How Can Something Fall Faster Than Gravity?

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Largest Bribe in American History

From “LegalEagle”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) The UAE’s "Spy Sheik" secretly bought a 49% stake in Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s crypto company. President Trump just authorized nVidia to sell 500,000 top-tier AI chips to the UAE, netting the Trumps $2.5B. 📰 Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Try Ground News today and get…

Why Time Feels Real

From StarTalk. In this conversation, Neil deGrasse Tyson, alongside co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, speaks with neuroscientist Dean Buonomano about how humans and animals perceive time without clocks. They explore how timing is deeply embedded in brain function, language, memory, and evolution, and how our sense of time’s flow may conflict with physics but…

Collapsed Cities Reveal The Secret to Surviving Climate Shocks

From PBS Terra. Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/352v7xnn Merch: https://tinyurl.com/y478bz9h Is this how civilizations end? As climate disasters intensify, some cities survive — and others collapse. So what makes the difference? In this episode of Weathered, host Maiya May investigates what history reveals about system collapse, failed cities, and civilizations that didn’t survive climate shocks. Were they doomed?…

Why Can’t Everyone Be Tall?

From SciShow. Height is one of the first things we notice about someone, and it affects us all the time, whether you struggle to find pants that are long enough or can’t reach the top shelf. And the biology of how we reach our final adulthood heights is pretty complicated, from genes to environment and…

Reason Humankind Evolved To Tell Time

From StarTalk. In this discussion, Neil deGrasse Tyson, alongside co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, talks with neuroscientist Dean Buonomano about why humans evolved such a deep need to measure and synchronize time. They explore how timekeeping shaped human cooperation, survival, industrial society, and scientific breakthroughs—from Galileo Galilei’s pendulum observations to the role of clocks…

Diagnosed Sociopath Explains Life Without Empathy, Guilt or Remorse | Honesty Box

From LADbible Stories. In this episode of Honesty Box, diagnosed sociopath Kanika provides unfiltered answers to anonymous questions about living with ASPD. Drawing from her personal experiences, Kanika shares revealing insights into the common stigmas surrounding violence and animals, explains the boredom that drives her impulsive decisions, and delves into the chilling reality of how…

Using PAPER to Repair a TEXTILE Quilt?

From Adam Savage’s Tested. When this Sunbonnet Sue quilt arrived at @NationalParkService Museum Conservation Lab, it was dirty with extensive light and pest damage. Once washed, the quilt needed to be stabilized and and repaired, requiring an innovative paper conservation solution to a textile conservation problem. National Council for Preservation Education intern Ellie Fitzgerald describes…

8 Ways to Create Page-Turning Tension WITHOUT a Single Cliffhanger

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How Your Brain Tells Time

From StarTalk. In this StarTalk segment, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, and Gary O’Reilly talk with Dean Buonomano about how brains “tell time” differently from manmade clocks. Dean contrasts oscillation-based devices (pendulums, quartz, atomic clocks) with neural timing, arguing the brain often uses evolving activity patterns (dynamics) more like an hourglass than a ticking metronome—while…

Tylenol Is Made From Crude Oil. Can We Change That?

From SciShow. A lot more depends on fossil fuels than you might expect. Like your medicine cabinet. No, not the plastic pill bottles… the pills /themselves/ might be derived from crude oil. It might be possible to change that and use plastic instead, but we’ll need some unexpected help. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her) ———-…

What Is A Qubit

From StarTalk. In this discussion, Neil deGrasse Tyson is joined by co-host Chuck Nice and guest John Martinis, physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, to demystify quantum computing. Martinis explains what a qubit is, how quantum superposition enables massive parallel computation, why quantum computers are powerful yet difficult to harness, and how advances in quantum computing…

The truth about lie detectors

From Howtown. Get 30$ off some delicious coffee from Cometeer: http://cometeer.com/howtown Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FtfEu62cL51ezImrLE9mRqVZlMix19umXS2GNpCYYs8/edit?usp=sharing To support independent science journalism and get ad-free videos… JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/Howtown Here are some of the wonderful people on who support this channel through our Patreon Town Council. Thank you all so much for making this channel possible!: Bev Fong…