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The Problem With Life Expectancy

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Go to https://bit.ly/noom_minuteearth and take your free 30-second quiz! Thank you #noom for sponsoring todays video!In order to truly understand differences among animal lifespans, we need to stop thinking about a specific number and start thinking about
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Why "Nothing" Matters in Science

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Watch the music video for "The Idea" off the album Music For Scientists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUyT94aGmbcNull results often get a bad rap, sometimes characterized as a study "finding nothing," but there's a lot we can learn from studies whose r
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Born Pregnant: Aphids Invade with an Onslaught of Clones | Deep Look

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Female aphids are the matriarchs of a successful family operation taking over your garden. But dont lose hope; these pests have some serious predators and creepy parasites looking to take them down. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtPlease join
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These Silk-Swinging Caterpillars Will Ruin Your Picnic | Deep Look

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California oak moth caterpillars eat all the leaves on an oak, leaving a brown skeleton. Then they rappel down on a strand of silk, twirling and swinging. If you were enjoying the shade, good luck getting out of their way. For the oak, the caterpillars ar
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When Did Sign Language Start? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS

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Have you ever stopped and wondered who first invented sign language? How far back does it go??Images used under license from Shutterstock.comWelcome to Colossal Questions, the show that answers all of life's most pressing questions!Narrated by: Matt Schne
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How does artificial intelligence learn? - Briana Brownell

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Explore the three major methods of machine learning, which allows computers to write their own rules to problem solve and process data.--Today, artificial intelligence helps doctors diagnose patients, pilots fly commercial aircraft, and city planners pred
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How would you finish the sentence, Imagine if? - Sir Ken Robinson

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Share how you would reimagine the world by finishing the sentence Imagine if Visit http://bit.ly/TEDEdImagineIf for inspiration and to learn more.--Sir Ken Robinson believed that humans have an inexhaustible power: our imaginations. We don't just live in
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Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered? - Lisa Krause

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Get to know the story of the Mirabal sisters, who led a revolution against Rafael Trujillos dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. --For over 30 years, thousands of people were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered under Rafael Trujillos dictatorship in the
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How much electricity does it take to power the world?

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Discover how much electricity humanity uses, and how clean energy sources could help revolutionize our energy supply in the future. --All around the world, millions of people are flipping a switch, plugging in, and pressing an on button every second. So h
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What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse

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The Map of Evolution and other sciency posters, researched and designed with love, are now available on the kurzgesagt shop. Your purchase will support us directly and keep our videos free for everyone. https://shop.kurzgesagt.org(Worldwide Shipping Avail
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The 10 Equations that Rule the World - with David Sumpter

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Is 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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A Series of Fortunate Events with Sean B. Carroll

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Is 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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The First Billion Years of the Universe - with Emma Chapman

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What 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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Why didn't this 2,000 year old body decompose? - Carolyn Marshall

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Discover the surprising biodiversity of soil, and how its microbes help support all life on Earth.--It may not appear very lively six feet underground, but a single teaspoon of soil contains more organisms than there are human beings on the planet. From b
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The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine - Melanie E. Peffer

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Explore how a scientist and artist discovered how our brains transmit signals throughout the body, and laid the foundation for modern neuroscience.--In the 1860s, scientists believed they were on the verge of uncovering the brains biggest secret: how the
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Why do we, like, hesitate when we, um, speak? - Lorenzo Garca-Amaya

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Why 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 Forgotten Number System - Numberphile

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Featuring author Alex Bellos - check his books (including the Language Lover's Puzzle Book) on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3oU0wjTMore links & stuff in full description below More Alex on Numberphile: http://bit.ly/Bellos_PlaylistAlex's own website with links
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The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang

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“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry is part of our “Poetry Films” series, which features animated interpretations of beloved poems from our archive. Check out the full series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj
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Why Robots That Bend Are Better

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Robots of the future may be softer, squishier and bendier than robots today. This could make them ideal for space exploration. Check out http://kiwico.com/Veritasium50 for 50% off your first month of any subscription!On Thursday February 18th, 2021 the NA
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What is a Force?

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Force is a central concept in physics. By analysing the forces on an object, its resulting motion can be determined. But what exactly is a force? The word force is used in everyday language in a variety of contexts, only some of which reflect the scientif
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What Can Frogs See That We Can't?

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Check out the original double slit experiment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuv6hY6zsd0 - oh, and for the sun to be seen as single photons, you would have to be ~1000 light years away, so well past Pluto. For clarification on this video, please see: htt
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When the Rainforests Collapsed

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Check out Animal Wonders! https://youtu.be/tyK21xUnGrkThe Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life. If it werent for that time when the rainforests colla
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When a Billion Years Disappeared

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In some places, the rocks below the Great Unconformity are about 1.2 billion years older than those above it. This missing chapter in Earths history might be linked to a fracturing supercontinent, out-of-control glaciers, and maybe the diversification of
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The Two Viruses That Weve Had For Millions of Years

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Theres one kind of herpesvirus thats specific to one species of primate, and each virus split off from the herpesvirus family tree when the primate split off from its own tree. But of course, humans are a special kind of primate.Here are the two studies w
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How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna

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Check out Self-Evident on PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/B6QeZ07FaggBeneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had ex
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Brain Surgeon - That Mitchell & Webb Look , Series 3 - BBC Two

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Subscribe and to OFFICIAL BBC YouTube https://bit.ly/2IXqEIn Stream original BBC programmes FIRST on BBC iPlayer https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. #bbc All our TV channels and S4
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Visualizing Herd Immunity (with 500 Mousetraps!) (feat. @The Slow Mo Guys)

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More vaccine info here: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/default.htm Special thanks to @The Slow Mo Guys ! https://www.youtube.com/user/theslowmoguys More info and sources below Thanks to Gates Notes for Supporting PBS.Since the start of the coronavir
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The Smallest Parrot you have ever seen - Tiny egg rescue

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I found a tiny budgie egg at a pet shop. If I could incubate it, would I be able to raise it? With these big human hands? It's mother had just been sold. This meant the egg would have no chance without me giving it a try. Last saturday we had some music t
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Why bats don't get sick - Arinjay Banerjee

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Explore the relationship between viruses and their hosts, and find out how the evolutionary adaptations of bats keep them safe from viruses. --Consider a bat that is infected with several deadly viruses, including ones that cause rabies, SARS, and Ebola.
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The Reign of the Hell Ants

