Pediatrician and medical school professor Aaron Carroll discusses the causes of high infant mortality in the United States relative to other developed countries. Some proposed explanations don’t appear to be supported by research. For example, it doesn’t seem to be … Continue reading
A few weeks a couple of friends of mine asked me for some investment advice about their retirement savings, and if I’d known about this video I would have just told them to watch it. I highly recommend it. Link: … Continue reading
In the following very short video American writer John Green shows a little of what life is like for young people in the Zaatri refugee camp on an arid plain in northern Jordan near the Syrian border. The camp was … Continue reading
I’ve become a fan of East India Comedy, a group of Indian comics with an active YouTube channel. Even when I don’t get a lot of the jokes (which is most of the time), I still find their material entertaining. … Continue reading
This one is a couple of weeks old but still quite funny (and in passing informative): Stephen Colbert travels to Jon Stewart’s off-the-grid cabin and among other things reveals that the GOP nominee for president is not Jeb Bush. (The … Continue reading
Minute Physics points out that despite the Sun’s immense gravity, it’s remarkably hard to throw something off of Earth so that it hits the Sun. In fact, it’s actually easier, at least in terms of energy, to send a payload … Continue reading
“Melania Trump” delivers a hilarious defense of plagiarism charges on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Link: https://youtu.be/Wh1wctQNKRM The Melania impersonator is Tony-winning actress and singer Laura Benanti, interviewed by Colbert here: Link: https://youtu.be/TZe3oavADVw by … Continue reading
NBC Late Night host Seth Myers explains an important part of the nature of reality to a segment of Democrats: Link: https://youtu.be/HvV2JY8kbgI Lately I find I often feel like grabbing certain segment of the populace by the scruff of the … Continue reading
A group of prisoners in a Texas jail saw their guard collapse. When yelling for help produced no response, they manage to break out of the cell and proceeded to bang on doors and shout until other deputies finally arrived … Continue reading
The U.S. states have long been called “laboratories of democracy” (and not just by Republicans, as Bill Maher seems to imply in the clip below). The idea is that states can try different things and learn from each other’s experience. … Continue reading