It’s so natural for us that most humans never abstractly think “Why do we play games?”
Good thing the human race has questioning scientist Vsauce who explains that whether it’s a video game, a physical sport, or a chess match, ‘playing’ has been a part of our human experience since the dawn of man.
Popular educational channel Asap SCIENCE asks a question pertinent to millions of people on a tight schedule in the morning.
Should you use the snooze button when you wake up in the morning? It’s difficult to find anyone who doesn’t hit the snooze a few times to grab a couple more Z’s, but science shows it might actually be making you more groggy than simply waking up once without those few extra minutes of sleep.
Zia Hassan published this video last June, but it has just started to trend today. He met a nine year old boy and they discussed some philosophy about life, the universe, and what it’s all for anyways while chilling on the backyard patio.
The young boy explains that just like an ant walking across the patio will never know there is a world much greater than it, so too the human race cannot fathom how small we truly are. We cannot even imagine how great the universe really is.
Whoa.
Many viewers insist the kid must have had information fed to him, but Zia Hassan insists, “I can promise you that I didn’t feed him any of this – I just asked him the questions. An internet promise is gold, you know that! Seriously though, it’s real.”
We want to believe.
Cochlear Implants are amazing, relatively new technology that gives certain hearing-impaired people the ability to hear in a very real sense by replacing the hair cells that do not work in the inner ear with special hardware.
The Internet‘s viral video world was first introduced to the power of the implant when then-deaf Sarah Churman heard for the first time in an emotional viral video from 2011. That video currently stands with over 16 million views.
Now Catherine Arnold‘s 26 year old deaf niece Amy has gone viral after this touching six month old video of her first experience with her new cochlear implant started making the round online this weekend.
Amy has never heard her parents or her son before her implant and now she finally can hear her little six year old boy yell, “Hi mom!”
Ironically, it’s the little things in life that we often take for granted that are the most magical.
Back in November, SWNS News reported on Nigel Ackland, a man who lost his arm and received a cutting edge robotic prosthetic arm. Nearly immediately, he was being dubbed as the Terminator or Robocop.
Now that it’s been a couple months later, Nigel shows the returning camera crew how he is getting along, including how he can now tie his shoes and deal cards. More importantly, he can grab a beer, and take a nice drink with his new hand.
He also shows how he can look on the bright side of things, such as being able to grab a thorny bush without feeling it.
But he truly puts things in perspective by rhetorically asking viewers, “next time you get dressed, put your trousers on one handed. See how many funny moves you have to make just to get your trousers on.”
The week old video stands with over half a million hits, and is further featured on CambridgeNews, DailyMail, and BuzzPatrol.
