How Airlines Schedule Flights
Adults Business Transportation TravelWith so many destinations all across the world, it's just natural that most routes require connections. So airlines need to attract connecting passengers in order to stay in business.
The Man Who Has Inseminated Over 1,000 Honeybees | Amazing Humans
Adults Animals Global Warming NatureThe bee population has dropped dramatically and Michael Waite is taking matters into his own hands with a scheme to inseminate Queen bees.
The real reason streetcars are making a comeback
Adults Cities Economy Transportation AutomotiveIt's mostly about economic development.
China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2
Adults Construction Future TechnologySouth-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North.
Croque Madame: The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich
Adults Creativity FoodSpecial thanks to SCJ for shooting - the ultimate breakfast sandwich for hangovers, one-night-stands, or both. This video was made in response to a Reddit AMA question: What's your favorite breakfast sandwich?
100 Years of Family Dinners ? Mode.com
Adults Creativity Food HistoryFoodie fans, this one's for you! Whether you lean toward 1915-style roast beef and franconia potatoes, or if 2015's kale craze suits your taste, this look at food over the past century will satiate your palate.
100 Years of Male Pop Stars | Vanity Fair
Adults History Masculinity MusicHow have music icons changed over the last century? We look at how the styles of male icons have evolved over the years, from Duke Ellington and Bing Crosby to Michael Jackson and Prince.
Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 1
Adults Construction Future TechnologyJing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world's largest supercity, by merging three provinces into one continuous megalopolis of 130 million people.
Why We Are All Addicts
Adults Addiction Mental Health PsychologyWe tend to imagine that we can only become addicted to a few sorts of things. But real addiction is about using something, anything, to keep our real emotions, fears and hopes at bay. There are many more addicts among us than we think.
Why It's HARD To Land on Mars
Adults Science Space TechnologyThis video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric density! When there's no atmosphere, you can do a powered descent in a flimsy tinfoil spacecraft like the Lunar Module, and when there's plenty of atmosphere you can do an unpowered descent via heat shield and parachutes like the space shuttle, Apollo command module, Soyuz, Huygens, etc. But on Mars with its thin air, you have to do both powered & unpowered descent, getting the worst of both worlds.
A soft silicone 3D-printed heart
Adults Health TechnologySwiss researchers have come a step closer to building a better artificial heart. It's a squishy prototype that's 3D-printed from silicone.
Baymax from Big Hero 6 is real. Here's who created him.
Adults Creativity Film TechnologyChris Atkeson, the creator of Big Hero 6's Baymax, wants to bring soft robots to the world.
The snakey, viney robot that can go almost anywhere
Adults Creativity Science TechnologyResearchers at Stanford University developed a soft, squishy robot that "grows" like a vine and can squeeze through tight spaces. It can also lift heavy objects, which makes it potentially ideal for search-and-rescue operations.
Binging with Babish: Lemon Pepper Wet from Atlanta
Adults Creativity FoodLemon Pepper Wet is an Atlantan institution, virtually unknown outside the Peach State until Donald Glover's groundbreaking series made us salivate without even showing us the pay dirt. Look behind the Pulp-Fiction-style glowing MacGuffin and see the saucy, zesty wings underneath with this week's episode. Shout out to J. Kenji Lopez-Alt for his groundbreaking oven wing technique.