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This ancient species had the same six legs and segmented body that wed recognize from an ant today. But it also had a huge, scythe-like jaw and a horn coming out of its head. This bizarre predator belonged to a group known as hell ants. But theyre gone no
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Trying To Create an AI Tom Scott (on a $100 budget)

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Check out Jordan's channel! https://youtube.com/jordanharrod - or start with her video on AI diagnosis of coughing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqXcLF8vVH4 or how deepfakes have fingerprints: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lnEst2nojA And, please don
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Godzilla vs. Kong Official Trailer

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In theaters and streaming exclusively on @HBOMax* March 26. *Available on @HBOMax in the US only, for 31 days, at no extra cost to subscribers. https://www.godzillavskong.com/ https://www.facebook.com/GodzillaVsKong https://www.instagram.com/godzillavsko
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One Day More! - Les Misrables - 10th Anniversary Concert

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"One Day More" performed by Colm Wilkinson, Michael Ball, Judy Kuhn, Lea Salonga, Michael Maguire, Philip Quast, Jenny Galloway, Alun Armstrong, Adam Searles, full company and choir with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Charles Abell fo
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A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul - Soraya Field Fiorio

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Follow Beltani, a Babylonian priestess and businesswoman, as she investigates who is undermining her barley fields and tavern.--Its 1762 BCE. As dawn breaks in the Babylonian city of Sippar, Beltani a priestess and businesswoman receives an urgent visit f
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Illusions of Time

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Use code BRAINS to get free shipping within the US or $8 off international shipping on your first Curiosity Box! https://www.curiositybox.com https://twitter.com/tweetsauce https://www.instagram.com/electricpants SOURCES: 1896 snowball fight: https://twit
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Why should you read Toni Morrisons Beloved? - Yen Pham

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Dig into Toni Morrisons novel, "Beloved," which tells the story of a family of former slaves whose home is haunted by an abusive spirit.--Two tiny handprints stamped into a cake. A mirror that shatters without warning. A trail of cracker crumbs strewn alo
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John Tyndall: The Physicist Who Proved the Greenhouse Effect - with Paul Hurley

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John Tyndall worked on diamagnetism, explained why the sky is blue and discovered the mechanism for the greenhouse effect. He also gave hundreds of public lectures at the Ri, and was an avid mountaineer and poet. And all this before his beloved wife accid
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What Did John Snow Know About Cholera? - with James Grime

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Physician 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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Darth Vaders Voice Before Voice Over - Star Wars

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The original track of Darth Vader's voice as performed by the man who acted him, David Prowse. Imagine what a different movie Star Wars would have been if they had left it like this. From the Documentary "Empire of Dreams"The final voice used in the film
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What exactly is the goop inside a lava lamp?

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Yep! Gonna get questionably gloopy! Seriously, Don't try this at home. Only use chemicals in ways they're meant to be used. Be good :)Strings of text which take you places!Technology Connextras (the second channel that stuff goes on sometimes):https://www
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How Many Languages Are There?

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The answer is, of course, a bit more complicated than you might think. Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/154520059101/lingthusiasm-episode-1-speaking-a-single-la
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David Holt: How to Play the Spoons

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David Holt is a Grammy award-winning multi-instrumentalist, historian, television host, teacher and entertainer. As a child his father taught him how to play bones and spoons, a skill that had been passed down in his Texas family for five generations. Fre
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What if We Nuke the Moon?

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Get your Moon Poster and Baby Duck Plushie here:https://shop.kurzgesagt.org/Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-nukethemoon/What would happen if we were to detonate a very very powerful nuclear weapon on the moon? Would the exp
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This Tea Changes Colors. Why?

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This beautiful, color-changing tea is all over TikTok and Instagram. This week Sam and George add different things (some not drinkable!) to the tea to play with its spectacular colors. #butterflytea #blueflowertea #blueteaImportant note: One way to figure
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See Sea Slugs Scour Seagrass by the Seashore | Deep Look

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Eelgrass sea hares may look like lazy, zebra-striped spoonfuls of jello, but these sea slugs are actually environmental heroes. Their voracious appetite for algae helps keep underwater meadow ecosystems in balancewhich is great news for sea otters. Deep L
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Here's How That Annoying Fly Dodges Your Swatter | Deep Look

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A fly has a pair of tiny, dumbbell-shaped limbs called halteres that were once a second pair of wings. They wield them to make razor-sharp turns and land out of reach on your ceiling. But don't despair there *is* a trick to smacking these infuriating inse
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7 MAGIC TRICKS for WINTER (REVEALED)

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Winter is coming! Warm up your magic wands for this wintertime special of How To Magic! Learn how to do magic tricks with snow, ice and more holiday-season inspired illusions in this extra amazing (and cold) episode with Evan Era! Create a snowstorm indoo
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A quantum thought experiment - Matteo Fadel

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Can you win a game of quantum foosball using a giant electron instead of a ball? Explore how to use quantum mechanics to your advantage. --After a long day working on the particle accelerator, you and your friends head to the arcade to unwind. The lights
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Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? feat. Cyberpunk 2077

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Get your copy of Cyberpunk 2077 here: http://cyberpunk.net/buySources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-mindupload The desire to be free from the limits of the human experience is as old as our first stories. We exist in an endl
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How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas

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Check out Bizarre Beasts! https://youtu.be/DtufV5JZLW4At more than 2 meters long, Aegirocassis was not only the biggest radiodont ever, but it also may have been the biggest animal in the Early Ordovician. This bizarre marine giant may have only been poss
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The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth

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It arose from rhino ancestors that were a lot smaller, but Paraceratherium would take a different evolutionary path. Believe it or not, it actually became so big that it probably got close to what scientists think might be the actual upper limit for a lan
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Centripetal Force Penny - Sick Science! #157

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Find out how this works at: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/centripetal-force-pennyAs a penny balances precariously on the hook of a wire hanger, you might think any sort of movement would send the penny flying. With a bit of physics k
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Echolocation: The Evolution of a Superpower

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We have brand new watches! Enter the contest to be the first person to get one of these awesome watches. Click here to enter: https://www.undone.com/en/giveaway-animalogicBats, dolphins, oilbirds and shrews all speak the same language. We just cant hear i
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Powering a Lightbulb With Your Hand

