"Flashback to the holiday season of 2001. After years of filming, the first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring, is due to hit theaters, and expectations... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 3 months 2 weeks ago • 4 views • 24:24

Beau talks about the actual benefits of paying for Americans' education... - adds value and strength to our nation - higher quality of applicants (for everything) - improves capitalism (see above) ... continue reading

posted by luxintenebris 1 year 9 months ago • 241 views • 6:30

From Youtube, "By the end of the 21st century, humanity is becoming desperate. Decades of heatwaves and droughts have led to unusually poor harvests, while the warming oceans yield fewer fish each year.... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 7 months ago • 511 views • 9:10

From Youtube, "What started as a simple desire for a better arc lighter got carried away and I ended up making the scariest device I've ever built. In this video I tested a plasma lighter and attempted... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 3 years 9 months 3 weeks ago • 55 views • 26:02

Without neutrons, harnessing nuclear energy would be impossible. Try Audible free for 30 days: http://audible.com/veritasium I have a new documentary coming out in a few months - sign up here to be... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 4 weeks ago • 667 views • 7:38

The network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO What happened with Cambridge Analytica highlights this perfectly. ... continue reading

posted by b4rringt0n 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 520 views • 5:35

I recently had the idea for this new vacuum cannon design that many of you might be interested in. Since it hasn't been very long since my last vacuum cannon video I thought I would make this a more casual... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 16 views • 10:29

It was just a routine workers’ compensation fraud case for Ken Sheppard. Show up for a spot check, do some surveillance of the subject and keep it pushing. But on March 3, 2014, it was anything but routine... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 1,157 views • 5:01

Despite our best intentions, giving gifts leads to billions in lost value.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 72 views • 2:21

Chances are if you make a chicken sandwich yourself it will cost less than $5, but Andy George's chicken sandwich cost $1,500 because he made everything from scratch. What causes this huge difference in... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 62 views • 10:42

YouTube description: It’s probably the most well known peacetime battle between the USA and the Soviet Union, in both technological and ideological terms of the 20th century. Although the USA won... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months 1 week ago • 812 views • 14:23

YouTube: Hate the taste of sour stuff? Well fret no more with this miracle berry! It will coat your tongue with an awesome protein to make everything taste sweet!

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 308 views • 2:59

YouTube Description: And how it got its name. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO El Niño is a weather phenomenon that occurs irregularly in the eastern tropical Pacific every... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 5 months 1 week ago • 1,145 views • 2:59

I know the presenter isn't very hip (or TED), but what he has to say about color should cause your brain to explode and then unexplode because everything makes sense.

posted by Magicpants 9 years 1 month ago • 940 views • 16:08

"It's not the mint in your toothpaste that makes your food taste gross."

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 809 views • 2:33

From cereal to ice cream to cocktails, it seems that strawberries are served with just about everything. But it wasn't always this way. Today, Americans eat four times as many strawberries as they did... continue reading

posted by enoch 9 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 644 views • 4:42

"Now what other animal can you think of that makes its habitat more livable, drops everything to keep its neighborhood safe and has a bum that smells like dessert?"

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 10 months 1 week ago • 749 views • 4:27

It was the change that no-one saw coming: the idea that we could take a book, a painting or a song and send it through cables and wires and even thin air to the other end of the world - and it would be... continue reading

posted by Trancecoach 9 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 653 views • 5:43

Neatorama: DIY fanatics like myself consider Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) to be one of the gods of DIY. The man can build really cool stuff out of a pile of random stuff, and his diverse skillset,... continue reading

posted by Zawash 1 decade ago • 255 views • 43:41