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What is bipolar disorder? - Helen M. Farrell

7 years ago / 642 views

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-bipolar-disorder-helen-m-farrell The word bipolar means ‘two extremes.’ For the many millions experiencing bipolar disorder around the world, life is split between two different realities: elation and de
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What Happens When A Bird Flies Into A Plane Engine

6 years ago / 1,039 views

What happens if a bird flies into a plane engine? The event is called a bird strike. Each year, bird strikes cost US airlines an estimated $1.2 billion. Only part of those costs are from actual damage. The rest comes from flight delays and cancellations.
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What Does Your Birthday Say About You? The Seasonal Birth Effect

8 years ago / 686 views

Does the month you were born in determine whether you’re right handed, or a smoker, or short-sighted? No, we’re not talking astrology, but something called the seasonal birth effect. But can even that be trusted? Subscribe: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe The s
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The Bizarre Story Of The Very First Vaccine

7 years ago / 510 views

Vaccines are everywhere nowadays, but how did they come about? Turns out, the story's a lot weirder than you might think. Poop Can Teach You A Lot, But You Have To Look At It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfQlZ-a9WFs Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter He
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How This Bizarre Virus Killed 500 Million People

10 months ago / 2,219 views

Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-smallpox/This video was made possible through a grant by Open Philanthropy.Check out '500 Million, But Not A Single One More' by Rational Animations here: https://youtu.be/ljmifo4Klss?si=uo5
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The Black Death: Worst Pandemic in History Visualized

4 years ago / 525 views

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What Is The Black Plague... And Should You Be Worried?

8 years ago / 700 views

Yosemite National Park just shut down two campgrounds due to the plague. Should you be worried? Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ National Park Service
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Are Those Really Blackheads?

8 years ago / 513 views

Do you just hate those little bumps all over your nose? Don’t be a hater, they’re just doing their job! Learn how in this SciShow Quick Question. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sci
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Could A Blind Eye Regenerate? - David Davila

9 years ago / 1,325 views

View full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/could-a-blind-eye-regenerate-david-davila We tend to think of blindness as something you're born with, but with certain genetic diseases, it can actually develop when you’re a kid, or even when you’re an ad
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Why Do We Blink?

8 years ago / 478 views

Ever have a staring contest? Why is it so hard?! Jessi answers a question from a curious SciShow Kids viewer: Why do we blink? ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liqui
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What Really Happens to Your Blood After You Donate?

5 years ago / 1,011 views

Plasma gathered from your blood can be exported across the globe, but what exactly is it, and why is it in demand? A New Genetic Alphabet Is Creating Things Nature Has Never Seen - https://youtu.be/X3uHfRVjVVI Read More: Why Blood is Needed https://www.uc
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Why Is Blood Drawn From Veins And Not From Arteries?

1 year ago / 142 views

Experts use veins to draw blood for blood testing, blood donation, and more because the structure and position of veins make it easier to draw blood out of as compared to arteries. It may also be dangerous to draw blood from arteries. References:http://sc
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Getting Your Blood Moving Heartlessly

8 years ago / 684 views

We all know that the heart pumps the blood around to body, but how does that blood get back to the heart again? Rob demonstrates the surprising tricks that lie hidden in your veins
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Blood, Part 1 - True Blood: Crash Course A&P #29

8 years ago / 1,819 views

Now that we've talked about your blood vessels, we're going to zoom in a little closer and talk about your blood itself. We'll start by outlining the basic components of blood -- including erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets, and plasma -- as well as the
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Blood, Part 2 - There Will Be Blood: Crash Course A&P #30

8 years ago / 958 views

It's time to start talking about some of the terrible things you can do to your own body, like blood doping. We'll start by explaining the structure and function of your erythrocytes, and of hemoglobin, which they use to carry oxygen. We'll follow the for
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How Blood Pressure Works - Wilfred Manzano

8 years ago / 1,887 views

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-blood-pressure-works-wilfred-manzano If you lined up all the blood vessels in your body, they’d be 60 thousand miles long. And every day, they carry the equivalent of over two thousand gallons of blood to th
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Blood, rats and anticoagulants: The story of warfarin

6 years ago / 422 views

The history of warfarin, one of the earliest anticoagulant drugs, is littered with the bodies of sick cows and poisoned rats. This animation tells the story of how a bloody beginning gave rise to a life-saving medication. Find out more about the history o
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Why is blood red? | Anna's Science Magic Show Hooray!

