The Problem With Life Expectancy
AdultsHealthHumanPsychology...In order to truly understand differences among animal lifespans, we need to stop thinking about a specific number and start thinking about a distribution.
What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse
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Why Robots That Bend Are Better
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Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics
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Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.
How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll
AdultsEducationEnvironmentHistory...Nuclear energy creates an uneasy feeling of danger for many people: ancient and dangerous minerals are concentrated to awaken seemingly unnatural powers, creating toxic elements that, if they escape, can and have killed people in horrible ways. How many people has nuclear energy killed and how?
The Illusion Only Some Can See
AdultsEducationPsychologyScienceAmes window illusion illustrates how we don't directly perceive external reality.
The Plant That’s Full Of Metal
AdultsEducationEnvironmentNature...The amount of metal some special plants are able to take up from the soil would be toxic enough to an average plant to kill it several times over.
These SCP’s Could End The World
AdultsBiotechnologyHistoryHuman...The SCP Foundation has been responsible for keeping not only our world, but our universe safe. They contain some of the most deadly SCPs known to man, because if just one of these vicious SCPs got loose, it could spell the end of the world!
What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth
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The Science of SPLAT!
AdultsCreativityDesignEducation...Surprisingly, flattened fauna can teach us a lot about wildlife biology.
How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3
AdultsBiologyEducationScience...In and out, in and out. Staying alive is about doing things. This very second, your cells are combusting glucose molecules with oxygen to make energy available, which keeps you alive for another precious moment. To get the oxygen to your cells you are breathing.
Why no one has measured the speed of light
AdultsData ScienceEducationScience...Physics students learn the speed of light, c, is the same for all inertial observers but no one has ever actually measured it in one direction.
Among Us Science - When Does Lying Go Too Far? ft. TheAmaazing
AdultsGamingPsychologyScience...Gaslighting in Among Us? Probably okay. Gaslighting in a real relationship. Not so much!