How AI Is Saving Billions of Years of Human Research Time | Max Jaderberg | TED
Adults TechnologyCan AI compress the yearslong research time of a PhD into seconds?
The Most Important Material Ever Made
Adults TechnologyGlass is one of the most important materials humans have ever made.
Tired of Doomscrolling?
Adults TechnologyBeing a human in the 21st century often feels frustrating. We are clearly at the high point of our species, while at the same time life is incredibly hard! We are divided, unable to solve our problems while creating new ones, destroying our world in the process.
Primitive Technology: A-frame Roof Tile Factory
Adults TechnologyWith the wet season only 2 months away and thatch being an impermanent material, I needed to make more roof tiles for a new hut that will withstand the next deluge.
You've Never Heard of the World's Most Common Mineral
Adults TechnologyThe most common substance in the world is literally IN the world. It's a mineral called bridgmanite, and it belongs to a class of minerals (called perovskites) that scientists are trying to use in the next generation of solar panels.
The Sweet Future of Vertical Farming | Hiroki Koga | TED
Adults TechnologyCan strawberries grown inside a building taste sweeter than those grown in a field?
How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out)
Adults TechnologyHow do QR codes work? The checkerboard patterns taking over the world, demystified.
We Traveled Back in Time. Now Physicists Are Angry.
Adults TechnologyTime travel is possible. In fact, you’ve been doing it since the day you were born.
How Nine Nuclear Saboteurs Changed WWII
Adults TechnologyIn Germany in 1939, the Uranverein, or “uranium club,” was trying to beat Oppenheimer to the bomb.
Primitive Technology: Water Bellows smelt
Adults TechnologyI tested the water bellows with a smelt and it produced a small amount of iron from the ore. The concept has a lot of potential but is having some issues.
How do bulletproof vests work? - Max G. Levy
Adults TechnologyExplore the chemistry behind what makes kevlar so strong, and how this essential synthetic fiber was invented.
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes
Adults TechnologyMyths and misconceptions about planes. Go to https://groundnews.com/Ver to see through media misconceptions and get all sides of every story. Subscribe to save 40% off unlimited access through our link.
Is AI-Generated Art Original? (Authenticity & Originality)
Adults TechnologyWhat’s the line between inspiration and flat-out appropriation?
Is Nuclear Power “Too Expensive”?
Adults TechnologyThe best argument against nuclear power, maybe the only real argument, is that nuclear power is “too slow” to build and is “too expensive” to finance. Is this true?
A.I. ? Humanity's Final Invention?
Adults TechnologyHumans rule Earth without competition. But we are about to create something that may change that: our last invention, the most powerful tool, weapon, or maybe even entity: Artificial Super intelligence.
What Speakers That Cost $370,000 Sound Like | WIRED
Adults TechnologyWhat does it sound like when you listen to a speaker that’s roughly the price of the home you put it in?
Fallout's Cold Fusion Problem
Adults TechnologyWas #Fallout’s “artifact” really worth transporting a severed head across the wasteland?
How close are we to powering the world with nuclear fusion?
Adults TechnologyExplore the possibility of nuclear fusion technology to create limitless, on-demand energy with almost no emissions.
The Last 6 Decades of AI — and What Comes Next | Ray Kurzweil | TED
Adults TechnologyHow will AI improve our lives in the years to come?
Why Reality is a “Controlled Hallucination”
Adults TechnologyThere have always been hints that the brain wasn’t evolved to track objective reality, but a new, incredibly popular theory in neuroscience takes everything one step further. Not only is your brain not built for reality, you’ve never even experienced it. Noted Science Zaddy Kyle Hill explains “predictive processing.”