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AdultsHealthHumanLife...Being a human in the 21st century often feels frustrating. We are clearly at the high point of our species, while at the same time life is incredibly hard! We are divided, unable to solve our problems while creating new ones, destroying our world in the process.
Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
AdultsConstructionCreativityEducation...With the wet season only 2 months away and thatch being an impermanent material, I needed to make more roof tiles for a new hut that will withstand the next deluge.
Website Cookies Explained
YouthFactsTechnologyPrivacy...Website cookies are small pieces of data that track what you do online. So, what are you signing up for when you click to accept cookies?
You've Never Heard of the World's Most Common Mineral
AdultsEducationScienceWork...The most common substance in the world is literally IN the world. It's a mineral called bridgmanite, and it belongs to a class of minerals (called perovskites) that scientists are trying to use in the next generation of solar panels.
MP Proposes Smartphone Ban For Schools
YouthEducationTechnologyWorld...The official proposal, called a private members' bill, also recommends that social media platforms change the way they work for children.
The Sweet Future of Vertical Farming | Hiroki Koga | TED
AdultsFoodLifeTechnology...Can strawberries grown inside a building taste sweeter than those grown in a field?
How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out)
AdultsScienceTechnologyHow-toHow do QR codes work? The checkerboard patterns taking over the world, demystified.
We Traveled Back in Time. Now Physicists Are Angry.
AdultsLifeScienceTechnology...Time travel is possible. In fact, you’ve been doing it since the day you were born.
How Nine Nuclear Saboteurs Changed WWII
AdultsHistoryHumanTechnology...In Germany in 1939, the Uranverein, or “uranium club,” was trying to beat Oppenheimer to the bomb.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows smelt
AdultsCreativityEducationNature...I tested the water bellows with a smelt and it produced a small amount of iron from the ore. The concept has a lot of potential but is having some issues.
How do bulletproof vests work? - Max G. Levy
AdultsConstructionScienceChemistry...Explore the chemistry behind what makes kevlar so strong, and how this essential synthetic fiber was invented.
Spacecraft Returns To Earth
YouthSpaceTechnologyTransportation...Two astronauts who made it to the International Space Station will bid farewell to the faulty spacecraft they were using today, as it's set to return to Earth - without them.
Is AI-Generated Art Original? (Authenticity & Originality)
AdultsArtHistoryTechnology...What’s the line between inspiration and flat-out appropriation?
Artificial Reefs
YouthEnvironmentGadgetsNature...This Melbourne-based research lab has worked with the City of Greater Geelong to develop a multi-pronged solution to coastal erosion.
Is Nuclear Power “Too Expensive”?
AdultsEconomyEducationTechnology...The best argument against nuclear power, maybe the only real argument, is that nuclear power is “too slow” to build and is “too expensive” to finance. Is this true?
Cleaning Up Space Debris
YouthScienceSpaceTechnologyPaladin Space founder Harrison Box, explains the dangers of space debris — and how their innovative solution aims to combat this threat.
A.I. ‐ Humanity's Final Invention?
AdultsArtificial IntelligenceHistoryTechnology...Humans rule Earth without competition. But we are about to create something that may change that: our last invention, the most powerful tool, weapon, or maybe even entity: Artificial Super intelligence.
Could Robots Help You In Class?
YouthFutureGadgetsTechnology...Meet AV Howard, a robot who attends school when real Howard can't!
What Speakers That Cost $370,000 Sound Like | WIRED
AdultsConstructionCreativityTechnology...What does it sound like when you listen to a speaker that’s roughly the price of the home you put it in?
Fallout's Cold Fusion Problem
AdultsEducationScienceTechnology...Was #Fallout’s “artifact” really worth transporting a severed head across the wasteland?