How Trash Goes From Garbage Cans to Landfills (Every Step Explained) | WIRED
AdultsCitiesEconomyIndustryEnvironmentScience... Every day New York City picks up 12,000 tons of refuse and recycling. How does all this trash go from the garbage can to its final destination? Former New York City Sanitation Commissioner Ed Grayson is here to explain.
Cool Facts About Snakes, Lizards and Dragons
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Kingdom Of Plants - An Evolutionary Quirk
YouthNatureScienceEvolution David Attenborough takes us through the jade plant and its extraordinary evolutionary quirk.
VFX Artist Reveals The True Scale Of The Universe
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You Are Not Where You Think You Are
AdultsLifeScienceSpacePhilosophy... Look around you. Where are you? Where is this place you are occupying? Somewhere in a room, maybe in a city on a continent on a planet orbiting a star in a galaxy among billions. But… where is all of that?
25 MILLION Orbeez In A Pool
YouthHumorScienceFunEntertainment... We filled a pool with 25 million Orbeez so I could settle an argument about how far you sink if you jump in.
How does heart transplant surgery work? - Roni Shanoada
AdultsBiologyHumanTechnologyHealthScience... Dig into the science of how heart transplants happen, how donors are matched and find out how this complex surgery saves lives.
Food And Culture On The Space Station
YouthSpaceWomenFoodCultureScience... Learn about the intersection of food and culture in space from NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams.
How Tutankhamun Got His Gold
YouthHistoryWorldScience Archeologists are trying to find out how the pharaoh mined and amassed so much gold.
Normal Stuff In Not-So Normal Places
YouthScienceNature So, what happens to normal stuff (like water) when it goes to not so normal places?
Cool Facts About Sharks
KidsAnimalsScienceNature Did you know there are over 300 different species of sharks in our oceans?
Combinations of 52 cards (52 factorial)
AdultsMathPsychologyScience Whenever you shuffle a deck of 52 cards, it is quite likely that you are achieving something never done before in history. The number of combinations is 52 factorial.
Floating Dry Ice Experiment
KidsScienceExperiments What happens when dry ice is added to a shallow amount of water? In this experiment, you can test this out for yourself.
The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating Amoeba
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Petrified Forest National Park
KidsTravelWorldNatureScienceHistory... Learn cool facts about petrified wood––like how it became fossilized and why it’s scattered in eastern Arizona.