What If You Keep Slowing Down?

From 1veritasium, 2veritasium, or sciencium. What happens if you keep slowing down time? Sponsored by Hostinger – Make today your Day One and visit https://ve42.co/VE10. Use code VERITASIUM for an additional discount. ▀▀▀ 0:00 How does a strobe work? 3:28 The Man Who Stopped Time 8:43 Spatial vs Temporal Resolution 13:09 1 Trillion FPS 16:56…

What’s a ‘brown ace’?

From Lateral with Tom Scott. Ella Hubber, Caroline Roper and Tom Lum from ‘Let’s Learn Everything!’ discuss a question about a sporting situation. LATERAL is a weekly podcast about interesting questions and even more interesting answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com FULL EPISODE: https://www.lateralcast.com/episodes/171 BOOK OUT…

Why Are Chernobyl’s Dogs Turning Blue?

From Kyle Hill. I have been working with the Clean Futures Fund for a while now and one of the best parts of the year for me is receiving ‘pupdates’ about the wild dogs of Chernobyl, the cute furry friends roaming the 1,000 sq mile exclusion zone. Recently, images and rumors have been circulating the…

We Made A New Channel!

From Kurzgesagt. For years, we’ve been dreaming of a second channel. A channel where we could tell different kinds of stories and dive into something else we deeply care about: history. Because the story of the past is also the story of us, of humanity. Welcome to the nightshift. 🌚 Our first video dives into…

The Incredible Black Arrow Rocket

From Today I Found Out. When it comes to technological achievement and national prestige, few feats can compare to launching a satellite into space. Since the Soviet Union launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik I, on October 4, 1957, 11 other government bodies have developed indigenous orbital launch capability: the United States, France, Japan, China,…

A very disappointing wall

From Lateral with Tom Scott. Charlotte Yeung, Annie Rauwerda and Alexis Dahl discuss a boring barrier. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com 🟦 FULL EPISODE: https://www.lateralcast.com/episodes/170 📖 BOOK OUT NOW!: https://www.lateralcast.com/book 🟧 JOIN THE…

Murphy’s Law in Action

From Today I Found Out. It has been called the “silent service.” Since their introduction in the early 20th century, service aboard submarines has been among the deadliest military occupations, with a full 70% of German U-boat crews during WWII never returning from patrol. But the hazards faced by submariners go well beyond enemy guns,…

The ‘gorilla’ that flew a plane

From Lateral with Tom Scott. Charlotte Yeung, Annie Rauwerda and Alexis Dahl discuss a question about an ape-like aviator. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com 🟦 FULL EPISODE: https://www.lateralcast.com/episodes/170 📖 BOOK OUT NOW!: https://www.lateralcast.com/book…

The Classiest Plane Hijacking of All Time

From Today I Found Out. At 9:15 A.M. on November 10, 1961, a Lockheed Super Constellation of Portugal’s TAP airlines lifted off from Casablanca, Morocco. Aboard were nineteen passengers – mostly American tourists – bound for Lisbon. The skies that day were clear, and the flight looked to be smooth and uneventful. But just 45…

CIA Cold War Conspiracies | NASA’s Unexplained Files | Science Channel

From Science Channel. Dive into government and CIA conspiracies that link space exploration to secrecy, power, and hidden agendas. These stories explore declassified documents, Cold War paranoia, and alleged cover-ups tied to humanity’s race to the stars. #NASAUnexplainedFiles #ScienceChannel Stream NASA’s Unexplained Files: https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/nasas-unexplained-files About NASA’s Unexplained Files: Dive into the mysteries of NASA’s most…

Capturing Souls-The Birth of Consumer Photography

From Today I Found Out. Today, it seems, everyone is a photographer. Nearly every cell phone and tablet contains a digital camera whose image quality rivals that of high-end professional cameras, while said professional cameras continue to get cheaper and more accessible with every passing year. The act of casually documenting our daily lives has…

Why hold up a black placard?

From Lateral with Tom Scott. Evan & Katelyn Heling and Hannah Crosbie discuss a question about a perplexing placard. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com FULL EPISODE: https://www.lateralcast.com/episodes/169 BOOK OUT NOW!: https://www.lateralcast.com/book 🟧 JOIN…

Can you guess the mascot?

