What Would You Do If Money Didn’t Matter? | Short Film Showcase

So, something very interesting is clearly going on when we look at this pencil dipped in this cup of water. We would expect if maybe there was no water in this glass that we would just see the pencil continue straight down in a line that looks something l…

Friends make life good. They provide the scaffolding that makes it not just bearable, but fun. They give us a sense of meaning and purpose and are a source of security, self-esteem, and happiness. Almost nothing predicts how happy you will be as how conne…

We’ve learned about series and parallel resistors. We’ve learned how to simplify series and parallel resistors into an equivalent resistor. Just to review, for the series resistor, our series equivalent ( R_{series} ) is equal to the sum of resistors in …

Welcome back to segment 3 with Kevin Oli. All right, two words: Steve Jobs. Um, the toughest bastard you’ve ever met. He is tough. He was, you know, I went to his, uh, I called him up. Um, I said to him, “Listen, Steve, you have 2 and a half% of the marke…

Hey, it’s me Destin, welcome back to Smarter Every Day. If there is one thing that I learnt from the backwards bicycle experiment, it is that knowledge is not understanding. So a couple of years ago when I made the YouTube series about helicopter physics,…

Who was the first person to reach the North Pole? You might think it was Robert Peary or Frederick Cook. However, the title could actually belong to an African-American explorer named Matthew Henson. In 1866, only a year after the end of the Civil War, H…