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Sugar: Hiding In Plain Sight - Robert Lustig
773 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/sugar-hiding-in-plain-sight-robert-lustig While sugar is easy to spot in candy, soft drinks and ice cream, it also hides out in foods you might not expect -- including peanut butter, pasta sauce and even bologna
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Pros And Cons Of Public Opinion Polls - Jason Robert Jaffe
930 views / 1 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/pros-and-cons-of-public-opinion-polls-jason-robert-jaffe How do public opinion polls work? And, more importantly, are they accurate? Jason Robert Jaffe reveals the complexities and biases of polls and provides t
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"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
635 views / 0 likes - addedAn animated interpretation of Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" -- For an analysis of this poem, watch this video: http://bit.ly/TEDEdFrostAnalysis This animation is part of our new series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpr
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Electro Musician Robert DeLong Shows Off His Tricked-Out Rig
641 views / 0 likes - addedIt's equal parts D.I.Y. and high-tech; electronic musician Robert DeLong shows us his awesome rig, which includes a mix of video game controllers, a cutlery tray from Ikea, two Mac minis, and more. See how it all comes together as he performs “Don’t Wait
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Children (Robert MIles)- Fingerstyle Guitar Cover (+Tutorial & Tabs)
347 views / 0 likes - addedWanna play this song? Get the Tabs https://bit.ly/3ldUZ6M https://www.yonischlesinger.com/product-page/children-robert-miles-tab-1 Full Tutorial available ** https://www.yonischlesinger.com/product-page/children-robert-miles-full-tutorial For many Tutoria
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These squids can fly... no, really - Robert Siddall
1,263 views / 6 likes - addedDive into the incredible flying capabilities of squids, and how they use flight as a survival tactic.--In 1947, explorers noticed a strange phenomenon while crossing the Pacific Ocean. Somehow, small squid known to live deep beneath the waves kept appeari
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The Pigeon, The Antenna And Me: Robert Wilson
487 views / 0 likes - addedRadioastronomer Robert Wilson recalls a pair of pigeons who almost thwarted the discovery of cosmic background radiation. Wilson’s discovery of cosmic background radiation, “the echo of the big bang”, earned him a share of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics.
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The Incredible Story of Robert Smalls | WHAT THE PAST?
234 views / 1 likes - addedRobert Smalls was willing to do whatever it took to get him and his enslaved family safely to freedom... even if it meant sailing straight through a Confederate port!Images used under license from Shutterstock.comNarrated by: Kayla RosenbergWritten & Dire
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Robert Irwin and Jimmy Cuddle a Sloth
686 views / 2 likes - addedRobert Irwin, 13-year-old son of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, shows Jimmy some animals including a dwarf crocodile, a red-tail boa and two sloths. Subscribe NOW to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: http://bit.ly/1nwT1aN Watch The Tonight Show Starr
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The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang
235 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which suspended Chinese immigration to the U.S. and blocked Chinese immigrants from citizenship.--In 1882, the United States Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first federal law that restricted immig
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How Many Fossils to Go an Inch? (ft. Robert Krulwich)
144 views / 0 likes - addedA beautiful guest video by Robert Krulwich and Nate MiltonSupport MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysicsLink to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/MinutePhysics is on twitter - @minutephysicsAnd facebook -
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World's Tallest Man, Robert Wadlow - RARE COLOR FOOTAGE!
976 views / 2 likes - addedRare color footage of the tallest man in medical history, Robert Wadlow (1918-1940), who stood 8 feet 11 inches and weighed 491 pounds. This home movie footage appears to have been taken during one of Wadlow's personal appearances in the late 1930s.
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The Animal That Wouldn't Die (w/Robert Krulwich)
722 views / 1 likes - addedhttp://www.skunkbear.tumblr.com http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/09/25/351440526/everything-dies-right-but-does-everything-have-to-die-here-s-a-surprise Produced by Robert Krulwich and Adam Cole (@cadamole) Handel's Sonata in E Minor, Op. 1. Allegro
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A day in the life of an ancient Athenian - Robert Garland
667 views / 1 likes - addedCheck out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-ancient-athenian-robert-garland It’s 427 BCE, and the worst internal conflict ever to occur in the ancient Greek world is in its
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The World's FIRST commercial electric plane - Robert takes to the skies!
159 views / 0 likes - addedTop Gun may have Tom Cruise, but the Fully Charged Show has Robert Llewellyn AND an ELECTRIC plane! Join Robert as he takes to the skies to experience first hand the world's first commercial battery powered electric plane and steps into the third era of a
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Robert Smalls: How A Slave Became An American Hero
712 views / 0 likes - addedThe story of Robert Smalls’ escape from slavery and journey to American hero sounds so daring, you might think it a myth. Not only did he successfully steal a ship and sail to freedom, he freed his family, became a Civil War hero and served as a U.S. cong
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Looney Tunes Cartoon Classics: A Day at the Zoo (1939) (HD) | Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
365 views / 0 likes - addedA 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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A Fold Apart: Origamist Robert Lang's Incredible Paper Creations
783 views / 1 likes - addedTwenty five years ago, physicist Robert Lang worked at NASA, where he researched lasers. He has also garnered 46 patents on optoelectronics and even wrote a Ph.D. thesis called "Semiconductor Lasers: New Geometries and Spectral Properties." But in 2001, L
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A day in the life of a Roman soldier - Robert Garland
1,296 views / 6 likes - addedCheck out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-roman-soldier-robert-garland The year is 15 CE, and the Roman Empire is prospering. Most of the credit will go to the emperor, bu
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How To Calm A Crying Baby - Dr. Robert Hamilton Demonstrates "The Hold" (Official)
736 views / 0 likes - addedDr. Hamilton, a pediatrician in Santa Monica, CA shows how to calm a crying baby using "The Hold". SUBSCRIBE to channel for more baby content! This technique has been utilized by Dr. Hamilton (Dr. Bob) to quiet infants during office visits. Parents have l
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Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing
589 views / 0 likes - addedScientists from NASA Goddard have discovered that not only are Saturn's rings younger than previously thought, but also that the rings are actually disappearing at a rapid pace through a process called "ring rain." Learn more about this phenomena in this
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Getting Flake-y: Why All Snowflakes Have Six Sides
637 views / 1 likes - addedNASA scientists can measure the size and shape distribution of snow particles, layer by layer, in a storm. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission is an international satellite project that provides next-generation observations of rain and snow world
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Older Arctic Sea Ice Disappearing
541 views / 0 likes - addedArctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, it’s becoming younger and thinner as well. In this animation, where the ice cover almost looks gelatinous as it pulses through the seasons, cryospheric scientist Dr. Walt Me
