Why You Might Not Want to Be ‘The Smart Kid’ [Science Video]
Whether you think of yourself as “the smart kid” or not, thinking so might affect your grades a lot more than how smart you actually are… [SciShow Psych]
Whether you think of yourself as “the smart kid” or not, thinking so might affect your grades a lot more than how smart you actually are… [SciShow Psych]
From NASA: We’ve taken giant leaps and left our mark in the heavens. Now we’re building the next chapter, returning to the Moon to stay, and preparing to go beyond. We are NASA – and after 60 years, we’re just getting started. Special thanks to Mike Rowe for the voiceover work. [NASA]
Can the radiation emitted by electronic devices affect your body and make you feel terrible? [SciShow]
Adventurous eaters are constantly on the hunt for the next hottest thing, but you definitely don’t want to eat the hottest chemical we know of! [SciShow]
Sometimes, numbers on sites like YouTube and Twitter jump up and down; subscriber counts lag, like-counts bounce all over the place. Why is it so hard for computers to count? To answer that, we need to talk about threading, eventual consistency, and caching. [Tom Scott]
Loneliness isn’t much fun, but it might also be harmful to your heart—not just in a metaphorical sense, but your actual physical heart, as well as some of your body’s other functions. [SciShow Psych]
The chemistry of the universe is, in a way, in your morning cup of coffee — from the evolution of caffeine as a defensive chemical weapon in plants to the swirling eddies of milk and coffee fueled by diffusion, Brownian motion and other phenomena. After watching the video, you’ll never look at coffee the same […]
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… The edge of everything used to be the edge of the map. But now, thanks to what we know about astrophysics and the universe, the edge of everything might not even exist… [It’s Okay To Be Smart]
Today, science teaches us all we need to know about beer. Does it make us creative? Does it make us utilitarian? We also learn the history of light beer and facts about hops. And of course, there are beer life hacks! The best way to open a bottle! [Mental Floss]
Medicine has made leaps and bounds in treating illnesses in the last century, but are they ever going to get around to curing the common cold? We might be closer than you think. [SciShow]