Category: Science

  • Lead is not your friend

    Lead is not your friend

    Rebecca Watson creates fantastic videos that take a closer look at the evidence and research on something she becomes curious about. She is one of those people that spends a lot of time thinking about why she thinks the things she thinks. I highly recommend watching this video about lead in the environment and the…

  • Blue Zones and Beans

    Blue Zones and Beans

    Nutrition is an imperfect science. Research is difficult because… humans. But on a macro scale, it is worth looking at what the longest living people do. We know who they are, and you can find them in 5 “Blue Zones” around the world. One “In every blue zone I have visited, beans and other legumes were…

  • The Real R2D2

    The Real R2D2

    Decades after watching Star Wars as a boy I got to see the real R2. The truly amazing thing is that each of us has our own R2-unit that follows us everywhere we go. We refer to them as “phones”. But they calculate your navigation, remind you of important information, and perform a wide range…

  • Safe and Saves Lives

    Call it what you want, Science works.

  • You Learn by Studying and It Is Work

    You Learn by Studying and It Is Work

    Great video that questions this common belief in the only way Science knows how. Test it.

  • Are your memories planted by someone you do not know?

    Are your memories planted by someone you do not know?

    Very intriguing episode on the You Are Not So Smart podcast. It is entirely possible for someone to plant memories in your brain of experiences or things that never happened to you. And it’s all done through a series of questions. And the other person may not even be aware they are doing it.