5 years ago / 660 views

In the animal kingdom, blood comes in a rainbow of colors. Subscribe to Anna's Science Magic Show Hooray! https://bit.ly/2LLNAci Many thanks to Drs. Susan Perkins, John Tymoczko, and Jürgen Markl for their scientific expertise! Do you have a science quest
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Blood Sugar Levels

9 years ago / 821 views

Normal and elevated blood sugar levels before (preprandia) and after (postprandial) a meal More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=JSFiOF7xGfE
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Blood testing via sound waves

6 years ago / 674 views

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from MIT, Duke University, Magee-Women's Research Institute, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has developed a novel way to analyze blood, for signatures of cancer and other diseases, using sound wa
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How Do Blood Transfusions Work?

8 years ago / 834 views

How do we transfer blood from one person to another and when did we start doing this? Why Do We Have Blood? ►►►► http://bit.ly/1Mbk6CR Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG Read More: A Short History of Blood Transfusion http
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How do blood transfusions work? - Bill Schutt

4 years ago / 360 views

Dive into the history of the life-saving procedure of blood transfusions and how it has evolved since the 17th century. --In 1881, doctor William Halsted rushed to help his sister Minnie, who was hemorrhaging after childbirth. He quickly inserted a needle
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Why Do We Have Different Blood Types? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS

5 years ago / 1,608 views

We’ve all got gallons of blood flowing through our veins, but not necessarily the same type of blood! So... why do people have different blood types?? Images used under license from Shutterstock.com Welcome to COLOSSAL QUESTIONS, the show that answers all
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Why Do Blood Types Matter? - Natalie S. Hodge

8 years ago / 1,226 views

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-blood-types-matter-natalie-s-hodge It’s often said that despite humanity’s many conflicts, we all bleed the same blood. It’s a nice thought, but not quite accurate. In fact, our blood comes in a few diffe
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What are Blood Types? Can Science Create Universal Donor Blood From Other Types?

4 months ago / 47 views

What are blood types? In this episode we explore blood type classifications and how scientists are working to create type O negative blood - aka universal donor blood - from other types such as type A+. Learn how!TRY IT YOURSELFhttps://www.redcross.org/gi
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Blood Vessels, Part 2: Crash Course A&P #28

8 years ago / 1,474 views

And now we return to blood vessels. In this episode, we start discussing what blood pressure is, how it can become "high", and what that means for our health. One of the more interesting points is that your body has ways of dealing with high blood pressur
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield

9 years ago / 676 views

Sal and Dr. Baker talk a bit about Blue Cross and Blue Shield More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=S9xdJgPWO-w
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Why Blue Whales Don't Get Cancer - Peto's Paradox

4 years ago / 587 views

Get Merch designed with from https://kgs.link/shop Join the Patreon Bird Army https://kgs.link/patreon More infos and links are just a click away Cancer is a creepy and mysterious thing. While we tried to understand it, to get better at killing it, we dis
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Why Do We Blush When We're Embarrassed? - Big Questions - (Ep. 35)

8 years ago / 702 views

A weekly show where we endeavor to answer one of your big questions. This week, Rennie DiCarlo asks, "Why do we blush when we're embarrassed?" -- Mental Floss Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mf_video Select Images and Footage provided by Shutters
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Why Do We Blush? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS

4 years ago / 894 views

Weve all been there: something embarrassing happens, or you get caught in the act, and you blush, turning red like a tomato! But why? What causes us to blush when were embarrassed??Images used under license from Shutterstock.comWelcome to COLOSSAL QUESTIO
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What BMI doesn't tell you about your health

6 years ago / 706 views

The way we define obesity is flawed. Read more about Body Mass Index's flaws on Vox.com: http://bit.ly/2nxeQ2U The body mass index, better known as BMI, is a measure of obesity that has been in use for over 200 years. It was a formula created by Belgian m
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What Happens To Your Body When You're Dehydrated?

