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How the US Government Will Survive Doomsday
490 views / 0 likes - addedGet 10% off your custom domain or email from Hover at http://www.hover.com/wendover This video was partially based on the book, "Raven Rock" by Garrett Graff: http://a.co/23ud2fa Check out my new podcast with Brian from Real Engineering: https://itunes.ap
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Training Neural Networks: Crash Course AI #4
315 views / 0 likes - addedToday were going to talk about how neurons in a neural network learn by getting their math adjusted, called backpropagation, and how we can optimize networks by finding the best combinations of weights to minimize error. Then well send John Green Bot into
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How Shazam Works
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What is an Animal? Crash Course Zoology #1
211 views / 1 likes - addedCheck out Animal IQ on PBS Terra! https://youtu.be/Ejhbr_t7BlcSo what is an animal anyway? In our inaugural episode of Crash Course Zoology, well endeavor to answer just that because as it turns out, its complicated! But before we get there well need to i
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Web Search: Crash Course AI #17
332 views / 0 likes - addedToday were going to talk about search engines, which are just AI systems that try to help us find what were looking for. Search engines can be the sort that serve up a list of results, like during a Google or Bing search, using web crawlers, an inverted i
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Humans and AI working together: Crash Course AI #14
340 views / 0 likes - addedTheres been a lot of discussion about how automation is going to take peoples jobs and we dont want to downplay that real impact, but today were going to focus on the benefits of humans and AI working together. Human-AI teams allow us to fill in each othe
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Studying for Exams: Crash Course Study Skills #7
497 views / 0 likes - addedIt turns out that saving all of your studying until after midnight on the night before your big exam is not actually a great way to prepare. Today, Thomas explains some test prep strategies that actually work. Crash Course is made with Adobe Creative Clou
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Modern Thought and Culture in 1900: Crash Course European History #31
362 views / 0 likes - addedEurope was in transition politically and culturally at the beginning of the 20th century. Today, we're looking at the dawn of modern science, and the rise of Modernism in the arts, especially in music, dance, and visual arts. We'll look at changes in musi
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Watch This Before You Eat Another M&M
290 views / 0 likes - addedM&M's are truly a delicious candy staple. But where did the idea for them come from, and how have they become so popular? We decided to dig deep to discover everything there is to know about these delicious chocolate treats.For many people, M&M's are a re
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How (and Why) to Make a Pill Out of Poop
807 views / 0 likes - addedThe latest clinical trials for poop pills that can fight a gut infection failed. But that's no reason to flush this research down the toilet. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumbl
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Can Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Help Fight Disease?
781 views / 0 likes - addedHost Myles Bess dives into the science and policy surrounding the use of genetically engineered mosquitoes to combat mosquito-borne diseases like Zika, Dengue Fever and chikungunya. SUBSCRIBE to Above the Noise: [https://www.youtube.com/abovethenoise?sub_
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Symbolic AI: Crash Course AI #10
353 views / 0 likes - addedToday we're going to talk about Symbolic AI - also known as "good old-fashioned AI". Symbolic AI is really different from the modern neural networks we've discussed so far, instead, it represents problems using symbols and then uses logic to search for so
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Theres something weird about this 105 million-year-old amber.
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How did consciousness evolve? - with Nicholas Humphrey
73 views / 0 likes - addedFind out how consciousness is generated in the human brain - and discover the evidence suggesting some animals are also sentient.Read Nicholas's book 'Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness' here: https://geni.us/eCGsWatch the Q&A here: https://www.you
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Digestive System, Part 2: Crash Course A&P #34
1,650 views / 1 likes - addedNearly 200 years ago, Alexis St. Martin was shot in the stomach. He was saved by local army doctor William Beaumont, but had to live out his remaining years with a gaping hole in the stomach -- allowing Beaumont to learn a lot about how human digestion wo
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Let's make an AI that destroys video games: Crash Course AI #13
306 views / 0 likes - addedFollow along: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1uYXTDeBbPeuJfM1teufZ9nUaiRIN9nHW Today we create a game and then build an AI to destroy it. Our game is called TrashBlaster, and its like Asteroids but with trash in the ocean, and instead of a spaces
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Italian and German Unification: Crash Course European History #27
580 views / 0 likes - addedSo, we haven't talked much about Italy and Germany so far in Crash Course Euro, and that's because prior to the mid-19th century, those two nation-states weren't really a thing. Today we'll look at how Italy and Germany pulled it together in the second ha
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A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
682 views / 2 likes - addedWhy should you care about the well-being of people half a globe away? Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt?ty=h Kurzgesagt merch
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What Happened Before History? Human Origins
1,122 views / 2 likes - addedUse the URL: http://www.audible.com/nutshell to get a free audiobook and 30 days free trial and support this channel. Thanks a lot to Audible for supporting us! Humans. We have been around for a while now. When we think about our past we think about ancie
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Algorithmic Bias and Fairness: Crash Course AI #18
283 views / 1 likes - addedCheck out my collab with "Above the Noise" about Deepfakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro8b69VeL9UToday, we're going to talk about five common types of algorithmic bias we should pay attention to: data that reflects existing biases, unbalanced classe
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What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?
319 views / 1 likes - addedYou can find our beautiful education posters in our shop: https://shop.kurzgesagt.orgThis video was made possible by a grant from the Templeton World Charity Foundation.Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesintelligenceHumans are
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Are There Lost Alien Civilizations in Our Past?
352 views / 1 likes - addedGo to https://NordVPN.com/kurzgesagt for an exclusive deal for our viewers. Its risk free with NordVPNs 30 day money back guarantee.Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-earthaliens/Ger inspired by Science - Learn about the histo
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What Did John Snow Know About Cholera? - with James Grime
376 views / 0 likes - addedPhysician John Snow famously figured out the cause of a cholera outbreak using maths and statistics, and thereby helped to disprove the miasma theory of disease - that people get ill from 'bad air'.Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSub
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Airline Food During the Golden Age of Air Travel
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1984 by George Orwell, Part 1: Crash Course Literature 401
615 views / 1 likes - addedIn which John Green returns for a dystopian new season of Crash Course Literature! We're starting with George Orwell's classic look at the totalitarian state that could be in post-war England. Winston Smith is under the eye of Big Brother, and making us t
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The Roads to World War I: Crash Course European History #32
385 views / 0 likes - addedMuch has been written about what exactly caused World War I. As befits a true global war, the reality is that there isn't a single cause. There aren't even three causes. There are a vast array of causes. Today we'll get into just a few of those causes, in
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The largest telescope that will ever be built*
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Fusion Energy Explained – Future or Failure
1,086 views / 0 likes - addedHow does Fusion Energy work and is it a good idea? Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt?ty=h Kurzgesagt merch here: http://bit.ly/1P1hQIH Get the music of the video here: sound
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Scientific Revolution: Crash Course European History #12
1,063 views / 0 likes - addedThere was a lot of bad stuff going on in Europe in the 17th century. We've seen wars, plagues, and unrest of all types. But, there is some good news. Huge advances were underway in the scientific community in Europe at this time. In this video we'll look
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This Gamma-Ray Burst Was the Most Powerful Energy Event Ever Recorded
402 views / 0 likes - addedThis cataclysmic event just generated the brightest light in the known universe - and we detected it using MAGIC. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.c
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Mass-Producing Ice Cream with Food Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #39
338 views / 0 likes - addedIn this episode, we looked at food engineering. We explored how foods capacity to spoil makes it a unique challenge from an engineering viewpoint. We saw how many branches of engineering come into play to process ingredients, ensure safety for consumers,
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Titanic: The ONLY Genuine Footage - Verified By Experts
2,067 views / 15 likes - addedIncredibly rare, genuine & authenticated. This stunning footage is the OLDEST AND ONLY known remaining film of Titanic above water. Combined with footage from the wreck - utterly beautiful and heartbreaking. Ever since Titanic was lost at sea that fat
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How did humans become (mostly) right-handed?
