What is the best voting system? Voting seems relatively straightforward, yet four of the most widely used voting systems can produce four completely different winners.

Michael Aranda substitutes for Hank again in this week's News to tell you about the winners of the 2012 Visualization Challenge, an annual competition run by the journal Science that selects the most elegant and educational graphics,...

Hank gets to the bottom of this "faster-than-the-speed-of-light-neutrino" kerfuffle, discusses some ancient stuff, and announces the winner of the award for worst science in a film.

We’re used to competitions with clear winners and losers: baseball games, math olympiads, pie-eating contests, and games involving thrones. We crown a victor and everyone else goes home empty-handed! In business, though, there isn’t just...

The bizarre Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, or Arrow's Paradox, shows a counterintuitive relationship between fair voting procedures and dictatorships.

Michael Aranda substitutes for Hank again in this week's News to tell you about the winners of the 2012 Visualization Challenge, an annual competition run by the journal Science that selects the most elegant and educational graphics,...

This video explores the concept of measuring the hottest place on Earth, challenging the assumption that Death Valley holds the record. By discussing the limitations of traditional weather stations and highlighting the use of satellite...

The competitive exclusion principle predicts that there would just be a few species of plankton, but instead there are thousands.

Cynthia Schneider looks at two international "American Idol"-style shows -- one in Afghanistan, and one in the United Arab Emirates -- and shows the surprising effect that these reality-TV competitions are creating in their societies.

What is the best voting system? Voting seems relatively straightforward, yet four of the most widely used voting systems can produce four completely different winners.

This week Craig is going to give you a broad overview of elections in the United States. So as you may have noticed, there are kind of a lot of people in the U.S, and holding individual issues up to a public vote doesn't seem...

Hank gets to the bottom of this "faster-than-the-speed-of-light-neutrino" kerfuffle, discusses some ancient stuff, and announces the winner of the award for worst science in a film

This week Craig is going to give you a broad overview of elections in the United States. So as you may have noticed, there are kind of a lot of people in the U.S, and holding individual issues up to a public vote doesn't seem...

In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we take a look at some of the most extreme weather on Earth and its consequences.

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Arguably one of the fiercest animals in the world, wolverines scare off bears and can single-handedly take down moose and elk, despite being only the size of a medium dog.

In this lecture, we will elaborate more about the third and final measure of central tendency, the mode.

Learn 5 Tips to Improve Your Public Speaking to take you from good to great public speaking. Great speakers make it feel like an event, like something special is happening. And they do it by raising their standards in 5 areas.

This Civics and Government Instructional video describes America's two-party political system.

Nervous yet confident: Fans react as England face off against Spain in 2025 finalSource: The Independent

Howcast - Check out this Portal 2 Co-op walkthrough and beat Course 1 - Part 2 - Room 02/06 with this online demo.

Howcast - Check out part 20 and walk around the HellGate Boardwalk and shoot stuff in this walkthrough for 2k Games' new release, The Darkness 2.

Howcast - Carroms is a game similar to billiards but is played on a plywood board using wooden pucks called carroms. Players use a striker to push their carroms into pockets at the board's corners before their opponents sink theirs.

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