For those who don't understand...

I mentioned a few days ago in a thread in response to something MelodyTune said, that one of the things that scares me most is the laziness and ignorance of the general population. This video explains the banks. From the very beginnings to the situation we are currently in. It is more complete than any textbook, video, infographic, website, etc, etc, etc, that I've ever seen. And it's funny. Enjoy

Oh, it's long, so set aside some time to watch it, or maybe watch while you play MC

This is now a general awesome knowledge thread. Please keep this about theoretical/mid-high level stuff that most people may not know. Share the kind of stuff you'd share eagerly with all your nerdy/sciencey friends

Neil deGrasse Tyson on the discovery of the planets (and possibly more, but that's as far as I've gotten). Again it's a bit long, but worth watching at some point, again maybe while you do some monotonous digging:



"Americans care about Pluto more than any other planet... Why? Is it because it's the littlest, and the cutest? No! You don't know how cute it is!"

Here is the Story of Suff:

Haven't watched it yet (still watching the Tyson one), but YAY!!! More contributions!

It's more of a full-blown TV series, but for you science types, I found this little 4-part miniseries very interesting and pretty surprising, especially the one about time.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/fabric-of-cosmos.html#fabric-space

The whole RSA Animate series is worth watching, but this one is probably my favorite:

While we're putting the world to rights, here's a great description of the European debt crisis:

Don't believe in everything you read/watch/hear/smell

heres a good way to put it

-the us govt is at the bottom of a toilet trying to swim up...

I would disagree with that... I mean the government as a whole isn't doing well, but individual people within it are doing amazingly. And those people aren't trying to change anything, because it all benefits them but lets try to keep this thread about other stuff than politics. Politics + Science =

smell? lol.

These videos are all well researched and pretty accurate (at least the ones I've looked at). Nova is one of the best scientific TV shows ever, and Neil deGrasse Tyson is probably the most respected astrophysicist of our time (watch the video, you'll discover he even had a hand in the whole "Pluto's not a planet" thing).

That being said, that's definitely some good advice

yeah all im eant was the govt.

I just thought that this video from the thread about math would fit in nicely here Its a video about the CERN supercollider by Brian Cox: http://www.ted.com/talks/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercollider.html

And to add to that, here is a video about the quantum world by the Symphony of Science

I hate to be repetitive, but I put this one on the math thread too. It has to do in some ways with Yukon's video.