Safari Live - Day 42 | National Geographic

OK, just for argument’s sake, suppose we’re nothing more than the sum total of our genetic inheritance. It’s not as bad as it sounds. There are passages in our DNA that are every bit as heroic as anything ever written in any epic saga. [low growl] [gentl…

The winner in the category of Medicine, making it ties—that’s like the big thing. You kind of had that status of being in, like, the group I would say that a lot of people are jealous of. On deadlines, I’m awful. I wait until the deadline to start workin…

Oh, how I missed you so, my dears know-it-alls, my clever boys and girls, my kitties and bunnies! From your teary eyes, I can see that you haven’t forgotten your old pal Freeman and that you’re ready to get back to solving riddles and searching for… messa…

You’ve probably heard a lot of talk lately about bots on Twitter or even foreign involvement in our political process. For example, the president of the United States publicly thanked a Twitter account which we now know was run by malicious actors located…

[Applause] Five fun physics phenomena. Number one: Have a friend hold a cane out horizontally for you, or another similar object. Putting your two index fingers together, try to place them underneath the center of mass. When they let go, you will find i…

So we are interested in studying the relationship between the amount that folks study for a test and their score on a test, where the score is between zero and six. What we’re going to do is go look at the people who took the tests. We’re going to plot f…