Awesome Science

Vsauce Michael is back with another science-y goodness – this time explaining how much the Internet… weighs. Even packing its massive wealth of information, it manages to keep a slim figure.

If you’ve ever wondered why we fiddle with our clocks twice a year, Springing forward and Falling backward, C.G.P. Grey explains it all, but just enough to leave us asking “why, again?”

YouTube knowledge-dropper vsauce gives us a brief primer on dreams. Find out why sometimes we can’t move our bodies even when we’re awake, the possible explanations for dreaming and more.

Tel-Aviv U. demos the perplexing properties of quantum superconductors which will leave non-science types scratching their heads, and us wanting hoverboards made from this stuff.

A puppet play depicting what happens after a whale dies. The whole concept doesn’t seem particularly intriguing, until the final part where you find out just how significant the whole process is.

An extraordinary view of the Northern and Southern Auroras captured from the ISS as it orbits the globe, making Earth look like some far-off alien planet. Another awesome clip here.

Researchers at UC Berkeley recorded brain activity while subjects watched YouTube videos under an fMRI, then reconstructed what they saw using a computer algorithm. Total Recall, here we come.

Some of the world’s most brilliant minds honored with the logos of equally legendary musicians in geeky apparel Monsters of Grok. The designs are also available as bags, hoodies and women’s wear.

We were hoping for maybe a new clip of Coach McGuirk, but this is just as good. Watch, listen, and learn to see what we mean. You brain may just come unhinged after you watch this.

Mathematician/musician/all-around hottie Vi Hart is back with a layperson’s explanation of sound waves, frequencies, amplification, and how we hear sounds, with her usual mathematical spin.

Using just a knife and his hands, Tim Jones makes a magnifying glass out of a block of ice, then uses it to start a fire. Not the most practical idea, but we’d never have thought of it either.

A loving tribute to NASA, the end of the Shuttle program and decades of space exploration, set to the words of Carl Sagan, along with incredible, moving imagery from Earth and beyond.

Bill Hammack explains why it’s better to have one line for multiple checkout lanes than a line per cashier, and why in the case of the latter the grass is indeed (often) greener on the other side.

Ok, it’s not really an anti-gravity machine, but dropping a stack of neodymium magnets into a piece of copper tubing causes them to float through as if they were in zero-G. Damned physics.

Using an electron microscope, photographer Caren Alpert shot these incredible images of food magnified to reveal details you’d never believe were hidden in such common edible items.

In this TEDtalk, Kevin Slavin shares how math is shaping our world today, influencing everything from stocks, to Amazon pricing, to movies and how we are increasingly reliant on algorithms.