How to Recount Your Dreams
Adults Psychology Society SpiritualityWe often wake up from a dream with a powerful urge to tell those around us about what happened. But our listeners are also liable to feel restless and bored during our narration of the dream. The issue takes us to the heart of the challenges of communication.
Art Aquarium: Hidetomo Kimura's fishy installation
Adults Animals Art CreativityOne of Tokyo's most popular summer attractions features LED light displays, impressive glass sculptures, an immersive soundscape and, most importantly, thousands of sea creatures. Japanese artist Hidetomo Kimura's Art Aquarium combines the movements of about 5,000 goldfish with light shows, beautifully crafted fishbowls, and projection mapping.
LITERATURE - Goethe
Adults Books Creativity CultureGoethe is one of the great minds of European civilisation, though his work is largely unknown outside of the German speaking countries. He deserves our renewed attention.
Can you find the next number in this sequence? - Alex Gendler
Adults Creativity Math Science1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221. These are the first five elements of a number sequence. Can you figure out what comes next? Alex Gendler reveals the answer and explains how beyond just being a neat puzzle, this type of sequence has practical applications as well.
It's not you. Claw machines are rigged.
Adults Business TechnologyIf you have played a claw machine you probably haven't won many prizes and maybe even thought they are rigged. Find out what really happened to your allowance.
The real secret to sushi isn't fish
Adults Creativity FoodHere's how it rolled from rice paddies into your burrito.
Card Throwing Trick Shots | Dude Perfect
Adults Art CreativityIs card throwing the new water bottle flipping?
How does caffeine keep us awake? - Hanan Qasim
Adults Addiction Food HealthOver 100,000 metric tons of caffeine are consumed around the world every year. That's equivalent to the weight of 14 Eiffel Towers! Caffeine helps us feel alert, focused, and energetic, even if we haven't had enough sleep - but it can also raise our blood pressure and make us feel anxious. So how does it keep us awake? Hanan Qasim shares the science behind the world's most widely used drug.
This Woman Is Helping Grieving Parents To Heal | Amazing Humans
Adults Mental Health SocietyFuneral Director LeighAnne helps parents through one of the most difficult experiences they can face - the loss of a miscarried or stillborn baby.
Vincent van Gogh's long, miserable road to fame
Adults Art Creativity HistoryVan Gogh's travels informed the works we revere today.
Binging with Babish: Game of Thrones
Adults Creativity FoodThis weekend we're welcoming back the show that has the monopoly on lurid violence, epic battles, and wholly unnecessary nudity: Game of Thrones. George R.R. Martin's ability to describe the crunching of a skull is rivalled only by his ability to describe the crunching of a pastry, so it's only fitting that this sexy saga is home to some serious food porn. I'm a main character in this show, so my life is decidedly in danger this week.
How does fracking work? - Mia Nacamulli
Adults Global Warming Nature TechnologyDeep underground lie stores of once-inaccessible natural gas. There's a technology, called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," that can extract this natural gas, potentially powering us for decades to come. So how does fracking work and why is it a source of such heated controversy? Mia Nacamulli explains the ins and outs of fracking.
Why We Only Learn When We Repeat
Adults Human PsychologyOur education system is based on the idea that we can learn things once, and that they'll then stay in our minds throughout our lives. That's far too optimistic. Our brains are like sieves. If anything is going to remain in them, we need regular reminders of what really matters. Fascinatingly, religions always understood that.
The Dangers of the Good Child
Adults Human Psychology SocietyGood children don't cause problems; they always do what others expect. They seem to be on track. But there are real problems with people who never have a chance to be a little bad.
Superblocks: How Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars
Adults Cities Global Warming TransportationModern cities are designed for cars. But the city of Barcelona is testing out an urban design trick that can give cities back to pedestrians.
What to Do About Being Clumsy
Adults Psychology Relationships SocietyBeing clumsy is one of the most humiliating of scenarios. We need to learn to make friends with our 'inner idiot'.