Does Fallout's "Rule of Thumb" Work?
AdultsCreativityEducationScience...Is #fallout 's famous Vault Boy actually hiding some accurate nuclear blast survival tactics?
Why the Hardest Rocks Can Be Easy to Break
AdultsEducationMathPhysics...So, rocks are hard. But the scale we use to rank them, the Mohs scale, is only really good at quantifying that for one kind of hardness, and topaz is a perfect stone to talk about to explain that. And you can check it out in our SciShow Rocks Box subscription!
MinuteEarth Explains: Solar Eclipses
AdultsEducationScienceSpace...Over the last year, we at MinuteEarth and MinutePhysics have had the privilege of working with NASA's Heliophysics Education Activation Team make a series of videos about the awesomeness of solar eclipses. Here they are, all seven of them!
What’s Eating The Titanic?
AdultsHistoryHumanScienceWhen a ship sinks, lots of factors, like the ship’s materials, the water quality, and the depth of the seafloor all play a role in determining how long the ship will last down there - as a result, the Titanic will be gone in fifty years, while Byzantine wrecks in the Black sea remain.
The Real Killer Of The Dinosaurs
AdultsEducationHistoryScienceA ruthless murder was committed! Someone killed the dinosaurs and we have the murderer! Witnesses say that an Everest-sized asteroid hit Earth, devastated the planet and caused a mass extinction. A simple, fascinating and convincing explanation. Or… is it?
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...I tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Our Instruction Manual for Existing
AdultsBiologyHistoryHuman...Your DNA contains all the instructions your body needs to function. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll figure out what this giant instruction manual looks like and how this three-billion-letter code gets copied into your trillions of cells through DNA replication.
Generative A.I - We Aren’t Ready.
AdultsHistoryScienceTechnology...New generative A.I breakthroughs are happening almost every week, it seems.
Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?
AdultsCreativityEducationMedia...Many crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. That’s sort of like what happens with YouTube videos.
Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment
AdultsConstructionCreativityNature...I tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.
Why Are All Humans Unique? Meiosis: Crash Course Biology
AdultsBiologyHumanScience...Ever wonder why we aren’t exact clones of our parents, or why siblings aren’t exactly alike? The reason traces back to meiosis. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll discover how egg and sperm cells get made and learn why you’re a totally unique remix of your parents’ DNA.