Starting in the 1940s, a new surgery was being explored to help people with severe epilepsy which involved severing communication between the two hemispheres of the brain. It worked, but caused some very strange side effects. As researchers began to study these side effects, it led to an...
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What is the shape of the universe? It’s kind-of an impossible question to answer. But thanks to studies of the cosmic microwave background radiation, we do have an idea of what spacetime is shaped like. And the answer is… strange.TRANSCRIPT:The universe. It’s big. It’s everywhere. It’s...
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, pressure changes everything. In today’s quickie video, I talk about a phenomenon that you’ve probably seen a million times and never thought twice about, but points to something fundamentally interesting about the world – bubbles that...
It’s no exaggeration to say that steam trains changed the world. They made it possible to move people and goods further and faster than ever before, and helped catapult humanity into the industrial revolution. But by the 1940s, they were showing their age, and a series of explosions made...
In today’s Lightning Round video, we tackle the fact that the moon rang like a bell for hours when the Apollo 12 second stage slammed into it, the questionable intelligence of the whale shark, and the newest JWST findings that seem to add to the cosmological crisis. Along with some...