Friends make life good. They provide the scaffolding that makes it not just bearable but fun. They give us a sense of meaning and purpose and are a source of security, self esteem and happiness. Almost nothing predicts how happy you will be as how connected you feel and a lack of social connection is […]
This video is about what happens if you try to pass a portal (like in the video game Portal or Portal 2) through itself – do you get a paradox? Infinite recursion? Impossibility? Contradiction? The end of the world? Collapse of the wavefunction? Ultimately it ends up looking beautiful and weird and recursive and… just […]
Update: The Artemis I launch attempt was scrubbed for today. Next launch attempt will be on September 2. Watch live as NASA will be launching its Artemis I rocket this morning at 8:33 9:00 AM EST. This launch is historic for many reasons: this is the first time NASA is getting back to the moon […]
A simple explanation of why weather forecasts suck at predicting when rain will fall most of the time. [Minute Earth]
Audiologist Dr. Emily Taylor answers the internet’s burning questions about hearing, ears, and more. Why do we have earwax? How do hearing aids works? How are you even supposed to clean your ear canals? Dr. Taylor answers all these questions and much more! [Wired]
The James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled us with its first batch of images. WIRED got in touch with the one and only Bill Nye to beak down some of these astonishing photos, explaining what we’re really looking at. Bill analyzes some images of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula, Stephan’s Quintet and more. [Wired]
In 2010, South Korea experienced a particularly cold winter. People couldn’t activate their smartphones while wearing gloves, so they began wielding snack sausages— causing one company to see a 40% rise in sausage sales. So, what could sausages do that gloves couldn’t? In other words, how do touchscreens actually work? Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini […]
If we look at how the bark of the cinchona tree is used to treat malaria, we can see cutting edge chemistry showing quinine binding to an enzyme that is essential for the malaria parasite’s survival. But if we look from another angle, we can see how that coincidental affinity may have been a major […]
Math is full of symbols: lines, dots, arrows, English letters, Greek letters, superscripts, subscripts … it can look like an illegible jumble. Where did all of these symbols come from? John David Walters shares the origins of mathematical symbols, and illuminates why they’re still so important in the field today. [TED Ed]
From Real Engineering: This has been in the works for about 3 months now. Our first full documentary shoot. There is a lot of negativity in the comments from people who have not even watched the video yet. This channel is about being positive about engineering. Encouraging and inspiring the next generation of engineers. If […]