Safari Live - Day 337 | National Geographic

In /On the Genealogy of Morals/, Nietzsche searches through history for the origins of morality. And in it, he talks about how some people use morality like a dog-leash to control others. They use morality to get people to do what they want. It’s an inter…

Hey, Vsauce, Michael here, and today we are going to ask a question—why don’t any animals have wheels? I mean, animals use a plethora of complicated locomotive techniques—slithering, fins, legs, wings—but yet, no animal has wheels. What’s really paradoxi…

The third in the four species of sharks that I wanna share with you tonight is the Oceanic White Tip shark, a shark that has been listed as the fourth most dangerous species of sharks if you pay attention to such lists. It’s an animal that is a true pelag…

We’re now going to explore hypothesis testing when we’re thinking about the difference between proportions of two different populations. So here it says, here are the results from a recent poll that involved sampling voters from each of two neighboring d…

There’s a stereotype of discoveries and breakthroughs. The stereotype is: at one point you don’t know something, and then there’s a Eureka moment, and then you know something, and that’s a breakthrough. The very word itself implies some barrier through wh…

[humming] MELISSANDE: You were gone a long time. Yes, I stopped to watch a bird. A bird. A cunning black bird. It was going after a woodchuck. And after, where did you go? If you wish, I will fetch Rene Sel down from his work so you can ask him, or perh…