How do executive orders work? - Christina Greer
AdultsEqualityHistory...On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln legally changed the status of over 3 million people from "slave" to "free." But his emancipation proclamation wasn't a law - it was an executive order. The framers of the American Constitution made this power available to the executive branch. But what exactly is this tool, how does it work, and what's the extent of its power? Christina Greer explains.
Monster Trucker | Driver Rosalee Ramer // 60 Second Docs
AdultsSportsTransportationWhen Rosalee Ramer isn't busy studying for her mechanical engineering degree at Georgia Tech, she's behind the wheel of her own monster truck, Wild Flower, competing against drivers twice her age. At 19 she is the youngest professional female monster truck driver, winning last year's Monster Jam Rookie of the Year. Next up - she'll be putting that degree into action when she builds her own monster truck.
Binging with Babish: Szechuan Sauce Revisited (From Real Sample!)
AdultsCreativityFoodLast round, my efforts to recreate the fabled McDonald's Szechuan Sauce were wild, flailing shots in the dark, pathetic and meager attempts to recreate a long-lost condiment out of scanty information and back-alley sources.
Intimidated by a College Bully
AdultsRelationshipsSocietyWhen you leave middle school and high school behind, you expect that bullying, fear and intimidation are in the past. When you get to college, you expect that people will be open-minded, compassionate and mature. Unfortunately this in not always the case. It certainly wasn't for Omar.
Why We Eat Too Much
AdultsFoodHealth...We're hugely invested in the idea that the cause of obesity lies with diet - and that we should therefore solve the problem with kale and apple soup (and other such products). But the real cause of obesity has nothing to do with food. It lies in our emotional under-nourishment. We will start to eat less when we feel more connected, more understood and more in touch with our feelings.
Myths and Facts About Superintelligent AI
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceScience...We live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it's natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence replace humans, take our jobs, and destroy human civilization? Or will AI just become tools like regular computers. AI researcher Max Tegmark helps explain the myths and facts about superintelligence, the impending machine takeover, etc.
Is it possible to create a perfect vacuum? - Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat
AdultsScienceTechnologyThe universe is bustling with matter and energy. Even in the vast, apparent emptiness of intergalactic space, there's one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. But is there such thing as a total absence of everything? Is it possible to make a completely empty space? Rolf Landua and Anais Rassat explain the science behind vacuums.
This Biomimetic Tech Could Mean Fewer Trips to the Dentist (You're Welcome)
AdultsBiotechnologyHealthA new material inspired by mussels may be the key to fillings and crowns that never break or fall out.
The Problem With Our Phones
AdultsAddictionTechnologyThey are hugely useful of course but in many ways, we buy the advantages our phones give us at a subtly high price we don't entirely recognise. Some reflections on how to live well around phones.
The Plane of the Future
AdultsFutureTechnology...What's Actually the Plane of the Future looks like?
Chocolate's newest color
AdultsCreativityFoodThere's milk, dark, white, and now, ruby chocolate. It's made naturally from ruby cocoa beans and tastes sour.
Where do new words come from? - Marcel Danesi
AdultsLanguageSocietyThere are over 170,000 words currently in use in the English language. Yet every year, about a thousand new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Where do they come from, and how do they make it into our everyday lives? Marcel Danesi explains how new words enter a language.
Binging with Babish: Hors D'oeuvres Sandwich from Back to School
AdultsCreativityFoodRodney Dangerfield made a career on thumbing his nose at social mores, making sexual advances toward older women, and eating a giant sandwich made out of hors d'oeuvres.
How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight
AdultsCreativityFood...This sustainable initiative is helping to save Haiti's forests.
DNA Doesn't Look Like What You Think!
AdultsBiologyGenetics...Biology textbooks are full of drawings of DNA, but none of those show what DNA actually looks like. Sure, they're good models for understanding how DNA works, but inside of real cells, it's a whole lot more interesting. Learn why we can't look directly at DNA, and find out how DNA is actually packed inside cells.
How to Process Your Emotions
AdultsHumanPsychologyIn order to be calm and at ease with ourselves, we need regular periods where we do something rather strange-sounding: process our emotions. Here is a guide to this essential psychological move.
You Are Not What You Earn
AdultsPersonal FinanceSociety...The modern world firmly equates how much we earn with how good, noble, wise and worthy of honour we are. This is a brutal misunderstanding of how salaries are determined. We need to operate with a far more nuanced view of what the money we earn says about us.