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A busy August for spaceflight: private missions, rocket anomalies, and ongoing delaysScott Manley reviews the most significant developments in space exploration from the first half of August 2024. This update covers the latest private spaceflight activity, a notab…
A busy Edinburgh lawyer invented the historical novel boomSir Walter Scott (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) packed Clerk of Session duties and Selkirkshire shrievalty alongside the Waverley novels that remade European fiction. Tory E…
A busy fortnight in space: lunar arrivals, rapid launches, and major financial shifts.Scott Manley reviews the final weeks of 2022, covering a flurry of global rocket activity, the successful arrival of South Korea's Danuri spacecraft at the Moon, and significant f…
A busy June for European space exploration: missions, records, and galactic discoveries.This video summarizes the key achievements of the European Space Agency during June 2026. From astronaut milestones to record-breaking launches and new deep-space imagery, it prov…
A busy week for lunar exploration and orbital logisticsFrom India's lunar ambitions to SpaceX's high-stakes testing, the current space landscape is moving at a rapid pace. This update covers the latest milestones in lunar travel and t…
A busy week in spaceflight: from deep sea recoveries to record-breaking orbital missions.Scott Manley returns from vacation to summarize a flurry of recent space activity, including SpaceX's deep-sea booster recovery, a record-setting number of humans in orbit, and gl…
A butler’s rigid devotion to duty masks a lifetime of missed personal connectionIn the 1993 drama The Remains of the Day, a repressed English butler prioritizes his professional service to a Nazi-sympathizing aristocrat over his own emotional life. As he refl…
A butterfly gland in the neck meters metabolism with iodineThe thyroid is a vertebrate endocrine organ that in humans forms a butterfly or H below the Adam's apple. Two lobes join by an isthmus; follicles lined by thyrocytes store colloid…
A by-election cancelled just four days before the voteIn September 2026, Abbotsford-Mission prepared for a critical provincial by-election. However, the scheduled vote vanished when Premier David Eby called a snap general election, l…
A byte was not always eight bits, and its spelling is a deliberate typoWerner Buchholz coined the word byte in June 1956 while designing IBM's Stretch computer, spelling it with a y so nobody would mistype bite as bit. For years afterward a byte coul…
A Byzantine emperor tried to hold his empire together with a theology of one willIn the 7th century Emperor Heraclius faced provinces split over the nature of Christ, and in Egypt about 30,000 Chalcedonian Greeks lived among some five million Copts who rejecte…
A Byzantine monk was condemned for insisting Christ had two willsMaximus gave up a powerful post at the court of Emperor Heraclius to become a monk, then spent his last decades defying emperors over a single theological point: whether Jesus had…
A Byzantine polymath who survived prison to challenge the Emperor and the ChurchMichael Glykas was a 12th-century intellectual whose life spanned roles as an imperial secretary, poet, and theologian. After being blinded for his role in a political conspiracy,…
A Byzantine princess who lost the throne wrote history's key account of the First Crusade eraAnna Komnene was presented with a crown at birth and raised as heir to Byzantium, until a baby brother displaced her. Whether she then plotted against him is still argued. What is…- A Byzantine princess wrote a history of her father's reign, and critics still argue.Written around 1148, the Alexiad is a detailed account of the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Alexios I. Its author, Anna Komnene, broke the norms of her era by weaving her own voi…
A café’s waste is a composter’s goldYour morning latte leaves behind more than just a caffeine kick; it creates a valuable resource for the earth. In some communities, grassroots networks are turning daily cafe scra…
A calculated betrayal: how one man plotted to murder his own wife for oilErnest Burkhart married into the Osage Nation to secure a fortune, only to orchestrate a chilling series of murders against his wife's family. Driven by greed and his uncle's infl…
A calculated collapse: how the film Leave the World Behind depicts society's silent undoing.In Sam Esmail's apocalyptic thriller, a family's weekend getaway dissolves into a terrifying, high-tech breakdown. As communication networks fail and social order fractures, the f…
