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What Is Multiple Sclerosis?

May 082013

This month is Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, awareness in many countries around the globe. But what exactly is MS?

AsapSCIENCE explains that millions of people suffer from the auto-immune disease where their own immune system attacks the myelin sheaths protecting neuron axons. This results with a build up of scar tissue, distorting neurological messages.

This is one reason why many MS patients suffer from neurological pain or even tremors.

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38 Common Spelling and Grammar Errors

May 082013

Super nerd John Green continues to churn out terribly insightful, yet not-so-helpful knowledge in his popular list videos for Mental Floss. In the latest episode, John goes over 38 Common Spelling and Grammar Errors, such as the impossible difference between ‘lay’ and ‘lie’.

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Countries inside Countries

May 082013

The web’s extremely popular teacher of obscure history, CGPGrey, has finally returned from his month long web hiatus. Now, he discusses the strange phenomenon that is countries inside of other countries.

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What The Internet Does To Our Brains

May 072013

In just a matter of a few decades, the world has literally been flipped upside-down with the culmination of the Internet. Sure, there are countless benefits we get from the web, but there are negatives too.

As educational YouTuber Epipheo discusses in his latest video, What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, our brains rewards us for distracting new tid-bits of information which was helpful when he still lived in caves.

But now, many of us have created compulsions to check our emails and the latest tweets without ever getting to more critical thinking and memory making.

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The History Of Typography Stop Motion Animation

May 052013

Our modern world is so peppered with text and type, most people rarely pay any attention to the typography of words. Linguists nerd Ben Barrett-Forrest is changing all that with his new History Of Typography stop motion animation.

He discusses how the power to express words all started with Johannes Gutenberg, the unofficial father of typography. From Gutenberg came thousands more typefaces, many of which we still use and see today.