Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it’s almost impossible to wrap your head around things. So KURZGESAGT teamed up with the awesome blog WAITBUTWHY and made this video to help you put things in perspective!

Did you know that the T-Rex dinosaur is closer to us in time than to its distant ancestor, the Stegosaurus? Watch this amazing video for the fastest history of the universe ever told!
This video has been a collaboration of KURZGESAGT & WAITBUTWHY!

What does the Holocaust have to do with us, anyway? In part two, Roderick Miller, the chair of the nonprofit organization Tracing the Past, gives a talk at TEDxVienna about the Holocaust and contemporary Europeans' perception of the space they live in.

What does the Holocaust have to do with us, anyway? In part three, Roderick Miller, the chair of the nonprofit organization Tracing the Past, gives a talk at TEDxVienna about the Holocaust and contemporary Europeans' perception of the space they live in.

Over the course of human history, thousands of languages have developed from what was once a much smaller number. How did we end up with so many? And how do we keep track of them all? Alex Gendler explains how linguists group languages into language families, demonstrating how these linguistic trees give us crucial insights into the past.

Ellis Island, the U.S. gateway to immigration from distant lands, has been reopened to visitors, following significant damage from Hurricane Sandy. A visit there, and to the nearby Statue of Liberty, can be emotional, even for those born in the U.S.

Filmmakers Christina Fon and Stevie Salas are interviewed about Rumble, their documentary exploring how Native American musicians have influenced rock n' roll.

Stevie Salas and Christina Fon discuss what is next for the film Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World as it premieres around the world.

The Irish Rovers is a Irish-Canadian folk band. Their song "Titanic" is a tribute to the famous RMS Titanic, written on its 100th Anniversary. It tells of the ship’s beginnings and Irish pride, as well as its devastating sinking.

This ancient mathematical trickery posits that a mighty hero cannot overtake a tortoise. Zeno of Elea (born c. 490 BCE) is the author of this and other paradoxes.

Maggie has just landed in Mexico, and heads straight for Tulum, a once crucial trading post for the Mayan civilization, with spectacular clifftop ruins.

How can one brother travel into space and return younger than his twin? In just sixty seconds, a startling side effect of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is explained to us.

Even if you're not the biggest fan of school, you've got to admit it's better than the historical schools depicted in this series! They certainly had some questionable moral codes and weird punishments...

Continuing to pirate audaciously, Blackbeard sails up the eastern coast of the United States, where, incredibly, he secures a pardon from the Governor of North Carolina. Setting up base on an island, he is soon plundering ships again, but by now has made some determined enemies and faces capture, dead or alive.

Not long ago, in Welsh schools, the pupils weren’t allowed to speak their native language, Welsh! There was no choice but to learn English. In the Victorian classroom, learning is dull and repetitive, but today’s lesson is not going exactly as the teacher has planned.

The English language has changed in many ways over the centuries, but the internet has changed it in just a few decades. Why use a whole sentence when an abbreviation will do?

After Victoria became Queen, English children’s names became really weird. A girl called Never… a boy called Toilet… For one poor teacher, taking the class register is almost impossible!

Some of the schools in Georgian England were very rough places! In this video, a prospective pupil and his parents get caught up in a full-scale schoolboy rebellion while on a tour with the headmaster. They even encounter flying masonry and gunfire!

The city of Oxford is home to some 150,000 residents and a famous seat of learning, the oldest English-speaking university in the world. Although the exact date of its founding isn't known, it is said that local priests and monks were first taught in monastery schools in the area in the eleventh century.

Plato is considered one of Philosophy’s greatest writers. He was able to conceive of greater realities by imagining how much poorer our perception would be if we had lived our whole life as prisoners locked in a cave.

Andy Beem (Windsports, CA) and Billy Vaughn (Kitty Hawk Kites, NC) talk about flying 1895 Lilienthal and the 1902 Wright glider replicas, and engaging with the history of human flight on a tactile level.

The trolley problem is a classic thought experiment in moral philosophy. Is sacrificing one life to save the lives of many others the best possible outcome?

In the middle of Manhattan, there is an ancient Egyptian monument with carved hieroglyphics. John informs us of its vital statistics and lasting significance.

Are you interested in aviation? Here's the first chapter of a documentary about the invention of the airplane entitled Kitty Hawk: The Wright Brothers' Journey of Invention.