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.
Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? feat. Cyberpunk 2077
AdultsEducationHumanTechnology...The desire to be free from the limits of the human experience is as old as our first stories. We exist in an endless universe, only bound by the laws of physics and yet, our consciousness is trapped in mortal machines made of meat.
What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth
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How do investors choose stocks? - Richard Coffin
AdultsData ScienceEconomyPersonal Finance...Explore the strategies investors use to choose stocks and learn whether it’s better to be an active or passive investor.
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.
Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods
AdultsConstructionEducationNature...Not all hardwood trees have hard wood and softwoods soft wood, because these terms denote their taxonomic ancestry, not the wood's actual hardness.
The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats
AdultsCreativityEducationScienceSimples rules of geometry meant that 5-fold symmetry was impossible as were crystals without a periodic structure.