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What would it be like to travel to Mars and be one of its first colonists? Well, to get a small taste, National Geographic is sponsoring this video and sending me on a Microgravity experience - a vomit comet. Come on! This plane flies in a series of para…

In previous videos, we’ve gone into reasonable depth on the narrative of how the Sikh religion was started initially by Guru Nanak, and then it has developed under the next gurus all the way until the tenth Guru and finally as it was compiled in the Guru …

In the desert of Gabileen, just south of Luxor, Meredith searches for evidence of Egypt’s earliest death rites. She believes the myths that drove Egyptians to mummify their own bodies had roots much earlier than ancient Egyptian civilization. Prehistoric …

Climate change is just too much. There’s never any good news. Only graphs that get more and more red and angry. Almost every year breaks some horrible record, from the harshest heat waves to the most rapid glacier melt. It’s endless and relentless. We’ve…

That’s a bourbon! Holy look, Maya! I got it! Yeah, you got it! Maya was able to pull out a lush, which was a big deal because it’s a different kind of fish. None of my kids ever seen one; I’ve never caught one, and I was really proud of her to be able to …

Humans don’t have needs, so that’s a deliberately provocative title. We do talk about things that humans need; we say humans need food, shelter, love. What we usually mean by a human need is something that humans require to stay alive or healthy. We say t…