The Superconducting Supercollider was set to be the largest particle accelerator in the world, by a long shot. In fact, it would still to this day be the biggest and most powerful. But history had other plans.
This is the story of America’s supercollider – the biggest failure in science history.
MK Ultra was a secret CIA operation with the purpose of learning how to control people’s minds, and has become ground zero for countless government conspiracy theories.
But what exactly was MK Ultra? What was its purpose? And most important, was it successful?
Quantum physics has a way of melting your brain if you think about it too hard. Perhaps the biggest brain twister is the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment, the results of which seem to break all the rules of time and space.
The human brain is made up of three levels that correspond to different stages of our evolution. We look at the more advanced level as the “thinking” level that makes us human. But the lower level, less evolved parts of the brain have a lot more control over us than we think they do.
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As the world becomes more electrified, the race is on to build cheaper, longer-lasting, more energy-dense batteries. One of the most promising technologies in this space is the solid state battery, developed by an absolute legend in the battery world, one of the inventors of the lithium ion battery and recent Nobel Prize winner John B. Goodenough.
The war of bacteria vs man has been waging since the beginning of time, but there are some bacteria that we can’t live without, and some that even control our mood and behavior. So when you say you’re thinking with your gut, you’re kinda right.
Memory champions are capable of seemingly superhuman feats of memory, but it’s something we can all do – if you know a few tricks.
Also if you’re on Netflix, check out the documentary Memory Games.
The Germ Theory of Medicine is less than 100 years old, and before this shift in thinking on disease, past humans developed some very interesting ideas around medicine. Interestingly, some of them were actually right.
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been the biggest storm in the solar system for centuries. But lately, it seems to be shrinking… and nobody’s sure why.
So this video was supposed to just be about the Great Red Spot but honestly the more I looked into Jupiter, the more I was struck by how insane the planet is. So it kinda became about that.
Ghosts and hauntings have been a part of the human experience for as long as there have been humans. But are they really spirits of dead people trapped on Earth? Or are there other explanations for ghostly phenomena?
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