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In today's video, we are experimenting with plasma balls by putting one in a vacuum and surrounding one with argon and helium gas. Can we light a lightbulb by touching a plasma ball?Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsSend Us Some M
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Signs of Life Found on Venus I NOVA I PBS

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The gas phosphine, made on Earth by microbial life forms, was found in Venus' atmosphere. Could this mean there's life in our planetary neighbor's clouds?Get the inside story from scientists Sara Seager and Clara Sousa-Silva on how the discovery was made,
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Why is pneumonia so dangerous? - Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz

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Explore how pneumonia attacks the tiny air sacs in your lungs and how your immune system works to fight off the infection.--Every time you breathe, air travels down the trachea, through a series of channels, and then reaches little clusters of air sacs in
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What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know

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How did Egyptians pronounce the language behind the hieroglyphs? Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Become my patron: https://www.patreon.com/NativLang ~ Briefly ~ From Hatshepsut to Nefertiti to a Coptic Ab
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How Antarcticas Cutest Baby Seals Grow Up I Antarctic Extremes

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Penguin lovers, take note: Baby Weddell seals might actually be cutest animals in all of Antarctica (and were talking a continent the size of the United States and Mexico combined). Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?sub_confirmation=1 And for m
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Exploring Antarcticas Glaciers (with a PlayStation Controller) | Antarctic Extremes

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Beneath Antarcticas glaciers, a 12-foot-long robot named Icefin explores places neither boats nor divers can reach. Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?su...Icefin is testing technologies designed for exploring Jupiters icy moon Europa. But befo
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Nanotechnology Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED

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Nanotechnology researcher Dr. George S. Tulevski is asked to explain the concept of nanotechnology to 5 different people; a child, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert. Nanotechnology is the study of objects at the nanoscale (between 1
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Why do you get a fever when you're sick? - Christian Moro

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Discover what happens in your body when you have a fever and why its role in our immune response remains a mystery to scientists. --There are many mysteries around fever, but we do know that all mammals, some birds and even a few invertebrate and plant sp
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Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt? - Elizabeth Cox

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Dig 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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Playing 10000 Marbles - Marble Machine X #146

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Trying to play 10000 Marbles without fail! Will the Marble Machine X be able to do it? Video edited by Hannes Knutsson & Martin https://instagram.com/hannesknutsson Support the Marble Machine X Project: http://www.patreon.com/wintergatan https://teesp
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Dissolving Coins in Nitric Acid - Periodic Table of Videos

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We put Nitric Acid through its paces, including dissolving coins. More links and info in full description Featuring Sir Martyn Poliakoff and Neil Barnes.See some previous acid videos: https://bit.ly/AcidVideosVideos on all 118 elements: http://bit.ly/118e
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What if there were 1 trillion more trees? - Jean-Franois Bastin

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How can trees help in the fight against climate change? Dig into the efforts to rebuild damaged ecosystems and reduce carbon emissions.--Today humanity produces more than 1,400 tons of carbon every minute. To combat climate change, we need to reduce fossi
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Do larger animals take longer to pee? - David L. Hu

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Dive into the physics of the Other Golden Rule and explore the systems and methods animals use to excrete waste. --A cats bladder can only store a golf balls worth of urine. For humans, its a coffee mug and for elephants, a kitchen trash can. An elephants
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Elon Musks Neuralink Puts An AI Into Your Brain!

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Check out Weights & Biases and sign up for a free demo here: https://www.wandb.com/papers Their mentioned post is available here: https://app.wandb.ai/jack-morris/david-vs-goliath/reports/Does-model-size-matter%3F-A-comparison-of-BERT-and-DistilBERT--Vmll
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Deadly Design - RMS Titanic

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Subscribe to Naked Science http://goo.gl/wpc2Q1News about the number of lives lost broke on 16th April 1912, one day after the disaster. Grieving relatives of the victims were desperate to know how the impossible could have happened. The Titanic was desig
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Where Does the Poop in Antarctica Go? | Antarctic Extremes

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What happens to all the garbageand human poopin Antarctica?Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?suAntarctica is home to McMurdo Station, the U.S. Antarctic Programs base of operations, and a handful of other research stations. These stations are
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Why Don't Fish Freeze in Antarctica? I Antarctic Extremes

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Under the ice in Antarctica is a world few people ever get to see.Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?suBizarre creaturesancient sponges, gigantic jellyfish, sea spiders, ribbon worms, and notothenioid fishes that manage not to freezemake their
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What Do You Eat in Antarctica? | Antarctic Extremes

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If youre a penguin or other seabird in Antarctica, theres plenty of fish (and some seal placenta) to go around. But what do the people eat?Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?suGenerally, an adult human consumes around 1,600 to 3,000 calories da
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How Well Do Masks Work? (Schlieren Imaging In Slow Motion!)

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Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmartSUBSCRIBE so you dont miss a video! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub More info and sources below Wearing a mask is a cheap and easy way to help stop the spread of airborne infections like
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Among Us Science - When Does Lying Go Too Far? ft. TheAmaazing

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Gaslighting in Among Us? Probably okay. Gaslighting in a real relationship. Not so much!Sub to The Imposter, TheAmaazing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ9HvHH-KRYHI5ynj2kbLwQTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theamaazingCheck out our BLOCKO PINS! :~) http:
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How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake

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About 59 million years ago, the largest animal lurking in the ancient forests of Colombia by far was Titanoboa - the largest snake ever known. Its only been in the past few years that weve put together the many pieces of this puzzling creature, but it tur
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When the Sahara Was Green

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Check out Antarctic Extremes on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRAuy1ZmTcThe climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And were not talking about just a few years of extra rain. Were talking about a climate that w
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When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea

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Thank you for The Great Courses Plus for supporting PBS. To learn more click http://ow.ly/DIED30qpmFaToday, we think of penguins as small-ish, waddling, tuxedo-birds. But they evolved from a flying ancestor, were actual giants for millions of years, and s
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How the Egg Came First

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The story of the egg spans millions of years, from the first vertebrates that dared to venture onto land to todays mammals, including the platypus, and of course birds. Like chickens? Were here to tell you: The egg came first.Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi f
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How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends

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Were still figuring out the details, but most scientists agree that it took thousands of years of interactions to develop our deep bond with dogs. When did they first become domesticated? Where did this happen? And what did the process look like, in terms
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How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction

