Can you solve the three gods riddle? - Alex Gendler
Adults Creativity MathYou and your team have crash-landed on an ancient planet. Can you appease the three alien overlords who rule it and get your team safely home? Created by logician Raymond Smullyan, and popularized by his colleague George Boolos, this riddle has been called the hardest logic puzzle ever. Alex Gendler shows how to solve it.
Can you solve the virus riddle? - Lisa Winer
Adults Creativity MathYour research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it for study. After a late night working, you're just closing up the lab when a sudden earthquake hits and breaks all the sample vials. Will you be able to destroy the virus before the vents open and unleash a deadly airborne plague? Lisa Winer shows how.
5-Yr-Old Pool Prodigy
Adults Human SportsMeet Keith O'Dell, a bonafide pool playing prodigy. At just five years old, Keith pockets balls like a pro. The sport is in Keith's genes - his parents play pool, his grandparents play pool, the family even eats dinner on the pool table. His father says Keith was "born to play pool." The question is, how will his incredible talent effect the life ahead of him?
How this guy found 83 messages in bottles
Adults Creativity Global Warming ScienceClint Buffington has found 83 messages in bottles - and you could probably do it too. Vox's Zachary Crockett and Phil Edwards found out how.
Minecraft isn't just a game. It's an art form.
Adults Art Creativity GamingMinecraft maps are unique worlds, but they can also be an art form.
How does your body know what time it is? - Marco A. Sotomayor
Adults Human Mental Health ScienceBeing able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. And we owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains. But how do they work? Marco A. Sotomayor details how human bodies naturally tell time.
Why do people get so anxious about math? - Orly Rubinsten
Adults Math PsychologyHave you ever sat down to take a math test and immediately felt your heart beat faster and your palms start to sweat? This is called math anxiety, and if it happens to you, you're not alone: Researchers think about 20 percent of the population suffers from it. So what's going on? And can it be fixed? Orly Rubinsten explores the current research and suggests ways to increase math performance.
A Huge Advancement in Mind-Controlled Tech
Adults Disability Software Engineering TechnologyThis tech helps paralyzed people type with their minds, but the sky's the limit.
5 CARTOONS THAT LOOK DIFFERENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES
Adults Art Creativity CultureIn several countries, some famous scenes from different animated films look quite different from the way they look in other countries. You might not know this, but people working in animated films love their work and their audience, and sometimes change their films to include some important aspects for this or that culture. So, here are 5 animated films that look different in other countries.
Indigenous Panamanians protect their forests with drones
Adults Ecology Nature TechnologySettlers are illegally clearing trees on their land. So indigenous people are employing modern technology to stop them.
The Crazy Way Scientists Launch Rockets From Balloons
Adults Space TechnologyLarge chemical rockets are needed to launch payloads into space from the ground, but could rockoons, rocket balloons, be a more efficient alternative?
Take Augmented Reality Onto the Squash Court
Adults Sports TechnologyImprove your squash game in a surprising way.
The economics of beard popularity in the US
Adults Economy Philosophy SocietyWe may have reached "peak beard."