermejillo Seco and Dr. Misha Titov.
Penguin Siblings Race For Food | Growing Up Wild | BBC Earth
AdultsAnimalsNatureWorld...In the harsh climate of Antarctica, Adelie penguin siblings take the term 'sibling rivalry' to a new level, their survival depends on it. Pitting the pair against each other will show the parents who is the fittest and most likely to make it in the wild.
How This Guy Became The Best Rock Skipper On The Planet | Obsessed | WIRED
AdultsFunHumanMedia...Kurt Steiner is record holding champion stone skipper—and a master of the physics that underpin the sport. A labor of love that's evolved into a world-class passion, see where Kurt harvests his preferred rocks, the qualities he seeks in them, and each factor he considers in order to throw like a pro.
How Species Make and Break Friendships
AdultsAnimalsHumanLife...Community ecology is the study of interactions between different species of living things, and lets ecologists examine the effects of predator-prey relationships, parasites, and mutually beneficial interactions. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll examine the myriad interspecies interactions with examples, see how keystone species impact their environment and explore how communities rebuild when they are disrupted, through the lens of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Everything is about to change.
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceEducationScience...We can’t ignore it any longer. Generative A.I. like ChatGPT is going to change everything. It already is. Here’s what the future looks like from my vantage point.
The Most Dangerous Weapon Is Not Nuclear
AdultsBiotechnologyEconomyScience...A breathtaking scientific revolution is taking place – biotechnology has been progressing at stunning speed, giving us the tools to eventually gain control over biology. On the one hand solving the deadliest diseases while also creating viruses more dangerous than nuclear bombs, able to devastate humanity.
Blindness Isn't a Tragic Binary — It's a Rich Spectrum | Andrew Leland | TED
AdultsBiologyHumanScience...When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world.
The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat
AdultsBiologyHumanScience...An undead city under siege, soldiers and police ruthlessly shooting down waves of zombies that flood from infected streets, trying to escape and infect more cities. This is what happens when your body fights cancer, more exciting than any movie.
These Countries Are Cheating
AdultsEducationGlobal WarmingScience...By overcounting how much carbon their forests suck up, and undercounting how much carbon their industries release, countries undercount their total carbon emissions.
What Biologists Do: Crash Course Biology
AdultsBiologyBiotechnologyEducation...A biologist’s natural habitat is anywhere questions about life are being asked—whether the subject is a nematode or a narwhal, a single cell, or a whole ecosystem.
The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
AdultsCreativityIndustryScience...Welcome to Micromouse, the fastest maze-solving competition on Earth.
YouTube’s Science Scam Crisis
AdultsIndustryScienceTechnology...There’s a tsunami of science spam on YouTube. Why does it all look the same? How much harm does it do? Do not watch these low-effort, AI-generated, cash grabs.