88 views / 0 likes - addedBeing right-handed may have deep evolutionary roots in our lineage.*****PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons*****Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital StudiosSuper special thanks t
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Show Yourself - Frozen 2 in Real Life
1,091 views / 5 likes - addedSupport more music videos, become a LemonHead: Join our Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/workingwithlemons Working with Lemons presents our cover of Show Yourself the Disney Song. Show Yourself is Elsa’s big musical song since Let it Go came out. O
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Mythical Mountains: Crash Course World Mythology #33
933 views / 0 likes - addedOur mythical places series continues, and this week Mike Rugnetta is talking about some stories that revolve around mountains. Mountains loom large in human stories, not least because mountains are, well, large. So ascend with us to the lofty peaks of The
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Three ways the universe could end - Venus Keus
831 views / 0 likes - addedOur universe started with the Big Bang, but how will it end? Explore cosmologists’ three possible scenarios: the Big Crunch, the Big Freeze and the Big Rip. -- We know about our universe’s past: the Big Bang theory predicts that all matter, time and space
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Florence and the Renaissance: Crash Course European History #2
566 views / 0 likes - addedThe Renaissance was a cultural revitalization that spread across Europe, and had repercussions across the globe, but one smallish city-state in Italy was in many ways the epicenter of the thing. Florence, or as Italians might say, Firenze, was the home to
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Reinforcement Learning: Crash Course AI#9
359 views / 1 likes - addedReinforcement learning is particularly useful in situations where we want to train AIs to have certain skills we dont fully understand ourselves. Unlike some of the techniques weve discussed so far, reinforcement learning generally only looks at how an AI
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What Is Myth? Crash Course Mythology #1
982 views / 4 likes - addedWelcome to Crash Course World Mythology, our latest adventure (and this series may be literally adventurous) in education. Over the next 40 episodes or so, we and Mike Rugnetta are going to learn about the world by looking at the foundational stories of a
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Why did blinking evolve?
134 views / 0 likes - addedWe blink all the time, but until recently, we didn't know how, why, and when blinking evolved.*****PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons*****Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital St
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Official Teaser Trailer
892 views / 0 likes - addedFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - In Theaters November 16 http://www.FantasticBeasts.com/ https://www.facebook.com/fantasticbeastsmovie https://www.instagram.com/fantasticbeastsmovie https://twitter.com/FantasticBeasts Warner Bros. Pictures&rs
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Final Trailer
439 views / 1 likes - addedFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - In Theaters November 16 http://www.FantasticBeasts.com/ https://www.facebook.com/fantasticbeastsmovie https://www.instagram.com/fantasticbeastsmovie https://twitter.com/FantasticBeasts Warner Bros. Pictures&rs
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Supervised Learning: Crash Course AI #2
318 views / 0 likes - addedToday were going to teach John Green Bot how to tell the difference between donuts and bagels using supervised learning! Supervised learning is the process of learning WITH training labels, and is the most widely used kind of learning with it comes to AI
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Test Anxiety: Crash Course Study Skills #8
614 views / 0 likes - addedExams can be terrifying. It’s easy to feel like the weight of the world rests in these moments – like this one test determines your grades and, in turn, your whole future – even if you know, rationally, that this isn’t really the case. What’s worse is tha
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Papers & Essays: Crash Course Study Skills #9
550 views / 0 likes - addedWriting research papers is an essential skill in your career as a student, and this week we’re going to help you do that like a pro. From figuring out where to begin, to finding the best systems, to breaking out of “research recursion system” (maybe just
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Computer Engineering & the End of Moore's Law: Crash Course Engineering #35
1,188 views / 0 likes - addedThis week were exploring a field of engineering that is essential to how youre watching this video: computers and computer engineering. Well explain differences between hardware and software, how engineers are working on making computers smaller and more
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Loneliness
496 views / 1 likes - addedEverybody feels lonely sometimes. But only few of us are aware how important this feeling was for our ancestors - and that our modern world can turn it into something that really hurts us. Why do we feel this way and what can we do about it? Sources: http
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The Real Flying Saucer
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So ... Sometimes Fireflies Eat Other Fireflies | Deep Look
500 views / 0 likes - addedMost firefly flashes are pure romance, a sexy form of skywriting. But one variety copies the mating signals of others to lure them to their demise. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short video series created by K
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What Do Aliens Look Like? The Kardashev Scale
1,222 views / 1 likes - addedYou can find our beautiful education posters, useful notebooks and cozy sweaters in our shop now: https://shop.kurzgesagt.orgSources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-kardashev-scale/The observable universe is a big place that has be
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Reformation and Consequences: Crash Course European History #7
482 views / 0 likes - addedThe Protestant Reformation didn't exactly begin with Martin Luther, and it didn't end with him either. Reformers and monarchs changed the ways that religious and state power were organized throughout the 16th and early 17th centuries. Jean Calvin in Franc
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Using Wikipedia: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #5
298 views / 0 likes - addedLet's talk about Wikipedia. Wikipedia is often maligned by teachers and twitter trolls alike as an unreliable source. And yes, it does sometimes have major errors and omissions, but Wikipedia is also the Internet's largest general reference work and as su
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FLYING COKE powered airplane
475 views / 0 likes - addedWe tried a cola powered soda plane!@Jabrils @Tom Stanton @William Osman @Allen Pan - Sufficiently Advanced @NileRed MY WEBSITE:::::::::::: https://goo.gl/87uDQKAmazon affiliate links (these help grow the channel, every purchase gets me a small percentage
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The Age of Exploration: Crash Course European History #4
530 views / 0 likes - addedThe thing about European History is that it tends to leak out of Europe. Europeans haven't been great at staying put in Europe. As human beings do, the people of Europe were very busy traveling around to trade, to spread religion, and in a lot of cases to
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Why The Giraffe Got Its Neck
93 views / 0 likes - addedHow and why the giraffe's neck emerged in the first place has been a mystery that generations of biologists have argued over one that has made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution actually works over and over again.*****PBS Member Stations rel
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Mary Poppins Returns | Official Trailer
538 views / 0 likes - addedSee Mary Poppins Returns in theatres December 19! In Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns,” an all new original musical and sequel, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find the joy and wonder missing in their l
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Do politics make us irrational? - Jay Van Bavel
459 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the psychology of political partisanship, how to recognize it and what strategies can be used to combat it. --Can someones political identity actually affect their ability to process information? The answer lies in a cognitive phenomenon known as
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YouTube Couldn't Exist Without Communications & Signal Processing: Crash Course Engineering #42
1,052 views / 0 likes - addedEngineering helped make this video possible. This week well look at how its possible for you to watch this video with the fundamentals of signal processing. Well explore things from Morse Code, to problems like bandwidth capacity and noise, to how we arri
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How do blood transfusions work? - Bill Schutt
362 views / 0 likes - addedDive 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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What If You Stopped Eating Food?