A calculated quest for vengeance: how a school bullying survivor dismantles her tormentors' livesThe Glory is a South Korean psychological thriller that follows Moon Dong-eun, a woman who dedicates her adulthood to systematically destroying the group that brutalized her in hi…
A Calcutta prayer meeting in 1828 helped spark the Bengal RenaissanceOn 20 August 1828, Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Dwarkanath Tagore gathered people of any caste, creed or gender in a Calcutta house to worship a single, nameless God. Their Brahmo Samaj…
A caldera is not a crater, but a massive collapse of the Earth's surface.While often confused with volcanic craters, a caldera is a distinct, bowl-shaped depression spanning over a kilometre in diameter. It forms not through simple explosion, but when …
A California county where endangered butterflies and ancient elk share space with corporate giants.San Mateo County is a study in contrasts. While it serves as a high-income hub for Silicon Valley, it also preserves diverse ecosystems ranging from redwood forests to coastal scr…
A California real estate agent allegedly spied on the Taiwanese president's family for ChinaWanying Zhang, a 34-year-old resident of Irvine, California, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport while attempting to flee to China. Federal authorities allege she ac…- A California town once defined by a ferry is now a cultural touchstoneFirebaugh, California, began as a Gold Rush-era ferry crossing on the San Joaquin River. Today, this Central Valley city is known for its annual cantaloupe festival, its agricultu…
A California-born boy became the most celebrated commander of the Nagorno-Karabakh War.Raised in the quiet suburbs of California, Monte Melkonian transformed from an archaeology student into a legendary revolutionary militant. He spent years fighting in the Lebanese…
A call option grants you the power to buy assets at a fixed priceA call option is a financial contract that offers the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to purchase an underlying asset at a set strike price. By paying an upfront premium,…
A Cambridge biochemist learned Chinese and rewrote the history of inventionJoseph Needham was an established Cambridge biochemist when three Chinese students arrived in 1937. One of them, Lu Gwei-djen, taught him Chinese, and the result was Science and C…
A camel's hoof is not really a hoof at allA hoof is a toe tip armoured in thick keratin, worn by horses, cattle, deer and even some dinosaurs. Camels only look the part: their feet end in soft toes with nails. Real hooves…
A camera negative in 1898 made the Shroud of Turin's faint figure leap outWhen Secondo Pia photographed a long linen cloth in Turin in May 1898, his negative plate showed a man's face and body far more clearly than the faint sepia marks on the fabric it…
A camera sees light, but a photographer sees zones.Most light meters are easily fooled by a dark object in a bright room, rendering both as a dull gray. The Zone System solves this by teaching photographers to map the world into s…
A cameraman faces a swarm of hornets while continuing to film the encounter.This footage captures a tense moment where a cameraman is attacked by hornets. Despite the danger of the situation, he maintains his composure and continues recording, offering a …
A camp talent show turned Denzel Washington from undecided student into actorDenzel Washington drifted through Fordham unsure what to study, even taking a semester off. Working at a YMCA summer camp in Connecticut, he joined a staff talent show, and a coll…
A campus born from war and forged through autonomyIn 1945, a rescue raid on a Japanese internment camp left the University of the Philippines Los Baños in ruins. From those ashes, it rose to become the country's largest campus, e…
A Canadian actor became the definitive face of American history on the silver screen.Raymond Massey was a Canadian-born performer who became famous for portraying iconic American figures, most notably Abraham Lincoln. Despite his foreign roots, he was so convincin…- A Canadian astronaut prepares to lead the International Space StationWatch Chris Hadfield share insights on life and work in orbit. This highlights a historic milestone for Canadian space exploration as Hadfield prepares for a first-of-its-kind lea…
A Canadian astronaut takes command of the International Space StationWatch as three astronauts aboard the International Space Station discuss the realities of orbital life and the transition of leadership during a rare in-flight interview with CNN.
