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Educational videos now outrank cat videos – my ticket onto NPR

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From NPR this morning:

With 1 billion unique visitors per month, YouTube offers a glimpse of the online world’s tastes and interests. And this year, one notable trend — for better or worse — is that people are spending more time watching videos about video games. [snip]

In case this has you thinking, “Oh great, another way that YouTube has given us to waste time (as if cat videos weren’t enough),” here’s the good news: The number of people watching educational videos on YouTube has surpassed cats.

And with that premise, I found my ticket onto NPR (segment starting at 2:54).