502 views / 1 likes - addedHow long can your body and brain diet through fasting, starvation or survive with no food? Check out skillshare! http://skl.sh/asapscience2 Subscribe! http://bit.ly/asapsci Created by: Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown Written by: Greg Brown Illustrated b
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Whats the Most Animal Animal? Crash Course Zoology #2
256 views / 2 likes - addedThank you to The Great Courses Plus for supporting PBS. For more information and a trial, go tohttp://ow.ly/zREQ30rDCDz. Picture an animal in your mind right now. What does it look like? A dog? A lion? Maybe a sloth, pangolin,naked mole-rat, or even just
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How fast can a vaccine be made? - Dan Kwartler
338 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the three key phases of developing a new vaccine: exploratory research, clinical testing, and manufacturing. --When a new pathogen emerges, our bodies and healthcare systems are left vulnerable. And when this pathogen causes the outbreak of a pan
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AI Playing Games: Crash Course AI #12
422 views / 1 likes - addedAs we mentioned last episode, one of the best test spaces for building new AI systems are games. This is because games provide a great framework for an AI to learn an objective and slowly improve. In recent years, AI has made huge strides in games from be
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This Abandoned Nuclear City is Trapped Under Ice, What Happens if it Thaws?
396 views / 0 likes - addedTons of nuclear waste from a secret military operation are hiding underneath Greenland's Ice sheet. Special thanks to William Colgan & the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Never-Before-Seen Footage Uncovers Antarctica’s First Scientific Missions
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Silicon, Semiconductors, & Solar Cells: Crash Course Engineering #22
303 views / 0 likes - addedToday were looking at silicon, and how introducing small amounts of other elements allow silicon layers to conduct currents, turning them into semiconductors. Well explore how putting two different types N and P semiconductors together gives us electrical
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The French Revolution: Crash Course European History #21
529 views / 0 likes - addedIn 1789, the French Monarchy's habit of supporting democratic popular revolutions in North America backfired. Today, we're talking about the French Revolution. Across the world, people were rising up to throw off monarchies, and Louis didn't see the writi
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How To Subtract By Adding
710 views / 0 likes - addedBrought to you by http://www.lynda.com/minutephysics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_complements Hank's adding machine video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYT8oH-NODs Thanks to the following Subbable subscribers for making MinutePhysics possibl
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Water Dropping RC Airplane
368 views / 0 likes - addedwell it definitely dispenses water! William's videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6q3HdduUs4&t=339sAllen's videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYf1SjCJuT0MY WEBSITE:::::::::::: https://goo.gl/87uDQKAmazon affiliate links (these help grow the channel, e
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Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know
477 views / 0 likes - addedYou can support this channel on Patreon! Link below Over the years Ive found that there are plenty of people who use captions, not just those who need them. But did you know that it took until the 1970s for anyone to think of putting captions on TV? I can
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The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird
562 views / 1 likes - addedGet a year of both Nebula and Curiosity Stream for just 11.99 here: http://www.CuriosityStream.com/realengineering and using the code, "realengineering"New streaming platform: https://watchnebula.com/Vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMet4qY3
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Why should you read Midnights Children? - Iseult Gillespie
502 views / 1 likes - addedDive into Salman Rushdies masterpiece, Midnights Children, a work of magical realism that deals with Indias transition from British colonialism to independence.--It begins with a countdown. A woman goes into labor as the clock ticks towards midnight. Acro
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The Science Of Cardboard
196 views / 0 likes - addedVisit brilliant.org/NewMind to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscriptionIn 2020, the United States hit a record high in its yearly use of one the most ubiquitous manufactured materials
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The Birth of Hip Hop
188 views / 0 likes - addedIn 1973, DJ Kool Herc set up his turntables and introduced a technique at a South Bronx house party that would change music as many people knew it. His ability to switch from record to record as well as isolate and repeat music breaks led to the discovery
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Exercise: Crash Course Study Skills #10
679 views / 0 likes - addedWe’re finally to the end of our time together here on Crash Course Study Skills, so this week we’re taking a more holistic approach to being the best learner you can. Part of taking care of your brain is taking care of your whole body, of which your brain
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Switches are Clicky; Here's Why
531 views / 0 likes - addedYou can support this channel on Patreon! Link below Click clack I was taken aback. Wonderin bout those switches of light, yeah.Lets find out what the point is of all that clacking, shall we?Hey! Here are some fun links!Technology Connections on Twitter:ht
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String Theory Explained – What is The True Nature of Reality?
