Sal Khan likes explaining things, and he’s really good at it. Here he is on CNN giving an excellent explanation of the financial crisis. And here’s a great explanation of Newton’s Law of Gravitation. His YouTube channel has over 700 lectures and you leave understanding everything he talks about no matter the subject.

One of the highlights of the show was that LeVar Burton, star of Roots, host of Reading Rainbow and “Geordi LaForge” on Star Trek: The Next Generation, came out to watch the show and even came on stage for an impromptu performance of the Reading Rainbow theme song! If you missed it, you can check …

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What is the force Superman exerts to stop a plane from crashing into the ground, or the speed and mass of Vince Vaughn’s winning Dodgeball shot? What’s the force exerted by a Dominique Wilkins windmill slam dunk, or the speed of a retired Charles Barkley? What’s the frequency of a cat’s purr? …the mass of …

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Dear President Bush, Thanks for the memories. You will be missed. Thanks for making people care. And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Wishing you all the best, A Citizen. I started high school the year you went into Office, and now, eight years later, I am frankly …

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A Cairns, Australia gentleman burglarized three adult shops, stealing blow-up sex dolls called “Jungle Jane” and having sex with them in an alley. Police have collected evidence, including DNA. From Reuters: “It’s totally bizarre. It’s a real concern that someone like that is out on the street,” said one of the owners of the adult …

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Pink is still the colour where little girls are concerned, no matter where they grow up – some think propensity for pink is hardwired into girls. For a stark depiction of how many pink things a five-year-old could possibly own, a Korean photographer photographed boys and girls with their possessions arranged according to colour.

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So, you have some old books lying around you don’t read and that you’re pretty sure no one else will ever read because they have pages missing or they’re hopelessly outdated technical manuals or they never should have been published in the first place. What to do? As always, crafting is an option. You can …

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Dede, aka “Tree Man”, is an Indonesian fisherman who has been slowly changing from a human into a tree… or at least that is what it appears. After cutting his knee as a teenager, Dede began to grow tree like warts that have baffled local doctors and medical experts for over 20 years. .

Has man really set foot on the moon? There have certainly been a lot of claims that the whole Apollo missions were one giant hoax. Adam and Jamie at Mythbusters examine the claims of the Hoax Believers one by one. Did they use a wire rig or slow down the film to simulate the 1/6 …

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