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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 somber episode of After Skool (previously) tells the history of the world’s worst pandemics and explains what we can learn from them using a combination of whiteboard illustrations and historical photos. Throughout history, there have been a number of pandemics of diseases such as smallpox and tuberculosis. One of…

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…

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…

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…

A brilliantly illustrated episode of After Skool (previously) 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…

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…

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…