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Bone - Nature's Fibreglass

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We largely take our bones for granted but, as Rob explains, they are miracles of engineering, and predate fibreglass by many millions of years in combining hardness and flexibility.
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The Science Of Lunch: Crash Course Kids #15.2

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Even an empty lunch sack is useful to science. You can examine it and come up with some traits. In this episode, Sabrina chats about things like malleability, hardness, conductivity, and magnetism. And all with lunch! This first series is based on 5th gra
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Hard vs. Soft Water: What's The Difference?

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You may have heard that bathing in hard water can be bad for you, but is that true? What's the difference between hard and soft water? Why Fish Can Drink Salt Water And We Can't - https://youtu.be/gXr2y9_e8NA Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http:
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Diamond, the Super Crystal!

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One of the strongest rocks in the world is one that you might not expect, and the story of how it formed deep under the earth is intense! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
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24 EASY Hi-Tech Halloween Costumes I invented

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Here are 24 easy costume ideas that will make you the most awesome person at your Halloween Party this year!Get any of the costumes shown at Morph Costumes: http://bit.ly/DigitalDudzVidApple download: http://tinyurl.com/DigitalDudz-AppleAndroid download:
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12 Year Old Terrarium - Life Inside a closed jar, Over a decade in isolation

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In this video we take a look at the terrarium my brother made during his childhood. This terrarium was made between 2007 - 2008. This makes the terrarium at least 12 years old. Inside there is a variety of organisms. All of which have persisted within the
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The Irish myth of the Giant's Causeway - Iseult Gillespie

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-irish-myth-of-the-giant-s-causeway-iseult-gillespie On the coast of Northern Ireland, a vast plateau of basalt slabs and columns called the Giant’s
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Measurement Mystery: Crash Course Kids #9.2

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So now that we know what Properties are, how can we use them to figure things out? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina uses them to solve the mystery of what she tripped over last night. This first series is based on 5th grade science. We're sup
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Material Magic - Making Diamonds: Crash Course Kids #40.2

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Did you know we can actually make diamonds in a lab? It's true! We can! And this is both really good and really cool. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how materials scientists have done just that and why it's so important. Watch More
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Material World: Crash Course Kids #40.1

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So, we know what materials are, but can we make new materials? Or improve the materials we already have? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how Material Scientists are working on these two things today. Also, your cell phone holds the
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Can You Break a Diamond With a Hammer?

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In this video I test if it is possible to break a real diamond with a hammer, pliers, and hitting it with a rock. Then I talk about the difference between hardness and toughness of a material. Diamonds donated by https://pureatbirth.com/Get your Action La
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Wood, Water, And Properties: Crash Course Kids #15.1

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Quick, think of three words to describe yourself. TIME'S UP! What did you think of? Chances are you thought of descriptive words that we call Properties. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about how properties help us understand objects.
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Hunting For Properties: Crash Course Kids #9.1

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Remember pre-school? If not, IT WAS SO MUCH EASIER! But when you were stacking blocks and figuring out which block went into which shaped hole, you were learning about properties. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about what properties a
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Normal Stuff In Not-So-Normal Places: Crash Course Kids 46.2

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So, what happens to normal stuff (like water) when it goes to not so normal places? What happens if you take a glass of water to the top of Mt. Everest? Or Space? In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how matter is affected by different p
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Oobleck And Non-Newtonian Fluids: Crash Course Kids #46.1

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Ever heard of Oobleck? How about Non-Newtonian fluids? Well, today Sabrina is going to show us that things can sometimes behave like a solid, and sometimes like a liquid depending on how much force is applied to them. In this episode of Crash Course Kids,
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What's My Property: Crash Course Kids #35.2

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What exactly can we tell about an unknown substance by it's properties. We already know that a substance is matter that’s made of one kind of atom or molecule, and that has specific properties and that some substances are elements, which means they can’t
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Are Man-Made Diamonds Really Diamonds?

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Natural diamonds take a long time to form and can be dangerous to harvest, but how hard is it to make some in a lab? 7 Surprising Uses For Diamonds - https://youtu.be/FBzv8pQYcdA Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Ho
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Why Nature Loves Hexagons (featuring Infinite Series!)

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Follow me to Infinite Series for 4-Dimensional Bees! https://youtu.be/X8jOxEGVyPo Don’t miss our next video! SUBSCRIBE! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ From spirals to spots to fractals, nature is full of interesting pattern
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Organizing Properties: Crash Course Kids #35.1

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Have you ever thought about all the different kinds of groups you’re a part of? Like, there’s the friends you hang out with and your family, your hockey team, your Crash Course fan club, and that’s just for starters! And even though these groups are total
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How to Build a Lava Moat (with xkcd)

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Primitive Technology: Making Iron From Sand

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How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils

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One of the most dynamic, transformative, and potentially dangerous features in North America is also responsible for some of the continent’s most amazing fossil deposits. It’s a supervolcano we now call Yellowstone. Thanks to Rick Otto and the Ashfall Fos
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Why Continents Are High

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Learn to use your career to make a difference at https://80000hours.org/minuteearthLots of geological forces need to come together for continents to form, but they all require one ingredient: water.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, s
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We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life

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Life crawled out of the oceans onto land, right? New research suggests that this popular theory could be wrong. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com
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How Two Microbes Changed History

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What if I told you that, more than two billion years ago, some tiny living thing started to live inside another living thing … and never left? And now, the descendants of both of those things are in you? Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:
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Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods

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Use the promo code "minuteearth" at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearth for 26% off an annual subscription to CuriosityStream, plus access to Nebula!Not all hardwood trees have hard wood and softwoods soft wood, because these terms denote their taxono

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