World’s Most Expensive Mango
AdultsFoodHumanIndustryCulture... A friend from out of town gifts you with a delicious-looking mango. An odd gift but who can deny a bite of the juicy fruit! You cut into only to find out that this mango cost $3,600!
Can you solve the fantasy election riddle? - Dennis E. Shasha
AdultsEducationHumanMathPoliticsSociety... After much debate, the realm has decided dragon jousting may not be the best way to choose its leaders, and has begun transitioning to democracy.
The Problem With Life Expectancy
AdultsHealthHumanPsychologyBiologyScience... In order to truly understand differences among animal lifespans, we need to stop thinking about a specific number and start thinking about a distribution.
Can loud music damage your hearing?
AdultsHealthHumanMusicScience... Dig into the properties of sound to find out just how bad loud music is for your hearing.
Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics
AdultsHumanNaturePsychologyMental HealthHealthScience... You can read Bill & Melinda Gates' 2021 letter at http://gatesnot.es/3opAPWK
Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.
The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine - Melanie E. Peffer
AdultsEducationHistoryHumanArtScienceNeuroscience... Explore how a scientist and artist discovered how our brains transmit signals throughout the body, and laid the foundation for modern neuroscience.
I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?
AdultsHistoryHumanLifePoliticsHealthSociety... I got the chance to interview Bill Gates so I asked him: Will Covid-19 be the last pandemic? How does he deal with misinformation and conspiracy theories? And what is the next disaster?
What if every satellite suddenly disappeared? - Moriba Jah
AdultsHumanLifeWorld Explore what would happen if all of humanity’s satellites disappeared and the real-life scenarios that could lead to such a catastrophe.
The rise of the Ottoman Empire - Mostafa Minawi
AdultsHistoryHumanWorld Explore the early days of the Ottoman Empire, as shrewd political rulers grew the principality into an intercontinental empire.
Most Spoiled Kids in the World
AdultsHealthHumanPsychology Some parents spoil their kids with whatever they want, but when your parents are Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey being spoiled gets taken to a whole new level.
Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One)
AdultsEducationHumanListening Dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America.
Who decides how long a second is?
AdultsCultureHistoryHuman Discover how scientists developed atomic clocks, which use the vibrations of atoms to measure and maintain a globally consistent time.
Would Living on the Moon Suck? - Dear Blocko #31
AdultsHumanLifeSpace Animation by Steven Lawson
Written by Michael Sago
Does It Pay To Cheat?
AdultsEconomyHumanJustice For some birds, trying to cheat your neighbors into raising your babies is just as much work - and is no more successful - than doing it yourself.
These SCP’s Could End The World
AdultsBiotechnologyHistoryHumanScienceCulture... The SCP Foundation has been responsible for keeping not only our world, but our universe safe. They contain some of the most deadly SCPs known to man, because if just one of these vicious SCPs got loose, it could spell the end of the world!
How Investments Scams Work | Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
AdultsHumanIndustrySocietyBusinessFinance... Mariana van Zeller travels to Israel to speak with a big player in the investment scam business, and learns more about how prevalent these scams are.