8 years ago / 772 views

If you've ever worked for awhile in the beating sun, you might know what it feels like to be dehydrated. What's going on inside your body? Read More: How Much Water Do People Drink? http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/how-much-water-do-peopl
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How does your body know you're full? - Hilary Coller

6 years ago / 772 views

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-your-body-know-you-re-full-hilary-coller Hunger claws at your belly. It tugs at your intestines, which begin to writhe, aching to be fed. Being
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This Is Your Body Over 24 Hours

8 years ago / 765 views

Your body is f***ing amazing!!! SUBSCRIBE for more videos! http://bit.ly/asapsci What Your PEE Says About You: https://youtu.be/5GIfISN4-G8 GET THE ASAPSCIENCE BOOK: http://asapscience.com/book/ Written by Rachel Salt, Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown Inspi
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What Happens to Your Body at Different Ages?

1 year ago / 246 views

Aging. The body is changing! The back is aching!Get Elevant today!: https://elevant.co/?ref=LifeNogginEnter to become a Life Noggin Character!: https://gleam.io/v0Qft/life-noggin-giveawayWatch more Life Noggin: "The Last of Us Fungus" https://www.youtube.
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Your Body Is Amazing Pt. 2

6 years ago / 1,323 views

This is why your body is INCREDIBLE! SUBSCRIBE! It's free: http://bit.ly/asapsci Follow us @whalewatchmeplz & @mitchellmoffit Written by Amanda Edward, Rachel Salt, Gregory Brown and Mitchell Moffit GET THE ASAPSCIENCE BOOK: http://asapscience.com/book/ F
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What Happens To Your Body And Brain If You Don't Get Sleep

6 years ago / 682 views

Sleep expert Matthew Walker breaks down the many effects of sleep deprivation on your brain and body. Following is a transcript of the video. Matthew Walker: My name is Matthew Walker, I am a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of C
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This Is How Your Body Builds Immunity

4 years ago / 1,479 views

We encounter bacteria, viruses and parasites all the time, but how exactly does our immune system kill these dangerous pathogens? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Human! http://bit.ly/HUMANplaylist Visit our shop at http://sho
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Why Your Body Is Built To Run Long Distances

8 years ago / 545 views

Marathons are very popular all around the world, but were humans built for endurance running? Why Your Brain Hates Excercise ►►►► http://dne.ws/1QZVRYM Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://dne.ws/1McUJdm Read More: Born To Run http://disco
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Your Body Is Designed to Attack a New Organ, Now We Know Why

6 years ago / 624 views

Scientists think they've found the molecular basis for organ transplant rejection. Now that we know its cause, could we prevent its effect? Scientists Want to Transplant a Human Head, Here's Why That's a Bad Idea - https://youtu.be/CMHhF5N1FPY Sign Up For
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What Happens To Your Body When You Eat McDonald's Every Day

3 years ago / 454 views

Our lives are busy, and McDonald's can be a perfect solution for mealtimes. But, it's also easy to fall into a daily habit of swinging through the drive-thru for an Egg McMuffin and a coffee every morning, or a Big Mac on your lunch break. Are there conse
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How Do Our Bodies Fight Off Dangerous Chemicals?