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Check out Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtube.com/microcosmosIn the middle of the Cambrian, life on land was about to get a little more crowded. And those newcomers would end up changing the world. The arrival of plants on land would make the worl
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When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic

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All told, the Arctic in the Cretaceous Period was a rough place to live, especially in winter. And yet, the fossils of many kinds of dinosaurs have been discovered there. So how were they able to survive in this harsh environment?Thanks to Nathan E. Roger
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How the Walrus Got Its Tusks

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The rise and fall of ancient walruses, and how modern ones got their tusks, is a story that spans almost 20 million years.And while there are parts of the story that were still trying to figure out, it looks like tusks didnt have anything to do with how o
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The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived

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Untangling the origins of Beelzebufo -- the giant frog that lived alongside the dinosaurs -- turns out to be one of the most bedeviling problems in the history of amphibians.Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrati
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The Sea Monster from the Andes

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In 1977, a farmer was plowing his field on a plateau high in the Andes mountains when he stumbled upon a giant fossilized skeleton.How did this giant marine reptile end up high in the Andes Mountains?Spanish subtitles/CC by Carlos J. Pardo De la Hoz.Thank
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When Rodents Had Horns

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These odd rodents belong to a genus known as Ceratogaulus, but theyre more commonly called horned gophers, because, you guessed it, they had horns.And it turns out the horns probably had a purpose - one that rodents would likely benefit from today.Samanth
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The First and Last North American Primates

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How To Vote in Every State: https://youtube.com/HowToVoteInEveryStateEarly primates not only lived in North America -- our primate family tree actually originated here! So what happened to those early relatives of ours? Thank you to these paleoartists for
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How Plants Became Carnivores

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Go check out Overview on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHMZwaopAaIDeep Looks episode on Sundews! https://youtu.be/D4kBrsyWhS4How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants n
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How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs

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Take the PBS Digital Studios annual survey: http://to.pbs.org/2020surveyOur National Fossil Day Livestream will be on Facebook and YouTube at 8 PM ET on October 14th. Here's the link to the YouTube livestream: https://youtu.be/hW6XW1YgAlUWhile clubs are p
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Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?

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Help out Eons and take the PBS Digital Studios annual survey: http://to.pbs.org/2020surveyFor some reason, animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs, independently, over and over again.What is it about the crabs form that makes it so evolutio
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Geoengineering: A Horrible Idea We Might Have to Do

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To support Kurzgesagt and learn more about Brilliant, go to https://www.brilliant.org/nutshell and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual Premium subscription.Thanks to our friends from Brilliant for suppor
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Which type of milk is best for you? - Jonathan J. OSullivan & Grace E. Cunningham

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Dive into the most popular milks dairy, almond, soy and oat to find out which is healthiest for you and for the planet.--If you go to the store in search of milk, there are a dizzying number of products to choose from. Theres dairy milk, but also plant-ba
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Sesame Street Monster Meditation #2: Goodnight Body with Elmo and Headspace

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Elmo and Baby David can't get to sleep - they just want to play! Good thing their friend Mr. Andy from Headspace is here with another Sesame Street Monster Meditation. Get ready for bedtime by saying goodnight to the different parts of your body! Subscrib
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The girl who changed the world with an acorn | BBC Ideas

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A powerful story of hope and redemption, which challenges us to think about the way we interact with the natural world. This beautiful animation, The Promise, is based on a children's book of the same name. ** There are subtitles available for this video
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Starfish Gallop With Hundreds of Tubular Feet | Deep Look

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They may look cute and colorful, but starfish are actually voracious predators. To sniff out and capture their prey, they rely on hundreds of water-propelled tube feet, each with a fiercely independent streak. Watch the new PBS Terra science show, OVERVIE
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Watch These Peregrine Falcons Become Fierce Parents | Deep Look

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High up in their 300-foot tower penthouse, falcon stars Annie and Grinnell's romance quickly gets real, as they face the tough demands of raising a family. They furiously guard their eggs from invaders, then stuff their screaming newborn chicks with meat.
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Is a Spider's Web a Part of Its Mind? | Deep Look

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Orb weaver spiders build exquisite spiral webs not only to catch insects, but to extend their senses. Once they shrink-wrap their prey with silk, the nearly blind spiders can store them for later, and read their web's strands as a kind of memory map to gu
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What Actually Makes Water Roll Off a Duck's Back? | Deep Look

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Ducks and geese spend *a lot* of time preening their all-weather feathers. This obsessive grooming and a little styling wax from a hidden spot on their back side maintains the microscopic feather structure that keeps them warm and dry in frigid waters.Ple
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Its pronounced GIF.

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Is there a "right" way to pronounce it? And why is it so complicated? Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/180153994181/lingthusiasm-episode-26-why-do-c-and-g-come-
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How colorized photos helped introduce Japan to the world

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The best hand-colored photos of the 19th century came from Japan.Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-labFor over 200 years, Japan isolated itself from the outside world by forbidding most foreigners from entering the country. But in 1854, a US
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Computers just got a lot better at writing

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How machines can mimic our language.Join the Open Sourced Reporting Network: http://www.vox.com/opensourcednetworkSomething big happened in the past year: Researchers created computer programs that can write long passages of coherent, original text.Langua
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How To Hear Halfway Around The World

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Thanks to CTBTO for sponsoring this video: https://www.ctbto.orgSounds in the ocean can travel more than 10,000 miles - that's halfway around the world! Here's how.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keyw
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Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods

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Use the promo code "minuteearth" at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearth for 26% off an annual subscription to CuriosityStream, plus access to Nebula!Not all hardwood trees have hard wood and softwoods soft wood, because these terms denote their taxono
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What causes panic attacks, and how can you prevent them? - Cindy J. Aaronson

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Dig into the science of what triggers panic attacks, how to recognize them, and the available treatments for panic disorder.--Countless poets and writers have tried to put words to the experience of a panic attack a sensation so overwhelming, many people
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Why its impossible to make a red bubble or IS it?!

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Take a look at a bubble and youll see all the colors of the rainbow... right? WRONG. Bubbles are actually missing colors!Check out Self-Evident on PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/Bwsne4eMVyUMy Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/physicsgirlIf you liked this vid
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Could Life Evolve Inside Stars?

