Science
This Island Might Help Us Understand The Origins of Life
Go to https://Complexly.store to support Complexly this holiday season! The island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland popped up basically in a week, and it's been a perfect natural experiment...
What makes the Great Smoky Mountains smoky?
The Great Smoky Mountains is the most visited national park in the United States. Located on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina and spanning more than 500,000 acres, the vast landscape...
Can clean energy handle the AI boom?
How our digital lives are impacting our climate goals. This video is presented by Klaviyo. Klaviyo has no editorial influence on our work, but their support makes videos like these possible....
What Made The Bahamas’ "Atlantis" Rocks?
Check out Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change: Answers to Your Ocean and Atmosphere Questions by Ellen Prager and Dave Jones at https://bookshop.org/lists/scishow-recommended-reading....
Is This The Biggest Mistake Science Ever Made?
Check out Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe by Carl Zimmer at https://bookshop.org/lists/scishow-recommended-reading. This video was made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan...
Unpacking masturbation: Sex Ed #14
If almost everybody masturbates, why can’t we talk about it? In this myth-busting episode of Crash Course Sex Ed, we’ll uncover the history of how masturbation became taboo, the person...
Grass Could Save The Arctic
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Would you eat a ghost pepper for a prize? - Dan Kwartler
Dig into how your age can affect your decision making, and explore the psychology of how we weigh risks against rewards. -- Welcome to Risky Business, the game where we find out how far people...
The physics behind Einstein’s most famous equation - Lindsay DeMarchi and Fabio Pacucci
Learn more at https://brilliant.org/TedEd -- Ever since Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity, one equation has been the bane of humans hoping to explore the stars: E=mc²....
What your poop can tell you about your health - Hannibal Person
Travel into the digestive system to see how food is turned into waste, and what causes the different colors and textures of poop. -- The average person poops out approximately 11,030 kilograms...
How do sinkholes swallow entire houses and cities? - Elise Cutts
Explore the science of sinkholes, how they commonly form, and what human activities can also trigger them. -- It was a rainy December morning in San Francisco when the Earth opened up. The...
Why don't we send our trash to space? - Jim Bentley and Imogen Ellen Napper
Dig into why there is so much trash orbiting Earth, and find out what could happen if the debris continues to accumulate. -- There are over 131 million pieces of debris currently whipping...