Today we go a little deeper and talk about the mystery of memory. Check out Cheddar at their YouTube channel: ; From Plato’s Allegory of the Cave to The Matrix, we’ve believed that reality is not exactly what we experience. Can that be because of the fact that we are all...
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From lower test scores to depression and even traffic deaths, the evidence is piling up that early school start times are bad for teenagers. So why do schools in the US start so early? Teens have different physiological needs when it comes to sleep, due to their changing bodies and the...
Get Brilliant at And the first 295 to sign up for a premium account get 20% off every month! Plastic is a surprisingly recent invention, and it’s become completely ubiquitous in our society. It’s solved a ton of problems and made our way of life possible. It also might be...
The biggest killers of humans in history are the smallest organisms on the planet. From the Bubonic Plague to Smallpox, Influenza, and AIDS, today we look at the 5 worst plagues in human history.
Get two months of Skillshare for free: In Avengers: Infinity War, the Mad Titan Thanos wants to wipe out half of all life in the universe as a way to save it from overpopulation. This is clearly evil. But is he right? The first person to sound the alarm about overpopulation was Thomas...