explainers
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The Hilarious But Scientific Explanation For Why Everything In Life Eventually Goes To Crap
Video: People are capable of doing amazing things. When we work together we can go to the Moon! We can have all of the world’s information searchable from this thing in our pocket! We can change the world! And then we’ll eventually screw it up somehow and turn it all to shit. Why? It’s the…
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How Do Glasses Actually Help Us See Better?
Video: It’s pretty simple. The cornea and the lens needs to focus light right onto the retina in the back of the eye in order for us to see clearly. If our corneas and lenses are screwed up, it will pinpoint the light in front of or behind the retina, causing us to only be…
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Why Wildfires Are Actually Helpful For The Environment
Wildfires scorch and blacken the Earth but turns out they’re actually essential for the environment and even good for the trees themselves. That’s right, this animation explainer from Ted-Ed explains how burning trees can actually help trees grow in the future. It’s because when trees overgrow they will have too thick of a canopy that…
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What Humans And Life Will Be Like In 1000 Years
Video: ASAP Science attempts to explain what life and humans would be like 1000 years in the future. Nanobots would help us limit human weaknesses, buildings would be able to disassemble and reassemble like Transformers, the number of languages would decrease, our skin would get darker, we’d be able to artificially select desirable traits, and…