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NASA | The Arctic and the Antarctic Respond in Opposite Ways
380 views / 0 likes - addedFor more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/qa-what-is-happening-with-antarctic-sea-ice The Arctic and the Antarctic are regions that have a lot of ice an
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Water in Helheim Glacier Makes Its Way to the Ocean
463 views / 0 likes - addedNew NASA research found that large crevasses provide aquifer water upstream of Greenland's Helheim Glacier with a clear escape to the ocean. This discovery helps confirm that the water, which is held in a layer of crunchy, granular snow called firn, contr
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Hubble's Messier Marathon Madness
467 views / 0 likes - addedIn mid-March, skywatchers in the northern hemisphere can try to observe all 110 objects from the Messier catalog in one night. To celebrate the Messier Marathon, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is releasing 12 new images to add to its extensive collection o
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The Search for Life
465 views / 0 likes - addedAre we alone in the universe? This is a fundamental question that intrigues us all. On September 21, 2016, NASA scientists and stakeholders came together at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for a presentation on the agency’s search for life b
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How Solar Flares Affect Earth
509 views / 0 likes - addedA team of scientists led by Laura Hayes –a solar physicist who splits her time between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland – investigated a connection between solar flares and Earth's atmosphere. They discovered pulse
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Moon Sheds Light on Earth’s Impact History
410 views / 1 likes - addedBy analyzing data on lunar craters provided by the Diviner instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have made a fascinating discovery about the history of impacts on both the Earth and the Moon. Watch this video to learn more. Video
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Hubble Views Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter
485 views / 0 likes - addedNASA's Hubble Space Telescope took an image of a bizarre, ghostly looking galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 that astronomers calculate to have little to no dark matter. This is the first galaxy astronomers have discovered to be so lacking in dark matter, which i
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NASA’s TESS Catches a Comet
508 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is compiled from a series of images taken on July 25 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The angular extent of the widest field of view is six degrees. Visible in the images are the comet C/2018 N1, asteroids, variable stars, asteroid
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Timing Is Everything
444 views / 0 likes - addedDeputy Systems Engineer Phil Luers explains how ICESat-2’s ATLAS instrument transmitter and receiver subsystems come together to calculate the timing of photons, which, in turn, measure the elevation of ice. To view the previous parts in this series, go t
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Searching for Earth’s Trojan Asteroids
444 views / 0 likes - addedTrojan asteroids are common at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points of other planets, leading or following the planet in its orbit. But detecting our own Trojan asteroids from Earth is difficult since they appear close to the sun from our perspective. In mid-Feb
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Our Living Planet From Space
501 views / 0 likes - addedLife. It's the one thing that, so far, makes Earth unique among the thousands of other planets we've discovered. Since the fall of 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all plant life at the surface of the land and ocean. Read more
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NASA | Jupiter In 4k Ultra HD
1,180 views / 4 likes - addedNew imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is revealing details never before seen on Jupiter. High-resolution maps and spinning globes (rendered in the 4k Ultra HD format) are the first products to come from a program to study the solar system’s outer
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The Birth of a New Island
673 views / 0 likes - addedIn late December 2014 into early 2015, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga erupted, sending a violent stream of steam, ash and rock into the air. When the ash finally settled in January 2015, a newborn island with a 400-foot summit n
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Tour of the Moon in 4K
505 views / 0 likes - addedTake a virtual tour of the Moon in all-new 4K resolution, thanks to data provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. As the visualization moves around the near side, far side, north and south poles, we highlight interesting features, sites
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How to Find a Living Planet
516 views / 0 likes - addedThe more we see other planets, the more the question comes into focus: Maybe we're the weird one? Decades of observing Earth from space has informed our search for signs of habitability and life on exoplanets and even planets in our own solar system. We'r
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Can Data from Space Save Dolphins?
738 views / 5 likes - addedThe age-old mystery of why otherwise healthy dolphins, whales and porpoises get stranded along coasts worldwide deepens: After a collaboration between NASA scientists and marine biologists, new research suggests space weather is not the primary cause of a
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory: Year 7 Ultra HD (4k)
576 views / 1 likes - addedThe Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has now captured nearly seven years worth of ultra-high resolution solar footage. This time lapse shows that full run from two of SDO's instruments. The large orange sun is visible light captured by HMI. The smaller go
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NASA | Looking For The Shadows Of New Worlds
621 views / 0 likes - addedAstronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit photometry, which measures changes in a star's brightness caused by a mini-eclipse. When a planet crosses in front of its s
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An Introduction to the James Webb Space Telescope Mission
221 views / 0 likes - addedA look at the James Webb Space Telescope, its mission and the incredible technological challenge this mission presents. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Producer Michael McClare (KBRwyle): Lead Writer Adriana Manr
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ICESat-2 By the Numbers: 300 Trillion
423 views / 0 likes - addedICESat-2 is an incredibly precise space laser that features the latest in NASA technology To measure ice heights, engineers have to take ICESat-2's instrument ATLAS to the extreme - sometimes going big, sometimes going small, but always keeping it precise
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Two Research Vessels Leave for the Twilight Zone
364 views / 0 likes - addedA project jointly funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation is heading west from Seattle, straight for the twilight zone. Using two research vessels, the Export Processes in the Ocean from Remote Sensing (EXPORTS) oceanographic campaign will stud
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6 Things You Don’t Know About Snow
655 views / 1 likes - addedThanks to a half-century of snow observations, NASA scientists have learned a number of amazing facts about snow, which are crucial to understanding what’s necessary to advance snow measurements. Scientists are in the field right now, testing advanced tec
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Fermi's Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
772 views / 0 likes - addedThe Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is one of the instruments aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The GBM studies gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, as well as other flashes of gamma rays. Gamma-ray bursts are created wh
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Could humanity's return to the moon spark a new age of lunar telescopes?
