Charles Darwin introduced the notion of “survival of the fittest,” where the fittest animals are those who can survive long enough to produce healthy offspring. The fittest animal can also be the most stealthy, resourceful, or even the...

Transporters and Quantum Teleportation

It may produce creepy images with way too many dogs and eyeballs, but Google’s DeepDream program is actually a valuable window into artificial intelligence.

Have a problem with many competing variables? Why not solve it with a computer algorithm based on cooling metal?

This video is about the difference between complexity and entropy, and how complex things like life can arise from disorder. Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for...

Have a problem with many competing variables? Why not solve it with a computer algorithm based on cooling metal?

Diamonds are iconic, but some of them might make others a little green with envy.

Sometimes, ancient ruins can be a little out of the way, but with some creativity, we can use satellites for those hard to reach areas.

It may produce creepy images with way too many dogs and eyeballs, but Google’s DeepDream program is actually a valuable window into artificial intelligence.

It's your first day as Center Realm's official cartographer, and you've already got a big problem. Center Realm is home to three elder dragons: two ice, one fire, and they've lived in harmony for centuries. But scouts have sighted three...

Transporters and Quantum Teleportation

Was an incredible drop in entropy responsible for the Big Bang? If that's the case, this would lead us to conclude that a great many other things are possible, including the likelihood that you are a Boltzmann Brain.

Your professor has accidentally stepped through a time portal in his physics lab. You’ve got just a minute to jump through before it closes and leaves him stranded in history. Your only way back is to grab enough colored nodules to...

In this episode, we talk about Silicon Valley's namesake and how network solids are at the heart of it all. Hank also discusses Solid-State Semiconductors, N-Type and P-Type Semiconductors, Diodes, Transistors, Computer Chips,...

In which Hank blows our minds with the different kinds of Solids out there and talks about why they're all different and have different properties. Today, you'll learn about amorphous and crystalline solids, types of crystalline...

One deck. Fifty-two cards. How many arrangements? Let's put it this way: Any time you pick up a well shuffled deck, you are almost certainly holding an arrangement of cards that has never before existed and might not exist again. Yannay...

In this episode, Hank talks about Network solids and Carbon and how you can actually create a Diamond from plain old Carbon... well, YOU probably can't unless you own a bunch of elephants. It's a long story. BUT, within you will...

What makes crystals grow into their signature shapes? Dig into the atomic patterns and unique properties of crystals. -- Many crystals have signature shapes— like the cascade of pointed quartz or a pile of galena cubes. Every...

This video provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to organize and arrange objects on a Google Slides presentation to create a polished and visually appealing slide. The instructor demonstrates techniques such as distributing objects...

Howcast - Check out part 77 of this L.A. Noire walkthrough and beat "The Set Up" with this online demo.

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Howcast - Learn five tips about the best purple flowers for a wedding from floral designer Sarah Brysk Cohen in this Howcast video about floral arrangements.

Howcast - Learn how to make a pretty arrangement out of inexpensive flowers from floral designer Sarah Brysk Cohen in this DIY wedding flowers Howcast video.

Howcast - Learn how to use greenery in a floral arrangement from floral designer Sarah Brysk Cohen in this DIY wedding flowers video from Howcast.