Blindness Isn't a Tragic Binary — It's a Rich Spectrum | Andrew Leland | TED
AdultsBiologyHumanScience...When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world.
The Reason Why Cancer is so Hard to Beat
AdultsBiologyHumanScience...An undead city under siege, soldiers and police ruthlessly shooting down waves of zombies that flood from infected streets, trying to escape and infect more cities. This is what happens when your body fights cancer, more exciting than any movie.
These Countries Are Cheating
AdultsEducationGlobal WarmingScience...By overcounting how much carbon their forests suck up, and undercounting how much carbon their industries release, countries undercount their total carbon emissions.
What Biologists Do: Crash Course Biology
AdultsBiologyBiotechnologyEducation...A biologist’s natural habitat is anywhere questions about life are being asked—whether the subject is a nematode or a narwhal, a single cell, or a whole ecosystem.
The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
AdultsCreativityIndustryScience...Welcome to Micromouse, the fastest maze-solving competition on Earth.
YouTube’s Science Scam Crisis
AdultsIndustryScienceTechnology...There’s a tsunami of science spam on YouTube. Why does it all look the same? How much harm does it do? Do not watch these low-effort, AI-generated, cash grabs.
Are Life-Saving Medicines Hiding in the World’s Coldest Places?
AdultsEnvironmentLifeNature...Could the next wonder drug be somewhere in Canada's snowy north? Take a trip to this beautiful, frigid landscape as chemist Normand Voyer explores the mysterious molecular treasures found in plants thriving in the cold.
Halle Bailey Sits Down with Nat Geo Explorer Aliyah Griffith | National Geographic
AdultsMediaNatureTechnology...Executive Editor Debra Adams Simmons sits down with Halle Bailey, “Ariel” in Disney’s new movie The Little Mermaid, and Aliyah Griffith, Marine Scientist, National Geographic Explorer, and Founder of Mahogany Mermaids.
Primitive Technology: Roasted Ore and Shell Flux Smelt
AdultsCreativityLifeNature...I tested 2 ways of improving iron smelts by treating the ore, roasting the ore and using snail shells as a flux. Then finally I recycled old slag to see if it would produce any more iron.
Ancient Humans Made Millions Of These - We Don’t Know Why
AdultsConstructionHealthHuman...The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still don’t know what the heck they used it for.
Why Lightbulbs Might Be The Best Invention Ever
AdultsHistoryScienceTechnologyLightbulbs might be the best idea ever – just not for light.
The HUGE Problem with ChatGPT
AdultsHistoryScienceTechnology...Free-to-use, exceptionally powerful artificial intelligences are available to more people than ever, seemingly making some kind of news every day.