What's Interesting on the (Video) Internet this Week
What's Interesting on the (Video) Internet this Week
How the government works, a 2.2-million-ton slingshot, John Stossel on a Trump/Biden rematch, and Generation Z has doubts about college.
Every week we’ll bring you interesting stories from around the internet that use video or data visualizations to give us new insights about our world.
Politics
Really, the best politics video this week was our latest Three Whys Deep:
Business
In 2021, it was estimated that water startups raised $470 million in funding globally. From Boxed Water to water in a can, business is good. Now, there’s Free Water:
(Source: Freethink.com)
International
Much has been written about China’s ghost cities and coming economic woes, but this is one of the better recent pieces told on the ground (below is a screen shot from the video).
(Source: Sky News)
Pamela White was the U.S. ambassador to Haiti from 2012 to 2015. She also spent time in the country with the U.S. Agency for International Development in the 1990s. She recently said “It’s the worst it’s ever been in the last … probably 50 years.” Below is a summary of how Haiti got here.
(Source: The Guardian)
Engineering (We’re just adding an engineering section because there are approximately one billion amazing engineering videos on the internet)
Did you know elevators and escalators will be a $127 billion/year business by 2027? Or, that to get an elevator up 160 floors you (used to) need 40,000 pounds of steel cable? Below, we learn about the science and math of people flow and elevator planning in the worlds largest buildings.
(Source: The Wall Street Journal)
Miscellanea
Beautiful short piece on girls surfing in Ghana.
In 2011, an astrophysicist got frustrated with how poorly airlines manage the boarding process and designed a better way. Currently, airlines either load back to front, front to back, out to in, or complete free-for-all (as Southwest does; which, apparently, is actually the fastest of these). But none compare to the Steffen Method.
One hundred years ago this week was the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people, changing Japan forever.
Fuel weight is one of the great limitations in launching vehicles into space. The more weight you have, the more fuel you need. The more fuel you have, the more weight you have. But what if you could solve that problem with a slingshot made from 2.2 million tons of steel?
This piece from John Stossel is a 6-minute explanation of why No Labels is going to run a third party presidential candidate only if the 2024 election is a Biden/Trump rematch.
(Sources: nowness.com, CNBC, South China Morning Post, CBS Saturday Morning, youtube.com/@StosselTV)
Data Visualizations of the Week
44% of Gen Z think you only need a high school diploma or GED to achieve financial security:
(Source: NewAmerica.org)
(Source: USAFacts.org)
Have a great weekend,