Curated Video
How Hurricanes Form? Why Hurricanes Spin AntiClockwise in North and Clockwise in Southern Hemisphere
Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are formed due to violent storms that originate over oceans and seas and move towards land, potentially causing extensive damage to both life and property. But there is a very interesting thing related...
Curated Video
What Are The Different Atomic Models? Dalton, Rutherford, Bohr and Heisenberg Models Explained
Atomic Models: Centuries ago, people didn’t know exactly what was inside an atom, but they had some “ideas”. Around 400 BC, a Greek philosopher named Democritus came up with a theory that everything in the world was made of tiny...
Curated Video
Cellular Respiration: How Do Cells Get Energy?
Cellular respiration is the process through which the cell generates energy, in the form of ATP, using food and oxygen. The is a multistep biochemical process where food, primarily the carbohydrate glucose, is broken down to produce...
Curated Video
Why Is Blood Drawn From Veins And Not From Arteries?
Experts use veins to draw blood for blood testing, blood donation, and more because the structure and position of veins make it easier to draw blood out of as compared to arteries. It may also be dangerous to draw blood from arteries.
Makematic
Global Icons: Overview
A short animation about how historic Gobal Icons represent key global competencies and traits
Packt
Producer Default Partitions and Key Hashing
This video explains the concept of Kafka producer default partitioning and key hashing. This clip is from the chapter "Kafka Twitter Producer and Advanced Configurations" of the series "Apache Kafka Series - Learn Apache Kafka for...
XKA Digital
Curiosity is an important trait for a leader
Richard had ten years' management experience in the NHS, and an excellent track record in leading on commercial and international innovation through major transformation projects, including at national level. Prior to joining the...
Curated Video
Why Is Space Cold If There Are So Many Stars?
Space is filled with countless stars, all of which radiate enormous amounts of heat. These stars are tens of thousands of times bigger than our own sun. Still, space is considered to be cold. Why is that? If there are so many hot burning...
Science ABC
Respiratory System: From Inspiration to Expiration Explained in Simple Words
The respiratory system is composed of the nose or nasal cavity, the pharynx, the larynx, the trachea, the bronchi, and the lungs. The respiratory system's functions are gaseous exchange, inhaling oxygen and exhaling out carbon dioxide,...
Science ABC
What are Mutations and what are the different types of Mutations?
A mutation is a random change in the DNA. Mutations can be neutral, which means it does not cause a change in a trait of the organism, or it could cause a beneficial or a harmful mutation. There are a few different types of mutations -...
Curated Video
Detectives Use this Simple Technique to Find Your Fingerprints (Even AFTER You Have Wiped Them Off)!
There’s a common movie trope of an actor wiping their fingerprints off a gun. It seems like a simple wipe with a cloth eliminates any trace of a criminal’s guilt, but that isn’t actually the case! Scientists have developed a method that...
Next Animation Studio
Mars rover snaps photo of dust cloud kicked up by descent stage's crash-landing
The strange shape seen in the Martian horizon moments after the Curiosity Mars rover landed was a dust cloud kicked up by the crash-landing of the Mars rover's Skycrane descent stage, NASA announced on Saturday. About 40 seconds after...
Brave Wilderness
Venomous Octopus Defends the Reef!
On this episode of Blue Wilderness, Mark and the crew are back at Grand Cayman Island… but this time for a space odyssey-like night dive unlike anything you’ve seen before. They are in search for something truly unique at the edge of the...
Curated Video
Archimedes Principle: Explained in Really Simple Words
Archimedes principle states that if an object is submerged in a fluid, then the buoyant force acting on it is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by that object. Buoyant force exists because pressure increases as an object goes...
Curated Video
Endocrine System: How Hormones Work?
The endocrine system is composed of glands that produce hormones to affect changes in distant target organs. It is crucial in maintaining homeostasis—balance—in the body. There are seven major endocrine glands scattered throughout the...
Curated Video
What is the Fibonacci Sequence & the Golden Ratio? Simple Explanation and Examples in Everyday Life
The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers in which a given number is the addition of the two numbers before it. So, if you start with 0, the next number will be 1, followed by 1, followed by 2, followed by 3 and so on. As you can...
Curated Video
What Happens When You Throw Boiling Water Into Freezing Air?
It’s freezing cold outside, and you decide to take a cup of boiling water outside and throw it into the air. Instead of falling to the ground and searing a hole in the already-fallen snow… Boom! It magically turns into snow! However,...
Curated Video
How Can Mobile Phones Make ‘Emergency Calls’ When There’s No Network Coverage?
Cell phones require network coverage to make calls. However, if the usable strength of the mobile network of your service provider (the manufacturer/company of the SIM card that you are using) is not good enough at the place where you’re...
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Barriers to Effective Listening
Barriers to effective listening skills and take a look at a 1-hour Listening Course.
Curated Video
Current Vs Voltage: How Much Current Can Kill You?
Voltage vs current, or sometimes it's current vs voltage; we are constantly trying to understand the differences between these two entities related to electricity. Then, there is sometimes one more entity: resistance. How do these three...
Journey to the Microcosmos
The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates
The Schoolteacher Who Discovered 700 Ciliates
Science ABC
Can We Harness Electricity From Lightning?
It is very difficult to harness power from lightning power because of its volatile nature, sporadic appearance and uneven geographical distribution. Lightning is one of the incredible forces of nature. A single bolt of it carries a few...
Curated Video
Germination: How Does A Seed Become A Plant?
Seed grow into plants through the process of germination. Germination requires optimum sunlight, temperature, water and air for the seed to turn into a plant. Isn’t it amazing that a tree as tall as a building can emerge from just a tiny...
Curated Video
How Many Times Can You Fold a Piece of Paper In Half?
Plenty of people argue that you can only fold a piece of paper in half a maximum of 7 times. Is 7-times a hard limit for folding a piece of paper? Well, a piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times. But there's a catch. You cannot do...