600 views / 0 likes - addedIs String Theory the final solution for all of physic’s questions or an overhyped dead end? This video was funded by SNSF under Agora Grant n. 171622 and through the NCCR SwissMAP: The Mathematics of Physics. Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQx
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Expansion and Resistance: Crash Course European History #28
531 views / 0 likes - addedIn 19th century Europe, with nation building well under way, thoughts turned outward, toward empire. This week, we're looking at how Europeans expanded into Africa, Asia, and Oceania during the 1800s. You'll learn about China and the Opium War, British In
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Make an AI sound like a YouTuber (LAB): Crash Course AI #8
321 views / 0 likes - addedPlease take the PBS Digital Studios survey here! https://www.pbsresearch.org/c/r/CC_YTvideoFollow Along: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1f8ik5kSPEvDCcM7R_-Wb3AjifizVEsHD Lets try to help John Green Bot sound a bit more like the real John Green us
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The Skeletal System: Crash Course A&P #19
2,037 views / 3 likes - addedToday Hank explains the skeletal system and why astronauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko are out in space studying it. He talks about the anatomy of the skeletal system, including the flat, short, and irregular bones, and their individual arrangements
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Commerce, Agriculture, and Slavery: Crash Course European History #8
414 views / 0 likes - addedWe've been talking a lot about kings, and queens, and wars, and religious upheaval for most of this series, but let's take a moment to zoom out, and look at the ways that individuals' lives were changing in the time span we've covered so far. Some people'
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The hidden treasures of Timbuktu - Elizabeth Cox
337 views / 1 likes - addedDig into the ancient manuscripts, scrolls, and books of Timbuktu and find out why theyve been hidden for centuries. --On the edge of the vast Sahara desert, citizens snuck out of the city of Timbuktu and took to the wilderness. They buried chests in the d
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Crash Course European History #22
1,130 views / 5 likes - addedWe try not to get into too much great man history here at Crash Course, but we have to admit: Napoleon Bonaparte is a pretty big deal. Join us as we track the rise, further rise, fall, rise, fall, mortal fall, and posthumous rise of Napoleon. This guy cha
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How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
538 views / 0 likes - addedThe Amazon rainforest of South America is a paradise for flowering plants. But long ago, the landscape that we now think of as the Amazon looked very different. And would you believe that the entire revolution of the Amazon began with just one day?Produce
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Essential Functions of Sleep: Learning, Memory and Changing Your Mind - with Gina Poe
307 views / 0 likes - addedSleep is vital to our wellbeing. The stages of deep and dreamless slow wave sleep and vivid dreaming REM sleep both have important traits. They each have their role to play in cleaning, up, putting away, and integrating new items into our knowledge schema
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DNA family secrets - with Turi King
140 views / 0 likes - addedWhat's behind the rise in the use of DNA in genealogy and forensics? Find out with the BBC's favourite genealogist, Professor Turi King, including the first immigration case and her work identifying the bones of King Richard III.Watch the Q&A with Turi he
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Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt? - Elizabeth Cox
361 views / 1 likes - addedDig into the burden of proof fallacy, which assumes that something is true unless proven false and relies on arguments from ignorance.--Its 1950. Anti-communist sentiment in the United States is at an all-time high. Senator Joseph McCarthy claims he has a
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The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire - Dustin Tahmahkera
318 views / 0 likes - addedGet to know the story of Quanah Parker, a Native American warrior and leader, and the last chief of the Comanche tribe. --Late one night in 1871, a group of riders descended on a sleeping army camp, stole about 70 horses, and disappeared. Led by a young c
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Everything changed when the fire crystal got stolen - Alex Gendler
433 views / 0 likes - addedThis riddle was created in partnership with Brilliant. Practice more problem solving here: https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ --Someone has tripped the magical alarms in the Element Temple. When you and the other monks arrive on the scene, you know you have a d
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How Do Our Brains Perceive the World Around Us? - with Anil Seth
234 views / 0 likes - addedHow does our brain translate visual signals into a conscious experience?Watch Anil's talk on the same topic: https://youtu.be/qXcH26M7PQMAnil's new book "Being You" is available now: https://geni.us/anilAnil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computationa
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The Fundamental Constituents of Matter and the Eightfold Way
158 views / 0 likes - addedJoin Ben Still as he deconstructs particle physics brick by brick on a journey through the creation of the standard model.Ben's book: https://geni.us/X7TggmLearn more on Ben Still's channel: youtube.com/drbenstill Visit Ben Still's website: http://pprc.qm
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Economic Depression and Dictators: Crash Course European History #37
550 views / 0 likes - addedWe're still leading up to World War II, but first we gotta talk about the rise of the dictators. Today we talk about the rise of militaristic dictatorships in Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, and Spain, and the economic depression that set the stage for
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Russian Revolution and Civil War: Crash Course European History #35
707 views / 0 likes - addedWorld War I was very hard on the Russian Empire. So hard, in fact, that it led to the end of the Russian Empire. As the global conflict ground on, Tsar Nicholas II faced increasing unrest at home. Today we'll learn about the Revolutions of 1917, the rise
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Reading Assignments: Crash Course Study Skills #2
525 views / 0 likes - addedLeaving the bookstore at the beginning of the semester you’re probably wondering how the heck you’re going to get through all of that reading. Today we’re explaining how much of that reading you really need to do and the best strategies for making your wa
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Lets make a movie recommendation system: Crash Course AI #16
320 views / 0 likes - addedFollow along: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1-v9cw18wTDjaCUlECKHsQnHeisLKyG8U We need to save Jabril and John Green Bots movie nights. Jabril generally likes action movies and John Green Bot likes romantic movies, but they need to find something
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The dust bunnies that built our planet - Lorin Swint Matthews
1,125 views / 0 likes - addedInvestigate the theories surrounding cosmic dust bunnies and discover how the tiny particles could hold the key to the formation of life on Earth. --Consider the spot where youre sitting. Travel backwards in time and it mightve been submerged at the botto
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An unsung hero of the civil rights movement - Christina Greer
521 views / 2 likes - addedLearn about the life of Bayard Rustin, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, a gay rights activist, and one of Martin Luther King’s closest advisors. -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington to n
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How NASA Reinvented The Wheel - Shape Memory Alloys
540 views / 0 likes - addedLearn more about the design competition here: https://Youtu.be/-jo84Ul8fEo This video was made in collaboration with Royal Air Force Engineering New vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMet4qY3027v8KjpaDtDx-g Credits: Narrator/Director: Brian M
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14:36
English Civil War: Crash Course European History #14
449 views / 0 likes - addedThe English Civil War. We'll talk about England after Elizabeth, in which things didn't go that smoothly. We'll talk about James I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II, and James II, all of whom ruled England, (and tried to rule all of Britain and Irel
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Neural Networks: Crash Course Statistics #41
957 views / 0 likes - addedToday we're going to talk big picture about what Neural Networks are and how they work. Neural Networks, which are computer models that act like neurons in the human brain, are really popular right now - they're being used in everything from self-driving
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How Big Is The Sun?
