Japan's robot volleyball team
AdultsSportsTechnologyOne thing stands between Japan and the Volleyball World Cup: a team of robot jocks.
Food waste is the world's dumbest problem
AdultsFoodGlobal WarmingEnvironmentEat your peas! It's the easiest way to fight climate change.
This incredible animation shows how deep the ocean really is
AdultsAnimalsNatureScienceOceanJust how deep does the ocean go? Way further than you think. This animation puts the actual distance into perspective, showing a vast distance between the waves we see and the mysterious point we call Challenger Deep.
How does your body process medicine?
AdultsHealthHumanScienceHave you ever wondered what happens to a painkiller, like ibuprofen, after you swallow it? Medicine that slides down your throat can help treat a headache, a sore back, or a throbbing sprained ankle. But how does it get where it needs to go in the first place?
How does asthma work? - Christopher E. Gaw
AdultsHealthHumanScienceMore than 300 million people around the world suffer from asthma, and around 250,000 people die from it each year. But why do people get asthma, and how can this disease be deadly? Christopher E. Gaw describes the main symptoms and treatments of asthma.
What if the Earth were Hollow?
AdultsPhysicsScienceWorldPhilosophyWhat if there were a tunnel through the middle of the earth and you jumped in?
A Robot Just Performed the First-Ever Surgery Inside the Human Eye
AdultsHealthTechnologyScienceA surgeon uses controls to guide the robot.
Why Do We Cook?
AdultsFoodScienceSocietyCultureEvolutionWhy do humans cook? Holidays are celebrated in many ways, but chances are they involve eating, and eating a LOT. Ever wonder why we cook our food? We do it because it tastes good, of course, and because our customs and traditions are built around it. But we also cook our food for some basic biological reasons, because of evolution. Some scientists think that figuring out how to cook actually MADE us human! If conversation gets a little dry around your holiday table, now you'll have some awesome science to share with everyone!
Binging with Babish: Ratatouille (Confit Byaldi) from Ratatouille
AdultsCreativityFoodEntertainmentRemy is an especially-clean-looking rat that's been given the gift of Gusteau's gastronomy. Let's see if his signature dish is worth staking an entire restaurant's reputation upon for the sake of a pun.
How do focus groups work? - Hector Lanz
AdultsBusinessMarketingPsychologyFocus groups have been widely used by organizations and individuals to find out how their products and ideas will be received by an audience. From the usage of household products to a politician's popularity, almost everything can be explored with this technique. But how are focus groups put together? And how did they come about in the first place? Hector Lanz explains how focus groups work.
BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Official Trailer
AdultsFilmFutureMarketingTechnologyThirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
How the popsicle was invented | Moments of Vision 11 - Jessica Oreck
AdultsFoodHistoryCreativityCultureEach year, approximately 2 billion popsicles are sold worldwide. But where did the idea for this tasty treat come from? In the eleventh installment of our 'Moments of Vision' series, Jessica Oreck shares the distracted origins of the popsicle.
Climate Lab - Climate Lab - Why your old phones collect in a junk drawer of sadness
AdultsGadgetsGlobal WarmingTechnologyEnvironmentSmartphones shouldn't be so disposable. Could fixing the way we make our phones help solve climate change?
What humans will look like in 1,000 years
AdultsFutureHumanScienceHealthThere will eventually be a day where prosthetics are no longer just for the disabled. However, it's not just our outside appearance that will change - our genes will also evolve on microscopic levels to aid our survival. For example, an Oxford-led study discovered a group of HIV-infected children in South Africa living healthy lives. It turns out, they have a built-in defense against HIV that prevents the virus from advancing to AIDS.
Check your intuition: The birthday problem - David Knuffke
AdultsMathSocietyEducationImagine a group of people. How big do you think the group would have to be before there's more than a 50% chance that two people in the group have the same birthday? The answer is ... probably lower than you think. David Knuffke explains how the birthday problem exposes our often-poor intuition when it comes to probability.
Thin underwater cables hold the internet. See a map of them all.
AdultsInternet CultureTechnologyWorldYour internet isn't just underwater. It's also covered in Vaseline.
Oxygen's surprisingly complex journey through your body - Enda Butler
AdultsBiologyHumanScienceHealthOxygen forms about 21% of the air around us. In your body, oxygen forms a vital role in the production of energy in most cells. But if gases can only efficiently diffuse across tiny distances, how does oxygen reach the cells deep inside your body? Enda Butler tracks the surprisingly complex journey of oxygen through your body.
What happens when you bring meditation to public schools
AdultsEducationSpiritualityHealthClassrooms all over the country are trying something new: sitting and breathing.