John Green returns for Mental Floss Video to discuss units of measure. With a unit of measurement, it’s basically impossible to compare one item to another. But what exactly is a ‘smidgen’ or salt or a pad of butter? Watch to find out.
Veteran nerds will remember the The Element Song, originally made by Tom Lehrer in 1959. It’s a great way to teach your kids the building blocks to the chemical world.
The science educators of Asap SCIENCE have taken the original concept, and brushed it up for the new century.
In their NEW Periodic Table Song they cover all the elements in correct order with a nice animation as a bonus.
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.
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’.
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.
