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This Particle Breaks Time Symmetry

Adults History Physics Science
Increasing entropy is NOT the only process that's asymmetric in time.

Why do animals form swarms?

Adults Animals Nature
When many individual organisms come together and move as one entity, that's a swarm. From a handful of birds to billions of insects, swarms can be almost any size.

Why Pets Have Surprisingly Small Brains

Adults Animals Pets
When we domesticate an animal species, their brains shrink and they freak out less.

Swiss Supermarket's Christmas Ad

Adults Creativity Film
Explore the secret world of grocery store checkout scanners.

World's First Car!

Adults History Technology Automotive
I got to drive the world's first car (replica), patented by Benz in 1886

Why is Herodotus called "The Father of History"? - Mark Robinson

Adults History Society
500 years ago, the writing of history as we know it didn't exist. The past was recorded as a list of events, with little explanation for their causes beyond accepting things as the will of the gods.

Inside an ICE CAVE! - Nature's Most Beautiful Blue

Adults Ecology Nature Science
Where do glaciers and icebergs get their beautiful blue color? This unique blue might be nature's most brilliant, and the color arises in a very special way thanks to some surprising interactions between light and water molecules.

Under the Sea | What's in the Box

Adults Animals Creativity
Kids are guessing what is in the box.

Universal Basic Income Explained - Free Money for Everybody? UBI

Adults Personal Finance Society Work
What the state covered your cost of living, would you still go to work?

How To Be Confident

Adults Self Society
The fastest route to confidence is to stop being so attached to one's dignity and seriousness; and plainly admit that one is - of course - an idiot. We all are.

How Not to be Boring

Adults Creativity Human Society
No one is ever boring: we just seem boring when we haven't learnt the surprisingly easy art of being honest about our vulnerabilities.

How do fish make electricity? - Eleanor Nelsen

Adults Animals Biology Nature
Nearly 350 species of fish have specialized anatomical structures that generate and detect electrical signals. Underwater, where light is scarce, electrical signals offer ways to communicate, navigate, find, and sometimes stun prey. But how do these fish produce electricity? And why? Eleanor Nelsen illuminates the science behind electric fish.

Nihon Nights: Discover Japan's custom supercar culture w/ Mad Mike.

Adults Society Sports
The New Zealand drift racer known as Mad Mike has made a documentary about the Japanese capital's extraordinary after-dark modified auto scene - check out Nihon Nights above. Which car would you love to drive?

Brad and Sean Evans Make Cast-Iron Pizza | It's Alive

Adults Creativity Food
Test Kitchen manager, Brad Leone, is back for episode 19 of "It's Alive," and this time he's joined by Sean Evans, host of Hot Ones and Sean In The Wild from First We Feast. Brad teaches Sean the art of making pizza in a cast-iron skillet while being subjected to an abbreviated version of Sean's famous hot sauce challenge.

I Rescued Kittens That Almost Died

Adults Animals Art Film
Jenna and her Mom live in an apartment complex, on the second floor with their two cats - Bella and Kitty. Their apartment has a little terrace attached to it, and she and her Mom, and the two cats love to hang out and watch all the activity going on in the courtyard, and sometimes in the other apartments across the way.

Kids Try Greek Food

Adults Food World
Kids are trying Greek food.

Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban: Why It's The Best

Adults Art Film
Harry, Ron and Hermione return as teenagers for a third term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But Harry's fate, and that of the entire community of wizards, looks bleak when the infamous Sirius Black--convicted of abetting evil Lord Voldemort by killing 13 people with a single curse--escapes from prison.