10 Surprising Uses For Urine
You flush it down the drain every day, but urine is surprisingly useful, and once upon a time, pretty valuable. So today we look at 10 ways urine has been used, and continues to be used today
You flush it down the drain every day, but urine is surprisingly useful, and once upon a time, pretty valuable. So today we look at 10 ways urine has been used, and continues to be used today
The placebo effect is the phenomenon of your body responding to a treatment even if it’s not real. It happens so much, so strongly, and so often that it has to be factored in to any medical study.
It speaks to the amazing ability of the brain to physiologically change the body in surprising ways.
Anybody who grew up in the 90s remembers the Y2K scare – the potential computer glitch that could end the world on January 1st, 2000. It didn’t happen of course, but it could have been bad if not for the work of some dedicated, anonymous heroes.
Do you like to intentionally hurt others? Do you lack empathy of any kind? Do you like bitter foods? If so, you might be a psychopath.
Algae biofuels have been touted as the fuel of the future. They lock away carbon, grow very fast and everywhere, and produce a lot of oil. So why hasn’t it taken off yet?
Homo Floriensis is a human ancestor that lived only 18,000 years ago – while humans were still around. How did they get there? Why are they so small? And could there still be some of them around?
The Universe is crazy. Here are some of the biggest, brightest, oldest, and most complex objects out there.
The search for exoplanets is an effort to understand our place in the universe. How special are we? Is there another Earth out there? Are there other versions of us?
TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is currently surveying the entire sky to get us closer to the answer. It’s an exoplanet hunter unlike any other, and it could change the way we see ourselves.
Special thanks to Dr. Sara Seagar for her help in researching this video.
issociative fugues are states in which a person suffers an involuntary erasure of identity, literally living under a different personality for months or even years before waking up with no memory of the time that has passed.
One of the most perplexing cases of this is the mystery of Benjamin Kyle, a man who was found beaten and naked behind a dumpster in 2004 and had no memory of his life or identity.