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?
How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll
AdultsEducationEnvironmentHistoryEnergyHealthScience... Nuclear energy creates an uneasy feeling of danger for many people: ancient and dangerous minerals are concentrated to awaken seemingly unnatural powers, creating toxic elements that, if they escape, can and have killed people in horrible ways. How many people has nuclear energy killed and how?
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.
Wildlife Disappearing at the Border | National Geographic
AdultsAnimalsHistoryNature The San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge marks the convergence of the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts in a grassland valley at the base of the Peloncillo mountains.
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.
The strange history of the world's most stolen painting
AdultsArtHistoryJusticeCulture... Discover Jan van Eyck’s masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, and explore how it became the world’s most stolen artwork.
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!
The dark history of bananas - John Soluri
AdultsHistoryHumanNatureEconomyCulture... Explore the history of the notorious United Fruit Company and how its influence over the banana industry impacted Central America.
Can you solve the riddle and escape Hades? - Dan Finkel
AdultsGamingHistoryWritingGamesPhilosophy... The underworld is overcrowded, and Zeus has ordered Hades to let some spirits out. Hades arranges all the souls of the dead in a line before Cerberus. When one of his three heads bites down on the soul in front of it, they’ll get returned to the land of the living. Anyone to the left must stay in Hades forever. Can you pick the right spot and escape the underworld? Dan Finkel shows how.
How Kodak Detected the Atomic Bomb
AdultsEducationHistoryHumanScience... Kodak detected the first atomic bomb before anyone else figured it out. Then they made a deal not to tell anyone. Thanks to HBO Max, and their new show raised by Wolves for sponsoring this video!
The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar - Iseult Gillespie
AdultsHistoryHumanWritingCultureMythology... Dive into the Japanese folktale of a scholar’s quest to purify his body and mind, and the spiritual secret he discovers along the way.
The Mummy's Curse | Lost Treasures of Egypt
AdultsLifeNatureWorldHistoryCulture... Archaeologists find a looted tomb and begin excavating the mummy inside, but there is a problem.
A brief history of plastic
AdultsEnvironmentHistoryHumanScience... Trace the history of the invention of plastic, and how the material ushered in what became known as the plastics century.
The Mystery of Queen Nefertiti
AdultsEducationHistoryHumanCulture... Queen Nefertiti is one of the most famous queens of ancient Egypt, but the location of her tomb is still a mystery.
The last living members of an extinct species - Jan Stejskal
AdultsAnimalsHistoryNatureScienceWildlifeBiology... Dig into how scientists are attempting to revive the functionally extinct northern white rhino through artificial reproduction.
Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? - Elizabeth Cox
AdultsHealthHistoryHumanPsychologyScience... Dig into the false cause fallacy, which assumes that one event causes another, and learn how to distinguish between correlation and causation.