Safari Live - Day 121 | National Geographic

Hey, it’s me Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So you’ve noticed that moths and other bugs sometimes get trapped around a light. Have you ever thought about why? [music] We are in the middle of the Amazon rainforest and we have a huge mercury vap…

Overall, capitalism is intrinsic to the human species. Capitalism is not something we invented; capitalism is not even something we discovered. It is innate to us. In every exchange that we have, when you and I exchange information, I want some informatio…

[Music] From Germany, just send them straight out the door. Okay, thanks a lot, let’s go upstairs. Welcome to Miami. [Music] So, just coming from—well, we have the head of—we have the head of VP of retail, and I think one of the marketing people are brin…

What is hydraulic fracturing – or fracking? Since the industrial revolution, our energy consumption has risen unceasingly. The majority of this energy consumption is supplied by fossil fuels like coal or natural gas. Recently, there has been a lot of talk…

Author George’s Diaz Montek Sano has been researching this area for years, and he’s convinced that some Atlantan refugees fled inland and built shrines to memorialize the lost city. Deciphering the shrine would help Giorgos prove his theory. “No sir, a r…

[Music] Earth and civilization, as we know it, has come a long way in the past 200,000 years and has experienced a multitude of changes. In that time, the human species has only existed for a mere 0.0015 percent of the immense 13.7 billion-year age of the…