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Take the PBS Digital Studios annual survey: http://to.pbs.org/2020surveyOne of the most bizarre proposals for life not as we know it doesnt even use atoms. It proposes that fundamental kinks and defects in the fabric of the universe - cosmic strings beade
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Solving Quantum Cryptography

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Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetimeCheck out the Space Time Merch Storehttps://pbsspacetime.com/Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!https://m
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Venus May Have Life!

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Check 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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Do the Past and Future Exist?

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Is all that exists just whatever exists right now? Is the past erased and the future a void yet to be filled? Well, the answer lies in between the past and the future - in the elusive, ever-moving eye-blink that we call the present. Sign Up on Patreon to
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Why we need national parks - Elyse Cox

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Explore the creation of national parks and the importance of finding a balance between public use and ecological preservation.--In 1903, US President Theodore Roosevelt took a camping trip in Californias Yosemite Valley with conservationist John Muir. Roo
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The problem with the U.S. bail system - Camilo Ramirez

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Explore the U.S. bail systems reliance on cash bail and how it disproportionately hurts people in low-income communities and communities of color.--Since 2000, the annual number of people convicted of crimes in the United States has stayed steady, but the
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Robot Spy Hummingbird Films HALF A BILLION MONARCH BUTTERFLIES!

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Up to half a billion monarch butterflies lie sleeping having overwintered in Mexico. As winter ends and spring arrives, the sun warms their wings and the forest comes to life as a cascade of butterflies take flight! Robot Spy Hummingbird is right there in
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What's inside the Millennium Falcon? (Star Wars)

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NordVPN holiday deal at https://nordvpn.com/jaredowen or use a coupon jaredowen. Get a 3-year plan with 81% off plus two amazing gifts: 4 extra months + NordPass password manager app (worth $194.61).Summary: This video covers a complete tour of the Millen
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Top 10 Amazing Animals With Real Super Powers

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Top 10 Amazing Animals With Real Super PowersIf you're new, Subscribe! http://goo.gl/djmfuXTop 5 Best is the #1 place for all your heart warming stories about amazing people that will inspire you everyday. Make sure to subscribe and never miss a single vi
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A Brief Introduction to General Relativity - with Anthony Zee

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Anthony Zee gives us a tour of gravity through Einstein's Theory of General Relativity.Anthony's book "On Gravity" is available now - https://geni.us/xAf86t.Starting with the discovery of gravity waves, Anthony goes on to explain how gravity can be unders
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The Million Dollar Equations - with Tom Crawford

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In 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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The Tiny Monorails That Once Carried James Bond

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The Roadmachines Mono-Rail may have been the only truly useful, fit-for-purpose monorail in the world. Of the hundreds that were built, most were never meant for passengers. But they did carry a couple of famous people in their time, including a certain s
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The Raven (Christopher Lee)

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Goodbye my Love (May 27th 1922 – June 7th 2015) Thank you for the movies, the songs, the memories. Thank you for all. Thank you for being the best and thank you for being my hero. I will always love you my hero. God please give him back to me :( :(
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"Jabberwocky": One of literature's best bits of nonsense

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Dive into Lewis Carrolls epic nonsense poem, Jabberwocky from his novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There."--As Alice wanders through the dreamscape of Looking-Glass Land in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice F
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Cowboy Bebop's "The Real Folk Blues" Special Performance feat. Yoko Kanno, Steve Blum, and more

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Anime gives back! In collaboration with Funimation, Sunrise and Mason Lieberman, we are thrilled to share this star-studded tribute to the gorgeous music of Yoko Kanno and Cowboy Bebop to benefit COVID-19 relief. Featuring over forty special guests includ
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The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!

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I think we really oughta make this fashionable again, don't you?Links and stuff down below!First, the patents!Aladdin's Fantastical Lamp;https://patents.google.com/patent/US2810066Scott M Kunen's not-original patent;https://patents.google.com/patent/US466
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Evolutions great mystery - Michael Corballis

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Learn how to identify, develop, and share your best ideas with TED Masterclass: http://bit.ly/tedmasterclass --What we call language is something more specific than communication. Language is about sharing whats in our minds: stories, opinions, questions,
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Is the weather actually becoming more extreme? - R. Saravanan

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Explore the differences between weather and climate what they are, how we predict them, and what those predictions can tell us. --From 2016 to 2019, the world saw record-breaking heat waves, rampant wildfires, and the longest run of category 5 tropical cy
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Why people fall for misinformation - Joseph Isaac

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How does a fact become a misconception? Dig into the world of misinformation to see how facts can become distorted and misleading.--In 1901, David Hnig published research that led to what we know today as the taste map: an illustration that divides the to
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Are all of your memories real? - Daniel L. Schacter

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Dig into the psychology of how memories are susceptible to false information and why we shouldnt treat them as truth.--In a 1990s study, participants recalled getting lost in a shopping mall as children. Some shared these memories in vivid detail, but the
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A brief history of plastic

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Trace the history of the invention of plastic, and how the material ushered in what became known as the plastics century.--For centuries, billiard balls were made of ivory from elephant tusks. But when excessive hunting caused elephant populations to decl
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This is NOT a Dandelion. | Deep Look

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Not every yellow bloom or fluffy white globe taking over your backyard is a dandelion. Some of them are close relatives called catsears. But both of them have a little secret. To tell them apart and discover why they’re so successful you need to pee
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Why smart people make stupid mistakes | BBC Ideas

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Some people are smart, but make all sorts of mistakes in their lives. Is that you? According to author David Robson, we're not always as smart as we think we are. Here are four thinking traps clever people fall into.Subscribe to BBC Ideas https://bbc.in/2
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How metaphors shape the way you see the world | BBC Ideas

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What exactly are metaphors? Where are metaphors used? Our everyday language is full of metaphor - often without us even noticing. Metaphors are also tied up with power. This video helps explore and explain metaphors.Have you been getting a phrase wrong al
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What would a world without prisons be like? | BBC Ideas

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We take prisons, or jails, for granted - but how effective are they? And are there better alternatives? In this viewpoint, OU Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Dr David Scott, explores what a world without prisons might be like. For another perspective on p
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Do we think differently in different languages? | BBC Ideas

