Satya Nadella on the journey to becoming Microsoft's CEO & reimagining technology's impact

Wordsmith, hello! We’ve got important work to get to, so I won’t keep you. The word we’re looking at in this video is “significant.” It’s an adjective. It means important, worth paying attention to, a large amount. Something can be emotionally significan…

Hey, it’s me Destin, welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So in one of the last episodes, I introduced you to a legend with a longbow. He’s from my hometown and his name is Byron Ferguson. He shot an aspirin out of the air in slow motion. But there’s someth…

A strong acid is an acid that ionizes 100% in solution. For example, hydrochloric acid (HCl) as a strong acid donates a proton to water (H2O) to form the hydronium ion (H3O+) and the conjugate base to HCl, which is the chloride ion (Cl−). In reality, thi…

For each one of my guests, if they’re clearly not otherwise a scientist, I try to find out what kind of science encounters they had as children. Judging whether some moment with their math teacher or science teacher left a good or bad impression on them, …

That first moment sitting by myself on an island in the Okavango Delta was the most profound moment of my life. It is, to me, a wilderness beyond comparison. The Okavango Delta is Africa’s last remaining pristine Witkin wilderness. It is an oasis in the m…

George S. Clayson first published The Richest Man in Babylon in 1926. Today, this book is still regarded as one of the best personal finance books ever written due to the wealth of wisdom that lies within its pages. Now, in this book, Clayson focuses on s…