Awesome Learning

Minute Physics tackles a head-scratching topic. As expected, we don’t get a straight answer, but it’s quite interesting nonetheless. For instance, it turns out Ptolemy’s assumption was right. Kind of.

You might want to wait to eat your lunch until later after watching ZeFrank’s latest educational clip about these nasty critters that roll around giant balls of poo. Naked. With their mouths.

Vsauce talks about the emotional, psychological and biological reasons as to why humans are the only animals who wear clothes. Or, put another way, why we don’t want to be seen naked.

A concise explanation of the history, technology and the consequences of the Manhattan Project, which led to one of humanity’s worst accomplishments but was also a spark of fruitful innovation.

The Printing Ink Company shows some of the materials, processes and machines involved in making their inks. It’s strange how clean their workplace is; a stark contrast to the DayGlo factory.

60 Minutes’ Morley Safer takes a fascinating look inside the art, science and business of the flavorings found in virtually every processed food we eat. How about some delicious strawberry beaver’s backside?

Did you know that the protective sleeve on coffee cups is called a zarf? Learn more names for everyday things with the help of BuzzFeed. The track is Stay Gold by Brandon Rowan.

A look behind the scenes at New York City’s Department of Transportation’s sign shop, a small team of 22 men and women who make every single street sign for all five of NYC’s boroughs.

A collaborative animation of Shane Koyczan’s emotionally heartwrenching poem about the lasting impact of bullying and rising up against its negative consequences. Learn more about the project here.

Vsauce explores one of those questions that we’re sure you’ve all asked yourself at some point. How can we be sure the colors, feelings and other perceptions are the same as other people’s?

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Asapscience shares some of the things that scientists know about love, such as the fact that the emotion affects the brain in the same way that cocaine does.

Purdue University MET built a gun that shoots ping pong balls at supersonic speeds, enough to punch a hole through a paddle. Skip to 5:47 to see it in action. Watch it go through soda cans here.

AsapScience lays out the gist of the book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Dr. Daniel Kahneman. In the book, Dr. Kahneman proposes that we use two modes of thinking: one instinctive and the other rational.

Do you believe that there’s a best way of listening to music? PBS’ Idea Channel doesn’t think so. But instead of comparing the tech behind music media, PBS uses a psychological and philosophical analysis.

On 1/30/13, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield engaged in a live interview with elementary school students, teaching us about living, eating, bathing, and marshmallows in space.

In his culture show Folding Ideas, Dan Olson looks at how the folks behind The Simpsons have tweaked the character of Homer to respond to how pop culture missed the point of their satire.

(NSFW: Language) ZeFrank returns with his latest educational video, about this odd little carnivorous primate with eyeballs bigger than its brain. To us, it looks like one of George Lucas’ digital creatures.

In his latest uplifting video, Vsauce lists some of the most lethal spots on our planet. Some have hostile environments, some have lethal organisms while some simply have, well, good old humans.

On his trip to the Amazon, Smarter Every Day encountered a tailless whip scorpion, a harmless arachnid. Sure, it’s not venomous, but its fearsome appearance could still cause a heart attack.

Discovery puts on its mythbusting hat and debunks some of the FAA’s alibis regarding why they make people turn off their phones and other electronic devices shortly before and after takeoff.

ZeFrank’s latest True Facts clip leaves the zoo behind for the land of celebrity, schooling us on the finer points of the Oscar winner – in a baritone that more than resembles the actor’s trademark voice.

(NSFW: Language) The funniest episode so far in the True Facts series. ZeFrank makes no effort to hide his hatred of sloths and accompanies each fact with a hilarious and derogatory side comment.

Vsauce kicks off 2013 with an optical illusion. Believe it or not, this picture is monochrome red. It’s a demonstration of the Land Effect. But you know how Vsauce is, always digressing. A lot.