Flying Above The Clouds In A Hot Air Balloon
Adults Culture Transportation TravelThe Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is the largest hot air balloon event in the world. For 9 days, it brings together pilots and guests from all over the world to witness a one of a kind experience. Seeker takes you to the festival to witness this beautiful event, and to envision what it's like to ride above New Mexico in a Hot Air Balloon.
9-Year-Old Piano Prodigy | Ryan Wang // 60 Second Docs
Adults Creativity Culture MusicRyan Wang is a typical 9-year-old boy, with one extreme exception -- he's a world-famous classical piano prodigy. In 2013, when he was just five years old, he performed at Carnegie Hall, and has since made appearances on The Ellen Show and with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. And through it all, Ryan remains a normal kid who loves life offstage, too.
Food waste is the world's dumbest problem
Adults Food Global WarmingEat your peas! It's the easiest way to fight climate change.
Japan's robot volleyball team
Adults Sports TechnologyOne thing stands between Japan and the Volleyball World Cup: a team of robot jocks.
How does your body process medicine?
Adults Health Human ScienceHave you ever wondered what happens to a painkiller, like ibuprofen, after you swallow it? Medicine that slides down your throat can help treat a headache, a sore back, or a throbbing sprained ankle. But how does it get where it needs to go in the first place?
This incredible animation shows how deep the ocean really is
Adults Animals NatureJust how deep does the ocean go? Way further than you think. This animation puts the actual distance into perspective, showing a vast distance between the waves we see and the mysterious point we call Challenger Deep.
Why Do We Cook?
Adults Food Science SocietyWhy do humans cook? Holidays are celebrated in many ways, but chances are they involve eating, and eating a LOT. Ever wonder why we cook our food? We do it because it tastes good, of course, and because our customs and traditions are built around it. But we also cook our food for some basic biological reasons, because of evolution. Some scientists think that figuring out how to cook actually MADE us human! If conversation gets a little dry around your holiday table, now you'll have some awesome science to share with everyone!
A Robot Just Performed the First-Ever Surgery Inside the Human Eye
Adults Health TechnologyA surgeon uses controls to guide the robot.
How do focus groups work? - Hector Lanz
Adults Business Marketing PsychologyFocus groups have been widely used by organizations and individuals to find out how their products and ideas will be received by an audience. From the usage of household products to a politician's popularity, almost everything can be explored with this technique. But how are focus groups put together? And how did they come about in the first place? Hector Lanz explains how focus groups work.
Binging with Babish: Ratatouille (Confit Byaldi) from Ratatouille
Adults Creativity FoodRemy is an especially-clean-looking rat that's been given the gift of Gusteau's gastronomy. Let's see if his signature dish is worth staking an entire restaurant's reputation upon for the sake of a pun.
BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Official Trailer
Adults Film Future MarketingThirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Check your intuition: The birthday problem - David Knuffke
Adults Math SocietyImagine a group of people. How big do you think the group would have to be before there's more than a 50% chance that two people in the group have the same birthday? The answer is ... probably lower than you think. David Knuffke explains how the birthday problem exposes our often-poor intuition when it comes to probability.
What humans will look like in 1,000 years
Adults Future HumanThere will eventually be a day where prosthetics are no longer just for the disabled. However, it's not just our outside appearance that will change - our genes will also evolve on microscopic levels to aid our survival. For example, an Oxford-led study discovered a group of HIV-infected children in South Africa living healthy lives. It turns out, they have a built-in defense against HIV that prevents the virus from advancing to AIDS.
Climate Lab - Climate Lab - Why your old phones collect in a junk drawer of sadness
Adults Gadgets Global Warming TechnologySmartphones shouldn't be so disposable. Could fixing the way we make our phones help solve climate change?
Oxygen's surprisingly complex journey through your body - Enda Butler
Adults Biology Human ScienceOxygen forms about 21% of the air around us. In your body, oxygen forms a vital role in the production of energy in most cells. But if gases can only efficiently diffuse across tiny distances, how does oxygen reach the cells deep inside your body? Enda Butler tracks the surprisingly complex journey of oxygen through your body.