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Carnyx War Sound
1,181 views / 1 likes - addedJohn Kenny playing the Carnyx . This is a very old wind instrument (200 BC) that was often used during war battles to scare opponents.
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Where Do Mountains Come From?
1,158 views / 2 likes - addedDo you like to go hiking like Jessi and Squeaks do? Have you ever wondered how those mountains you’re hiking on got there? Check out this episode to learn how mountains form, and how mountains can keep growing! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help suppor
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Make Your Own Mountains! - #sciencegoals
979 views / 3 likes - addedMountains are some of the biggest things in the world, but today, we're going to teach you how to make some of your own, right on your kitchen table! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your to
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What Makes Tattoos Permanent? - Claudia Aguirre
962 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-makes-tattoos-permanent-claudia-aguirre The earliest recorded tattoo was found on a Peruvian mummy in 6,000 BC. That's some old ink! And considering humans lose roughly 40,000 skin cells per hour, how do th
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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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The Himalayan Mountains: How They Formed
814 views / 1 likes - addedThis is the story of how India broke free from Africa to form the tallest mountains in the world. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ScopeofScience Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scopeofscience/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kurtisbaute Blog: http://www.
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Upside Down Mountains In Real Life
809 views / 1 likes - addedResearch on global mountain surface areas: http://bit.ly/1eJyqCM This video is supported by http://www.lynda.com/minutephysics Thanks to the following Subbable subscribers for making MinutePhysics possible: Marc Vigod @WeAretheProduct Knowledge Videos: ht
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Atoms As Big As Mountains — Neutron Stars Explained
804 views / 0 likes - addedNeutron Stars are some of the strangest things in the Universe. Not quite massive enough to become black holes they are basically atoms as big as mountains with properties so extreme it's mind-blowing. And if you get too close to a neutron star you are in
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Sound of Ancient Languages
792 views / 3 likes - addedAncient Languages: Ancient Egypt / 3100 BC - 332 BC Achaemenids / 550 BC–330 BC Ancient Greece / c. 800 BC - c. 600 AD Ancient Rome / 753 BC–476 AD Assyria / 1813 BC–612 BC Göktürks / 552 AD-744 AD Hittites / c. 1600 BC–c
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Mountains On Pluto
773 views / 1 likes - addedScientists expected Pluto’s surface to look like other icy planets, a surface of ice with a few craters here and there. Instead, they found ginormous mountains as tall as the Rockies. NASA'S UNEXPLAINED FILES Tuesdays 10/9c on Science http://www.science
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Carl Sagan- In 200 bc they proved the earth was round and the size
758 views / 0 likes - addedA most simple deduction made around 200 bc by the Astronomer Eratosthenes. A Globular spheroid is our home ^^ Using the simple concept that shadows must be the same length on a flat surface, but different when on a curved surface, Eratosthenes was able to
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Ant On A Rubber Rope Paradox
701 views / 0 likes - addedWatch my newest video, "The Game You Win By Losing (Parrondo's Paradox)": https://youtu.be/PpvboBJEozMPLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY PODCAST: https://bit.ly/2BCLhoKCuriosity Box: https://www.curiositybox.com/*********** LINKS *************The Create Unknown Podca
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Mountains (Full Episode) | Hostile Planet
690 views / 0 likes - addedThe highest mountains on Earth are home to snow leopards, golden eagles, mountain goats, barnacle goslings and gelada monkeys. But only the toughest can endure the extreme weather, scarce food and limited oxygen on these peaks. Using new technology to sho
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Great Pyramid of Giza
673 views / 0 likes - addedGreat Pyramid of Giza Ancient Egypt, 2580–2560 BC (4th dynasty) Beginning construction on 2580 BC, the great Pyramid was built for Pharaoh Khufu, son of Snefru and second ruler of the 4th dynasty as a tomb. Support the cartoons on patreon: https://www.pat
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We Should Let Some Wildfires Burn
667 views / 1 likes - addedIn the last few years, wildfires have been getting worse - and, oddly, it's because humans have been preventing them. From a helicopter above the forests of British Columbia, and from the Tree Ring Lab at UBC, let's talk about how we should just let some
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Is The Great Barrier Reef Actually Dead?
656 views / 2 likes - addedThere’s been a lot of back and forth on the health of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. So what’s the status of its coral? Is Breakfast Really the Most Important Meal of the Day? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGbfH_96ToM&t=109s Diving Into the ‘Twilight Z
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Understanding Calendar Notation
641 views / 0 likes - addedDifference between BC, BCE, AD and CE. A little bit about the birth of Jesus as well. More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=EKKe7DBZVhI
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How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
631 views / 0 likes - addedAdam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative methods anyone could have followed -- Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth's circumference around 200 BC and Hippolyte Fizeau's measure
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Photographing Liquid Mountains | That's Amazing
592 views / 0 likes - addedWhen you think of the Great Lakes, you may not picture towering 30-foot waves. But Dave Sandford knows better. The professional photographer from Ontario, Canada, braves the icy cold water and fierce winds of Lake Erie to make his masterpieces. And they w
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Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains (live cover) feat. The Other Favorites!
