History’s Most Powerful Plants
Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted largely of some downright bizarre plants that once covered the Earth, from Colorado to China.
Black Hole Swarms | Space Time
It’s been conjectured that the center of the Milky Way is swarming with tens of thousands of black holes. And now we’ve actually seen them.
From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
The first era of our current eon, the Paleozoic Era, is probably the most deceptively fascinating time in Earth’s history. With near constant revolutions in life, punctuated by catastrophic extinctions, it is also one of the most chaotic. Correction! At 9:19, we erroneously refer to Dimetrodon as an herbivore. It was definitely a carnivore. We […]
The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara – Nizar Ibrahim
In Cretaceous times (around 100 million years ago), North Africa was home to a huge river system and a bizarre menagerie of giant prehistoric predators — including the Spinosaurus, a dinosaur even more fearsome than the Tyrannosaurus rex. Nizar Ibrahim uses paleontological and geological data to reconstruct this “River of Giants” in surprising detail. Lesson […]
Why the insect brain is so incredible – Anna Stöckl
The human brain is one of the most sophisticated organs in the world, a supercomputer made of billions of neurons that control all of our senses, thoughts, and actions. But there was something Charles Darwin found even more impressive: the brain of an ant, which he called “one of the most marvelous atoms of matter […]
Understanding Simulated Universes | StarTalk
Could we be living in a simulated universe? Brian Greene and Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss this possibility.
The Quantum Experiment that Broke Reality | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
The double slit experiment radically changed the way we understand reality. To check out any of the lectures available from The Great Courses Plus go to http://ow.ly/QVaz302duhX and get ready to learn about everything from cooking to calculus.
Are Space and Time An Illusion? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
SPACE, TIME, AND THE NATURE OF REALITY. This episode of Space Time is actually about Spacetime, so pull up a chair, grab your favorite snack, and buckle up, because this episode is going to be a TRIP. Gabe explores what reality is, what «time» is, and why what you think those things are is probably […]
The Speed of Light is NOT About Light | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
The speed of light is often cited as the fastest anything can travel in our universe. While this might be true, the speed of light is the EFFECT and not the CAUSE of this phenomenon. So what’s the cause? On this week’s episode of Space Time, Matt helps explain what the speed of light REALLY […]
Using Stars to See Gravitational Waves | Space Time
Now that gravitational waves are definitely a thing, it’s time to think about some of the crazy things we can figure out with them. In some cases we’re going to need a gravitational wave observatory – in fact, we’ve already built one.
Mom vs. Dad: What Did You Inherit?
Learn more about your DNA by going to: https://www.23andme.com/ASAP
Are Rich People Worse Humans?
Is money the reason Kanye West and Jake Paul are jerks?
The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations
The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations
Paracetamol e ibuprofeno, los grandes analgésicos de la vida
MEC Gisela Aguilar Martínez En la actualidad, por cada botiquín que hay en un hogar, encontraremos dos grandes analgésicos, paracetamol e ibuprofeno. Esto con la finalidad de combatir diferentes enfermedades bastante comunes como es el caso del resfriado o la gripe ya que resultan bastante efectivos a la hora de tratar diversas afecciones. El uso […]