6 years ago / 758 views

UC San Diego's Amro Hamdoun explains how you can think of cells like night clubs. With every substance that a cell encounters it has to decide which to eliminate and which to let in. Since humans have generated over 80,000 synthetic compounds, it's now ev
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Your bodys hidden senses might help treat epilepsy, depression

2 years ago / 179 views

When it comes to our senses, we frequently focus on the externalthe crack of thunder, the glare of sunlight, the fragrance of flowersthat captured our attention in the first place. But our bodies also have a whole host of internal senses that tell our bra
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All About Your Body! | Human Body Compilation

5 years ago / 1,278 views

The human body is a complicated thing! To be able to move, fight off diseases, and even see colors, lots of different systems and organs need to work together. Squeaks' robot body is pretty complicated, too, so Jessi has put together a bunch of videos abo
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Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler

4 years ago / 489 views

Why do medical implants like insulin pumps and prosthetic knees need replacement? Explore how the immune system fights implants and how new devices are trying to help. --Insulin pumps improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes around the world
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Your Body Killed Cancer 5 Minutes Ago

1 year ago / 2,004 views

Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-cancervsimmune/This video was partially financed by Gates Ventures. If you want to support this channel and get something nice in return check out our shop: https://kgs.link/shop-176Some
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How Do Our Bodies Move?

8 years ago / 829 views

A SciShow Kids viewer wants to know: How Do Our Bodies Move? Jessi explains, while Squeaks works out! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome
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What causes body odor? - Mel Rosenberg

6 years ago / 925 views

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-causes-body-odor-mel-rosenberg Most of us don’t need more than one whiff to identify that generally unpleasant, characteristic smell we call body o
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Why Do Body Parts “Fall Asleep”? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS

5 years ago / 1,449 views

If you’ve ever felt ‘pins and needles’ in your arm or leg, you’ve probably wondered: why do our limbs just “fall asleep” and what causes it to happen? Images used under license from Shutterstock.com Welcome to COLOSSAL QUESTIONS, the show that answers all
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How does your body process medicine? - Céline Valéry

7 years ago / 824 views

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-your-body-process-medicine-celine-valery Have you ever wondered what happens to a painkiller, like ibuprofen, after you swallow it? Medicine that slides down your throat can help treat a headache, a sor
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How Does Your Body Process Pain?

3 years ago / 238 views

Pain is much more complicated than getting a nasty cut on your knee. In this episode of Human, Patrick breaks down how your body feels pain on a physiological level. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Human! http://bit.ly/HUMANp
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This Is How the Body Reacts to Competitive Eating

6 years ago / 626 views

Eating 70 hot dogs in ten minutes should be impossible, but competitive eaters have found a way. But how exactly does it work in the body? What's REALLY in Hot Dogs? - https://youtu.be/64fqBVKT73A Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO
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What Happens To Your Body When You Start Exercising Regularly

6 years ago / 507 views

Leading a more active lifestyle takes time, effort, and determination, but in the end, it's really worth the shot. Here's what will happen to your body when you exercise regularly. Following is a transcript of the video. If you're thinking about leading a
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How does your body know what time it is? - Marco A. Sotomayor

7 years ago / 818 views

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-your-body-know-what-time-it-is-marco-a-sotomayor Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that’s hurtling towards us. And we owe
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Your Body's Real Age

7 years ago / 523 views

Do all of your cells get switched out for new ones every seven years or so? Does anything remain with you throughout your entire life? That's the question posed on the NPR podcast Invisibilia by co-host Lulu Miller. Listen to their episode (exploring the
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Are Boys Stronger Than Girls? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS

5 years ago / 2,056 views

Today we’re answering a nagging question that we can hopefully help put to rest: are boys really stronger than girls?? Images used under license from Shutterstock.com Welcome to COLOSSAL QUESTIONS, the show that answers all of life's most pressing questio
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We boiled soda to see how much sugar is inside

7 years ago / 813 views

Look on the back of any can of soda and you'll notice that is has a relatively large amount of sugar. As anyone who has made a crème brulée knows (or torched gummy bears), sugar changes when it's exposed to high heat. So, to take this to the extreme, we b
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The bold plan to end malaria with a gene drive