1,979 views / 3 likes - addedThanks to http://www.squarespace.com/minutephysics for sponsoring this video! MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics And twitter - @minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and enterta
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Time: The History & Future of Everything – Remastered
648 views / 2 likes - addedThe first 1000 people to use this link will get their first 2 months of skillshare for free: http://skl.sh/kurzgesagt2 Thanks a lot to Skillshare for supporting this channel. Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz Support us on Patreon so we can
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11:05
Reversibility & Irreversibility: Crash Course Engineering #8
313 views / 0 likes - addedHow do we design the most efficient machines and processes? Today well try to figure that out as we discuss heat & work, reversibility & irreversibility, and how to use efficiency to measure a system. Crash Course Engineering is produced in association wi
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The Congress of Vienna: Crash Course European History #23
465 views / 0 likes - addedThe end of the Napoleonic Wars left the great powers of Europe shaken. Judging from the destruction that had been wrought across the continent, it seemed to the powers that be that the Enlightenment had liberated the people, and led to disaster. So, every
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Why Moving People is Complicated: Crash Course Engineering #41
306 views / 0 likes - addedTransportation is a big part of our world and engineers play a big role in making it happen. Today well explore how transportation systems are designed and some things transportation engineers have to take into consideration, like signaling, user behavior
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The Most Gruesome Parasites – NTDs Explained
795 views / 1 likes - addedThere are a group of parasites extremely disgusting and mean. Humanity declared war on them. Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt?ty=h Kurzgesagt merch here: http://bit.ly/1P1h
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Why It Takes 75 Elements To Make Your Cell Phone
633 views / 1 likes - addedTurns out there are some pretty rare elements in your smartphone. How rare are they and what are they doing in your phone? Why Does Your Phone Battery Suck? - https://youtu.be/TkEMPh0cXUw Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Get
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Changing the Blueprints of Life - Genetic Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #38
338 views / 0 likes - addedCan we change the blueprints of life? This week we are exploring that question with genetic engineering. Well discuss how selective breeding can improve agricultural practices, and the potential DNA-level engineering could have on other fields of engineer
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Modern Life: Crash Course European History #30
352 views / 0 likes - addedSo, "modern" is kind of a loaded term, but today we're going to talk about modern life in Europe, as it looked around the time the 19th century turned into the 20th. We'll look at what life was like in the rapidly growing urban centers of Europe, how deve
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Why It's So Hard To Make Better Batteries: Crash Course Engineering #32
344 views / 0 likes - addedThere are batteries powering so many parts of our everyday lives, so today were going to talk about how they work and how we can make them better. Well explain how they provide power by discharging ions between a cathode and an anode, and how reversing th
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Death From Space — Gamma-Ray Bursts Explained
764 views / 0 likes - addedUse the URL: http://www.squarespace.com/nutshell for 10% with a new website and support this channel. Also make your life easier. Thanks a lot to Squarespace for supporting the show! There are cosmic snipers firing at random into the unvierse. What are th
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Why were there three popes at the same time? - Jolle Rollo-Koster
78 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the history of the Papal Schism, which caused a split in the Catholic Church while 3 popes vied for supremacy. --For almost two millennia, the Pope has been a figure of supreme spiritual authority for Catholics around the world. But in the late 1
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Heat Transfer: Crash Course Engineering #14
378 views / 0 likes - addedToday were talking about heat transfer and the different mechanisms behind it. Well explore conduction, the thermal conductivity of materials, convection, boundary layers, and radiation. Crash Course Engineering is produced in association with PBS Digital
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The Industrial Revolution: Crash Course European History #24
590 views / 0 likes - addedWe've talked about a lot of revolutions in 19th Century Europe, and today we're moving on to a less warlike revolution, the Industrial Revolution. You'll learn about the development of steam power and mechanization, and the labor and social movements that
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Dutch Golden Age: Crash Course European History #15
475 views / 0 likes - addedWhile the English were falling apart a little, with their civil war and their restoration and their succession problems, the Dutch were getting their act together. They were throwing off the yoke of the Spanish Empire, uniting their provinces, and buildin
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Einstein's Biggest Blunder, Explained
371 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to Brilliant for supporting MinutePhysics. Get 20% off a premium subscription at https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics/This video is about how Albert Einstein made a mistake when applying the Field Equations of General Relativity to cosmology (in par
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Building a Desalination Plant from Scratch: Crash Course Engineering #44
321 views / 0 likes - addedAn essential part of engineering is engineering design. Today well see how design synthesis helps you put together the components of a process and decide what techniques are needed to solve your problem. Well explain the need test things on a smaller scal
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11:40
Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
172 views / 0 likes - addedThe remains of medium-sized predatory dinosaurs are pretty rare in places where giant predators like T. rex existed. Which is weird, because thats just not how ecosystems work today.Thanks to Franz Anthony, Jack Mayer Wood, ABelov2014, Fabrizio De Rossi,
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Cheese, Catastrophes, & Process Control: Crash Course Engineering #25
361 views / 0 likes - addedEngineering, like life, could really use a lot more cheese. This week we are looking at a cheese factory in Toronto and what it can teach us about process control systems. Well explore feedforward and feedback systems, and see how integrating them both wi
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How Our Deadliest Parasite Turned To The Dark Side
252 views / 0 likes - addedAround 10,000 years ago, somewhere in Africa, a microscopic parasite made a huge leap. With a little help from a mosquito, it left its animal host - probably a gorilla - and found its way to a new host: us. *****PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like yo
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How to Fix Traffic Forever
475 views / 0 likes - addedThe first 100 people to sign up will get three meals off their Blue Apron order free! Click here: http://cook.ba/2tNrXSI This video is sponsored by Blue Apron. Check out my new podcast with Brian from Real Engineering: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/
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China and India Shock NASA By Turning Earth More Green Than Before
489 views / 0 likes - addedFollow me on Twitter for my science stuff: https://twitter.com/WhatDaMath Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a NASA discovery from a few months back that suggest China and India have replanted a tremendous amount of
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The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations
1,450 views / 5 likes - addedTo support Kurzgesagt and learn more about Brilliant, go to https://www.brilliant.org/nutshell and sign up for free. The first 688 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription. Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQx
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The Chemistry of Skunk Spray
952 views / 3 likes - addedHow do you get rid of skunk odor? Don't use tomato juice... Use chemistry! Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ Recipe for De-Skunking Spray: http://users
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theredntve
103 views / 0 likes - addedThis script was a nightmare to pronounce. Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/662535562508517376/lingthusiasm-episode-60-thats-the-kind-of More Language Files: htt
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Crash Course AI #20
545 views / 0 likes - addedToday, in our final episode of Crash Course AI, we're going to look towards the future. We've spent much of this series explaining how and why we don't have the Artificial General Intelligence (or AGI) that we see in the movies like Bladerunner, Her, or E
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Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?
369 views / 0 likes - addedYou can support this channel on Patreon! Link below ahOOOOOga! All aboard the HONK HONK express! We're gonna learn a few things about horns and then probably there will be bloopers or something.Did you know that there's an assortment of links just below t
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How the Starfish Got Its Arms
216 views / 1 likes - addedThank you to Blinkist for supporting PBS. For more information and trial go to https://www.blinkist.com/pbseonsThe story of how the starfish got its arms reminds us that even animals that might be familiar to us today can have incredibly deep histories -
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How could so many people support Hitler? - Joseph Lacey
54 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, and get to know her strategies to combat the threat of totalitarianism and oppression.--Philosopher Hannah Arendt was a German Jew who dedicated herself to understanding how the Nazi regime came to power, and more
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Focus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5
843 views / 0 likes - addedSign up for your FREE trial of The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/PhPe30egcrb Have you ever noticed how easy it is to get distracted while studying – even when you know you really don’t have time for Facebook, Snapchat, Cookie Clicker, or whatever
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The Fossil Record In Your Mouth
186 views / 0 likes - addedThe hardened residue scraped off your teeth at the dentist is called your dental calculus, and your dental calculus is the only part of your body that actually fossilizes while youre alive! And scientists have figured out how to study & trace the evolutio
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Reform and Revolution 1815-1848: Crash Course European History #25
497 views / 0 likes - addedIn the aftermath of the revolutions and upheaval in 18th and early 19th century Europe, there was a hunger for reform across the continent. Reformers like Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, and Auguste Comte proposed radical new ideas, and at the same time, re
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The Protestant Reformation: Crash Course European History #6
381 views / 0 likes - addedYou may have noticed that the internet is terrible at religious discourse. Well, this is not a new phenomenon. In the early 16th century, the Roman Catholic church dominated Christianity in Europe, and the institution was starting to show some cracks. Ten
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What Is Statistics: Crash Course Statistics #1
566 views / 0 likes - addedWelcome to Crash Course Statistics! In this series we're going to take a look at the important role statistics play in our everyday lives, because statistics are everywhere! Statistics help us better understand the world and make decisions from what you'l
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Social Class & Poverty in the US: Crash Course Sociology #24
602 views / 1 likes - addedToday we’re breaking down the five different social class in the United States: the upper class, the upper middle class, the average middle class, the working class, and the lower class. We’ll also go over what poverty looks like in the United States. Cra
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Rich Landlord Decides To Evict His Poor Tenant, Instantly Regrets It | Dhar Mann
1,918 views / 4 likes - addedTimes are hard for everyone right now. We all need to help each other get through. Hey #DharMannFam, thanks for watching my video! For exclusive giveaways & more inspirational content follow me on Instagram here: http://bit.ly/2Kcbgs2Also, EXCITING NEWS!