379 views / 0 likes - addedNearly 50 years after NASA put a small telescope on the Moon, astronomers are dusting off plans for new lunar observatoriesRead more: https://scim.ag/2M0WhBVCreditseditorMeagan Cantwellsupervising producersSarah CrespiDaniel Clery story byDaniel Cleryphot
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NASAs First Asteroid Sample
102 views / 0 likes - addedOSIRIS-REx is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission. It launched in September 2016 on a journey to explore a near-Earth asteroid called Bennu. In October 2020, the spacecraft ventured to the asteroid’s surface and collected about 250 gra
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Sounds of the Sun
545 views / 0 likes - addedData from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured the dynamic movement of the Sun’s atmosphere for over 20 years. Today, we can hear the Sun’s movement — all of its waves, loops and eruptions — with ou
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HIRMES: SOFIA's latest high-resolution Mid-infrared Spectrometer
512 views / 0 likes - addedA team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is developing a new, third-generation facility science instrument for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. The High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd Spectrometer (HIRMES
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Why whales grew to such monster sizes
924 views / 1 likes - addedScientists tackle the long-standing mystery of the evolutionary forces behind the ocean's behemoths. Learn more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/why-whales-grew-such-monster-sizes Greenland footage credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Lucy's Journey
142 views / 0 likes - addedMeet Lucy as she prepares for the first ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter.Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterJames Tralie (ADNET):Lead ProducerLead EditorWriterKrystof
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Touches The Sun For The First Time
171 views / 0 likes - addedFor the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun’s upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one
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NASA | Observing The 2015 El Niño
680 views / 0 likes - addedPeople the world over are feeling, or soon will feel, the effects of the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98, currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. New satellite observations are beginning to show scientists its impact on the dist
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The Monopolization of America
371 views / 0 likes - addedRobert Reich looks at antitrust laws and corporate giants. Watch More: 3 The Failure of Trickle Down Economics https://youtu.be/cABuFmA3nhY For more videos like these, be sure to subscribe. If you'd like to support our work, you can do so here: www.inequa
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Neutron Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #32
781 views / 1 likes - addedIn the aftermath of a 8 – 20 solar mass star’s demise we find a weird little object known as a neutron star. Neutrons stars are incredibly dense, spin rapidly, and have very strong magnetic fields. Some of them we see as pulsars, flashing in brightness as
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NASA’s New Planet Hunter: TESS
512 views / 0 likes - addedNASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will find undiscovered worlds around bright nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life. TESS is a NASA Astrophysics Explorer mission, led and operated
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Record Broken: Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
124 views / 0 likes - addedNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang—the farthest individual star ever seen to
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Sun Time Science: Big Sun Little Moon
118 views / 0 likes - addedHow can the small Moon cover up the big Sun? Explore how solar eclipses can happen by using items from your own home in this do it yourself science activity. To do this activity, you will need two objects of similar shape, a bit of space and either someon
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This NASA Scientist Studies Forests by Looking at Them From Space I NOVA I PBS
196 views / 0 likes - addedNASA Goddard researcher Lola Fatoyinbo shoots lasers at trees in order to measure how much carbon forests store.PRODUCTION CREDITS:Excerpted in part from NOVA's "Can We Cool the Planet?"Producer/Director: Ben KalinaDirector/Camera: Jen SchneiderEdited by:
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It's Surprisingly Hard to Go to the Sun
455 views / 0 likes - addedThe Sun contains 99.8 of the mass in our solar system. Its gravitational pull is what keeps everything here, from tiny Mercury to the gas giants to the Oort Cloud, 186 billion miles away. But even though the Sun has such a powerful pull, it's surprisingly
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Apollo 13 Dark Side of the Moon in 4K
383 views / 0 likes - addedThis video uses data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the Apollo 13 astronauts saw on their perilous journey around the farside in 1970. These visualizations, in 4K resolutio
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LISA | The Biggest Space Mission Ever
317 views / 0 likes - addedThe Lisa mission will be really cool, I look at all the reasons why.Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/domainofscienceDFTBA Store: https://store.dftba.com/collections/domain-of-science RedBubble Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/DominicWallimanThe Eur
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NASA | Brazil’s Extreme Drought Seen From Space
921 views / 4 likes - addedFor more information: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasas-grace-satellites-evaluate-drought-in-southeast-brazil Empty water reservoirs, severe water rationing, and electrical blackouts are the new status quo in major cities across southeastern Brazi
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Earth-Size Telescope Will Make Black Holes Say "Cheese!"
695 views / 0 likes - addedNobel laureate Robert Wilson discusses how a network of telescopes might illumine a black hole, after the 92nd Street Y’s Bang! Bang! event. For more black hole coverage, check out Scientific American's Dark Star Diaries: https://blogs.scientificamerican.
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This NASA Scientist Helps Prevent Mars from Getting Contaminated I NOVA I PBS
200 views / 0 likes - addedNASA's Perseverance rover has successfully landed on Mars! But how do you prevent microbes from Earth from contaminating the red planet? This NASA scientist, who worked on the #Perseverance mission, explains.PRODUCTION CREDITS:Producer/Editor: Ari DanielP
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The Moon: Astronomy #12
957 views / 1 likes - addedJoin Phil for a tour of our capital-M Moon, from surface features, inside to the core, and back in time to theories about its formation. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/crashcourse -- Table of Contents Many Millio
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360 Video: NASA Simulation Shows a Flight Around a Black Hole
14 views / 0 likes - addedThis new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera a stand-in for a daring astronaut just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out. This version is a 360-degree video that lets viewers look all
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NASA Simulations Plunge Into a Black Hole: Explained
11 views / 0 likes - addedThis new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera a stand-in for a daring astronaut enters the event horizon, sealing its fate. Goddard scientists created the visualizations on the Discover supercomput
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NASA Simulations Flight Around a Black Hole: Explained
10 views / 0 likes - addedThis new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera a stand-in for a daring astronaut just misses the event horizon and slingshots back out. Goddard scientists created the visualizations on the Discover
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‘Winking’ Star May Be Devouring Wrecked Planets
472 views / 0 likes - addedAstronomers studying the star RZ Piscium have found evidence suggesting its strange, unpredictable dimming episodes may be caused by vast orbiting clouds of gas and dust, the remains of one or more destroyed planets. Young stars are often prodigious X-ray
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NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K)
882 views / 0 likes - addedIt’s always shining, always ablaze with light and energy. In the ubiquity of solar output, Earth swims in an endless tide of particles. Every time half of the Earth faces the Sun, we experience the brightness of daytime, the Sun’s energy and light driving
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I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?
