After Artemis II brought out the moon joy in people, I found that a lot of newbies to space travel had some questions about what they were seeing. This video is meant to help explain some of the basics of space travel that most people don’t know. Things like how orbital mechanics work...
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The Autumn of 1888 is known as the Autumn of Terror in London. Because over three months, from August to November, some of the most notorious murders in history took place in the poverty-stricken Whitechapel district. The culprit – the infamous Jack the Ripper. The identity of Jack...
We’ve seen through volcanic eruptions that we can cool the planet significantly by pumping particulate aerosols into the stratosphere. But there’s a major catch. We talk about that in today’s Lightning Round video, along with discussing the nature of computer intelligence, which extinct...
Sasquatch. Bigfoot. Yeti. The Wild Men of the Woods. Yowlies. On almost every continent and almost every state, people tell legends of a hairy ape man in the wilderness. The ubiquity of these sightings – and the life-changing experience that often comes from it – beg for the...
It sounds too crazy to be true, but at the beginning of World War 2, a crazy idea was hatched. What if we strapped bombs to bats? The idea is they would roost in attics and crawlspaces all over Tokyo and then set the whole city on fire. Believe it or not, this was tested for years, at the...