6 years ago / 502 views

How genetically engineered mosquitoes might defeat a disease that kills millions of children. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO The invention of the CRISPR gene editing tool has injected new life into a line of research called gene drive. Gen
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How bones make blood - Melody Smith

4 years ago / 824 views

Dig into the science of how bone marrow transplants work and find out how you could become a donor by visiting https://join.bethematch.org/teded--Bones might seem rock-solid, but theyre actually quite porous inside. Most of the large bones of your skeleto
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What Does Bone Marrow Actually Do?

7 years ago / 697 views

Bone marrow transplants are known to save lives, but how? What makes bone marrow so special? Bone Marrow Transplant Cures HIV? - https://youtu.be/DGBCfBZl-GQ Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Bone Marrow Transplant
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Bone - Nature's Fibreglass

8 years ago / 764 views

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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How Your Bones and Skeleton Works

6 years ago / 646 views

If you want to know more about your beautiful bones, this movie is a great place to start!
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What Are Boogers?

8 years ago / 757 views

What’s that stuff up your nose? Does it do anything? SciShow Kids explains the science of boogers! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome pr
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What Are Boogers? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS

1 year ago / 2,458 views

Boogers are gross, yet each and every one of us has them. But, why? What are boogers exactly, and why do we get them??Images used under license from Shutterstock.comWelcome to Colossal Questions, the show that answers all of life's most pressing questions
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What is Botulism? | How to Make Everything

6 years ago / 396 views

Botulism has come up in a couple of our last videos, so Brian took some time to explain what it is and how it could kill you. WIKIPEDIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism How Not to Die of Botulism http://ow.ly/vVYs30crvFy The Most Common Sources of F
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Box jellyfish stings kill—but how often?

5 years ago / 508 views

Box jellyfish stings are an underestimated public health problem Read more: https://scim.ag/2OyXE8y Credits editor/animator/narrator Meagan Cantwell story by Yao-Hua Law supervising producers Sarah Crespi Chris Burns script Meagan Cantwell Sarah Crespi Ma
How Do Braces Work?

2 years ago / 171 views

Braces are a lot more barbaric - and awesome - than you might think. But they actually just copy the process that the rest of your bones naturally undergo! Andrea, an MIT Sloan Fellow, explains.Learn more about the related research that's happening at MIT
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This Is Your Brain On Extreme Weather

8 years ago / 845 views

Thanks to http://www.audible.com/ for supporting this video. Download your free audiobook at https://www.audible.com/minuteearth Thanks also to our Patreon patrons: - @AntoineCoeur - salar tel - @TodayIFoundOut1 - @82abhilash - Emil Kampp and our Subbable
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Why Do We Get Brain Freeze? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS

6 years ago / 1,824 views

Have you ever wondered why cold treats give us headaches?? Welcome to COLOSSAL QUESTIONS, the show that answers all of life's most pressing questions! → Credits ← Narrated by: Matt Schneck Written, Directed & Produced by: Matt Levy Edited & Animated by: M
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Is A Brain Freeze Really Freezing My Brain? | SCIENCE MYSTERIES REVEALED

1 year ago / 318 views

Can ice cream freeze our brain for good? Find out on Science Mysteries Revealed! Credits Host: Veronica McFarlane Executive Producer: Judy MeyersProducer: Nick Uhas Director: Bryan BiglerWriter: Bill PeloquinDP: Cody StaufferEditor: G Jesse MartinezSound:
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How Your Brain Helps You Lie To Yourself

7 years ago / 452 views

A new study aims to find out why and how we avoid information we don't want to hear-- and how we can stop doing it. The Best Way to Convince Someone They're Wrong - https://youtu.be/sJ64h49gSwY New York Bagels Are NYC's Tastiest Jewish Tradition || Food/G
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A Brain Implant Brings A Quadriplegic’s Arm Back To Life

