How To Overcome Procrastination: Why It Happens & How You Can You Avoid It

What is procrastination and how do we stop procrastinating? In this video we seek to answer a potentially life changing question – can you overcome procrastination forever? We sift through the world of science, studies, data and theories to uncover what we know about procrastination and to find out of it’s possible to conjure a […]

Could a Breathalyzer Detect Cancer? [Science Video]

How is it that a breathalyzer can measure the alcohol content in someone’s blood, hours after they had their last drink, based on their breath alone? And could we use this same technology to detect disease by analyzing a person’s breath, without having to use more invasive diagnostic tools like biopsies, blood draws, and radiation? […]

A Brief History of Alcohol

Nobody knows exactly when humans began to create fermented beverages. The earliest known evidence comes from 7,000 BCE in China, where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey. So how did alcohol come to fuel global trade and exploration? Rod Phillips explores […]

How to Escape a Super Nova: Stellar Engines [Science Video]

From In a Nutshell: Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center. Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230 million years. This dance is not an orderly ballet – […]