Do You Have a Free Will?
AdultsPsychologyScienceSelf...Take control over what occupies your mind with Ground News.
The Last 6 Decades of AI — and What Comes Next | Ray Kurzweil | TED
AdultsLifeScienceTechnology...How will AI improve our lives in the years to come?
Why People Prefer More Pain
AdultsBiologyPsychologyScience...We experimented to see how much pain our volunteers could handle.
Why Monkeys Can Only Count To Four
AdultsAnimalsLifePsychology...There’s an island in the Caribbean where David used to perform magic tricks for monkeys.
Why Reality is a “Controlled Hallucination”
AdultsEducationScienceTechnology...There have always been hints that the brain wasn’t evolved to track objective reality, but a new, incredibly popular theory in neuroscience takes everything one step further. Not only is your brain not built for reality, you’ve never even experienced it. Noted Science Zaddy Kyle Hill explains “predictive processing.”
Why People Prefer More Pain
AdultsHealthHumanPsychology...A massive thank you to Rayner Moss for recreating the experiment equipment and making this shoot happen.
Primitive Technology: Making Charcoal in a Closed Pot
AdultsCreativityEducationNature...I made charcoal in a clay pot by putting wood in it and heat the pot externally effectively making it like a retort.
Are you buying the right Coffee Beans?
AdultsFilmFoodMedia...Coffee beans are one of the most confusing items to purchase, so over the past several weeks, I bought 20+ different kinds of coffee at different price points, visited a local roaster, tried roasting my own beans at home and tested a bunch of types of coffee in order to understand the flavor and price differences of coffee beans.
The Science of Going Viral
AdultsLifeMediaTechnology...When we say a meme goes “viral,” we aren't actually saying it's making people sick. But the math behind a meme’s spread suggests it's actually a pretty spot-on analogy.
The Science of Emotions with Tony Hale
AdultsHealthHumanPsychology...Emotions, please take center stage 🌟 Our friend Tony Hale is in our signature National Geographic yellow chair to chat with Dr. Lisa Damour about the science of emotions.
The Rock That's Helping Us Find the Origin of Life
AdultsHistoryLifeScience...Epidote might just look like a pretty little crystal, but it has a secret. thanks to the high-pressure circumstances where it forms, we can use it to help us uncover the origins of life on our planet, and maybe even find signs of life on Mars.
Can you transplant a head to another body?
AdultsBiologyHealthTechnology...Follow a neurosurgeon's attempts to perform a head transplant, and dig into the ethical and biological questions the procedure raises.