This is a visualization created by climate data scientist Neil Kaye using a world map to detail what percentage of the world’s population is asleep or awake at any given hour (assuming nightly 8 hour sleep periods). I learned a lot by looking at it. Mostly, that when the US

This is a video of physicist and origami artist Robert J. Lang explaining and teaching origami based on five different levels of difficulty, starting with child, then moving to teen, college student, graduate student, and expert. Are those actually logical skill levels to define? I mean I have a master’s

This is a video of the biochemist behind Youtube channel NileRed Shorts (previously: dissolving a penny in nitric acid) discussing why white phosphorus is so dangerous, in a very watchable 50 seconds. So, why is white phosphorus so dangerous? Because it reacts with oxygen and likes to GET LIT and

Note: Not the whole timeline, keep going to see even deeper into the future. This is a chart created by artist and animator Dan Meth featuring a timeline of futuristic movies. As you can see, we’re right between Blade Runner and Soylent Green. Of course none of this matters because

This is another size comparison video from MetaBallStudios (previously), this time comparing the size of various fictional planets found in popular culture from smallest to largest diameter. And also to things that actually exist in reality, like “New York City, Earth, the Earth’s moon, other planets in our solar system,

This is a visualization created by MetaBallStudios (previously) of various computer storage sizes (eg megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, and upward) if a single byte occupies a volume of one cubic millimeter (1mm3). Some more info while I try to estimate the total volume of my roommate’s horrible digital music collection if

Because you’re not going to wow audiences with an explosion that looks like my buddy Dave clenching a firecracker between his butt cheeks (classic Dave), this is a video of Tom Scott working with a professional pyrotechnician (my dream gig) to explain why movie explosions look so much grander than

Note: Chart cut for brevity, keep going for the whole thing. This is a visualization created by the chart and graph makers at Visme of the most common birth months for countries around the world, grouped into latitudinal geographic zones. I learned a lot by looking at it. Mostly, that