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What Can You Buy With 5.7 Billion Dollars?

AdultsEconomyHumanIndustry
What else could you buy with the budget of Donald Trump’s proposed border wall during this government shutdown?

These Names Can Kill Animals

AdultsAnimalsHealthIndustry
Just like the names of products and companies, animals' names can affect how we feel about them...and changing the name of a species might actually help us save it.

Will Your Country Be The First To Sink?

AdultsConstructionIndustryLife...
Sea levels are rising, but what does that mean for where you live? What does that mean for the world?

Are we running out of clean water? - Balsher Singh Sidhu

AdultsIndustryNatureScience...
Despite water covering 71% of the planet’s surface, more than half the world’s population endures extreme water scarcity for at least one month a year.

Ancient Mesopotamia 101 | National Geographic

AdultsCreativityHistoryIndustry
Ancient Mesopotamia proved that fertile land and the knowledge to cultivate it was a fortuitous recipe for wealth and civilization.

Why Our Favorite Crops Live Fast and Die Young

AdultsEcologyIndustryScience...
We mostly grow annual plants because they reliably produce energy-rich seeds, which we like to eat.

Could Lab-Grown Meat Make Eating Human O.K.? (Part 2 of 3)

AdultsFoodIndustryScience
Lab grown meat has been making headlines recently, but is it actually a better alternative to the traditional meat industry?

How Airlines Price Flights

AdultsEconomyIndustryTravel...
Airline ticket pricing probably seems like a crapshoot. The numbers change seemingly arbitrarily every week, day, or hour, but there is some real science behind these prices.

The Milk-Industrial Complex: Why You Don't Need to Drink Milk

AdultsFoodHealthIndustry
Readers of Aaron's blog know of his beef with the milk industrial complex. Why does milk, of all beverages, get a pass in our efforts to reduce everyone's caloric intake? Why is it encouraged, when all others are shunned? Is it because you need the calcium? Is it because it makes your bones stronger? Watch, and learn why the milk emperor has no clothes.

The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang

AdultsEconomyIndustryFashion...
Consider the classic white t-shirt. Annually, we sell and buy 2 billion t-shirts globally, making it one of the most common garments in the world. But how and where is the average t-shirt made, and what's its environmental impact? Angel Chang traces the life cycle of a t-shirt.

Why Chinese Manufacturing Wins

AdultsEconomyWorkWorld...
This video explains why Chinese manufacturing takes the first place worldwide.

Inside Facebook's Connectivity Lab

AdultsBusinessIndustryTechnology
Take a look inside Facebook's Connectivity Lab - an important part of our effort to bring connectivity to the billions of people who are unconnected today.

Railroad assembly line

AdultsConstructionProductivityEngineering...
Railroad assembly line? That is a seriously incredible machine

Luxury Watches - How its made

AdultsGadgetsPersonal FinanceIndustry...
Watch how Luxury automatic watches are put together.

How it's Made - PILLOWS

AdultsBusinessIndustryHow-to...
From start to finish, this is how pillows are made.

How Duck Tape is Made

AdultsBusinessWorkIndustry...
See how Duck Tape brand duct tape is made, packaged and shipped.

Get Every Last Bit Out Of Bottles Of Lotion, Mayo, And Even Glue

AdultsCreativityFoodTechnology...
Watch never-before-seen videos of an MIT-developed lubricant called LiquiGlide that makes anything--syrup, ketchup, paint--slide right out of the bottle so you don't waste a drop. The applications start in the kitchen, but they extend into almost every industry. More Videos