How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED
Adults Education
What makes for a meaningful life? Social psychologist Brian S. Lowery explores three ideas tied to the experience of meaning and shows why simply pursuing personal achievements isn't the best way to find it.
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes
Adults Education
Myths and misconceptions about planes. Go to https://groundnews.com/Ver to see through media misconceptions and get all sides of every story. Subscribe to save 40% off unlimited access through our link.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows (uses water instead of leather)
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I built a Water Bellows. It’s an upside-down clay pot with an inlet valve and an outlet spout. The inlet valve is simply a hole in the pot with a leaf plastered to the inside with wet clay so that it forms a one-way flap valve.
Is Nuclear Power “Too Expensive”?
Adults Education
The best argument against nuclear power, maybe the only real argument, is that nuclear power is “too slow” to build and is “too expensive” to finance. Is this true?
These Illusions Fool Almost Everyone
Adults Education
A big thank you to Titus Grenyer over at Pep Organ for showing us around the Sydney Town Hall Organ, to Dr. Diana Deutsch for providing her illusions and insight into the field, to Casey Connor for advice on building sound illusions, and to Dr. Michael Bach for providing the motion-bounce illusion.
Wagner talks about his experience studying International Trade at the Canadian College
Adults Education
Wagner is a Brazilian student who studied the International Trade Diploma at the Canadian College. He received a FITT Diploma which will help him get a better job in Brasil.
Primitive Technology: Polynesian Arrowroot Hashbrown
Adults Education
I made a hashbrown from Polynesian arrowroot. A hashbrown is typically made from potatoes where it is mashed and baked on a pan.
Origins of Color (Trade & Exchange)
Adults Education
How can the color “red” be a global commodity? How can the way a statue stands be a sign of cultural exchange?
Fallout's Cold Fusion Problem
Adults Education
Was #Fallout’s “artifact” really worth transporting a severed head across the wasteland?
The Truth About Petri Dishes
Adults Education
One of the best ways of studying bacteria is to grow them on a petri dish, but only a tiny percentage of bacterial species will grow on them.
Why Reality is a “Controlled Hallucination”
Adults Education
There have always been hints that the brain wasn’t evolved to track objective reality, but a new, incredibly popular theory in neuroscience takes everything one step further. Not only is your brain not built for reality, you’ve never even experienced it. Noted Science Zaddy Kyle Hill explains “predictive processing.”
Primitive Technology: Making Charcoal in a Closed Pot
Adults Education
I made charcoal in a clay pot by putting wood in it and heat the pot externally effectively making it like a retort.
This Black Hole Could be Bigger Than The Universe
Adults Education
Black holes might create infinite universes while destroying time and space.
Primitive Technology: Geopolymer Cement (Ash and Clay)
Adults Education
I have made wood ash cement before under the assumption that it was the calcium in the ash that gave it its cementitious properties...
Does Expensive Coffee actually taste better?
Adults Education
Coffee beans are one of the most confusing items to purchase, so over the past several weeks, I bought 20+ different kinds of coffee at different price points, visited a local roaster, tried roasting my own beans at home and tested a bunch of types of coffee in order to understand the flavor and price differences of coffee beans.
Why the Three-Body Problem is Unsolvable*
Adults Education
What is the THREE-BODY PROBLEM? What does it have to do with the award-winning book of the same name?
The Language Counting Paradox
Adults Education
Lots of languages and species are going extinct, but because others keep getting found or described, the official counts of languages and species are still increasing.