8 years ago / 597 views

Ian Burkhart is paralyzed from the neck down, but thanks to an array of electrodes implanted in his brain he's able to swipe credit cards and play video games with his own hands. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7 CONNE
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A Brain Implant Brings a Quadriplegic’s Arm Back to Life | WIRED

7 years ago / 499 views

A tragic diving accident in 2010 left Ian Burkhart a quadriplegic; faced with the prospect of living the rest of his life paralysed from the neck down. However, a few years later, thanks to a group of talented doctors and an array of electrodes implanted
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How Does Your Brain Learn To Read?

8 years ago / 733 views

Most Americans learn how to read around the age of 5 but for some it can take much longer, why is it so hard to learn how to read? Why Did Nazis Burn Thousands Of Books? ►►►► http://dne.ws/1DNUOXp Read More: Brain Waves Show Learning to Read Does Not End
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What happens to your brain during a migraine - Marianne Schwarz

3 years ago / 219 views

Find out whats happening in the brain when you have a migraine and what we still dont know about this complex disorder.--A throbbing, pounding headache. Bright zigzagging lines across your field of vision. Sensitivity to light, lingering fatigue, disrupte
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How Brain Parasites Change Their Host's Behavior - Jaap De Roode

9 years ago / 794 views

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-parasites-change-their-host-s-behavior-jaap-de-roode The biggest challenge in a parasite’s life is to move from one host to another. Intriguingly, many parasites have evolved the ability to manipulate the be
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This is Your Brain on Quarantine

2 years ago / 169 views

The COVID-19 Quarantine has gotten to us all. Is it REALLY changing our brains?Check out Hollywood Health & Society: http://HollywoodHealthandSociety.orgMore info on the Coronavirus (COVID-19): https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.htmlMeet The
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How Does Your Brain Respond To Pain? - Karen D. Davis

9 years ago / 758 views

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-does-your-brain-respond-to-pain-karen-d-davis Everyone experiences pain -- but why do some people react to the same painful stimulus in different...
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Our Brains Can Store 10x More Than We Thought!

8 years ago / 653 views

Researchers have just figured out how much storage space we have in our brains. How much is it and how do they know? 3 Ways To Improve Your Memory ►►►► http://bit.ly/20P1MG7 Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG Read More: Me
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Your Brain Changes All the Time, but Being a Mom Changes It Forever

7 years ago / 591 views

Mother's bodies go through tons of changes before and after giving birth, but so do their brains! What really makes a mom's brain different? How Hard Is It To Get Pregnant? - https://youtu.be/H9ySBfbGkU4 Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit
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How Your Brain Works

6 years ago / 550 views

Your brain is the boss of your body and runs the whole show. Watch this movie for kids and find out more!
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What Brain-Controlled Exoskeletons Mean For You | Future You | NPR

5 years ago / 405 views

Will mind-controlled robot suits help end some disabilities as we know them and lead the way to super strength? In this episode of NPRs series, Future You with Elise Hu, the team goes to the University of Houston to try out a mind-controlled exoskeleton.
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The Brain-Eating Amoebas of Kerosene Creek

5 years ago / 1,941 views

Kerosene Creek is a natural hot spring near Rotorua, on the North Island of New Zealand. And there have been official warnings for years: don't put your head under water. It turns out that "brain-eating amoebas", naegleria fowleri, are a real, if rare, th
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Brand Name Vs. Generic

8 years ago / 949 views

What is the difference between brand name and generic products? AsapTHOUGHT TASTE TEST: https://youtu.be/rYmon9AO1os Subscribe for more: http://bit.ly/asapsci Written by Mitchell Moffit, Gregory Brown, Amanda Edward and Rachel Salt GET THE ASAPSCIENCE BOO
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Are Brazil Nuts Radioactive? | Earth Lab

5 years ago / 593 views

Nuclear waste is only slightly more radioactive than some of our everyday food. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToEarthLab All the best Earth Lab videos http://bit.ly/EarthLabOriginals Best of BBC Earth videos http://bit.ly/TheBestOfBBCEarthVideos The D
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What If You Break The Speed Of Sound With Your Body?

