The Internet Has Massively Broadened Career Possibilities

So this is like the world’s most important freezer? It is. Really. laughs The most important room in the world, someone has said. These are pretty big claims for a place located just 1300 km, or 800 miles from the north pole. But then, this is no ordinary…

[Instructor] Have you ever heard someone call birds living dinosaurs? You might find that hard to believe. After all, the city pigeons that you see wandering around town don’t look particularly ferocious like a Tyrannosaurus rex. But it turns out that our…

A lot of people don’t understand how debt can put you out of business if things go wrong. Imagine being in your 40s and being wiped out, having to go bankrupt. So, I want you to react to something. Sure. I have my entire portfolio—worth a little bit over…

Hey, it’s me, Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day! OK, we are kicking off the Coast Guard series in full effect here. Today, we want to get to the good stuff. We’re gonna start learning about search and rescue. And when you think about the Coast Gua…

What’s in here? What does it do? And can I make it from scratch? Ingredients toothpaste, as we know it, is relatively new—only 150 years old. Toothpaste, as we don’t know it, had things like rock salt, pumice, crushed eggshells, crushed bone, and even cr…

Alright. This is totally easy once you understand the physics. Watch this. Left, yep right, go back to the right. It’s easy! [unintelligible] flip. 1..2..3.. Yeah! Awesome! So, as a kid I spent many an hour in a book about the drawings of Leonardo Da Vin…