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As light travels through space, it behaves like a wave, but light is also made of tiny particles called photons. This is the paradox of wave-particles, and it has completely revolutionized modern physics. The universe is filled with intriguing paradoxes l…

In 1951, students at Swarthmore College were the subject of a curious experiment. Solomon Asch designed the experiment in which a few students would have to complete a seemingly easy task. Students would be shown a card with a line drawn on it. Then, they…

Thailand Highway 3259 is a sugarcane transport road. Thousands of farmers use it to get their crops to the refinery. But this highway has a toll collector. Locals call him the Don. And this is his territory. He’s a master dealmaker, calculating risk vers…

Hello Internet! I asked for questions, and boy, did you deliver with more than 7,000, so, let’s get started. Question: Immortality! Aging is a degenerative fatal disease of the genes in the same way Parkinson’s is. We’re trying to cure Parkinson’s with g…

[Applause] Now I’ve been around Sydney and I’ve asked people what causes the phases of the moon, and you know what they say? How do we get the faces of the Moon? Uh, because of the Earth blocks the light that comes from the Sun. A full moon is basically w…

What we’re going to talk about in this video is voter turnout, which is a way of thinking about how many of the people who could vote actually do vote. It’s often expressed as a number, as a percentage, where you have the number who vote over the number o…