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GoPro: Best of Tour de France 2017

Adults Film Sports
The 104th Tour de France ended with Chris Froome wearing the yellow jersey and logging fastest overall time. Check out some of the best moments from cycling's greatest race with GoPro who was in the middle of it all.

Croque Madame: The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich

Adults Creativity Food
Special thanks to SCJ for shooting - the ultimate breakfast sandwich for hangovers, one-night-stands, or both. This video was made in response to a Reddit AMA question: What's your favorite breakfast sandwich?

100 Years of Family Dinners ? Mode.com

Adults Creativity Food History
Foodie fans, this one's for you! Whether you lean toward 1915-style roast beef and franconia potatoes, or if 2015's kale craze suits your taste, this look at food over the past century will satiate your palate.

100 Years of Male Pop Stars | Vanity Fair

Adults History Masculinity Music
How have music icons changed over the last century? We look at how the styles of male icons have evolved over the years, from Duke Ellington and Bing Crosby to Michael Jackson and Prince.

Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 1

Adults Construction Future Technology
Jing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world's largest supercity, by merging three provinces into one continuous megalopolis of 130 million people.

Why We Are All Addicts

Adults Addiction Mental Health Psychology
We tend to imagine that we can only become addicted to a few sorts of things. But real addiction is about using something, anything, to keep our real emotions, fears and hopes at bay. There are many more addicts among us than we think.

Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness?

Adults Education Society
Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. Might there be an alternative to it? We think there is, and it's called Politeness.

Why It's HARD To Land on Mars

Adults Science Space Technology
This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric density! When there's no atmosphere, you can do a powered descent in a flimsy tinfoil spacecraft like the Lunar Module, and when there's plenty of atmosphere you can do an unpowered descent via heat shield and parachutes like the space shuttle, Apollo command module, Soyuz, Huygens, etc. But on Mars with its thin air, you have to do both powered & unpowered descent, getting the worst of both worlds.

Why Socrates Hated Democracy

Adults History Politics
We're used to thinking hugely well of democracy. But interestingly, one of the wisest people who ever lived, Socrates, had deep suspicions of it.

A soft silicone 3D-printed heart

Adults Health Technology
Swiss researchers have come a step closer to building a better artificial heart. It's a squishy prototype that's 3D-printed from silicone.

How Do Glaciers Move?

Adults Ecology Nature World
Glacier ice is weird. It's solid. Solid things aren't supposed to flow. But glacier ice flows like a liquid, and it does that without melting! How is this possible? I traveled to Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska to find out.

Baymax from Big Hero 6 is real. Here's who created him.

Adults Creativity Film Technology
Chris Atkeson, the creator of Big Hero 6's Baymax, wants to bring soft robots to the world.

The snakey, viney robot that can go almost anywhere

Adults Creativity Science Technology
Researchers at Stanford University developed a soft, squishy robot that "grows" like a vine and can squeeze through tight spaces. It can also lift heavy objects, which makes it potentially ideal for search-and-rescue operations.

Our Little Superhero Made Of Glass | Living Differently

Adults Family Health Human
Kaden Casebolt, 5, has Osteogenesis Imperfecta, meaning his bones can break from sneezing. Despite his fragility, the superhero-obsessed boy loves dressing up as his heroes.

MEGACITIES: Crisis in CDMX

Adults Cities World
Mexico's vast capital - Ciudad de Mexico, the largest city in the Americas - is threatened by a severe water crisis.

Binging with Babish: Lemon Pepper Wet from Atlanta

Adults Creativity Food
Lemon Pepper Wet is an Atlantan institution, virtually unknown outside the Peach State until Donald Glover's groundbreaking series made us salivate without even showing us the pay dirt. Look behind the Pulp-Fiction-style glowing MacGuffin and see the saucy, zesty wings underneath with this week's episode. Shout out to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt for his groundbreaking oven wing technique.

Why We Hate Cheap Things

Adults Food Personal Finance Economy
In assessing what material things are important and worth paying attention to, we're oddly prejudiced against cheapness - and frustratingly drawn to the expensive, for reasons that don't necessarily stand up to examination.

More ice is about to break off of Antarctica - and it's what scientists feared most

Adults Global Warming Nature World
The giant crack that's been racing across Antarctica Larsen C ice shelf finally met its breaking point between July 10 and 12. The result was an iceberg the size of Delaware and weighing a trillion metric tons.

The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense

Adults Creativity Film
Why Christopher Nolan is obsessed with Shepard tones.

Optimistic Nihilism

Adults Life Philosophy Space
The philosophy of Kurzgesagt.

Why Only the Happily Single Find True Love

Adults Family Relationships
One of the key requirements for having a good chance of finding the right partner is not to mind too much being single.