Worldbuilding. Speculative Biology. Science Fiction.
Welcome to Curious Archive, a place to stay up to date on all things curious. Speculative biology, worldbuilding, history, mythology, paleontology, archeology, and literature are the most common topics covered on the channel. I strive to entertain and educate — and hope you’ll leave every video having learned something new.
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From Curious Archive. Reality is chaos… | Compare news coverage. Spot media bias. Avoid algorithms. Try Ground News today and get 40% off your subscription by going to https://ground.news/curiousarchive — 0:00 The Evolution of Absolutely Everything 0:27 Life Begins with Soup 1:32 Cambrian Goofy Goobers (+ Altruism?) 3:14 Meme Evolution? 5:37 Goodbye, Dinosaurs 6:52 An…
From Curious Archive. WORLD ANVIL ► https://www.worldanvil.com/?c=CuriousArchive Use code "ARCHIVE" for 51% off ANY yearly subscription! — There is a shadow lurking across cultures. An eternal struggle to depict ultimate evil. How can we, with our limited means of comprehension and storytelling, portray true darkness, make fear physical? What is the face of the most…
From Curious Archive. Burying that sandwich in the woods was the key to all this. Watch my exclusive ‘POST-Post Apocalypses’ video by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/curiousarchive — It’s seldom been claimed that ‘moldiness’ is the key to great worldbuilding — but after analyzing tons of sci-fi and fantasy settings, and sacrificing some expired bread, I…
From Curious Archive. HERE ME OUT ON THIS | | Watch my exclusive Ultimate Elf Tier List video by joining Nebula at https://go.nebula.tv/curiousarchive — Seriously, hear me out on this one. Because, elves used to be my favorite fantasy archetype. They’re the best at everything: fighting, wielding magic, making jewelry, doing sick Tony Hawk pro…
From Curious Archive. There is something lurking between the trunks. There is something hungry below the soil. Waiting for you. — You can go missing in the forest. It’s something that’s just kind of accepted: that forests are places where things become lost. There is a dark and tangled history that grows in the shadow…
From Curious Archive. Goblins. Goblins? Goblins! Goblins. Goblins? Goblins! Goblins. Goblins? Goblins! Goblins. Goblins? Goblins! Goblins. Goblins? Goblins! Goblins. Goblins? Goblins! Goblins. Goblins? Goblins! Goblins. — The Amazing Featured Creators: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTaleFoundry https://www.youtube.com/c/QuinnsIdeas https://www.youtube.com/@OctopusLady https://www.youtube.com/@KhAnubis I’ve fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole recently. Because here’s the thing — one wouldn’t expect an imaginary little…
From Curious Archive. I mean it wouldn’t be good obviously — There are many stories in which divine beings fall to madness. Likewise, the notion that humans are insects to the divine appears across mythology. So what happens after a god decides to squash us? After mercy turns to cruelty? Sanity to inane destruction? What…
From Curious Archive. It’s time someone finally SAID IT! (this video is a joke science is real have a nice day) — Big Ol List of Sources: “Leidenfrost Effect,” Seppo Louhenkilpi, Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Industrial Processes, 2014, https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/leidenfrost-effect “Relativity Verses Quantum Mechanics,” Corey S. Powell, Nautilus https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/nov/04/relativity-quantum-mechanics-universe-physicists “Wave-Particle Duality,” Artika Singh, Tu Quach, https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps/Supplemental_Modules_(Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry)/Quantum_Mechanics/02._Fundamental_Concepts_of_Quantum_Mechanics/Wave-Particle_Duality…
From Curious Archive. Maybe I do fear the banana. — Creators Featured: Yeti Dynamics – https://www.youtube.com/@yetidynamics Christian Szczerba – https://www.youtube.com/@MoonProds Alex Howard – https://www.youtube.com/@alexhowardxx Payayesaurio – https://www.youtube.com/@papayesauriooficial3870 Lights Are Off – https://www.instagram.com/lights.are.off/ Doomsday would probably be a huge bummer… you and everyone you know annihilated — every human achievement, every memory, every cone of gelato…
From Curious Archive. Greetings from Planet Altamira — a spectacular alien world from creator Simon Roy. Support the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grizgrobus/refugium-a-hardcover-graphic-novel — If you’re receiving this signal, count yourself lucky, because the folks on our research team have put together a special presentation on the charming creatures native to this jewel of the cosmos. And if…
From Curious Archive. "Dragons aren’t real in the same way that fish aren’t real" – JRR Tolkien — The problem started with a book. Actually, I suppose it started with a show, “Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real,” that I watched, enraptured, late one school-night. And you could say it made me a little… obsessed —…
From Curious Archive. From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh… it disgusted me. A new exploration of Callum Stephen Diggle’s incredible ‘Humanity Lost.’ AVAILAIBLE HERE: https://linktr.ee/c.s.diggle — First Entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxVjFYi-9JU Once you’ve become a shambling mass of flesh… there’s really no cure. Not in science fiction, anyway. Whether a character is mutated…
From Curious Archive. My battery is low, and it’s getting dark. — The saddest piece of art I’ve ever seen is about a robot. Actually, it is a robot. It’s a mechanical arm by artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu that must continually push a leaking liquid back into its body to function. And here’s…
From Curious Archive. I promise this is an interesting question. — There are many stories in which divine beings come to an end. But what happens after a deity perishes? Would they… decompose, their holy forms rotting away to nothing? Or would they linger, their figures forever changing the surrounding environment, or even becoming an…
From Curious Archive. The wildest era yet comes to a world of birds. A breakdown of the Hothouse Age from Dylan Bajda’s speculative biology project ‘Serina.’ (Full Playlist: https://youtu.be/pDtpEiMyGT4) — Dylan Bajda Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sheatherius/ Dylan Bajda Website: https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/ Dylan Bajda Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/sheather888 Troll Man Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Troll_Man Troll Man Deviantart: https://www.deviantart.com/trollmans This video is a new…
From Curious Archive. Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke Play Under a Star Called Sun: https://haraiva.itch.io/under-a-star-called-sun Play The Anglerfish Project: https://selkieharbour.itch.io/the-anglerfish-project If the world was ending, and you could save only one hundred and sixteen images as the final…
From Curious Archive. “Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy… They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy.” – Ishirō Honda, director of Godzilla — To empathize with a monster is to go against thousands of years of storytelling precedent. The traditional mythic role of a monster…