September 29, 2017 The Centuries-Old Debt That's Still Paying Interest In the archives of Yale University, there's a 367-year-old bond from the water authority of Lekdijk Bovendams, in the Netherlands. And it's still paying interest.
September 28, 2017 Why does North Korea hate the U.S.? The North Korean regime hates the United States. Everyday, North Koreans are told that the Americans are ‘imperialists,’ ‘aggressors,’ and ‘hostile.’ North Korean children are taught that ‘cunning American wolves’ want to kill them. To understand why, we need to go back to the Korean War.
September 27, 2017
The Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Muslims The Rohingya have been systematically driven out by the Myanmar government leading to the fastest growing humanitarian crisis in recent years.
September 26, 2017 Why Public Transportation Sucks in the US Access to transportation is the single most important factor in an individual’s ability to escape poverty.
September 18, 2017 The Strangest Sights Cassini Saw Feast your eyes on icy volcanoes, ethane lakes, and ripples in Saturn's rings - all courtesy of a doomed space probe named Cassini.
September 14, 2017
"Fucking Brilliant" Story About Profanity & the Law Steven Pinker, a professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, talks about language as a window to emotion.
September 13, 2017 How Computers Compress Text Computers store text (or, at least, English text) as eight bits per character. There are plenty of more efficient ways that could work: so why don't we use them? And how can we fit more text into less space? Let's talk about Huffman coding, Huffman trees, and Will Smith.
September 6, 2017 A Nuclear Waste Dump You Can Walk On In Weldon Spring, Missouri, there is a strange, grey, windblasted seven-storey pile of rocks. It's the Weldon Spring Site: a nuclear and toxic waste dump on the site of an old uranium processing factory. And you can walk on it: it's technically a tourist attraction. That was going to be the whole of this video... and then Tom Scott did some more research.
September 5, 2017 The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall On August 13, 1961, construction workers began tearing up streets and erecting barriers in Berlin. This night marked the beginning of one of history’s most infamous dividing lines: the Berlin Wall. Construction continued for a decade as the wall cut through neighborhoods, separated families, and divided not just Germany, but the world. Konrad H. Jarausch details the history of the Berlin Wall.
