Literature
What's the definition of comedy? Banana.
Lesson duration 04:51
What makes us giggle and guffaw? The inability to define comedy is its very appeal; it is...
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Results for "bogaty" (61)
History
The most groundbreaking scientist you've never heard of
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Seventeenth-century Danish geologist Nicolas Steno earned his chops at a young age, studying...
Consciousness, Sensation and Perception
What happens when you remove the hippocampus?
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When Henry Molaison (now widely known as H.M.) cracked his skull in an accident, he began...
Writing/Composition
How to make your writing funnier
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Did you ever notice how many jokes start with “Did you ever notice?” And what’s the deal with...
Science & Technology
How to fossilize...yourself
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You can aspire to great things in life, but how about in death? Could you be one of the world’s...
Life Sciences
How the heart actually pumps blood
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For most of history, scientists weren’t quite sure why our hearts were beating or even what...
Psychology
Why do we feel nostalgia?
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Nostalgia was once considered an illness confined to specific groups of people. Today, people...
Design, Engineering & Technology
What's the difference between accuracy and precision?
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When we measure things, most people are only worried about how accurate, or how close to the...
Design, Engineering & Technology
The sonic boom problem
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Objects that fly faster than the speed of sound (like really fast planes) create a shock wave...
Health
At what moment are you dead?
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For as far back as we can trace our existence, humans have been fascinated with death and...
Medical Conditions
Is there a disease that makes us love cats?
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Today, about a third of the world’s population is infected with a strange disease called...
Environmental Science
How smart are orangutans?
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Along with humans, orangutans belong to the Hominidae family tree, which stretches back 14...
Growth & Development
The strange case of the cyclops sheep
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In the 1950s, a group of ranchers in Idaho were baffled when their sheep gave birth to lambs with...
Life Sciences
Why do we harvest horseshoe crab blood?
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During the warmer months, especially at night during the full moon, horseshoe crabs emerge from...
Environmental Science
Will the ocean ever run out of fish?
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When most people think of fishing, we imagine relaxing in a boat and patiently reeling in the...
Life Sciences
Why are sloths so slow?
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Sloths spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping; in fact, they descend from their...
Science & Technology
3 ways to end a virus
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Viruses are wildly successful organisms. There are about 100 million times as many virus...
Literature & Language
The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
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The marriage of Orpheus, the greatest of all poets and musicians, to Eurydice, a wood nymph, was...