All Videos — March 30, 2011

Why Energy Independence Is So Crucial

President Obama announced a plan to cut dependence on foreign oil by one-third by 2021. Retired four-star general Wesley Clark explains just how detrimental our addiction to oil is and posits some strategies to mitigate it.

Strange Maps

The Indian Ocean has the world’s largest gravity hole. Now we know why

Seventy-five years after the anomaly's discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.

Four egyptian sarcophagi with animal heads emitting the smell of ancient Egyptian mummies.

The Past

Get a whiff of ancient Egyptian mummified organs

The stench of death is actually fairly pleasant.

The Past

A Soviet doctor’s wild experiment to create hybrid human-ape super warriors

In an attempt to prove Christianity inferior to communism, a Soviet scientist hoped to play God.

A painting challenging perception with the words 'c'est pas une pipe'.

Business

Defamiliarization: How “ostranenie” can redefine life, art, and business

Defamiliarization is a common tool in the arts. Here we learn how seeing things from a different angle can lead to billion-dollar success.

The Past

How humanity became slaves to the clock

In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.

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Guest Thinkers

A Good Idea I Hope Will Catch On: The Journalists’ Wall of Shame

With koanic brilliance, Robin Sloan recently summarized the difference between last century’s old command-and-control journalism and today’s. It was, of course, a tweet: “The way to cover big news in […]