"The success of vaccines is one of the reasons that people are less likely to vaccinate their children." YouTube: Fewer children in the United States are getting vaccinated. That’s bad news for those... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 382 views • 9:16

Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry. UC Berkeley psychologist Dacher Keltner challenges this notion... continue reading

posted by enoch 9 years 10 months 1 week ago • 2,027 views • 4:37

YouTube Description: I have narcolepsy with cataplexy, and it can be very frustrating to try to explain what it's like to people who have never seen narcolepsy in real life, and how much of a struggle... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 1 decade 1 week ago • 1,480 views • 4:46

YT: This test works equally well for AA, AAA, C, D and 9 Volt alkaline batteries. It is our understanding that the following chemical reactions occur and helps to explain our observations. A non-rechargeable... continue reading

posted by Zawash 1 decade 1 month 3 weeks ago • 589 views • 5:32

Ever call someone OCD because they like to have a clean apartment? Ever tell someone you have a phobia of spiders when, in fact, they just creep you out a little? In this episode of Crash Course psychology,... continue reading

posted by cricket 1 decade 2 months ago • 669 views • 11:32

A well presented piece about how we can and do benefit from an understanding of evolution.

posted by nanrod 1 decade 3 months 4 weeks ago • 709 views • 9:53

An understanding of how we develop as human beings based on early, sometimes cruel experiments involving primates.

posted by PlayhousePals 1 decade 4 months 2 weeks ago • 214 views • 11:38

Ketchup explained, animator clearly doesn't understand how french fries work.

posted by grinter 1 decade 6 months 3 weeks ago • 213 views • 4:29

In a multi-part series with the popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill explores a variety of topics, including the nature of an expanding, accelerating universe (and how it might end), the difference... continue reading

posted by radx 1 decade 9 months 3 weeks ago • 926 views • 26:47

As an ESL teacher I find this kind of stuff fascinating! Description (from You Tube): eBay Deals investigates Yale University economist Keith Chen's study on "The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior."... continue reading

(Description via YouTube) Everyone has played with a mixture of corn starch and water (or at least I hope they have). This was one of my favorite experiments as a kid. Your hand slides into the slime... continue reading

http://videosift.com/video/Insane-woman-thinks-all-postal-workers-are-after-her Following the discussion which took place in the comment section of a video (linked above) posted by @pumkinandstorm,... continue reading

In which Hank Green attempts to explain the revolution going on in Egypt (seemingly again). From YT: The situation in Egypt is extremely complicated and changing constantly. The arguments between... continue reading

posted by RFlagg 1 decade 1 year 3 months 4 weeks ago • 1,794 views • 7:42

Youtube Description: This 50 minutes long BBC documentary film is aired in the year 2011. The BBC film says it is the first and the most technological advance in the world, ancient chariot racing, the... continue reading

posted by oohlalasassoon 1 decade 1 year 6 months 4 weeks ago • 557 views • 48:32

Researchers from The University of Nottingham have demonstrated how a species of flatworm overcomes the ageing process to be potentially immortal. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the... continue reading

posted by Kulpims T'dna (kulpims) 1 decade 2 years 4 months 1 week ago • 985 views • 14:47

Feynman Diagrams help physicists understand what happens when particles collide.

posted by GenjiKilpatrick 1 decade 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 3,324 views • 9:01

From Brady Haran's new video series, Numberphile: explaining binary to understand why Pac-Man becomes unplayable after 255 levels.

posted by Skeeve 1 decade 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,518 views • 5:24