This is a video of Youtuber Mattias Krantz attempting to teach an octopus named Tako to play the piano over the course of six months. That’s a long time. Like a quarter of an octopus’s life. If I spent a quarter of my life trying to learn something, I’d like

Because knowledge is power and if we learn enough we’ll be able to power cars with our brains, this is an informative video from David Goldenberg of Youtube channel MinuteEarth detailing the ancestry of all canines and how they’re related to domesticated dogs. I learned a lot by watching it.

This is a video from WIRED of entomologist Dr. Jessica Ware answering questions about insects that were submitted by internet users, including could cockroaches survive a nuclear war? Do dragonflies and flies coordinate their flight while mating? Why do crickets chirp? Are tarantulas dangerous? PLUS MORE. Sooooo much more. I

This is a video of PBS Otherwords host Erica Brozovsky, Ph.D (previously: sailor jargon) discussing the origins of our words for different colors. Did you know humans can see more shades of green than any other color, but have fewer words to describe them? That was news to me. Not

Because humanity is, by nature, complete garbage, the flightless dodo bird has the distinction of being the first known species to be completely extinguishing by human activity (hunting, habitat destruction, introduction of predators). The species was discovered and extinct in less than 80 years. Go us! In this clip from

This is a video of doctor of evolutionary biology ChuckDarwin (I guess he was cryogenically frozen?) discussing the extra ocelli (Latin: little eyes) some insects have, and their purpose. According to research, the simple eyes only gather information about light and dark, and help flying insects maintain their orientation to

This is a video of airplane mechanic Max discussing what is and isn’t an airplane window, including a synopsis of ‘The Window On The West’, chapter 5 from the second book of The Two Towers in the Lord of The Rings series. Was it necessary to bring Tolkien into a

From the Otherwords series produced by PBS Digital Studios, this is a video of Dr. Erica Brozovsky discussing some of the many English expressions that came from sailor jargon and nautical terms, and how they all came to be. I actually thought it was a really interesting watch, and not