294 views / 0 likes - addedI got the chance to interview Bill Gates so I asked him: Will Covid-19 be the last pandemic? How does he deal with misinformation and conspiracy theories? And what is the next disaster? The Foundation Letter is here: https://ve42.co/BG21Special thanks to
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360 Video: NASA Simulation Plunges Into a Black Hole
20 views / 0 likes - addedThis new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate. This version is a 360-degree video that lets viewers look
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Deep Time: Crash Course Astronomy #45
727 views / 0 likes - addedAs we approach the end of Crash Course Astronomy, it’s time now to acknowledge that our Universe’s days are numbered. Stars will die out after a few trillion years, protons will decay and matter will dissolve after a thousand trillion trillion trillion ye
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Ammonia—a renewable fuel made from sun, air, and water—could power the globe without carbon
536 views / 0 likes - addedWith copious solar and wind power, Australia aims to displace Haber-Bosch, a dirty, 100-year-old recipe for making ammonia Read more - https://scim.ag/2KQRHH6 CREDITS -------------------------- editor/animator/narrator Chris Burns supervising producer Sar
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The Invisible Insect Highway Above You
221 views / 0 likes - addedAn animation with Robert Krulwich about the amazing amount of insects that are zipping around high up in the sky above you.
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Jupiter: Crash Course Astronomy #16
1,288 views / 5 likes - addedJupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. The gas giant is NOT a failed star, but a really successful planet! It has a dynamic atmosphere with belts and zones, as well as an enormous red spot that’s actually a persistent hurricane. Jupiter is sti
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11 Levels of Origami: Easy to Complex | WIRED
610 views / 0 likes - addedOrigami artist and physicist Robert J. Lang explains origami in 11 levels of difficulty. From a simple, traditional cicada to an extremely intricate one, watch how Robert J. Lang demonstrates and breaks down everything that goes into the art of origami.St
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Scientists Create First-Ever 3-D Model of a Melting Snowflake
607 views / 0 likes - addedThis visualization is based on the first three-dimensional numerical model of melting snowflakes in the atmosphere, developed by scientist Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. A better understanding of how snow melts
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The Sun: Crash Course Astronomy #10
797 views / 2 likes - addedPhil takes us for a closer (eye safe!) look at the two-octillion ton star that rules our solar system. We look at the sun's core, plasma, magnetic fields, sunspots, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and what all of that means for our planet. This epis
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Is Success Luck or Hard Work?
358 views / 0 likes - addedIn a competitive world, tiny advantages can make all the difference. Get 10% off Snatoms with code 'giveluck' in the US: https://ve42.co/USA or International: https://snatoms.comIf you would like to receive Snatoms, submit the form here: https://ve42.co/g
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Deflecting Asteroids: Protecting The Earth From Future Catastrophic Events
742 views / 0 likes - addedAlthough massive asteroid impacts on Earth are rare, astronomers have identified thousands of asteroids close enough to Earth to be potentially hazardous. Learn from meteorite specialist Denton Ebel, Curator in the Division of Physical Sciences, how scien
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The AMAZING Design of the Parker Solar Probe - Smarter Every Day 198
449 views / 0 likes - addedGet a free audio book! http://www.audible.com/Smarter Click here if you're interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION More Detailed Interviews here: Dr. Angela Ol
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Should NASA Spend Billions To Explore The Sun?
582 views / 0 likes - addedNASA recently announced a plan to send a probe to our Sun! Is this even worth the money? Watch More: What If The Sun Doubled In Mass? ►►►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIyokKq_qN8 Get your exclusive Life Noggin merch: http://www.keeponthinking.co Suppo
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A Robotic Fish Swims in the Ocean WIth Other Fish
608 views / 1 likes - addedMore info: http://bit.ly/SoFiRobot Paper: http://robert.katzschmann.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/katzschmann2018exploration.pdf
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'The Irishman': De-Aging Visual Effects | Localish
308 views / 0 likes - added'The Irishman' visual effects supervisor, Pablo Helman, reveals that 'Marty Scorsese and Robert De Niro have been trying to make this movie for about ten years'. The now Oscar-nominated Helman was faced with a potentially impossible task: to make three Ho
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Electric fields elicit ballooning in spiders
159 views / 0 likes - addedThe aerodynamic capabilities of spiders have intrigued scientists for hundreds of years, biologists from the University of Bristol believe they have found the answer...Paper: Current Biology, Electric fields elicit ballooning in spiders. Erica L. Morley a
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The Earth: Crash Course Astronomy #11
883 views / 0 likes - addedPhil starts the planet-by-planet tour of the solar system right here at home, Earth. -- Table of Contents Earth is a Planet 0:03 Layers of Earth 1:25 The Magnetic Field 5:10 Atmosphere and the Human Influence 6:14 -- PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.co
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Black Holes: Crash Course Astronomy #33
933 views / 3 likes - addedWe’ve covered a lot of incredible stuff, but this week we’re talking about the weirdest objects in space: BLACK HOLES. Stellar mass black holes form when a very massive star dies, and its core collapses. The core has to be more than about 2.8 times the Su
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"Why Should We Go To Mars?"