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There are more than 7,000 languages in the world so does that mean there are more than 7,000 ways of seeing it? The Whorfian hypothesis is the idea that the language we speak affects the way we think and even how we see and structure the world around us.
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How This Guy Builds Mesmerizing Kinetic Sculptures | Obsessed | WIRED

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A self-taught artist with a background in physics, David C. Roy has been creating mesmerizing wooden kinetic sculptures for nearly 40 years. Powered solely through mechanical wind-up mechanisms, pieces can run up to 48 hours on a single wind.Still havent
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Threatened pools in Mexican desert hold clues to early life

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Agriculture has threatened an area holding an exceptional array of microbesRead the story: https://scim.ag/3htf9Gb Watch the documentary by filmmaker David Jaramillo: https://documentalcuatrocienegas.com/ creditsproducer Meagan Cantwell supervising produc
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I WAS THERE! How David Blaine flew helium balloons to the height of jets (and jumped)

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Check out David Blaine's video with Physics Girl's Dianna Cowern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZCJ8kZ2IKY ASCENSION full Livestream:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwzvNAAqH3gDavid Blaine casually floated up to 25,000ft over the Arizona desert holding
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SUPERSONIC BASEBALL Cannon (World's Fastest Baseball) - Smarter Every Day 242

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Jumping out of a plane 500 times

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David earns his professional skydiving license to prepare for Ascension. Five hundred jumps and a few rough landings later, he’s ready to go. Check out Ascension now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwzvNAAqH3g FOLLOW DAVID BLAINE Instagram: https:/
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Teaching Casey Neistat how to hold his breath

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Having mastered the skill of holding his own breath underwater, David Blaine meets up with some friends to teach them his methods. Check out Ascension now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwzvNAAqH3g FOLLOW DAVID BLAINE Instagram: https://www.instagram.co
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David Blaine Ascension

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Have you ever had a dream so vivid you knew it had to be real? Watch Ascension free with ads or get YouTube Premium to watch ad-free with exclusive bonus footage. Learn more at: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6358146 Check out YouTube Premium a
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How I Proved the Earth is Round (with my Bike and Two Sticks)

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For what I'm currently up to, follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kbaute/Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kurtisbauteFor a behind-the-scenes look at this video, check out my Podcast: http://dominouniverse.libsyn.com/03-bike-a-round-
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The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World

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Get your first audiobook and two Audible Originals for free when you try Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/minuteearth or text minuteearth to 500-500!Bamboo is the worlds fastest growing plant thanks to the cell elongation process it share
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Where Does One Ocean End And Another Begin?

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Check out Brilliant (and get 20% off) here: https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth/Earth's ocean water is continuous. How can we divide it into sections that are more useful?Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth and our YouTube
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Why Don't More Animals Eat Wood?

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Thanks to OIST for sponsoring this video. To learn more, visit https://admissions.oist.jp/Wood is abundant and full of energy, but outside of some insects, almost no animals eat it because the stuff it's made of is hard to break down.Thanks also to our Pa
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The Extinction Happening Inside You

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Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/Our modern lifestyle and diet are leading to the extinction of parts of our microbiome, but we can use what we've learned from dealing with nearly-extinct macrobio
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This Atom Can Predict The Future

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Thanks to CTBTO for sponsoring this video: https://www.ctbto.orgMany of the bewildering correlations in our world - like that between Beryllium-7 and the Asian monsoon - are a result of huge and unseen forces that tie them together.Thanks also to our Patr
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Why Do We STILL Use Lead Pipes?!

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Visit https://www.apmreports.org/water to read "Buried Lead". This video was made in partnership with The Water Main.We've known for millennia that lead pipes could make us sick, so why are we still drinking from them?Thanks also to our Patreon patrons ht
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Why Wolves Don't Chirp

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Check out Brilliant (and get 20% off) here: https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth/Sounds that animals make can be really different, and it turns out that there's a reason why some species communicate with certain sounds.Thanks also to our Patreon patrons http
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Why You Can't Build A Clone Army... (Yet)

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Sign up for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/2UGB30qCbvs.Because of the way genetic reprogramming works, its hard to make one clone based on an adult cell, and its almost impossible to make a second-generation one.Thanks also t
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Is There A Better Way To Power Airplanes?

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This video was made in partnership with Bill Gates. To learn more about his work on clean energy, visit https://gatesnot.es/2WDTJ1LIts hard to replace jet fuel because the alternatives arent energetic enough, are too dangerous, or arent yet being made at
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The Best Worst Energy Source

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This video was made in partnership with Bill Gates. To learn more about his work on clean energy, visit https://gatesnot.es/2X0NxzvAlthough coal is such an amazing energy source that we've kept using it despite the harm it causes, today we may be better p
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*If We Aren't Too Late

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This video was made in partnership with Bill Gates. To learn more about his work on clean energy, visit https://gatesnot.es/3dSVdurWell each have at least $100,000 more in our piggy banks, on average, if we stop climate change than if we dont.Thanks also
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Will Gas Stations Survive?

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This video was made in partnership with Bill Gates. To learn more about his work on clean energy, visit https://gatesnot.es/2z08OS6Although its not likely to happen soon, someday gas stations may be replaced by (or turn into) another type of fueling stati
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Why People Hate Hyenas

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Get your NEW MinuteEarth merch! Sticker packs and T-shirts on sale at https://dftba.com/minuteearth.Throughout history and around the world, most people dislike hyenas. But why?Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth and our
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How To Go Extinct

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Sign up for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/Nkq830qWCShOur new evolution simulator reveals that extinction often happens when conditions change quickly. Check it out here: https://labs.minutelabs.io/evolution-simulator/Thanks
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Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing

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Find out more about our sewers from the In Deep podcast at https://www.indeep.org.The old combined sewer systems of many major cities are no match for modern storms and impermeable surfaces.Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/Minute
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The World's Most Expensive Shrimp ($10k)

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Check out Brilliant (and get 20% off) here: https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth/Some aquarium hobbyists will pay $10,000 or more for a single shrimp because of the rarity of their colors or patterns.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, st
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Christina Perri - A Thousand Years [Official Music Video]

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© 2011 WMG "a thousand years" on itunes: http://atlr.ec/npHAdW directed by: jay martin "a thousand years" is a brand new song me + my best friend david hodges wrote for bella + edward. we wrote it after we so luckily screened the movie + i couldn't b
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Which Is "Bouba", and Which Is "Kiki"?