5 years ago / 444 views

Rollin' around at the speed of sound. Gotta go fast. Watch more: “What Would a 24 Hour Flight Do To Your Body?” ►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqb6lcRtrvA Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubLifeNoggin | Get your exclusive Life Noggin merch: http://keeponthi
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Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day?

6 years ago / 568 views

For decades, it’s been said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So what happens if you skip it? Mindful Meditation: Miracle Cure or Media Hype? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bz6kr-UFkY Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://b
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7 years ago / 1,091 views

Cholera is an aggressive bacterial infection that can kill its victims within hours, but how? What exactly does cholera do to our bodies? What Happens When You Get Leprosy - https://youtu.be/wwqfFxBUetA Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.
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Christian the Kid (He's Just Like You)

5 years ago / 598 views

Christian is a kid who likes football, silly sounds and wresting with his brother. He is diagnosed with a rare genetic condition that makes him look different, but on the inside he is just like most seven year olds. Watch our first interview from two year
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Christmas Lectures 2021: Fighting Back - with Jonathan Van Tam

1 year ago / 105 views

In the third and final lecture of the 2021 Christmas Lectures, Jonathan Van-Tam is joined by vaccine scientist Teresa Lambe and microbiologist Sharon Peacock to explore the inner workings of vaccines to reveal how these medical marvels can help win the wa
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Christmas Lectures 2021: The Invisible Enemy - with Jonathan Van Tam

1 year ago / 113 views

In the first lecture of the 2021 Christmas Lectures, Jonathan Van Tam dives into the micro-world of viruses, revealing how these invisible invaders can infect our bodies, and how a revolution in testing may transform medicine forever with the help of immu
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Christmas Lectures 2021: The Perfect Storm - with Jonathan Van Tam

1 year ago / 99 views

In the second lecture of the 2021 Christmas Lectures, Jonathan Van-Tam is joined by airborne infection expert Cath Noakes and mathematician Julia Gog is uncover what drives a virus to world domination, and how maths may be the secret weapon to thwart it.
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What is chronic kidney disease and how does dialysis work?

3 years ago / 1,132 views

Read the full, 5-part series in partnership with Undark: Profit and Loss: America on Dialysis: https://undark.org/profit-and-loss-america-on-dialysis/ The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs, each about the size of a fist. They are located just below the r
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How do cigarettes affect the body? - Krishna Sudhir

5 years ago / 580 views

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-cigarettes-affect-the-body-krishna-sudhir Cigarettes aren’t good for us. That’s hardly news -- we’ve known about the dangers of smoking for decad
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Why Does Cilantro Taste Like Soap?

8 years ago / 608 views

Cilantro tastes like soap to some people, but they may not just be picky. It could be genetic. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, Just
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How NOT to Clean Your Ears | Earth Lab

6 years ago / 642 views

We've been brought up thinking cotton buds are the best way to clean our ears from wax, but is that really true? Subscribe to Earth Lab for more fascinating science videos - http://bit.ly/SubscribeToEarthLab Best Earth Lab videos: http://bit.ly/EarthLabOr
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Does Cleaning Improve Your Mood?

8 years ago / 553 views

Clean spaces have been shown to promote a more relaxed mind, but why is this? Apple vs. FBI Explained! ►►►►http://bit.ly/1MeHaAl Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG Read More: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis of Health,
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How Close Are We to Downloading the Human Brain?