223 views / 0 likes - addedDr. Robert Zubrin with a brilliant answer to why we should go to mars.Watch the full talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKQSijn9FBs
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When and Where it Rains on the Sun | SciShow News
503 views / 1 likes - addedOn SciShow News this week, Hank explains how it can rain on the sun and dives in to findings from the NASA twin study! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ------
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The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
257 views / 0 likes - addedA pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic dance in this NASA visualization. The movie traces how the black holes distort and redirect light emanating from the maelstrom of hot gas – called an accretion
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Tiny shrimp may be mixing ocean water as much as the wind and waves
373 views / 0 likes - addedBehavior may help transport nutrients and gases into the deep sea Read more: https://scim.ag/2HKIhbx Read the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0044-z CREDITS --------------------------- editor/narrator Chris Burns supervising producers Sa
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The Ideal Gas Law: Crash Course Chemistry #12
1,157 views / 0 likes - addedGases are everywhere, and this is good news and bad news for chemists. The good news: when they are behaving themselves, it's extremely easy to describe their behavior theoretically, experimentally and mathematically. The bad news is they almost never beh
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Scientists just 3D imaged the birthplace of stars—using sound
429 views / 0 likes - addedSound waves help reveal the shape of interstellar clouds Read more - https://scim.ag/2ryAlmM CREDITS ------------------- editor/narrator Chris Burns supervising producers Sarah Crespi Nguyên Khôi Nguyên story by Daniel Clery citation A. Tristis et al., Sc
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05:14
WFIRST Will See the Big Picture of the Universe
533 views / 0 likes - addedScheduled to launch in the mid-2020s, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will function as Hubble’s wide-eyed cousin. While just as sensitive as Hubble's cameras, WFIRST's 300-megapixel Wide Field Instrument will image a sky area 100 times l
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5 Amazing Stars We’ve Discovered In Space
880 views / 2 likes - addedThis episode is brought to you by Squarespace: http://www.squarespace.com/physicsgirl 5 of the most unusual, amazing and interesting stars we've discovered in our universe. Red giants, supernovas, hybrid stars, orbiting binaries, large stars, old stars, s
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04:48
Moonlight (Clair de Lune)
585 views / 0 likes - addedThis visualization attempts to capture the mood of Claude Debussy's best-known composition, Clair de Lune (moonlight in French). The piece was published in 1905 as the third of four movements in the composer's Suite Bergamasque, and unlike the other parts
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01:10
NASA'S NICER Does the Space Station Twist
532 views / 0 likes - addedThis time-lapse video, obtained June 8, 2018, shows the precise choreography of NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) as it studies pulsars and other X-ray sources from its perch aboard the International Space Station. NICER observes a
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2015's Solar Eclipse
1,462 views / 3 likes - addedIn this episode of SciShow Kids, Jessi talks about solar eclipses, and in particular, the solar eclipse of 2015! Jessi will show you how eclipses occur and where the best places to view the eclipse are. ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the inte
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07:33 Popular
LOONEY TUNES (Looney Toons): The Wacky Wabbit Bugs Bunny (1942) (Remastered HD 1080p)
777 views / 1 likes - addedThe Wacky Wabbit is a Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It was released on May 2, 1942. It was directed by Robert Clampett. It stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd (voiced by Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan, respectively). Directed by Robert Cl
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NASA’s Parker Probe will venture closer than ever to the sun to explore its mysterious atmosphere
443 views / 0 likes - addedObservatories will help explain why the corona is so hot and what drives the solar wind. Read more - https://scim.ag/2vbqh4S CREDITS ------------------------ editor/animator/narrator Chris Burns supervising producer Sarah Crespi script Sarah Crespi Chris
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LOONEY TUNES (Looney Toons): A Day at the Zoo (1939) (Remastered) (HD 1080p)
829 views / 0 likes - addedA Day at the Zoo is a 1939 Warner Bros. animated cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It was directed by Tex Avery, with musical direction by Carl Stalling. It was written by Melvin Millar. No voice credits are given. Mel Blanc provides most of the inci
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02:50
Watch a hurricane put a dent in Earth’s crust
582 views / 3 likes - addedResearchers used GPS data to track daily movement of water after major rainfall Read more - https://scim.ag/2ODa0gT CREDITS ------------------------- editor/animator/narrator Chris Burns supervising producer Sarah Crespi script Sarah Crespi Chris Burns sp
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A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
175 views / 0 likes - addedPBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Long necks gave sauropods a huge advantage when it came to food, but not in the way you think. And this benefit would allow the
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09:58
The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs
335 views / 0 likes - addedBecause of their strange combination of bear-like and dog-like traits, theyre sometimes confusingly called the beardogs. And even though youve never met one of these animals, the beardogs are key to understanding the history of an important branch of the
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09:55
Seeing Inside the Sun
505 views / 0 likes - addedDr. Robert Stein, professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State Universe has long envisioned a day when he could use supercomputer programs to "see" through the roiling surface of the sun and glimpse its dynamic interior. He describes his quest and
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02:46
Why scientists are 3D-printing their data
624 views / 0 likes - addedThese stunning 3D models are transforming scientists’ raw data. Resin-based voxel printing can even reproduce empty space. Learn more: https://scim.ag/2snGt1n Read the research (free): https://scim.ag/2Lba6tL CREDITS ----------------------------- editor/a
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11:37
When Bats Took Flight
446 views / 1 likes - addedBats pretty much appear in the fossil record as recognizable, full-on, flying bats. And they show up on all of the continents, except Antarctica, around the same time. So where did bats come from? And which of the many weird features that bats have, showe
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Low Mass Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #29
898 views / 0 likes - addedToday we are talking about the life -- and death -- of stars. Low mass stars live a long time, fusing all their hydrogen into helium over a trillion years. More massive stars like the Sun live shorter lives. They fuse hydrogen into helium, and eventually
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08:36
The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
334 views / 0 likes - addedIt 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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10:39
How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
379 views / 0 likes - addedSupport us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/eonsThey have survived every catastrophe and every mass extinction event that nature has thrown at them. And by being the little, filter-feeding, water-cleaning creatures that they are, sponges may have saved the
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09:02
The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
367 views / 0 likes - addedGet access to our quarterly livestream! http://patreon.com/eonsIn 1964, a paleontologist named John Ostrom unearthed some fascinating fossils from the mudstone of Montana. Its discovery set the stage for whats known today as the Dinosaur Renaissance, a to
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04:54
The Meteorite Museum
426 views / 1 likes - addedhttp://www.patreon.com/scifri - Please Help Support Our Video Productions! Peek inside the meteorite vault at Arizona State University where billion-year-old rocks from space give researchers clues about the formation of our solar system. The meteorites s
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09:05
How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
402 views / 1 likes - addedWhen pterosaurs first took flight, you could say that it marked the beginning of the end for the winged reptiles. Because, strangely enough, the power of flight -- and the changes that it led to -- may have ultimately led to their downfall.Thanks to Ceri
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09:36
What happened to Old London Bridge?
