Why Norway's Churches Look Weird

This is is a video about Norway's stave churches and how they are different from the more masonry, stone based churches in continental Europe. Watch the video to find out more!

How Plate Tectonics Gave Us Seahorses

How did seahorses — one of the ocean’s worst swimmers — spread around the globe? And where did they come from in the first place? Watch the video to find out more!

The Most Insane Roman Technologies That Will Blow Your Mind

The Roman Empire was an astonishing civilization that made incredible contributions to the fields of engineering, architecture, and technology. The Romans were masters of aqueducts, concrete, roads, arches, and even heating and cooling systems. They built some of the most impressive structures of the ancient world, including temples, statues, and other works of art that were admired and revered for centuries. However, when the Roman Empire fell, many of these incredible technologies and works of art were lost, only to be rediscovered many centuries later. It is truly unfortunate that we will never know the full extent of their technological prowess, but what we do know is nothing short of amazing. In this video, we'll explore some of the most incredible Roman technologies, as well as the stunning works of art that were lost and then rediscovered. Get ready to be blown away!

Deep Sea Gigantism | Why the Ocean Breeds Giants

Deep sea (abyssal) gigantism demonstrates the role of natural selection in driving evolution and survival, particularly in an environment characterised by challenging conditions and limited resources. Evolution tends towards the most effective adaptations to grant animals the best chances of survival. And whether large or small, evolution selects for the best-adapted body size to survive these conditions. Though widely debated and often controversial, the research that has been done into the science behind deep sea gigantism has significant implications in the human world; it is believed that climate change may have a greater impact on ocean dwellers than any other population of animals. As the colder oceans warm up, the balance of temperature, oxygen supply, and what organisms are present, will throw the equilibrium off course. And the giants, which rely so heavily on this fine balance, may be the first to go.

The Top 10 Most Immersive Historical Movies of All Time

When talking about historical fiction films, historians and history buffs use the same two words over and over again: accuracy and authenticity. The first refers to strict adherence to historical fashion, customs, and events. The second is a little more nebulous, and refers more to how a historical movie "feels." In this video essay, we will recommend ten immersive historical movies. Enjoy!

A True Mystery in the Great Pyramid Complex: The Neben Pyramide

There is a structure, well a substructure, cut into the bedrock, near the southeastern corner of the Great Pyramid, and it has been referred to as the Neben Pyramide, which may mean ‘secondary pyramid’ in German. In this video we’ll give you all of the information available, as well as the possible explanations as to what the 'Nebenpyramide' structure could have been. Enjoy!

The Castle Builders: Masters & Masons - How Medieval Castles Were Built

Castles – citadels of world heritage. All over Europe, millions flock to see these masterpieces in stone.

They are drawn by the astonishing scale of construction – and by a sense of a lost world of heroism and chivalry. But castles are more than magnificent monuments to a past that’s dead and gone. They hold the key to understanding a crucial period in the growth of our civilisation.

In this video, we’ll see how some of the great castles of Europe were built, and how the ideas and techniques behind their construction changed and developed in a few short centuries. Kings and barons found the resources and manpower to start building castles, and spent fortunes on finishing them – and all of this happened at on a huge scale, at a frenetic pace, and often in the heart of hostile territory.

We’ll meet the Castle Builders – the labourers and masons who did the hard work; the geniuses of design who imagined them, the structural engineers who turned them into reality; and the kings and barons who commissioned them and lived in them.

We’ll travel from Richard the Lionheart’s astonishing Chateau Gauillard in Normandy to the ‘layered’ defences of Caerphilly – the first castle in Britain built to be defended by walls within walls – and around Edward I’s massive ‘ring of iron’ that gripped North Wales.

Large-scale dramatic reconstructions and state-of-the-art computer graphics will give us a thrilling sense of how all of these mediaeval mega-structures were designed and built.

What Is The Other 99.99% Of Life?

In the following video we will be explaining the phylogenetic tree of life and what is the other 99.99% of life. Watch the video to find out more!

Evolution of the Prehistoric Human Diet

Before agriculture was invented, before animals had been domesticated, and way before people started traveling by boats or conquering empires, our early ancestors lived in the Paleolithic era as hunter-gatherers. The lineage homo lived during the period between 2.5 million to about 12,000 years ago—a period also known as the Stone Age. For millions of years, in this environment hunter-gatherer group of ancient hominins such as Homo habilis or Homo erectus and later Homo sapiens ate foods that they could find in nature.

The dependency that our homo lineage evolved with nature for millions of years still remains within us—it is woven into the fabric of our genes. With this said what they evolved to eat remains relevant. And even though it’s impossible to ever re-create a true Paleolithic diet since many of the plants and animals that our prehistoric ancestors were consuming have long gone extinct, plenty remains to be learned from the prehistoric human diet. We can learn about the foods we ought to be avoiding and just as important about the foods Mother Nature intended for us to eat.

Homo Naledi - Ancient Human

In the video below we will analyze Homo naledi, an extinct species of archaic human discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa. Watch the video to find out more!

The Bizarre Lifestyle of Inca Empire's Male Concubines

The Inca Empire, which existed in the Andes Mountains of South America for centuries before the arrival of the Spanish, was known for its complex and sophisticated civilization that included unique cultural practices.

One such practice was using male concubines, known as "yanaconas," valued for their physical beauty and intelligence. This aspect of Inca life may seem bizarre to modern observers, but it played an essential role in the empire's political and social structures.