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The worlds largest organism - Alex Rosenthal
871 views / 0 likes - addedDiscover the worlds largest organism: Pando, an enormous and ancient quaking aspen, and find out how it became so huge.--The largest animal in the world is the blue whale, which weighs a massive 150 metric tons. Even so, its not remotely close to being th
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Can you solve the giant spider riddle? - Dan Finkel
370 views / 0 likes - addedPractice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd--Once every century, the worlds greatest spiders gather to compete in a series of grueling games. The winner will become the next arachnomonarch, able to command all the worlds spiders to their
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Gratitude: An Antidote to Dissatisfaction
371 views / 1 likes - addedGet your Kurzgesagt Gratitude Journal here: https://shop.kurzgesagt.org/WORLDWIDE SHIPPING IS AVAILABLE!We want to get you the best shipping fees. So If youre located in the EU, please order from our EU-warehouse. If youre located anywhere else in the wor
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The Creature That Stumped Darwin
192 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Mega Wow: https://youtu.be/meU4f31gqYI And go get our pins!! https://store.dftba.com/collections/eonsToxodon was one of the last members of a lineage that vanished 11,000 years ago after thriving in isolation for millions of years. And its fossi
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What is earwax and should you get rid of it? - Henry C. Ou
714 views / 2 likes - addedExplore why earwax forms, its purpose in our health, and whether or not we should be trying to get rid of it.--Grooming paraphernalia has been found in numerous archeological sites, many of which have included earwax removal tools. And earwax evacuation r
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Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change?
521 views / 0 likes - addedBe one of the first 73 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/realengineering/ New vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMet4qY3027v8KjpaDtDx-g Credits: Narrator/Director: Bri
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What Can Intelligent Materials Do? - with Skylar Tibbits
185 views / 0 likes - addedHow can we design simple and elegant intelligent materials, that may one day animate and improve themselves?Buy Skylar's book: https://geni.us/3ORQAAEWatch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/C1liR2zeS4sTodays researchers are designing materials that physically sen
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Why is it so hard to cure the common cold?
761 views / 1 likes - addedDig into the two main ways we fight the viruses that cause the common cold, and find out if its possible to create a cure. --On average, adults catch more than 150 colds throughout their lives. Even with similar symptoms, the cause could be different each
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Watch this if you're scared of snakes - Andrew Whitworth
219 views / 1 likes - addedTravel around the world to visit some of natures most incredible snakes: vipers, and find out which are the most dangerous.--As of 2021, there are 368 species of viper worldwide. The name comes from the term viviparity, which means giving birth to live yo
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Witchcraft: Crash Course European History #10
430 views / 2 likes - addedDuring our last several episodes, Europe and the European-controlled world have been in crisis. Wars, disease, climate changes, and shifts in religious and political power threw the European world into turmoil. People were looking for a scapegoat, and for
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A brief history of dumplings - Miranda Brown
212 views / 0 likes - addedTrace the diverse and delicious history of dumplings, from their first recorded origins to their spread across the Asian continent and beyond.--As archaeologists pored over ancient tombs in western China, they discovered some surprisingly well-preserved a
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A brief history of Spanish - Ilan Stavans
178 views / 0 likes - addedTrace the history and evolution of the Spanish language, from its origins in the 3rd century BCE to modern day. --Beginning in the third century BCE, the Romans conquered the Iberian peninsula. This period gave rise to several regional languages in the ar
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What makes a language... a language? - Martin Hilpert
253 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the distinction between a language and a dialect, and uncover the history of standardized languages.--Outside of China, Mandarin and Cantonese are often referred to as Chinese dialects, despite being even more dissimilar than Spanish and Italian.
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The woman who stared at the sun - Alex Gendler
276 views / 1 likes - addedGet to know the legacy of Hisako Koyama, whose drawings of the suns surface helped scientists reconstruct 400 years of sunspot activity.--In 1944, amateur astronomer Hisako Koyamas latest endeavor was sketching the suns shifting surface. She spent weeks a
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How Not to Set Your Pizza on Fire: Crash Course Engineering #15
315 views / 0 likes - addedToday were going to explain how exchangers...exchange heat. Well look at concentric tubes, finned tubes, plate heat exchangers, and shell-and-tube heat exchangers. And well look at some equations to help us sort through heat transfer and decide what heat
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When Ants Domesticated Fungi
199 views / 0 likes - addedWhile we’ve been farming for around 10,000 to 12,000 years, the ancestors of ants have been doing it for around 60 million years. So when, and how, and why did ants start … farming? Thanks to Franz Anthony (https://franzanth.com) for the exce
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Medieval Europe: Crash Course European History #1
754 views / 1 likes - addedOur European history is going to start around 1500 with the Renaissance, but believe it or not, that is not the actual beginning of history in the continent. So, today, we're going to teach you the broad outlines of the so-called Middle Ages, and look at
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The myth of Zeus' test - Iseult Gillespie
322 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the myth of Baucis and Philemon, a couple who unknowingly showed the gods hospitality after their neighbors refused.--It was dark when two mysterious, shrouded figures appeared in a hillside village. The strangers knocked on every door in town, a
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How to Get Rid of Skunk Smell
635 views / 0 likes - addedSkunks are nocturnal animals that prefer to keep to themselves. However, when they sense danger, this lurking purveyor of biochemical warfare unleashes its primary defense mechanism: a nasty-smelling spray. Similar to tear gas, the scent is so strong it c
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A Brief History Of Everything, Feat. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
747 views / 0 likes - addedThis video brought to you by http://www.audible.com/minutephysics Thanks to Neil deGrasse Tyson for his amazing writing and narration! Music: "The Firebird Suite" by Igor Stravinsky, performed by the USAF Band, licensed from Naxos of America, Inc. for wor
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World War II: Crash Course European History #38
501 views / 2 likes - addedOnly a couple of decades after the end of the First World War--which was supposed to be the War that Ended All Wars--another, bigger, farther-flung, more destructive, and deadlier war began. Today, you'll learn about how the war in Europe progressed, from
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The rise of the Ottoman Empire - Mostafa Minawi
391 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the early days of the Ottoman Empire, as shrewd political rulers grew the principality into an intercontinental empire. --In the late 13th century, Osman I established a small principality sandwiched between a crumbling Byzantine Empire and a weak
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The First Billion Years of the Universe - with Emma Chapman
270 views / 0 likes - addedWhat happened after the Big Bang? When did the very first stars burst into life? Why are those stars were so unusual, and what they can teach us about the Universe today?Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/9zxsC68PJUIEmma's book "First Light" is available now
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Will there be another pandemic in your lifetime?