326 views / 0 likes - addedGet Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/jayforemanEnter promo code jayforeman for 83% off and 3 extra months for FREE! SEE NEW EPISODES EARLY, AND BEHIND-THE-SCENES EXTRAS...http://www.patreon.com/jayforeman Written and created byJAY FOREMAN https://
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09:24
The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
498 views / 1 likes - addedTo discover more go about the LEGO Ideas Tree House set go tohttps://www.lego.com/en-us/product/tree-house-21318?CMP=SOC-PBSEons21318How does a bear -- which is a member of the order Carnivora -- evolve into an herbivore? Despite how it looks, nothing abo
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12:43
When We Took Over the World
433 views / 1 likes - addedCheck out Monstrum! https://www.youtube.com/monstrumpbs From our deepest origins in Africa all the way to the Americas, by looking at the fossils and archaeological materials we have been able to trace the path our ancestors took during thee short window
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10:59
How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
460 views / 0 likes - addedOver 600 million years ago, sheets of ice coated our planet on both land and sea. How did this happen? And most importantly for us, why did the planet eventually thaw again? The evidence for Snowball Earth is written on every continent today.Thanks to Jul
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05:41
The Hubble Telescope | LEGO's Women of NASA! | Maddie Moate
583 views / 1 likes - addedHere is the second video in my LEGO 'Women of NASA' series! This time we learn about the Hubble Telescope and astronomer, Nancy G Roman (also known as Mother Hubble!) On April 24, 2018, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 28th year in orbit. This is
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05:05 Popular
Craziest eclipses in the solar system
762 views / 2 likes - addedA total solar eclipse is passing across North America on August 21, 2017. Are there other total solar eclipses in the solar system? Get your first two months of CuriosityStream free by going to http://curiositystream.com/physicsgirl and using the promo co
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03:39 Popular
What's At The End Of The Universe?
997 views / 0 likes - addedThe Big Bang Theory says the universe is expanding. But, what's at the very end of our universe? Watch more: What Would A Parallel Universe Even Be Like? ►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snuKukJLXIs&list=PL8L0MzSk_V6JtEDRfRMyb6rFd1acqYSlO&index=115&t=0s
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Binary And Multiple Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #34
732 views / 0 likes - addedDouble stars are stars that appear to be near each other in the sky, but if they’re gravitationally bound together we call them binary stars. Many stars are actually part of binary or multiple systems. If they are close enough together they can actually t
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04:43 Popular
How Many Species Are There?
1,328 views / 1 likes - addedHow do we protect what we don’t know exists? Don’t miss the next video! SUBSCRIBE! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓ More info and sources below ↓ How many species are there on Earth? In biology, this is one of a fundamental question that we still don’t have a
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Watch robotic ‘skins’ give life to inanimate toys
730 views / 1 likes - addedFlexible cuffs could also be used for space missions, rescue vehicles Read more - https://scim.ag/2pltCLi Check out the research here - http://robotics.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.aat1853 CREDITS _________________ producer/animator/narra
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When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming
306 views / 0 likes - addedFor decades, scientists have been studying the cause of the Younger Dryas, and trying to figure out if something like it could happen again. And it turns out that what caused this event is the subject of a heated debate.Thanks to these wonderful paleoarti
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12:21
How Humans Lost Their Fur
330 views / 0 likes - addedWere the only primate without a coat of thick fur. It turns out that this small change in our appearance has had huge consequences for our ability to regulate our body temperature, and ultimately, it helped shape the evolution of our entire lineage.Thank
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12:34
The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body
391 views / 1 likes - addedFrom end to end, its forelimbs alone measured an incredible 2.4 meters long and were tipped with big, comma-shaped claws. But other than its bizarre arms, very little material from this dinosaur had been found: no skull, no feet, almost nothing that could
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08:14
The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief
469 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Serving Up Science! https://youtube.com/PBSFoodPaleontologists found a small theropod dinosaur skull right on top of a nest of eggs that were believed to belong to a plant-eating dinosaur. Instead of being the nest robbers that they were origina
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08:13
How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
662 views / 0 likes - addedA 9,500 year old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the world. But when did this close relationship between humans and cats start?And how did humans help cats take over the world?Big thank
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12:22
Sula: Crash Course Literature #9
593 views / 0 likes - addedThis week, John is talking about Toni Morrison's novel of friendship, betrayal, and loss, Sula. Sula tells the story of two African American girls, the town where they grew up, the tragic even that was central to their youth, and the very different people
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04:38
Curiosity gets a gravimeter—repurposed instrument can now measure rock density
413 views / 0 likes - addedThe Curiosity rover landed on Mars without a gravimeter on board. But researchers realized that its accelerometers--normally used to determine the position of the rover--could be repurposed to measure the density of the rock it was passing over. These mea
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01:44
NASA Animation Sizes Up the Biggest Black Holes
151 views / 0 likes - addedEditor’s Note: A previous version of this video mislabeled the orbit of Saturn as the orbit of Jupiter. This new NASA animation highlights the “super” in supermassive black holes. These monsters lurk in the centers of most big galaxies,
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10:40
When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
479 views / 1 likes - addedOur new pin! https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-enamel-pinJust a few thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs. How did such a diverse group of primates evolve in the first place, and how did they help s
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A Decade of Sun
212 views / 0 likes - addedAs of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory — SDO — has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around the Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing
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02:50
New Fossil Discovery Offers Glimpse into the Day the Dinosaurs Died | NOVA | PBS
498 views / 0 likes - addedA mass of fossilized fish, uncovered in North Dakota, appear to preserve the catastrophic fallout of the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Read more: https://to.pbs.org/2IIrXKM PRODUCTION CREDITSDigital Producer: Emily ZendtMEDIA CREDITSAdditi
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06:05
Signs of Life Found on Venus I NOVA I PBS
234 views / 1 likes - addedThe 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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08:33
When the Rainforests Collapsed
289 views / 0 likes - addedCheck 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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Martin Luther King Jr. - Was his 'I Have a Dream' speech Improvised?
