You’ve heard their names a million times. The diseases named after them may have personally affected your life or the life of a loved one. But who are these people? Why are these diseases named after them? Turns out many of them had a fascinating life story that you’ve never heard before...
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You’ve heard their names a million times. The diseases named after them may have personally affected your life or the life of a loved one. But who are these people? Why are these diseases named after them? Turns out many of them had a fascinating life story that you’ve never heard before...
Electric motors are in almost everything these days. From electric cars to robots to generators, the list goes on. Each of these requires expensive and heavy materials like copper and rare earth elements, all of which are resource-limited and will only get more expensive over time. But...
There are some animal features that just put the heebie-jeebies in us. Even though some of those animals are totally harmless. Did nature evolve “scary” features for a reason? Or is it just the work of the devil? Let’s take a look and see.TRANSCRIPT:Whether something is scary-looking or...
Let’s just say we could build an Alcubierre warp drive and travel faster than light. Would that give us the ability to see into our own past? We explore that thought experiment, plus AI data centers, the growing socialist movement, and a heaping dose of existential dread. All on today’s...
The pyramids of Giza are old. Insanely old. They reigned as the tallest human-made structures on Earth for the majority of recorded history. Because of this, there have been countless theories as to how they were built, everything from water systems to aliens. But today, I’m going to make...
All across Scotland, neolithic stone balls have been found with specific designs and bumps on them that have perplexed archeologists for decades. Were they some kind of toy? A religious artifact? A status symbol? Today we look at these mystery objects and examine the theories to get an...
Operation Plowshare was a US Government program in the 1950s that had the goal of finding peaceful uses for nuclear weapons. And yes, you read that right. It was partly a sincere effort to find practical uses for the most awesome power humanity had ever harnessed, and partly a cynical...
In today’s Lightning Round video, we talk about the world’s history of extinction events and ask how long do we – statistically – have before it happens again. Also do some YouTube talk, debate why aliens would come here, and look at a megatsunami that rippled across the Earth...
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...
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...
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You’ve heard their names a million times. The diseases named after them may have personally affected your life or the life of a loved one. But who are these people? Why are these diseases named after them? Turns out many of them had a fascinating life story that you’ve never heard before...
Electric motors are in almost everything these days. From electric cars to robots to generators, the list goes on. Each of these requires expensive and heavy materials...
There are some animal features that just put the heebie-jeebies in us. Even though some of those animals are totally harmless. Did nature evolve “scary” features for a...
Let’s just say we could build an Alcubierre warp drive and travel faster than light. Would that give us the ability to see into our own past? We explore that thought...
The pyramids of Giza are old. Insanely old. They reigned as the tallest human-made structures on Earth for the majority of recorded history. Because of this, there have...
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You’ve heard their names a million times. The diseases named after them may have personally affected your life or the life of a loved one. But who are these people? Why are these diseases named after them? Turns out many of them had a fascinating life story that you’ve never heard before...
Electric motors are in almost everything these days. From electric cars to robots to generators, the list goes on. Each of these requires expensive and heavy materials like copper and rare earth elements, all of which are resource-limited and will only get more expensive over time. But...
There are some animal features that just put the heebie-jeebies in us. Even though some of those animals are totally harmless. Did nature evolve “scary” features for a reason? Or is it just the work of the devil? Let’s take a look and see.TRANSCRIPT:Whether something is scary-looking or...
Let’s just say we could build an Alcubierre warp drive and travel faster than light. Would that give us the ability to see into our own past? We explore that thought experiment, plus AI data centers, the growing socialist movement, and a heaping dose of existential dread. All on today’s...
The pyramids of Giza are old. Insanely old. They reigned as the tallest human-made structures on Earth for the majority of recorded history. Because of this, there have been countless theories as to how they were built, everything from water systems to aliens. But today, I’m going to make...