Category Archives: Video

 

An insanely diverse selection of wildlife (including grouse, bobcats, deer, squirrels, beavers and a black bear) crosses a downed tree trunk spanning a river in Pennsylvania during 2018 and 2019: all captured by the locked-off camera of photographer Robert Bush Sr.

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German educational design studio Kurzgesagt examines Peto’s Paradox. To wit:

Cancer is a creepy and mysterious thing. While we tried to understand it, to get better at killing it, we discovered a biological paradox that remains unsolved to this day: large animals seem to be immune to cancer. Which doesn’t make any sense – the bigger a being, the more cancer it should have. To understand why, we first need to take a look at the nature of cancer itself.

Previously: Got White Poison?

Episode #5 in zefrank’s ongoing Human Test series in which he invites you to contemplate your sentience though the prism of your pesky creativity. 

Unless you’re not human, in which case, this will make little sense.

Previously: The Human Office

The utterly lovely Johnny Ball – long time aficionado and populariser of mathematics – breaks down the astonishing alternative calculation method of Russian Multiplication, which, he assures us, always works.

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