Ukraine’s breakthrough counterattack, explained. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In the spring and summer of 2022, the war between Ukraine and Russia settled into a stalemate. The first phase of the war had been a rapid invasion that drew new battle lines […]
Jake Blount, a banjo scholar, explains. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Jake Blount has built a career out of understanding the banjo’s connection to Black American folk music. In this video, he walks us through the instrument’s history — from West Africa […]
Running up that hill with 8 billion people. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 2022, the world population crossed 8 billion people — and we felt the scale of this monumental milestone in hundreds of ways. After over two years of lockdowns and quarantines, people eagerly restarted their lives, but […]
It’s not you — the dialogue in TV and movies has gotten harder to hear. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Have you ever been watching a show or movie, and then a character delivers a line so unintelligible you have to scramble […]
Nearsightedness is on the rise worldwide. How did that happen? Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Over the past few decades, children around the world have been diagnosed with nearsightedness at increasingly high rates. Nearsightedness, or myopia, can stabilize over time, but it […]
How dyslexia is a differently organized brain. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO The brain isn’t naturally wired to read. It’s a task that requires explicit instruction for our brains to activate different areas, including those that control vision, sound, and meaning. For […]
Will carbon dioxide removal work? It has to. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In recent years, over 70 countries have committed to net-zero carbon emissions, aiming to become carbon neutral by mid-century. The 2015 Paris Agreement aimed to keep global warming below […]
How it works — and why it takes a surprisingly long time to make something good. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO How does an AI artist maintain consistency with a recurring character? While AI art may appear to involve just a few […]
Solar geoengineering might help lower temps, but it’s a controversial approach. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO The climate change crisis has become so dire that we’re being forced not only to think of ways to curb emissions and mitigate greenhouse gases, but […]
The Palestinian catastrophe, explained. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Around the time that Israelis celebrate Independence Day, Palestinians commemorate “The Nakba,” or “The Catastrophe.” The Nakba was a series of events, centered around 1948, that expelled hundreds of thousands Palestinians from their […]
