YouTube description: A massive document leak reveals the secrets of shell companies. Matt Yglesias explains, adapting an analogy from reddit user DanGliesack: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikei... ... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 3 weeks ago • 392 views • 2:07

YouTube: Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand. ― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months ago • 19 views • 15:33

To quote her own presentation: - Our fears about debt and deficits are driven by an outdated gold standard ideology - Money is not a finite "thing" - Deficits can be too big or too small - The goal... continue reading

posted by radx 8 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 278 views • 1:18:38

"Imagine if dogs were the ones giving the news, owning the restaurants and writing the newspaper! Boy, it would be hard to understand what they were saying! ..."

posted by ant 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 13 views • 3:14

Do you see what I see? YouTube: Scientists may understand how the eye works, but seeing what other animals see is another matter entirely. Learn how eyes evolved, and find out which animal's eye biologist... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 447 views • 2:43

Depression is the leading cause of disability in the world; in the United States, close to ten percent of adults struggle with the disease. But because it’s a mental illness, it can be a lot harder to... continue reading

posted by cricket 8 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 464 views • 4:29

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 4 months 2 weeks ago • 1,145 views • 2:59

YouTube: Disenchanted with the out-of-date curriculum of traditional college, Jeremy Rossmann dropped out of MIT. Within a few years, he and co-founder Ashu Desai, started The Make School, a college replacement... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months ago • 493 views • 4:02

IFLScience: Still baffled by Einstein’s theory of relativity, or even the parts in the movie Interstellar when everyone experiences time differently? Well, this teenager’s explanation of special relativity... continue reading

posted by Zawash 8 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 1,541 views • 7:34

YouTube: Is meat going to give you cancer? The answer is a very dubious maybe. Aaron helps you understand the meat announcement from the WHO, and it turns out, you might not need to panic.

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months ago • 182 views • 5:53

Ugggg ... I hate when the time changes [espcially in the Spring!] YouTube: Daylight saving time is the practice of setting the clocks forward one hour during the spring and back again in the fall in... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 6 months 1 week ago • 351 views • 2:20

..And this time it's P for Perception! YT: Following total atomic annihilation, the rebuilding of this great nation of ours may fall to you. That’s why Vault-Tec has prepared this educational video... continue reading

posted by Zawash 8 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 486 views • 2:36

YouTube: Often confused for one another the prehistoric looking Alligator Snapping Turtle and the more widespread Common Snapping Turtle are two very distinct species. Yes it is true that they both... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 8 months ago • 1,953 views • 6:02

The human visual system is extremely complex, but it makes repeated use of some tricks that can be exploited to produce interesting visual illusions. With even a high-level understanding of how the brain... continue reading

posted by cricket 8 years 8 months ago • 1,207 views • 4:56

YT: Decades ago, few pediatricians had heard of autism. In 1975, 1 in 5,000 kids was estimated to have it. Today, 1 in 68 is on the autism spectrum. What caused this steep rise? Steve Silberman points... continue reading

posted by Zawash 8 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 263 views • 13:49

I love the sound of breaking glass. YouTube: A special thank you to Dr. John Skinner, who is part of the Smarter Every Day Research team via Patreon for helping come up with the "tree explanation" of... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 11 months 1 week ago • 1,993 views • 8:51

YT: Daniel Kish has been blind since he was 13 months old, but has learned to "see" using a form of echolocation. He clicks his tongue and sends out flashes of sound that bounce off surfaces in the environment... continue reading

posted by Zawash 9 years 1 month ago • 208 views • 13:08

"Can movement tell a story? Sure, if you’re as gifted as Akira Kurosawa. More than any other filmmaker, he had an innate understanding of movement and how to capture it onscreen. Join me today in studying... continue reading

posted by blacklotus90 9 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,094 views • 8:25

YouTube: Why don’t we have robots taking care of our every need by now? A little history of the field of robotics might help you understand how hard it is to get machines to perform tasks, and far we’ve... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 2 months ago • 26 views • 10:37