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- Abigail Thorn hosts free philosophy lessons on YouTube, sometimes branching out into politics, humour, and personal reflection.
- Welcome to the foundry. Hope you like fiction-obsessed robots, pretentious literary discussion, and passably decent short fiction.
- SFIA host Isaac Arthur explores many concepts and technologies that are far beyond us now while keeping everything inside the bounds of known science or major theories.
- With Geography as it's foundation Atlas Pro examines the biological, environmental and political aspects of the Earth and it's nearest, and even not so near, neighbors throughout history. Expect to visit some obscure but fascinating and eye-opening places you may otherwise never have a change to see.
- From time to time we all see engineering failures such as a power outage, sink hole in the street. buckling retaining wall, leaning building or, worst case, a collapse. Practical Engineering explains why these accidents happen and how engineers design our civilization's infrastructure to prevent them.
- BrainCraft is a series that examines human behaviour through psychology and neuroscience, telling stories about science in a creative way.
- Technicality is a YouTube channel that takes a closer look at our awesome universe. Alex Nickel uploads videos about science, humanities, and everything he finds fascinating.
- Polyphonic channels his inner journalist to create visually dynamic profiles of some of the most exciting musicians working today.
- Suibhne is a channel dedicated to covering the history of our Nation States, with a splash of colour.
- Alien Perez Cruz fled from Cuba to the last nation willing to give him paperwork, Uruguay. He is among an exodus that in the last three years has seen over thirty thousand Cubans flee through the jungles of Guyana and Brazil on their way to a better life. In Uruguay, Alien is looking for a future where he can provide for his family. But at home, his family tells a different story. This is the story of a Cuban who risked it all, and the people who supported him that he had to leave behind. It's the story of Alien.
- From home video to home broadcasting: a digital deep-dive into analog.
- In MinutePhysics Henry Reich provides concise, easy to understand explanations of physics principles in every day language in about a minute. And to make the physics easier to understand he hand sketches diagrams so you can also see what he's talking about. Topics tend to previews or introductions to more in depth programs available through various online services.
- Austin McConnell discusses various topics.
- How does a species go from millions to thousands in the span of a century? We look at the African penguin's story in search of answers.
- ReligionForBreakfast traces the growth and development of religions and religious ideas from their origins, through the ages, to modern times. Content is historical and archaeological in nature without promoting or challenging any religious dogma. But it does delve deeply into the meaning of religious dogma and its evolving interpretation over the centuries.
- Joe Scott's channel takes an in depth look at strange, curious and trending subjects to get the lowdown on the truth. Presented with a skeptic's tongue-in-cheek sarcasm; unsupported myths and common knowledge receive no quarter - not even a nickel.
- Rene Ritchie explores the impact of Apple's technology on creators and the world.
- Mary Spender, British singer/songwriter and music YouTuber documented the process of recording the first two volumes of her recent album project, 'Songbook'. It had been a few years since Mary had been in a professional studio, but after the world being locked down, she couldn't wait to get back to work and put on record the songs she's been writing in this strange time. Over the course of the summer in 2021 she recorded 26 original songs that she whittled down to 18 tracks; two albums worth of material. At the beginning of the project she didn't know what would happen to these songs and definitely didn't expect the process to be so prolific and fruitful. Watch the journey unfold and learn more about the cathartic art of song writing by being welcomed behind-the-scenes in 'The Making of Songbook'.
- Considering all the things under the sun there are many things we all wonder about. Here are some of the answers.
- Some things are just too important to let go.
- Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme discuss productivity, personal finance, their weird llama obsession, and other interesting things. New episodes every other week.
- 100 years after L. Frank Baum's saga that began with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Gale Family Farm sits abandoned in what's left of the great Kansas prairies. After her parents' messy divorce, Jessi Hugson and her mother move to Dorothy's old neighborhood for a new beginning. Things were already off to a shaky start, but when Jessi and her cousin Wallace find a jewel-studded bracelet in Dorothy's front yard...things get twisted. Twister'd, even.
- Stuck at a crossroads between her looming future and the alluring call of an escapist slumberland, Jessi Hugson finds herself in a dream that's unlike anything she's ever encountered.
- 2017– 6mTV EpisodeWhen A. Roger Ekirch went to the trouble to look he found a multitude of references to polyphasic sleep patterns in pre-industrial societies. That is a sleep schedule before the invention of the light bulb when sleepers wake for a couple hours after about four hours sleep then go back to sleep for another four hours. So people slept just like animals before we decided to ruin our sleep cycles with artificial light so we can hang out after dark.
- 2017– 7mTV EpisodeCreating a keyboard that with all the Chinese character so you can talk to a computer or spare your friends your sloppy handwriting is slightly impractical. So thank you to Zhou Youguang who created a phonetic version of Chinese called Pinyin using the Latin alphabet. But every solution creates a new problem and Chinese people are beginning to forget how to hand write Chinese characters.
- 2017– 6mTV EpisodeThe Kim Il Sung regime in North Korea, having acquired all the technology required, managed to produce counterfeit hundred dollar bills incorporating the various anti-counterfeiting features. Ironically the nineteen known variations of Kim's so called super dollars fixed imperfections in the genuine bills. Alas for North Korea, the hundred dollar bill was redesigned in 2013 putting Kim's criminal enterprise out of business, we think.
- 2015– 17mTV Episode
- Many materials recycle fairly easily such as metals, glass and paper. Plastics are another matter. There are a multiple varieties and they are difficult to separate. A few types of plastic are fairly easy to recycle but others require careful manual sorting. That's where China came in. For a time China provided the many, many low wage jobs to do this work. But economics have changed and China can no longer recycle odd plastics profitably. So it called it quits.