378 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the probability of a future pandemic and the steps we can take to reduce its destructiveness.--We tend to think of pandemics as unlikely events, but disease outbreaks are surprisingly common. Over the past 400 years, the longest stretch of time wi
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How the worlds tallest skyscraper was built - Alex Gendler
313 views / 1 likes - addedDiscover the engineering innovations that made building Burj Khalifa, the worlds tallest skyscraper, possible.--In 2004, construction began on a new building in Dubai, promising a revolutionary design that would dwarf the rest of the worlds skyscrapers. F
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The life cycle of a pair of jeans - Madhavi Venkatesan
795 views / 3 likes - addedTrace the life cycle of a pair of denim jeans, and discover the labor and environmental costs of this fashion staple.--The first pairs of jeans were designed for durability; denim was constructed as a sturdy weave worn by sailors and miners. But over the
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Why is Marie Antoinette so controversial? - Carolyn Harris
170 views / 0 likes - addedMarie Antoinette became a symbol for the evils of excess but was she a wasteful queen or a convenient scapegoat? You decide.--She was the Queen of France, notorious for living in opulence while peasants starved and became a symbol of everything wrong with
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How To Detect A Secret Nuclear Test
862 views / 1 likes - addedThanks to the CTBTO for helping keep the world safe by detecting secret nuclear tests. http://www.ctbto.org http://www.twitter.com/ctbto_alerts http://www.facebook.com/CTBTO http://www.youtube.com/CTBTO Music by Nathaniel Schroeder http://www.soundcloud.c
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The Hardcore Crickets That Only Live on Bare Lava
482 views / 0 likes - addedBuild your own website today at https://wix.com/go/scishow.Some animals live in pretty extreme places, but the lava cricket might be the most hardcore of them all. These crickets have only been observed right after volcanic eruptions, and scientists have
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Axolotls: The salamanders that snack on each other (but don't die) - Luis Zambrano
503 views / 1 likes - addedDiscover the extraordinary regenerative powers of the axolotl, a salamander native to Mexico and one of sciences most studied animals.--Axolotls are one of sciences most studied animals. Why, you ask? These extraordinary salamanders are masters of regener
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How to Build the Universe with Ben Still
144 views / 0 likes - addedBen Still shows how a handful of different building bricks and a few construction rules cooked up the chemical elements essential to life on Earth. Ben's book: https://geni.us/X7TggmWatch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/5GB6HH0O0XoLearn more on Ben Still's chan
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A day in the rebellion against the Inca Empire - Gabriel Prieto
66 views / 0 likes - addedFollow Maxo, a warrior of the Chimu Empire, as he navigates the Inca-conquered streets of Chan Chan to receive a secret message.--Its daybreak in the city of Chan Chan, and former soldier Maxo has been up all night fretting. Last night, a friend stopped b
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Can you solve the fortress riddle? - Henri Picciotto
280 views / 0 likes - addedPractice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd--Bad news: your worst enemies are at the gate. Your fledgling kingdom guards the worlds only herd of tiny dino creatures. To you, theyre sacred. To everyone else, theyre food. The three closest
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How do personality tests work? - Merve Emre
1,209 views / 1 likes - addedExamine how popular personality tests, like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Enneagram, are designed and their inconsistencies. --In 1942, a mother-daughter duo named Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed a questionnaire that clas
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Ethical dilemma: Should we get rid of mosquitoes? - Talya Hackett
140 views / 0 likes - addedExplore how the technology of gene drives could lead to the eradication of mosquitoes and what that could mean for our ecosystems.--Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths every year than any other animal, but very few of the 3,500 mosquito speci
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Venus May Have Life!
255 views / 0 likes - addedCheck Out Overview of PBS Terra: https://bit.ly/33otrUnIf you rank the most habitable places in our solar system Venus lands pretty low, with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and sulphuric acid rain. And yet it may have just jumped to the fron
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The myth of the original star-crossed lovers - Shannon Zhao
215 views / 0 likes - addedGet to know the myth of the weaver and the cowherd, a pair of star-crossed lovers banished to opposite sides of the Milky Way.--In the court of the Jade Emperor, a young princess had a special skill: she could pluck clouds from the sky and spin them into
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The 10 Equations that Rule the World - with David Sumpter
274 views / 0 likes - addedIs there a secret formula for getting rich? For making something a viral hit? For deciding how long to stick with your current Netflix series, job, or even relationship? David Sumpter has the answers.David's book "The Ten Equations: And How You Can Use Th
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How one design flaw almost toppled a skyscraper - Alex Gendler
272 views / 1 likes - addedDig into the unique engineering of New York Citys Citicorp Center tower, and the design flaw that threatened to topple it.--In 1978, Diane Hartley was writing her undergraduate architecture thesis when she made a shocking discovery. After weeks of poring
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Car Mechanic Tries To SCAM A WOMAN, Instantly Regrets It | Dhar Mann
1,654 views / 9 likes - addedYou should never judge a book by its cover. Hi #DharMannFam, thanks for watching my video! For exclusive giveaways & more inspirational content follow me on Instagram here: http://bit.ly/2Kcbgs2Also, did you know you can text me at 213-212-4550 or click t
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Accidental Discoveries That Go Boom
685 views / 1 likes - addedSubscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions Chemistry usually involves precise measurements and careful testing in order to get significant results. But a bunch of notable discoveries happened by accident. In the second edition of our accidental discoveries ser
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The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii - Sydney Iaukea
334 views / 0 likes - addedGet to know the story of Queen Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii, and how she fought the US annexation of the islands. --On January 16th, 1895, two men arrived at Liliuokalanis door, arrested her, and imprisoned her. The Missionary Party had recently
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Metals & Ceramics: Crash Course Engineering #19
1,156 views / 0 likes - addedToday well explore more about two of the three main types of materials that we use as engineers: metals and ceramics. Well discuss properties of metals, alloys, ceramics, clay, cement, and glass-ceramic materials. Well also look at the applications of our
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One of the worlds oldest condiments - Dan Kwartler
748 views / 1 likes - addedTrace the history of ketchup, from the condiments origins in 3rd century China to becoming a staple of American cuisine.--In the mid-18th century, England was crazy for ketchup. The sauce was a staple, but this ketchup wasnt the ubiquitous red goop youre
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Which animal has the best eyesight? - Thomas W. Cronin
139 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the incredible diversity of eyes and vision in the animal kingdom, and find out which creature has the best eyesight.--The animal kingdom boasts an incredible diversity of eyes. Some rotate independently while others have squiggly-shaped pupils. S
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A Series of Fortunate Events with Sean B. Carroll
281 views / 0 likes - addedIs simple chance the source of all the beauty and diversity we see in the world? Sean B. Carroll tells the story of the awesome power of chance.Sean's book "A Series of Fortunate Events" is available now: https://geni.us/mPPrdQHWatch the Q&A: https://yout
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Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak? - Lorenzo Garca-Amaya
