Why Daylight Saving Time Should Be Abolished
C.G.P. Grey — the guy who explained the difference between England, Britain and the U.K., and taught us that there’s no good way to figure out how many continents there are — has a new video all about...
View ArticleWhy The Electoral College Should Be Abolished
The venerable C.G.P. Grey is back with another interesting and educational video, this time tackling the problems with the American Electoral College. (If that term is a fuzzy memory from high school...
View ArticleA Brief History Of Santa
C.G.P Grey’s newest video explains how Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and other similar characters were all thrown into the American melting pot, out of which emerged Santa Claus. The real-life Santa...
View ArticleMath And Plants
One of the coolest things about math is when it can actually be applied to the real world, like when it helps you figure out in what direction to shoot a cannon ball to hit your nemesis’ house, or how...
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3 Learning Tricks From A Psychologist
UCLA has a Learning and Forgetting Lab and the guy who its named after gave Wired a few hints on how to learn and not forget: Interleave: don’t just keep trying to learn one thing until you master it,...
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‘Ye Olde’ Should Be Read As ‘The Old’
Minute Physics decided this issue is important enough to make a video about even though it has nothing to do with physics, so here is why you’re reading ‘Ye Olde Shoppe’ the wrong way: in the olden...
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How The Giant Statues On Easter Island May Have Walked
Easter Island (whose native name is Rapa Nui) in the South Pacific is generally seen as an example of the Tragedy of the Commons: inhabitants selfishly depleted the island’s shared natural resources,...
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If There Are So Many Stars, Why Is The Sky Dark At Night?
It might sound like a stupid question at first, because of all the black darkness in between the stars, but the answer is actually evidence of one of the fundamental properties of our universe. The...
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Evaporated Cane Juice Is Actually Just Sugar
This is a sugar cane. Looks tasty, right? If only we stuck to eating things that look good before processing... That term, ‘evaporated cane juice’, is everywhere now — because it sounds more natural....
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How History Channel’s ‘Vikings’ Compares To Reality
Spoiler alert: the below contains spoilers through the third season of Vikings. Over the past three years, Vikings has gotten better and better every year. Its story lines are consistently good, but...
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