591 views / 0 likes - addedSierra and I joined Josh and Carson for their concert in Ohio this past Saturday and opened the show! We shot this little ditty in their hotel room an hour before load-in, I thought they had the perfect vocals for this song! Enjoy and please follow these
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Summiting Mountains Without Sight
545 views / 1 likes - addedScaling the world’s tallest mountains is a feat in and of its own—doing it while blind is extraordinary. Erik Weihenmayer is the first blind rock climber to summit the tallest peak in every continent, Mount Everest included. At a young age, Weihenmayer wa
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Calculating the circumference of the Earth in 200 BC
533 views / 0 likes - addedIn one of the dopest displays of critical thinking in history, Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth. All he had was a pole, the sun, knowledge of a famous well in Egypt, and potentially money to pay someone to walk the distance between tw
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This Rare, Golden Cheese Is Only Made in the Polish Mountains
491 views / 0 likes - addedTucked away in Poland’s beautiful Tatra Mountains lives a 15th-century cheese making tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation. Known as oscypek, the milky, smoky cheese is made entirely by hand by masters called “bacas.” Tradition
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A Visual History of Sports
473 views / 0 likes - addedThe first recorded sport in history was spear throwing, which arose in 70,000 BC out of a need for ancient hunters to practice their skills. Bowling was the first known ball game, appearing in Egypt in 3,200 BC; later, there was Pitz, played by the ancien
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Inside Italy's $1 Billion Marble Mountains
468 views / 0 likes - addedA slab of Carrara marble can cost up to $400 per square meter. The luxury stone comes the Apuan Alps, a mountain range in northern Tuscany that stretches for 58 km and reaches 2,000 meters high. The Carrara quarries have produced more marble than any othe
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A Visual History of Ancient Hairdos (and Don'ts)
463 views / 0 likes - addedThe documented history of hairstyles begins prior to 3200 BC, when braided wigs were in vogue. In this short animation, we've condensed hairstyles from over 50 centuries into a single video. From the chignon of 9th century BC, to horned buns that peaked i
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Kids Try 10,000 Years of Bread | Epicurious
455 views / 0 likes - addedWatch as a bunch of kids try 10,000 years of one of the oldest cooked foods known to man: bread. Whether it's unleavened flatbread from around 8000 BC, sourdough bread from 2500 BC or scones from 1500 AD, these kids try them all. Still havent subscribed t
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Finding Tranquility in Chinas Extraordinary Wuling Mountains
449 views / 0 likes - addedThe Red Clouds Golden Summit is the pinnacle of tranquility. A spire of rock rising upward from Chinas Mount Fanjingshan in the Wuling Mountains, it soars above the clouds. Two temples sit atop this isolated natural wonderthe Temple of the Buddha and the
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There's a growing threat in the mountains thanks to climate change: glacial lake outburst floods
415 views / 1 likes - addedAs the climate changes and glaciers melt, a lesser-known threat lurks in alpine areas: glacial lake outburst floods. These events happen rapidly, releasing huge amounts of water with little or no warning. Unsuspecting communities lying in the flood path c
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Fool Your Senses Using Only Hot, Cold and Warm Water.
405 views / 1 likes - addedJoin Cindy as she uses three bowls of water - one hot, one cold, and one at room temperature - to talk about perception. Our dome is closed, eliminating our main revenue source. As a non-profit, your donation supports our transition online so we can conti
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Why are these mountains BLUE? | 4K Drone Footage
323 views / 1 likes - addedSubscribe to the Terra Channel for more science and nature shows like Overview!https://bit.ly/3mOfd77This is our premiere episode of Overview, a show that will be publishing every three weeks on Terra. There are a LOT of trees in the Blue Ridge Mountains,
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The Sound Show
304 views / 0 likes - addedCitizens of Earth! Scientists of all ages! Please join us for a livestream of our Centre Stage show, SOUND! Our dome is closed, eliminating our main revenue source. As a non-profit, your donation supports our transition online so we can continue deliverin
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How to Make an Origami Frog
285 views / 0 likes - addedThe dome is closed, but Science World is still at work. During Science Worlds COVID-19 closure, we are fielding science questions from the public, directing families to our BC-curriculum-linked online resources, and preparing video content for the entire
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How Horseshoe Crabs Make Covid-19 Vaccines Safer!
281 views / 0 likes - addedEver wonder how vaccines are tested to ensure they are safe? In this video, we look at how horseshoe crab blood plays a key role in making vaccines safe! Media Credits: Music: Ancient Winds Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons:
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The Air Show
277 views / 0 likes - addedCitizens of Earth! Scientists of all ages! Please join us for a livestream of our Centre Stage show, Air! Our dome is closed, eliminating our main revenue source. As a non-profit, your donation supports our transition online so we can continue delivering
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The Electricity Show!
274 views / 0 likes - addedCitizens of Earth! Scientists of all ages! Please join us for a livestream of our Centre Stage show, Electricity, with presenting partner, BC Hydro! To learn more about energy, visit http://www.schools.bchydro.com Our dome is closed, eliminating our main
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The Fire & Ice Show
233 views / 0 likes - addedCitizens of Earth! Scientists of all ages! Please join us for a livestream of our Centre Stage show, Fire & Ice! Our dome is closed, eliminating our main revenue source. As a non-profit, your donation supports our transition online so we can continue deli
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The Balloon Show!
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Mountains of the Future: applying experimental plate tectonics to understand our geological past
175 views / 0 likes - addedYou could call it experimental plate tectonics. Predicting the Mountains of the Future requires developing ‘rules’ and ‘recipes’ of geological behaviour. Geologists at Utrecht University's Faculty of Geosciences drew up a series of
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Irrigate like its 2000 BC with these easy DIY terracotta watering pots called ollas
173 views / 0 likes - addedMake an Olla (pronounced oi-ya)Ollas have been used for thousands of years in agriculture and gardening practices and are traditionally unglazed terracotta jugs filled with water and buried into the soil, with their necks protruding slightly. Once the por
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Sir David Attenborough Gives a Lesson on Seeds | The Green Planet | BC Earth
145 views / 0 likes - addedGiant seeds, tiny seeds, floaty seeds and flying seeds. Sir David Attenborough gives us a quick biology lesson in all of them. #GreenPlanet will open your eyes to an undiscovered kingdom this is life from the perspective of plants. Discover more https://w
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