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Sooner or later, I was going to get around to this: it's one of the most famous experiments in linguistics. • Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/175127434871
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TROLLS WORLD TOUR Available on-demand now!Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return in an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animations 2016 musical hit: Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what theyve known before, Poppy (Kendr
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Why Do Cats Like Boxes? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS

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If youve ever spent any time around cats, youve probably noticed the super weird instinct that almost all cats seem to have: they LOVE to sir inside boxes! So, whats that all about? Why do cats love to sit in boxes for no apparent reason??Images used unde
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Orson Welles - Falstaff. William Shakespeare.

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Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare. Watch Orson Welles transform into this person right in front of your eyes. This is a clip from theDean Martin Show.
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38 People on this Flight Got Sick. Why? - The Science of Ventilation

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How likely are you to get sick on an airplane? How safe are airplanes? The science of ventilation and bioaerosol research. If you liked this video, check out: What stretching actually does to your body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JgBp7dX4AUOnly some
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Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors? - Elizabeth Cox

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Dig into the false cause fallacy, which assumes that one event causes another, and learn how to distinguish between correlation and causation.--Its 1843, and a debate is raging about one of the most common killers of women: childbed fever no one knows wha
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Whats that ringing in your ears? - Marc Fagelson

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Travel into the auditory system to explore the constant ringing sensation of tinnitus, why it happens and how to treat it. --Tinnitus has been bothering humanity since Ancient Babylon, plaguing everyone from Leonardo da Vinci to Charles Darwin. Today, rou
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GOING SUPERSONIC with U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds! Pulling 7 G's in an F-16 -Smarter Every Day 235

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How to Join the United States Air Force: https://www.airforce.com/apply-nowHow to Support Smarter Every Day on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/smartereverydayClick here if you're interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED Click below for more
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The Part Of Britain That Rises And Falls Twice A Day

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Cornwall rises and falls by a few centimetres, twice a day. I didn't believe that when I read it. In this video: "ocean tide loading": why, how, and does it actually matter?Thanks to Prof. Peter Clarke, who is a professor of geodesy, not geodisy. Apologie
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Interpret Dog Tail Wags: How to Understand Dog's Body Language

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In this video, we'll explain the meaning of each dog's tail signs.The position of a dog's tail can reveal a lot about what that dog is thinking and feeling. The speed of the wag, the pattern of movement, and the breadth of each tail sweep can all give inf
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What Happens After A Supernova Explodes? - with Jen Gupta

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When massive stars explode, we get some very strange new celestial objects from their remains.Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibeIn this short clip from her talk 'The Universe Beyond Visible Light', astrophysicist Jen Gupta exp
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What Is It Like To Have Synesthesia?

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Can you imagine if each word had its own colour, or you could 'see' different types of music?Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibeAlso, see more synesthesia visualisations from Diggery here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChpgc
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Why Do We Gain Fat? with Eugenia Cheng

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In this short clip from her talk 'How To Think Like A Mathematician', Eugenia Cheng explains how a whole web of interconnected factors cause us to gain fat. Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/8emPcpfqPRUEugenia's book "The Art of Logic" is available no
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A Quick Introduction to Epigenetics - with Nessa Carey

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Epigenetic modifications change the likelihood of gene expression, and through it create phenotype changes, without altering the DNA sequence itself.Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/9DAcJSAM_BANessa's book "The Epigenetics Revolution" is available fo
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The Manhattan Project (extra) - Periodic Table of Videos

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Extra footage with The Prof... from this video about the core of atom bombs: https://youtu.be/QLZMzsRB86EMore links and info in full description Flyorov's Office: https://youtu.be/UMa21BUinsISee the first time Sir Martyn told us the Alfie Maddock story (w
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Black Nitrogen - Periodic Table of Videos

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Researchers discover a new form of Nitrogen.More links and info in full description Discussed by Professor Sir Martyn Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham.Our thanks to Dr Dominique Laniel and his team, which did the research. Check the paper: http
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The tale of the boy who tricked the Devil - Iseult Gillespie

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Discover the tale of the lovestruck boy sent into Hell to steal 3 hairs from the Devil to appease his true love's father, the king.--In a small town, a proud mother showed off her newborn son. Upon noticing his lucky birthmark, townsfolk predicted he woul
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The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece - Iseult Gillespie

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Follow Jason as he attempts to steal the Golden Fleece from King Aeetes and enlists the help of the king's daughter, Medea. (Part Two of the myth of Jason and the Argonauts)--In Colchis, the hide of a mystical flying ram hangs from the tallest oak, guarde
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Can you solve the honeybee riddle? - Dan Finkel

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ --Youre a biologist on a mission to keep the rare honeybee Apis Trifecta from going extinct. The last 60 bees of the species are in your terrarium. Youve already constructed wire frames of the
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These Fighting Fruit Flies Are Superheroes of Brain Science | Deep Look

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Thanks to The Great Courses Plus for sponsoring this episode of Deep Look. Try a 30 day trial of The Great Course Plus at http://ow.ly/7QYH309wSOL. If you liked this episode, you might be interested in their course Major Transitions in Evolution. POW! BAM
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A Baby Dragonfly's Mouth Will Give You Nightmares | Deep Look

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Dragonflies might rule the skies, but their babies grow up underwater in a larva-eat-larva world. Luckily for them, they have a killer lip that snatches prey, Alien-style, at lightning speed.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtDEEP LOOK: a new ult
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This Dangerous Mosquito Lays Her Armored Eggs in Your House | Deep Look

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The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can transmit dengue fever and Zika, makes a meal of us around our homes. And her eggs are hardy. They can dry out, but remain alive for months, waiting for a little water so they can hatch into squiggly larvae.Please join
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California Floater Mussels Take Fish For an Epic Joyride | Deep Look

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The California floater mussel does a surprising amount of travel - for a bivalve. First it gets ejected from its parent's shell into the wide watery wilderness. Then it leads a nomad's life clamped on the fins or gills of a fish. Once it's all grown up, t
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How The Coronavirus Attacks Your Lungs | Deep Look

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The new coronavirus packs a devastating punch. It penetrates deep into your lungs, causing our immune cells to go haywire and damage tiny air sacs the alveoli where oxygen normally flows into our blood.More COVID-19 Reporting and resources from KQED Scien
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Glasswing Butterflies Want To Make Something Perfectly Clear | Deep Look

