Sources and link to book by Rupert Glasgow: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-consciousness Consciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a closer look on how unaware things became aware. This video was made possible by […]
Carbon is the primary building block of all life on Earth. Without it, humans would have no DNA. What if we tried replacing human life with silicon instead of carbon. What would silicon-based humans look and act like? Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-humans-were-silicon-based-instead-of-carbon-based/ 00:00 Silicon-based life 00:53 Carbon life 02:32 Weak […]
Thank you to Blinkist for sponsoring this video. The first 100 people to go to https://www.blinkist.com/pursuitofwonder will receive free unlimited access for 1 week and 25% off if you decide to get the full membership. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem…” wrote Albert Camus. And from one dying […]
The Egg Story by Andy Weir Animated by Kurzgesagt A Big Thanks to Andy Weir for allowing us to use his story. The original was released here: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html Visit his website here: http://www.andyweirauthor.com/ If you want to support us, please check out those beautiful Egg posters we made: https://shop.kurzgesagt.org This […]
Get Merch designed with ❤ from https://kgs.link/shop-121 Join the Patreon Bird Army 🐧 https://kgs.link/patreon ▼▼ More infos and links are just a click away ▼▼ Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourceswhyareyoualive At this very second, you are on a narrow ledge between life and death. You probably don’t feel it, but […]
From addiction to racism to heartbreak, Wendy Williams has been through it all and come out the other side — but could her tea-spilling days finally be over? #WendyWilliams #TrueLifeStory #Transformation A hard climb to stardom | 0:00 Life at the rumor mill | 1:14 Love and tragedy | 2:11 […]
follow: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Sources and more below! are you an uninsured American? Check out: https://www.healthcare.gov Music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com Mental Floss “micromorts” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLmBJ4_5eG4 WHO life tables: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.61780?lang=en K.C. Cole “The Universe and the Teacup”: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Universe-Teacup-Mathematics-Beauty/dp/0156006561 Abraham Wald: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/ http://learn-math.info/historyDetail.htm?id=Wald Soyuz 11: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11 http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/2013/04/28/crew-home-misfortunes-soyuz-11/ http://www.qsl.net/up0r/NetEng.htm The atmosphere (chart): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Atmosphere_layers-en.svg “Poke” […]
https://www.twitch.tv/alfomedia https://www.patreon.com/AlfoMedia https://twitter.com/renshawhs https://www.instagram.com/renshawhs/ https://www.bonfire.com/store/alfo-media Hey everybody! Thanks for watching this video, “The Life and Death of Movie Trailer Music”. This is a topic that I’m super passionate about and I’ve wanted to discuss it with you forever. Movie trailers are art — plain and simple. There’s so much that […]
The 1950’s Deep South was not overly hospitable to this strange man and his stranger ideas. “John Howard Griffin (June 16, 1920 – September 9, 1980) was an American journalist and author from Texas who wrote about and championed racial equality. He is best known for his 1959 project to […]
Watch Nat Geo’s MARS Monday 11/14 at 9/8c: http://makemarshome.com/ Watch Kevin and Jake’s videos! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_MhErD-EA0&index=2&list=PLiyjwVB09t5xDxwO8KpwJA2HTA13xarpf *Thanks to Nat Geo for sponsoring this video* Earth and Mars size comparison: http://www.space.com/16871-how-big-is-mars.html calculate how much you’d weigh on Mars: http://www.exploratorium.edu/mars/yourweight.php Martian ‘sun dial’: http://www.universetoday.com/96930/curiositys-sundial-carries-a-message-of-hope/ http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/interactives/revealing-mars-before-after-image-comparison-slider/rover-opportunity/ Touching Mars images (walnut regolith): http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/multimedia/images/2005/dust_devils.html Pascal Lee: http://www.pascallee.net […]