A Canadian city is turning its flood-prone neighborhood back into a natural river plainNestled at the confluence of the Granby and Kettle Rivers, Grand Forks, British Columbia, faces a unique environmental challenge. Following devastating floods in 2018, the federal…- A Canadian city isolated by mountains and sea, yet home to a historic industrial legacy.Powell River, British Columbia, is a coastal community defined by its striking geography. Hemmed in by steep-sided fjords and the Pacific Ocean, it remains accessible only by air …
A Canadian commander's first steps into orbital leadershipWatch Chris Hadfield discuss the realities of life on the International Space Station during a live news conference from orbit. It captures a pivotal moment in Canadian space hist…
A Canadian family's tragic end and the debate over the term honour killingIn June 2009, four women were found dead in a submerged car in Ontario. The Shafia family murders sparked a national conversation in Canada, forcing a difficult debate: were these…
A Canadian mining city named after a fictional submarine-piloting explorer from a 1905 novel.Flin Flon, a city straddling the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border, owes its name to a paperback character. Prospector Tom Creighton allegedly discovered a high-grade copper deposit an…
A Canadian musician performs a live concert from the International Space StationWatch Commander Chris Hadfield perform a unique musical collaboration from orbit. This video captures a moment where space exploration meets cultural celebration, featuring a song…
A Canadian police procedural finds its footing in a French territoryWhen a Newfoundland inspector is exiled for uncovering political corruption, he finds himself solving crimes in the remote French collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. This u…- A Canadian politician’s rapid political rise and controversial descent into fringe activismDallas Brodie, a lawyer and former Conservative MLA, transformed from a mainstream political candidate into a polarizing figure known for residential school denialism. After being…
A Canadian stadium's turbulent journey from ambitious blueprints to a $210 million realityPrincess Auto Stadium in Winnipeg was born from a series of rejected proposals, shifting ownership, and construction delays. What began as a $115 million project ballooned into a …
A Canadian superhero comedy where the hero's greatest power is his best friend's brain.Milo Powell is an ordinary boy who transforms into Captain Flamingo whenever a child yells for help. Armed only with novelty items and a homemade costume, he tackles absurd proble…- A Canadian waterfall named for a man who never saw itHelmcken Falls drops 141 meters over a volcanic plateau in British Columbia, yet its namesake, a physician and politician, never laid eyes on it. Discovered by a surveyor in 1913,…
A candid look at Ontario craft beer through an unscripted tasting sessionIn this installment of the 24 Beers Project, the team explores the Fire in the Rye Pale Ale from Double Trouble Brewing. This series captures an authentic tasting experience, feat…- A capital city born from a pioneer's final crossingBefore it was a seat of government, Frankfort was a dangerous river crossing on a major buffalo trail. The city’s very name is rooted in a violent 1780 skirmish between early sett…
- A capital paralyzed by a ghost: the 1793 Philadelphia feverIn 1793, the young American capital was besieged by a silent killer. Without knowing the cause, doctors watched as 10% of the population perished in months. It was a crisis where …
A Cappadocian bishop built hospitals, fought Arians, and shaped monasticismBasil of Caesarea, born around 330, served as bishop from 370 until his death in 379. He supported the Nicene Creed, created the Basileiad hospital complex for the poor, and wrote…
A captain frozen in time returns to rebuild a fallen intergalactic utopiaAfter a betrayal leaves him trapped at the edge of a black hole for three centuries, Captain Dylan Hunt awakens to find his civilization destroyed. Leading a ragtag crew on his sa…
A captain's laughter and a broken hierarchy led to Pakistan's deadliest crashWhen a seasoned captain belittles his first officer, the cockpit becomes a vacuum of authority. On Airblue Flight 202, this breakdown in crew resource management turned a routine …
A captive from Ruthenia became the legal wife of Suleiman the MagnificentSeized by Crimean Tatar raiders as a girl and sold into Constantinople's slave trade, the woman Europeans called Roxelana rose from the imperial harem to become Suleiman the Magni…
A captured emperor, a desperate succession, and the rise of a reluctant Ming rulerWhen the Ming Emperor Yingzong was captured by Mongols in 1449, his brother Zhu Qiyu was thrust onto the throne. Though initially a reluctant leader, his reign saw significant inf…- A car accident, amnesia, and a secret kept to protect a childWhen a woman survives a devastating car crash, she loses everything—including her memory of her husband and daughter. This is the emotional core of the 2023 Telugu-language drama …
A car crash ended Cousteau's flying career and sent him underwaterJacques Cousteau trained as a French naval gunnery officer and hoped to become a pilot, until an automobile accident broke both his arms. He turned instead to the sea, co-created …
A car crash into a ditch helped launch the Futurist art movementIn 1908, speed-obsessed poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti swerved into a ditch outside Milan to avoid two cyclists. He climbed out, by his own account, a new man, and the following y…
A car's wheels actually lose force, and that is the whole pointAs a simple machine, the wheel and axle exists to multiply force: push on the big rim and the slim axle turns with extra strength. A car runs it backwards. Its transmission drives…
A cardinal who lived in poverty while wielding the absolute power of the Spanish state.Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros rose from humble beginnings to become the most powerful religious figure in Spain. As grand inquisitor and twice regent, he enforced brutal religious…