346 views / 1 likes - addedWhy do we fill pauses in speech with words like um, uh, and like? Dig into the hesitation phenomenon to find out their linguistic significance.--For as long as weve had language, some people have tried to control it. And some of the most frequent targets
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The diseases that changed humanity forever - Dan Kwartler
101 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the history of humanitys deadliest diseases, and find out how our progress and innovation exposed us to new pathogens.--Since humanitys earliest days, weve been plagued by countless disease-causing pathogens. Invisible and persistent, these microo
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Eastern Europe Consolidates: Crash Course European History #16
420 views / 0 likes - addedWhile the focus has been on Western Europe so far, there has also been a lot going on in Eastern Europe, which we'll be looking at today. The Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, The Ottoman Empire, and Russia were all competing at the eastern end of the con
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How to Hide Your Secrets! (DIY Secret Book Storage) | D.I.SPY
795 views / 1 likes - addedToday's assignment from Head Quarters: spies-in-training Izzy and Kaiden must disguise a USB drive with top secret files. Watch to learn how to hide a USB drive in a glue stick and how to hollow out a book for even more secret storage! → Credits ← Executi
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The worlds most dangerous fart - Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti
353 views / 1 likes - addedDive into the bowels of the animal kingdom to explore why animals fart, and find out which creature has the foulest flatulence. --For most humans, farts are a welcome relief, an embarrassing incident, or an opportunity for a gas-based gag. But for many ot
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The myth of Pegasus and the chimera - Iseult Gillespie
265 views / 0 likes - addedDiscover the myth of Bellerophon, the hero who battled and killed the Chimera monster atop the winged horse Pegasus.--Shielded from the gorgons stone gaze, Perseus crept through Medusas cave. When he reached her, he drew his sickle and brought it down on
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World War II Civilians and Soldiers: Crash Course European History #39
427 views / 0 likes - addedOur look at World War II continues with a closer examination of just how the war impacted soldiers in the field, and the people at home. For many of the combatants, the homefront and the warfront were one and the same. The war disrupted life for millions
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Why a sausage can do what your gloves cannot - Charles Wallace and Sajan Saini
155 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the science of touchscreens, and find out the difference between the two most common types: capacitive and resistive.--In 2010, South Korea experienced a particularly cold winter. People couldnt activate their smartphones while wearing gloves, so
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The 17th Century Crisis: Crash Course European History #11
401 views / 0 likes - addedThe 17th Century in Europe was pretty rough in a lot of ways. The Thirty Years War involved a lot of countries, and a lot of battles, and it was terrible for everyone involved, as wars have aa historical tendency to be. At the same time, disease and hunge
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Why Do Clouds Stay Up?
981 views / 2 likes - addedThere’s nothing wrong with having your head in the clouds. Subscribe to It’s Okay To Be Smart: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jtotheizzoe Follow on Tumblr: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com Foll
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The Chemistry of Redheads
604 views / 1 likes - addedSubscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions St. Paddy's Day is just around the corner, and so instead of celebrating with a glass of green beer, these year we decided to take a closer, chemical look into what makes redheads stand out from the crowd. It might su
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A 5,300-year-old murder mystery - Albert Zink
141 views / 0 likes - addedGet to know the story of tzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old glacier mummy who researchers discovered had been murdered.--In September 1991, two hikers discovered a corpse emerging from the ice. Researchers soon realized they were looking at the mummified bo
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The Counterintuitive Physics Of Turning A Bike
1,025 views / 2 likes - addedThanks to http://www.harrys.com for sponsoring this video – use offer code MinutePhysics for $5 off your first purchase A HUGE thanks to Michael Aranda for aerial and slow motion photography and Wren Weichman (@wrenthereaper) for helping with the 3D bike
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What Happens If We Throw an Elephant From a Skyscraper? Life & Size 1
689 views / 1 likes - addedSize is the most under appreciated regulators of living things. Let us demonstrate that by throwing animals from buildings. Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool stuff in return): ht
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The warrior who defeated the mighty Mughals - Stephanie Honchell Smith
47 views / 0 likes - addedTrace Malik Ambars historic rise from enslaved youth to brilliant military tactician and kingmaker in the Indian sultanate.--In 1624, Mughal Emperor Jahangir received word of yet another defeat at the hands of his greatest enemy: Malik Ambar. Jahangir was
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Can you solve the cursed dice riddle? - Dan Finkel
126 views / 0 likes - addedPractice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd--Ah, spring. As Demeter, Goddess of the Harvest, its your favorite season. Humans and animals look to you to balance the bounty of the natural world which, like any self-respecting Goddess, you
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How to manage your emotions
178 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the framework known as the Process Model, a psychological tool to help you identify, understand, and regulate your emotions.--After a week of studying, you feel confident that you'll ace your exam. But when you get your grade back, it's much lower
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What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?
585 views / 0 likes - addedSources: https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesallthebombs/ What happens if make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile? Support us on Patreon so we can make more videos (and get cool
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The Million Dollar Equations - with Tom Crawford
864 views / 0 likes - addedIn the year 2000 it was announced that seven of the biggest unsolved problems in mathematics would each be given a $1million prize. Only one has been solved.Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/AFc7kGfLSIcSubscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiS
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World War I Battlefields: Crash Course European History #33
531 views / 0 likes - addedEurope's system of alliances and centuries-old tensions erupted into war in August of 1914. This week on Crash Course Euro, we're talking about the military history of World War I, and taking a look at the broad strokes of how the war unfolded. We'll take
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How pigeons took over the world - Elizabeth Carlen and Joanna Moles
160 views / 0 likes - addedTrace the ancient history of the pigeon, and discover how these birds became one of the most abundant species on the planet.--Seeing their meat as a protein source and their poop as the perfect fertilizer, humans brought pigeons into captivity as far back
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Test yourself: Can you tell the difference between music and noise? - Hanako Sawada
130 views / 0 likes - addedGet to know avant-garde music composer John Cage, whose work challenged the boundaries between music and noise.--In 1960, composer John Cage went on television to share his latest work. But rather than using traditional instruments, Cage appeared surround
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Does math have a major flaw? - Jacqueline Doan and Alex Kazachek
19 views / 0 likes - addedPractice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/teded--A mathematician with a knife and ball begins slicing and distributing the ball into an infinite number of boxes. She then recombines the parts into five precise sections. Moving and rotating th
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