Humanity is slowly moving up the Kardashev scale, designed and refined to rank just how advanced a civilization could get. As Kurzgesagt shows, it starts to get almost unimaginable for… Read the rest of the article: Great explainer on what advanced civilizations might be like
Modern Jazz musician Olivier Cong's two-part song "Delusion" inspire designer Kachi Chan to create a black and white space-themed series of visuals. Prepare to leave your body!
Documentarian Errol Morris made an acclaimed documentary series on eccentric people 20 years ago, and now you can watch it online for free. First Person includes a fascinating ep on… Read the rest of the article: Errol Morris has uploaded his 'First Person' documentary series to YouTube
The always delightful Auralnauts have redubbed The Dark Knight Rises for 2020, with Bane urging all those he encounters to join him in wearing a mask.
In this tongue-in-cheek rendition to amuse their crew, The Edge does OK, and Bono has a couple of good moments, but the whole things falls apart a couple of minutes… Read the rest of the article: Watch Bono and The Edge mung up "Stairway to Heaven"
The "chef" making rice in this BBC video should probably appear before The Hague for crimes against food. Luckily, Uncle Roger (aka comedian Nigel Ng of Rice To Meet You)… Read the rest of the article: Uncle Roger relentlessly roasts inept BBC chef making egg fried rice
Transparency about police disciplinary investigations has been hard to achieve, often blocked by powerful unions. ProPublica has sped up the process in New York by circumventing a judge's order and… Read the rest of the article: A judge blocked release of NYPD's misconduct database. ProPublica published it anyway.
Gamer and philanthropist MrBeast gave his buds several challenges in GTA V, with the stipulation that they could not break any laws. No punching, stealing, or even jaywalking. Turns out… Read the rest of the article: Playing GTA without breaking the law is the real hard mode
Minnesota continues to be in the news for all the wrong reasons, this time thanks to a meme posted by the Wabasha County Republican Party comparing wearing a face mask… Read the rest of the article: Republican official's spicy Holocaust meme about wearing masks doesn't go over well
This short documentary explains how St. Louis, Los Angeles, and every other major US city were segregated by design, via decades of federal, state, and local actions.
Thomas Renoldner's polarizing short film DON'T KNOW WHAT has been on the festival circuit, but since all that has moved online during the pandemic, you can now watch it… Read the rest of the article: Watch this glitchy, twitchy art piece DONT KNOW WHAT
Rus Khasanov (previously) has created a clean, iridescent, and mesmerizing abstract video called "beyond the horizon," set to the music of Dmitry Evgrafov.
YouTuber Greg Stone has an in-depth interview with ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau, who just unveiled his design for his next long-term undersea habitat called Proteus.
YouTuber Macrofying zooms in on common objects to the microscopic level. It's fun to guess what each one is before the camera zooms out.
Smartphones have relegated iconic red British telephone boxes to things of the past, but they are being preserved and repurposed. In fact, Yorkshire now has more repurposed boxes than working… Read the rest of the article: Red phone boxes in Yorkshire more likely to have non-phone uses now
Many videos describing quantum computers try to distill and oversimplify everything. Thoughty's takes its time and gives more historical and theoretical context than most.
YouTuber Anton Petrov summarizes the latest research that suggests a fungus found thriving in Chernobyl could be used to block radiation in spacesuits, extraterrestrial structures, and more, based on successful… Read the rest of the article: Chernobyl fungus could block cosmic radiation in Martian colonies
Johnny Harris took on the brain-melting task of truly understanding the argument that the earth is flat, including the modern conspiracy theory that the military guards ice walls circling earth's… Read the rest of the article: Strap in for a detailed explainer on flat-earthers' beliefs
In 2022, four bison will be released in Kent, marking the first time wild bison have roamed in the United Kingdom in six millennia. Similar programs in other European countries… Read the rest of the article: The UK will soon have wild bison for the first time in 6,000 years
Hybrid Autonomous Rover – Venus is the next spacecraft scheduled to explore our hellish neighbor, and it will be more like a clock than a computer to survive the conditions.
