We’ve been taught that dinosaurs went extinct 66 billion years ago when a mega-meteor plummeted into the Yucatan Peninsula. But Dr. Joe Hanson, host of It’s Okay to be Smart, takes exception. “Thanks to science, we know that our planet is home to 10,000 or so species of living dinosaurs,” he says. “We call them birds.” In the following video clip, Hanson explains birds’ place on the tree of life.
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The doom and gloomers gave the Oil Age an early epitaph in the early 2000s, claiming fossil fuels had run their course and there was no more oil to be pumped on the planet. Fast forward 15 years and there’s oil everywhere. The world pumps 93 million barrels of oil a day and there’s still more than a trillion barrels waiting to be extracted in the Earth’s crust. So will we ever run out of oil? Biologist and science writer Joe Hanson explains in this edition of It’s Okay To Be Smart
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More than 2 billion children anxiously await the arrival of Santa Claus tonight, but is Jolly Old St. Nick for real? In this edition of It’s Okay to be Smart, Joe Hanson employs a little scientific analysis, including quantum physics, to tackle the age-old question.
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