340 views / 3 likes - addedWhile Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s influence was large, perhaps his greatest legacy came when he delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech on August 28, 1963. As the highly revered activist from the Civil Rights era prepared for the March on Washington, D
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00:52
Mousetrap Fission Setup
254 views / 0 likes - addedWoflgang and Allen quickly and efficiently prepare the Mousetrap Fission demo for Robert Kirshner's The Energetic Universe course on February 26, 2015. The demo consists of 110 mousetraps armed with ping-pong balls; the demonstrator drops a single ball fr
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08:46
The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
190 views / 1 likes - addedThe Wrangel Island mammoths would end up being the final survivors of a once-widespread genus. In their final years, after having thrived in many parts of the world for millions of years, the very last mammoths that ever lived experienced whats known as a
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10:11
How South America Made the Marsupials
472 views / 0 likes - addedThroughout the Cenozoic Era -- the era were in now -- marsupials and their metatherian relatives flourished all over South America, filling all kinds of ecological niches and radiating into forms that still thrive on other continents. Thanks to Darin Crof
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Frederick Douglass | The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century
245 views / 2 likes - addedBorn into slavery as Frederick Douglass in 1818, this renowned lecturer and author would become one of the greatest public speakers of his time. After escaping slavery in 1838, Douglass joined the abolitionist movement. As a paid traveling lecturer, peopl
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I Calculated Absolute Zero With Vodka
107 views / 0 likes - addedGet 70% off a 3 year NordVPN plan with this link: https://nordvpn.com/steve and use the promo code "steve" to get 1 additional month free. You can find absolute zero experimentally by taking a fixed amount of gas and measuring it's volume at different tem
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10:06
How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
338 views / 0 likes - addedCheck 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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08:28 Popular
The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals
802 views / 0 likes - addedLots of the traits we think of as defining us as mammals show up pretty early, during the time of the dinosaurs. And, in some cases, they show up a lot earlier and in things that werent mammals at all.Big thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/Julio
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10:39
How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
343 views / 1 likes - addedCheck 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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The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years
344 views / 0 likes - addedOur DNA holds evidence of a huge, ancient pandemic, one that touched many different species, spanned the globe, and lasted for more than 15 million years.The paper we discuss throughout the episode:Diehl, W., Patel, N., Halm, K. and Johnson, W., 2016. Tra
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09:55
How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
352 views / 0 likes - addedWere 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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Massive Black Holes Whip Dark Matter Into A Frenzy | WIRED Science
883 views / 0 likes - addedInside a simulation of the universe's particle accelerator with WIRED Science writer Nick Stockton. Animations courtesy NASA Visualization Studio and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7 C
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03:25
NASA | Blazar Bonanza
679 views / 0 likes - addedA long time ago in a galaxy half the universe away, a flood of high-energy gamma rays began its journey to Earth. When they arrived in April, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope caught the outburst, which helped two ground-based gamma-ray observatories
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Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
545 views / 1 likes - addedHelp 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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09:35
When Lizards Took Over the World
307 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Overview! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnOajuolHWI Lizards are incredibly widespread and diverse but it took them a long time to get to where they are now. Because they used to face some pretty stiff competition from a group of lizard look-al
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09:58
When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
321 views / 0 likes - addedThe marine reptiles Ichthyosaurs arose after The Great Dying, which wiped out at least 90 percent of life in the oceans, changing the seas forever and triggering a new evolutionary arms race between predator and prey.Thank you to these paleoartists for al
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07:10
LOONEY TUNES (Looney Toons): I Wanna Be a Sailor (1937) (Remastered) (HD 1080p)
675 views / 0 likes - addedI Wanna Be a Sailor is a 1937 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery. Plot A mother parrot is teaching her children to say, "Polly want a cracker". The first two kids, Patrick and Patricia, do so after some effort, but Peter doesn't want to say cra
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How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
418 views / 0 likes - addedTake 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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03:18
How bighorn sheep use crowdsourcing to find food on the hoof
416 views / 1 likes - addedNew study suggests migration routes are passed down from generation to generation. Read more - https://scim.ag/2wQTfHX Read the research - (free) https://scim.ag/2wN74Ye CREDITS ------------------------ editor/animator/narrator Chris Burns supervising pro
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Are Perpetual Motion Machines Possible?
1,001 views / 0 likes - addedA wheel that spins forever; a bird that never quenches its thirst; a clock that never stops ticking, an endless source of free energy. These are but the dreams of inventors striving to make perpetual motion machines, machines that can work forever without
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06:28
How NASA Built the Fastest Spacecraft Ever
528 views / 0 likes - addedEngineers and designers working on the Parker Solar Probe tackled challenges such as size, weight, and extreme heat. Their design combined unique materials and underwent rigorous testing to transform the Probe into a record-breaking spacecraft. This Is No
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NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft
296 views / 0 likes - addedThey’re coming home! On Aug. 1, NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will depart from the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon “Endeavour” spacecraft after their mission aboard our orbiting laboratory. St
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08:44
How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
529 views / 0 likes - addedThe Amazon rainforest of South America is a paradise for flowering plants. But long ago, the landscape that we now think of as the Amazon looked very different. And would you believe that the entire revolution of the Amazon began with just one day?Produce
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How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed
283 views / 0 likes - addedThank you for The Great Courses Plus for Supporting PBS. To learn more and try The Great Course pulse click, http://ow.ly/m3ap30rzWfP.No other placental mammal that we know of prefers one side of the body so consistently, not even our closest primate rela
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07:09
Why is There More Matter Than Antimatter in the Universe?