5 years ago / 1,051 views

Downloading your brain may seem like science fiction, but some neuroscientists think it's not only possible, but that we’ve already started down a path to one day make it a reality. So, how close are we to downloading a human brain? How Close Are We to Fu
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How close are we to eradicating HIV? - Philip A. Chan

4 years ago / 339 views

Can we end HIV? Find out how medications like PrEP are helping to prevent the transmission and spread of HIV, and possibly leading to its eradication.--The world is getting closer to achieving one of the most important public health goals of our time: era
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Closer to a Cure: Combating Alzheimer's With New Compute Technology

6 years ago / 480 views

The human brain remains a complex mystery. But, if we dare to dream big—and have the proper tools and data to fuel those ambitions—we may one day discover cures for diseases as devastating as Alzheimer’s. At the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease
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We're Closer to a Universal Flu Vaccine

3 years ago / 266 views

This episode is sponsored by Awesome Socks Club, a sock subscription for charity. Go to http://awesomesocks.club/SciShow to sign up between now and December 11th to get a new pair of fun socks each month in 2021. 100% of after-tax profit will go to decrea
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How Much Do Cloth Masks Protect You From Getting the Coronavirus?

4 years ago / 733 views

The CDC is recommending that the general public wear cloth face masks to help decrease everyones chances of getting COVID-19. So how does the virus that causes COVID-19SARS-CoV-2spread? And how much could cloth face masks help stop it? We contacted some e
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How Do Cochlear Implants Work?

5 years ago / 480 views

When hearing aids aren't enough, some turn to cochlear implants to help with hearing loss – here's how they work. AHHHHHHH!! How Blood-Curdling Screams Affect Your Brain - https://youtu.be/Zy9Xt4HN2o0 Read More Cochlear Implants https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
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What Does A Cochlear Implant Sound Like?

6 years ago / 487 views

Cochlear implants don't generate sound like a hearing aid would. Instead, they zap your cochlea. We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 Hosted by: Olivia Gordon
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Coffee Chemistry!

7 years ago / 717 views

Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions Special thanks to William Sefton and Cait Lowry at The Coffee Bar (http://www.thecoffeebardc.com/) It’s one of the most popular beverages in the world, and many of us rely on it to stay awake every day. But not every
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Can Coke Damage Our Teeth? #Shorts #Backtobasics

3 years ago / 252 views

Brushing your teeth is very important and today I will show you the effect coke can have on your teeth | More Amazing Experiments: Amazing Science Experiments to Trick Friends at Home: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=6eRsDMSgR_8Super Simple Carb
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Why Do We Get Colds When It's Cold?

6 years ago / 722 views

The temperature drops and you're more likely to get a cold: Is this correlation or causation? We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 Hosted by: Michael Aranda -
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Colds, the Flu, and You

7 years ago / 554 views

When the weather starts to get cool, a lot of people start to get sick. So what’s making people sick and how can you avoid falling ill? Join Jessi and Squeaks to find out! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on you
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How Does Cold Medicine Work?

6 years ago / 1,046 views

The cold medicine you picked up at the store involves some cool chemistry to treat your symptoms. We're conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 Hosted by: Olivia Gordo
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The Cold Truth About Fat

7 years ago / 765 views

Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions With the feasts and festivities of the holidays in full swing, we'll be kissing the passing year goodbye, but not without the addition of a couple extra pounds as a souvenir. Lucky for you, the winter also brings some
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How Color Blindness Works

6 years ago / 567 views

How colour blind people see and the science behind it. Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomblatherwick Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/humaninterests Facebook: https://www.fb.me/HumanInterestsYT Email: tom@humaninterests.co.uk Additional voices by Megan Rope
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How Does Colorblindness Work?

8 years ago / 611 views

We see color thanks to complex coordination of signals from the eyes to the brain. Here's what happens when the signal gets scrambled. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/eye/colorblindness.htm Share on Face
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What Happens When You're In A Coma?

8 years ago / 573 views

The word coma comes from the greek meaning of “deep sleep,” but what exactly does this unconscious state do to your brain? Can A Brain Injury Make You a Genius? ►►►► http://bit.ly/1H7EgWg Read More: How Comas Work http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/ins