After Skool (previously) explains the concept of time dilation through colorful whiteboard animation. Citing Albert Einstein‘s Theory of Special Relativity, the animation illustrates how time is not the same for everyone, but instead measured by its observers in relation to their understood points of reference. This theory was demonstrated with a pair of atomic clocks…
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Why It’s Impossible to Know if a Situation Is Good or Bad Without Seeing How It Will Affect the Future
In another brilliantly illustrated episode of After Skool, British philosopher Alan W. Watts, who previously posited that life should not be considered a journey because the end is not the primary goal and that happiness is always more valuable when it is sought, explained through a wonderful parable how difficult it is to determine if…
The Myth of the Left Brain Right Brain Theory Explained
After Skool (previously) in collaboration with Health Chronicle, presents a colorful explanatory whiteboard and illustrated animation about the myth of right-brain, left-brain personalities. While the separate halves of the brain perform different functions, it’s not as cleanly divided as has been previously reported. The same processes exist on both hemispheres of the brain, although the…
How the Archaic Neanderthal Species Continues Live on Through Modern Human DNA
A colorfully illustrated episode of the animated series After Skool explained the concept of Neanderthals. Specifically, when and where they lived, how they communicated and how these archaic humans might have gone extinct but for the genome that lives on through the DNA of modern humans. There was roughly a 5000 year period where both…
Terence McKenna’s Remarkable 1998 Talk About Time Acceleration Told Through Whiteboard Animation
A brilliantly illustrated episode of After Skool features a talk given by author, botanist and psychedelic drug advocate Terence McKenna in 1998, during which he spoke about the acceleration of time. McKenna had formulated his own sense of time through fractals and the I Ching, topics included in his remarkable speech. Towards the end of…
A Brilliant Whiteboard Illustration of a 1992 Bill Hicks Commentary About Choosing Love Over Fear
A brilliantly illustrated episode of After Skool features the very timely words of comedian Bill Hicks from his “It’s Just a Ride” routine. Hicks compares life to a rollercoaster ride and in doing so laments about the unfairness of the world when good people die and bad people live on, how a nation of fear…
A Brilliant Whiteboard Animation of President John F. Kennedy’s Iconically Prescient 1962 Moon Speech
After Skool took a prescient speech given by late, great President John F. Kennedy in 1962 and added brilliant whiteboard animation to illustrate the meaning it holds more than half a century later. The speech, colloquially known as “The Moon Speech” was given to an audience at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and was focused…
Steve Jobs Explains How the Thought of Death Inspires Living a Good Life in a Colorful Whiteboard Animation
Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple and Pixar, gave an inspiring commencement address to the graduates of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California on June 12, 2005. During his presentation, Jobs, who had just found out he had cancer, shared with the audience of young people how the thought of death was the inspiration…
