Video of the Day
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The new laws of space travel
Almost 50 years ago, humans walked on the Moon for the first time. Now, private companies are looking towards space for new opportunities, from tourism to mining asteroids. The Earth will need...
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The tensions in Iran explained
All week, the news has been filled with worrying headlines about the escalating tensions between the US and Iran. The US has blamed attacks on oil tankers on a branch of Iran’s military, known...
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A brief history of LGBTQ advertising
As Donald Trump bans US embassies from flying the rainbow flag for Pride Month, advertisers are scrambling to show support for LGBTQ communities. But are they really being sincere, or just...
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Do phones make us stupid?
Last year, a study found that the average human attention span fell from 12 seconds, in 2000, to just eight seconds. Could our smartphones be to blame? This intelligent video...
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Will we ever cure cancer?
“Cancer…is stitched into our genome,” wrote oncologist Siddartha Mukherjee in his celebrated history of cancer, The Emperor of Maladies. This five-minute animated video explains with clarity...
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Welcome to internetland!
Around 57% of the world’s population is online. So, what would the internet be like if it were a country? How would it be governed, and how would its citizens interact with one another?
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The future of tourism
Tourism is up in most areas of the world, except one. Travel bans and visa restrictions are isolating the USA. On the other side of the world, the growing middle classes of India and China are...
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How should we spend our time?
It’s one of the most profound questions that each of us must face: how should we spend our time on this Earth? Luckily, you don’t have to figure it out alone — philosophers have been discussing...
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The new Cold War
Chinese tech giant Huawei wants to build the world’s 5G network, a technology we’ll soon be reliant on every day. The US believes China is trying to steal and spy its way to world dominance....
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Is empathy a bad thing?
Today is World Empathy Day. The world would be a better place if we felt more empathy for others — from the homeless to refugees — right? Yale psychologist Paul Bloom disagrees. This animation...
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Is sharenting wrong?
By the age of 13, the average child has more than 1,000 pictures of them shared on the internet. This video from The Atlantic goes beyond...
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Can we save endangered foods?
For most of our time on Earth, humans have been hunter-gatherers who ate what grew nearby. But, recently, the genetic diversity of our food has disappeared. By 1970, 90% of the varieties of...
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Will there be another world war?
Today is D-Day: 75 years since the largest military invasion in history. Thousands of lives were lost when the Allied forces invaded Normandy, but the battle turned the tide of World War Two....
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The art of reading headlines
Media literacy (understanding the underlying messages in the media) is an important defence in the fight against fake news. This video suggests you read between the lines of some news stories.
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Remembering Tiananmen Square
Thirty years ago, hundreds — perhaps even thousands — of protesters were killed by the Chinese military in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. In the decades since, China’s government has attempted to...