keyboard_arrow_up
play_arrow

When are you actually an adult? - Shannon Odell

Adults Life
Explore how scientists define adulthood, and find out if there’s a specific age at which we reach maturity.
play_arrow

Playtime for Young Kea Birds | Frozen Planet II | BBC Earth

Adults Life
For these young Kea birds, there is always time to play. This apparently carefree behaviour helps establish long-lasting relationships between the youngsters, and even diffuses tension.
play_arrow

How Giraffes are Fed at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Adults Life
It's another beautiful morning at Disney's Animal Kingdom, and it's time to visit the giraffes! Come along as the staff make sure the giraffes are well fed.
play_arrow

Pet Shop Breakout Sparks Chameleon Invasion

Adults Life
When dozens of Jackson chameleons escaped a Hawaiian pet shop in 1972, they started to wreck havoc on the local ecosystem.
play_arrow

Primitive Technology 0:02 / 9:21 #PrimitiveTechnology #pottery #potterywheel Primitive Technology: Pottery Wheel

Adults Life
I made a small pottery wheel to form pots on. A pottery wheel is a small table on which pottery is formed that is able to be rotated about an axis to form more symmetrical pots.
play_arrow

Intro to Geology

Adults Life
Geology is the study of planet Earth, its origin and evolution, its fundamental structure, the properties of minerals, rocks, and fluids of which it is composed, and the evolution of its biosphere.
play_arrow

The Most Extreme Explosion in the Universe

Adults Life
Supernovae are the most powerful explosions in the universe, unleashing enough energy to outshine galaxies. We have no real metaphor for their power – if the sun were to magically go supernova it would feel like you were being hit by the energy of a nuclear explosion, every second. For weeks.
play_arrow

4 things all great listeners know

Adults Life
Dig into different strategies that can improve your listening skills so you can become a high quality listener.
play_arrow

The world depends on a strange collection of items. They're not cheap

Adults Life
This government warehouse keeps our entire society up to standard.
play_arrow

The Future of Machines That Move like Animals | Robert Katzschmann | TED

Adults Life
Imagine a boat that propels by moving its "tail" from side to side, just like a fish. That's the kind of machine that TED Fellow Robert Katzschmann's lab builds: soft-bodied robots that imitate natural movements with artificial, silent muscles.
play_arrow

Food Myths: Do Carrots Improve Your Eyesight? | WIRED

Adults Life
Your parents always told you to eat your veggies, especially carrots if you want good eyesight. But can they really improve your vision? WIRED takes a look.
play_arrow

Witchcraft: Crash Course European History #10

Adults Life
During our last several episodes, Europe and the European-controlled world have been in crisis. Wars, disease, climate changes, and shifts in religious and political power threw the European world into turmoil.
play_arrow

4 Plants that Hunt Underground

Adults Life
Carnivorous plants tend to live in environments where the soil can’t provide enough of the nutrients they need to survive, so they have developed all sorts of methods to trap and consume the critters of the area, including hunting underground!
play_arrow

How Entomologists Use Insects to Solve Crimes | WIRED

Adults Life
"Insects never lie. Insects are tiny witnesses," says forensic entomologist Dr. Paola Magni. On a crime scene, insects like maggots play a key role in determining time of death. Dr. Magni uses the learnings from these insects to give justice to victims.
play_arrow

Harp Seal Pups are Losing their Homes I Our Frozen Planet I BBC Earth

Adults Life
On opposite ends of our planet, two remarkably similar stories are playing out... and what links them is our changing climate. Meet the scientists witnessing events unfold in these polar regions, and discover their hopes for a better future.
play_arrow

Tidepooling along the Pacific Coast | National Geographic

Adults Life
Nature’s incredible details take on new meaning for chef Melissa King as she joins National Geographic Photographer and Explorer Anand Varma to explore coastal tide pools and craft a recipe inspired by her discoveries. Paid Content for Mazda.
play_arrow

Mushroom Wars

Adults Life
Two mushroom guilds with vastly different strategies are locked in competition for forest dominance.
play_arrow

Stress is Bad for Your Health: Crash Course Public Health #5

Adults Life
Our identities, societies, and health are all mixed together in cool, weird, and often deeply unfair ways. One of the big factors that comes out of that mix is stress.
play_arrow

King Penguins and Melting Glaciers I Our Frozen Planet I BBC Earth

Adults Life
Melting glaciers in South Georgia have opened up new habitat for penguin colonies, but the impacts of ice loss globally are far-reaching – with potentially devastating consequences. If Greenland’s ice sheet were to fully melt, global sea levels could rise by seven metres. Can we work together for a different future?
play_arrow

Exploring the Active Volcano of Mauna Loa | National Geographic

Adults Life
National Geographic Explorer Andrés Ruzo joins chef Melissa King in Hawaii to summit the world's largest active volcano, source local ingredients, and create a dish inspired by the island. Paid Content for Mazda.
play_arrow

Primitive Technology: Smelting Iron In Brick Furnaces

Adults Life
I made 3 furnaces from bricks using different configurations to test their effectiveness. The benefit of using bricks to make a furnace is that it's quicker, easier, re-useable and portable relative to a furnace constructed in-situ from clay.