From Lateral with Tom Scott. Evan & Katelyn Heling and Hannah Crosbie discuss a question about a puzzling phone number. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com FULL EPISODE: https://www.lateralcast.com/episodes/169 BOOK OUT NOW!: https://www.lateralcast.com/book 🟧…

Mall versus Home Electrocution (Updated)

From ElectroBOOM. Learn NOW for FREE for 30-days visiting http://brilliant.org/electroboom and get 20% Brilliant Premium Subscription and become even smarter! Then let me know if the type of load on a power line can effect if the line voltage becomes more dangerous or not! For Exclusive Content, join: Patreon: http://patreon.com/electroboom YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0-OtVpF0wOKEqT2Z1HEtA/join Post your…

Who Invented WD-40, Duct Tape, and Super Glue?

From Today I Found Out. There’s an old engineer’s adage that goes: “If it moves but shouldn’t, use duct tape. If it doesn’t move but should, use WD-40.” For nearly 60 years, WD-40, the iconic “toolkit in a can,” has been helping amateurs and professionals alike out of all sorts of sticky mechanical jams. In…

News just in: “Banana Throws Orange Apple”

From Lateral with Tom Scott. Evan & Katelyn Heling and Hannah Crosbie discuss a question about a nourishing news story. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com FULL EPISODE: https://www.lateralcast.com/episodes/169 BOOK OUT NOW!: https://www.lateralcast.com/book 🟧…

The Greatest Inventor You’ve Never Heard Of

From Today I Found Out. Walter Hunt is a man who is simultaneously considered to have possessed one of the finest inventive minds in all of American history while also being an individual almost no one has ever heard. This is despite the fact that it’s almost guaranteed that one of his inventions is currently…

WATCH NOW 🔴: Miscellaneous Items & Processes, Vol. 2 | How It’s Made | Science Channel

From Science Channel. From paper umbrellas to rubber gloves, see how these random items are made! #HowItsMade #ScienceChannel Stream How It’s Made: https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/how-its-made About How It’s Made: Explore the fascinating world of how everyday items are manufactured and produced. From aluminum foil to contact lenses, discover how many of the things we buy and use…

The Nazi Kamikaze Squadron

From Today I Found Out. On the first of April, 1945, a combined American and British Empire fleet appeared off Okinawa, the southernmost of the Japanese Home Islands. Operation Iceberg, the final naval battle of the Second World War, was about to begin. As hundreds of aircraft roared overhead and enormous shells fired from battleships…

The 1990s were Weird

From Today I Found Out. Anybody reading remember the film Jingle All The Way, you know the one where Arnold Schwarzenegger body checks his way through a crowd of harried single mums, is an accessory to a bomb threat and physically assaults like 4 retail workers, all for the chance to get his hands on…

The Mystery Of The Samurai In Venice

From The Nerdwriter. Go to https://www.squarespace.com/nerdwriter for 10% off your first purchase. SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/nerdwriter MY BOOK: https://amzn.to/3ymfQPV SOURCES Lucchese, Kathryn M. A Japanese Mission to Seventeenth-Century Rome: Date Masamune’s Cosmopolitan Dream. Lexington Books, 2024. Ucerler, M. Antoni J. The Samurai and the Cross: The Jesuit Enterprise in Early Modern Japan. Oxford…

The sheep that says “¡Hola!”

From Lateral with Tom Scott. Bill Sunderland, Dani Siller and Michelle Wong discuss cattle communication. LATERAL is a comedy panel game podcast about weird questions with wonderful answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit https://www.lateralcast.com FULL EPISODE: https://www.lateralcast.com/episodes/168 BOOK OUT NOW!: https://www.lateralcast.com/book 🟧 JOIN THE ‘PRODUCER’S CLUB’ for…

We Made A New Journal

From Kurzgesagt. Taking care of your health can often feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be! We created our brand new Health Journal to set you up for success in the new year with science-backed, easy-to-use frameworks and plenty of beautiful illustrations. It’s designed to help you improve your health in a way that…