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Ever wanted to be invisible? The elusive glasswing butterfly knows just how to do it. Its transparent wings, covered in an anti-glare nano-coating, help it hide from its predators in the rainforest. Please join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreo
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Cape Sundews Trap Bugs In A Sticky Situation | Deep Look

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Cape sundews are carnivorous plants that grow in bogs, where they don't have access to many nutrients. So they exude sweet, shimmering droplets from their tentacles to lure in unsuspecting insects. Once their prey is hopelessly stuck, they wrap it up and
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Card Tricks with Jeff Bezos

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Genius Gala with Jeff Bezos, Vint Cerf, & John Urschel. Official Store: https://shop.davidblaine.com/ David’s go to card-deck: https://shop.davidblaine.com/products... Tour and Show Information: http://www.davidblaine.com/ FOLLOW DAVID BLAINE In
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The Village That The Luftwaffe Bombed By Mistake

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Linby is a small village in Nottinghamshire, England. It wouldn't have much strategic value... unless some commander didn't read their map properly. Here's a local legend, with a few questions about it.Edited by Michelle Martin https://twitter.com/mrsmmar
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What Do Aliens Look Like? The Kardashev Scale

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You 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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Looney Tunes Cartoon Classics: The Lion's Busy (Leo the Lion) (1948) (HD) | Mel Blanc

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Leo the Lion on his tenth birthday, receives a book as a present, and after finding out that lions rarely live beyond ten years, a hungry Beaky Buzzard, who turns out to be the one who had sent the book to him in the first place, takes the chance to eat h
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Looney Tunes Cartoon Classics: A Day at the Zoo (1939) (HD) | Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce

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A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Egghead teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.Directed by Tex AveryProduced by Leon SchlesingerStory by Melvin MillarNarra
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TROLLS WORLD TOUR | Pop Trolls Escape Lonesome Flats [Official Clip]

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TROLLS WORLD TOUR Available on-demand now!Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return in an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animations 2016 musical hit: Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what theyve known before, Poppy (Kendr
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TROLLS WORLD TOUR | The Secret Pop Music String [Official Clip]

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TROLLS WORLD TOUR Available on-demand now!Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return in an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animations 2016 musical hit: Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what theyve known before, Poppy (Kendr
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I Tried Betty Crocker's Mini Donut Maker Tasty

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We tested Betty Crocker's Mini Donut Maker! We hope you love the products we recommend! Just so you know, BuzzFeed may collect a share of sales from the links in this video description.Get the Betty Crocker Mini Donut Maker here:https://www.amazon.com/Bet
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Why Masks Work

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We’re on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ Wearing a mask is a cheap and easy way
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The Hidden Rules of Conversation

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Gricean Maxims are a vital part of how we understand each other: a set of... well, maybe "rules" is a bit strong. They're guidelines that we follow without realising it. And it's the reason that "asbestos-free cereal" sounds suspicious.Written with Molly
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The Factory | Think Like A Coder, Ep 9

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The adventure continues! Episode 9: Ethic, Hedge, and Lemma have made it to the last artifact: The Node of Memory. Can they retrieve it before the bots arrive?--This is episode 9 of our animated series Think Like A Coder. This 10-episode narrative follows
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TROLLS WORLD TOUR | "Just Sing" Full Song [Official Clip]

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TROLLS WORLD TOUR Available on-demand now!Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return in an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animations 2016 musical hit: Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what theyve known before, Poppy (Kendr
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TROLLS WORLD TOUR | Pop Music Medley Full Scene [Official Clip]

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TROLLS WORLD TOUR Available on-demand now!Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return in an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animations 2016 musical hit: Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what theyve known before, Poppy (Kendr
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Unique at-home Science Experiments! with Physics Girl

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Dianna from Physics Girl walks through 5 experiments with jello, lasers, balloons, surface tension, band-aids and candles, with some bonus facts and trivia!If you liked this video check out these other Physics Girl videos:7 Science Tricks with Surface Ten
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Insanely Fun DIY Science Experiments at Home with Physics Girl

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If you liked this video check out these:HOME CHALLENGE: 20 Easy Experiments in 5 minshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aaXZDazPxsLaser Cooling:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFkiMWrA2BcSpecial thanks to our Sally Ride level patrons: Alejandro Gutierrez, B
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Pulse Oximeters; An Amazing Use of Light

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You might have been seeing a lot about these little devices lately. Have you ever wondered how they work? Well, let's find out! This channel is supported through viewer contribution on Patreon. Thanks to the generous support of people like you, Technology
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The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire - Dustin Tahmahkera

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Get 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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What do all languages have in common? - Cameron Morin

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Dig into Noam Chomskys theory of universal grammar and decide: are there universal grammar rules and are they hardwired into our brains?--Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in our native language, a
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Can you solve the Ragnarok riddle? - Dan Finkel

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/--Ragnarok: The fabled end of the world, when giants, monsters, and Norse gods battle for the future. The gods were winning until the great serpent Jrmungandr emerged. It swallowed Valhalla and
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The race to decode a mysterious language - Susan Lupack

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Dig into the mysterious Linear B symbols, found on ancient tablets on the island of Crete, which took scholars nearly 50 years to decode.--In the early 1900s, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans uncovered nearly 3,000 tablets inscribed with strange symbols. He
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What Is Intelligence? Where Does it Begin?

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You 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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TROLLS WORLD TOUR | "It's All Love" Full Song Funk Trolls Performance [Official Clip]

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TROLLS WORLD TOUR Available now!Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return in an all-star sequel to DreamWorks Animations 2016 musical hit: Trolls World Tour. In an adventure that will take them well beyond what theyve known before, Poppy (Kendrick) and B
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Will Computers Ever Think Like Human Beings? - with Vint Cerf

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The rise of artificial intelligence has seen computers beating chess experts and performing incredibly complex tasks. But why cant they think the same way we do?Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/Gwa38tzo2NcWe have built incredibly powerful, multi-layered, n
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Could You Outrun a T-Rex? - with David Hone

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In this highlight clip from his talk 'How the Tyrannosaurs Ruled the World', palaeontologist David Hone explains how the legs of T-Rex made them such good long distance runners.Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/f-jD7kQvyPsDavid's book "The Tyrannosaur

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