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Primitive Technology: Wet Season Destroys Thatched Workshop

Adults Construction Creativity Education
The thatched workshop where I produce bricks, pottery, cement and charcoal for various projects was destroyed by prolonged rain from the wet season.

Real-Life Spider Shoots Web 25 Metres Long!

Adults Animals Life Nature
Which marvel of nature can build a 25m orb web with a silk that ranks as the world's toughest natural fibre? The answer is the Darwin's bark spider.

Crash Course Art History Preview

Adults Art Education History
Welcome to Crash Course Art History! Over the next 22 episodes, Sarah Urist Green will explore the hidden stories behind artworks.

Can you actually taste a difference between Onions?

Adults Film Food Media
What is the Flavor of Onions?

Brian Cox on quantum computing and black hole physics

Adults Physics Science Technology
“You’re not meant to understand what I just said, because I don’t understand what I just said…” Physicist Brian Cox on one of the most complex theories in space science.

Does Fallout's "Rule of Thumb" Work?

Adults Creativity Education Science
Is #fallout 's famous Vault Boy actually hiding some accurate nuclear blast survival tactics?

Why the Hardest Rocks Can Be Easy to Break

Adults Education Math Physics
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!

This person isn't actually screaming - Noah Charney

Adults Art History Human
Explore Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream,” and find out why this artwork became one of the world’s most famous paintings.

MinuteEarth Explains: Solar Eclipses

Adults Education Science Space
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!

There Are Thousands of Alien Empires in The Milky Way

Adults Education Science Space
We often assume that advanced technology will make it easy for aliens to colonize space. But what if space exploration is always difficult, no matter how advanced you are?

Protecting the Queendoms

Adults Animals Life Nature
Female leaders will stop at nothing to protect their empires! Animal queens across the globe and under the sea must remain fierce to ensure the survival of themselves and their lineage.

Wild Garlic Bread | Jamie Oliver

Adults Family Film Food
Wild garlic season is at its peak between February and April, so why not take the opportunity to go foraging and whip up your own wild garlic butter?

A Comedian’s Take on How to Save Democracy

Adults Human Politics World
Conversation is a battlefield with only one winner. Or is it? Comedian and author Jordan Klepper believes we can get better at talking to each other (and perhaps save democracy) by learning how to lose.

One of the world’s oldest condiments - Dan Kwartler

Adults Food History Human
Trace the history of ketchup, from the condiment’s origins in 3rd century China to becoming a staple of American cuisine.

What’s Eating The Titanic?

Adults History Human Science
When 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

Adults Education History Science
A 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?

Lioness sisters fend off an intruding lion to protect their cubs | QUEENS

Adults Animals Life Nature
Shani and her sisters must fend off the intruding male lion before he kills her cubs.

Bread Megamix | Jamie Oliver

Adults Family Film Food
Looking for some bread-based inspiration? Making your own bread at home is so satisfying, so we've pulled these recipes from the archive to help you on your baking journey.

The Billion-Dollar Problem in Education

Adults Education Human Life
Standardized testing is deeply woven into the fabric of US education, but does it foster genuine learning?

How the Most Expensive Swords in the World Are Made

Adults Construction Education History
This is a video about how Japanese samurai swords, aka katanas, are made – from the gathering of the iron sand, to the smelting of the steel, to the forging of the blade.

Primitive Technology: One-Way Blower Iron Smelt & Forging Experiment

Adults Construction Creativity Education
I tested the one-way spinning blower in an iron smelt and it is more effective than the previous both way spinning blower.