How Wildfires Spawn Deadly Firenadoes
AdultsLifeNatureWeatherEnvironmentScience... Climate change is causing wildfire season to get worse every year. And our models of wildfires can't keep up with the things fires can do... like spawn devastating fire tornadoes.
Porcelain in the Wreckage | Drain the Oceans
AdultsHistoryLifeNatureScienceArt... Vanessa Litzenberg discusses the porcelain from the wreck. Drain the Oceans dives deep into the unknown; a truly epic, original series that takes underwater adventure and earth science illustration into a whole new era.
You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age
AdultsBiologyHealthHumanScienceMythology... Despite centuries of death records to the contrary, “dying of old age” is not medically possible; instead, it’s just a convenient catch-all.
World's Strongest Magnet!
AdultsDesignEducationScienceTechnologyEnvironment... The world's strongest magnet is a million times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. Learn more about sustainability and Google’s efforts at sustainability.google. Part of this video was sponsored by Google.
How Smart Are Crows Actually?
AdultsAnimalsLifePsychologyScience... Have you seen that adorable clip of a raven sledding down a snowy roof? We have, so we took a deep dive into how crows and other corvids exhibit tool use, intelligence, and maybe even consciousness.
The Biology Behind The Last of Us | WIRED
AdultsFilmMediaTVScienceBiology... The infection from HBO's The Last of Us is actually based on a real parasitic fungus. This fungus turns insects into zombies. The creators of the game and the show were inspired by zombie carpenter ants.
Your Immune System is More Dangerous than You Think
AdultsBiologyEducationScienceHealth... There is this idea floating around that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. That surviving a disease leaves you better off. And it seems to make sense because we have all experienced this.
Why Is Our Moon Two-Faced?
AdultsLifeScienceSpaceAstronomy... The near side of the Moon has a thin crust and is covered in maria. The far side has a thick crust and almost no maria.
Can We Capture Greenhouse Gases?
AdultsEnvironmentNatureWorldScienceEconomy... It’s one thing to say a business is carbon neutral. It’s another to be able to truly account for that carbon at all stages of the production process.
rimitive Technology: Decarburization of iron and forging experiments
AdultsConstructionCreativityLifeScienceEngineeringDIY... I took a brittle, high carbon/iron alloy (cast iron) made from local ore and used a decarburization method to reduce it's carbon content making it malleable and forged it flat by hammering.
The continents are moving. When will they collide?
AdultsEnvironmentLifeWorldScienceGeology... Dig into the science of plate tectonics to find out when the next supercontinent will emerge— and how it could affect Earth’s environment.
What causes cavities? - Mel Rosenberg
AdultsEducationHealthHumanScienceHistory... When a team of archeologists recently came across some 15,000-year-old human remains, they made an interesting discovery: the teeth of those ancient humans were riddled with holes.
The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years
AdultsHistoryLifeNatureScienceEnvironment... Methuselah’s environment lacks nutrients, water, and oxygen. In other words, it’s the perfect place to grow very very old.
How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky
AdultsEducationHumanScienceLanguageCulture... There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures.
How Can We Store Renewable Energy?
AdultsConstructionScienceTechnologyEnvironmentEnergy... Decarbonizing our power production is vitally important if we want to curtail climate change, but there are some major logistical issues we’re going to have to overcome before we can do that.
Primitive Technology: Cane Water Filter/Siphon
AdultsConstructionEducationNatureDIYHow-toScience... I made a water filter from cane that siphons clean water from a dirty water while simultaneously using the xylem present in the the cane as a filter.
Why Do Heart Attacks Cause *Arm* Pain?
AdultsHealthHumanScience When the brain receives pain from an internal organ, it often projects the pain in the wrong place because of the way sensory nerve paths converge.