292 views / 0 likes - addedLHCb has observed CP violations in charm quarks. What implications does this have on our quest to find out why there's more matter than antimatter in the universe?Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibeTara Shears is Professor of P
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How Plants Became Carnivores
403 views / 1 likes - addedGo 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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03:49
Could We Build A Planet From Scratch?
571 views / 1 likes - addedShould we colonize Mars, or just build a planet from scratch? Watch More: How Much Is Space Worth? ►►►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT11_2h6_LY&list=UUpJmBQ8iNHXeQ7jQWDyGe3A Get your exclusive Life Noggin merch: http://www.keeponthinking.co Support Li
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The Sea Monster from the Andes
430 views / 0 likes - addedIn 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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The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
478 views / 0 likes - addedOur new shirt! https://store.dftba.com/products/eons-pocket-shirt The short-faced bears turned out to be remarkably adaptable, undergoing radical changes to meet the demands of two changing continents. And yet, for reasons we don’t quite understand, their
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When Hobbits Were Real
412 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to Raycon wireless earphones for supporting PBS. Go to http://buyraycon.com/eons to learn more.Subscribe to Sound Field: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8IwwIts discoverers named it Homo floresiensis, but its often called the ho
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Eukaryopolis - The City of Animal Cells: Crash Course Biology #4
1,094 views / 0 likes - addedHank tells us about the city of Eukaryopolis - the animal cell that is responsible for all the cool things that happen in our bodies. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dftba.com/product/1av/CrashCourse-Biology-The-Complete-Series-DVD-Se
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08:40
What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?
392 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Animal Wonders and Huckleberry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONb2FVNe-7o&list=PL2Ol2gat902eYrXakcgw0FSS86fF0Ix6W&index=1Its important to us that you understand how big this beaver was. Just like modern beavers, it was semiaquatic -- it lived
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When Rodents Had Horns
340 views / 0 likes - addedThese 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 Transcontinental Burrito Hypertunnel
505 views / 0 likes - addedPBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateOKAY More info and sources below Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmartSUBSCRIBE so you dont miss a video! ht
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08:12
When Trees Took Over the World
159 views / 0 likes - added420 million years ago, the forest floor of what's now New York was covered with a plant that didnt look like a tree at all, except its roots were made of wood. Instead of looking up to learn about the evolution of trees, it turns out paleobotanists should
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How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake
610 views / 5 likes - addedAbout 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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The Joy of Cooking Asteroids
451 views / 0 likes - addedPlease support our video productions: http://www.patreon.com/scifriThe idea of mining Mars, the moon, or an asteroid for its mineral or water resources isn't far-fetched. NASA, the ESA, and several commercial enterprises already have missions in various s
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Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
165 views / 0 likes - addedThe remains of medium-sized predatory dinosaurs are pretty rare in places where giant predators like T. rex existed. Which is weird, because thats just not how ecosystems work today.Thanks to Franz Anthony, Jack Mayer Wood, ABelov2014, Fabrizio De Rossi,
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What Does It Sound Like On The Surface Of Venus?
728 views / 1 likes - addedThere is no sound on space, but there is on other planets. Find out what it may sound like to visit Venus. A collaboration video with the 20k Hertz Podcast. Music provided by Musicbed. Subscribe to 20k Hertz - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/twenty-th
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The Croc That Ran on Hooves
418 views / 0 likes - addedOur Pocket Shirt!: https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons/products/eons-pocket-shirt In the Eocene Epoch, there was a reptile that had teeth equipped for biting through flesh, its hind legs were a lot longer than its front legs and instead of claws, its
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The Oort Cloud: Crash Course Astronomy #22
695 views / 0 likes - addedNow that we’re done with the planets, asteroid belt, and comets, we’re heading to the outskirts of the solar system. Out past Neptune are vast reservoirs of icy bodies that can become comets if they get poked into the inner solar system. The Kuiper Belt i
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12:16
How the Starfish Got Its Arms
197 views / 1 likes - addedThank you to Blinkist for supporting PBS. For more information and trial go to https://www.blinkist.com/pbseonsThe story of how the starfish got its arms reminds us that even animals that might be familiar to us today can have incredibly deep histories -
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How Ocean Currents Work (and How We Are Breaking Them)
578 views / 0 likes - addedPBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateOKAY More info and sources below Head over to Animal IQ on Terra: https://youtu.be/Nc3mUNkJZZkCelebrate Earth Day with other PBS Channels! https://
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04:19
What Happens After A Supernova Explodes? - with Jen Gupta
271 views / 1 likes - addedWhen 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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08:01
The Creature That Stumped Darwin
185 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Mega Wow: https://youtu.be/meU4f31gqYI And go get our pins!! https://store.dftba.com/collections/eonsToxodon was one of the last members of a lineage that vanished 11,000 years ago after thriving in isolation for millions of years. And its fossi
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Neutron stars collide
933 views / 1 likes - addedFor the first time, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves – ripples in space-time – in addition to light from the spectacular collision of two neutron stars. This marks the first time that a cosmic event has been viewed in both gravitation
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The Brightest Part Of A Shadow Is In The Middle
574 views / 0 likes - addedWhy is there a bright spot behind spherical objects? Be the first to find out about new projects: http://www.veritasium.com Filmed by Nathan Watkins and Raquel Nuno, animation by Meg Rosenburg. Music by Kevin MacLeod, http://www.incompetech.com 'Scissors'
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As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in
527 views / 0 likes - addedIn flood-prone Bangladesh, resilience can mean letting water have its way. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2HXnFMW producer/editor/script/animator/narrator Nguyên Khôi Nguyên supervising producer/script Sarah Crespi original story/interviewee Warren Cornwall p
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09:04 Popular
A Digital Reimagining Of Gettysburg - Anne Knowles
824 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-digital-reimagining-of-gettysburg-anne-knowles Geographer Anne Knowles uses digital technologies to reimagine the past. In this fascinating talk, Knowles transports us to the Battle of Gettysburg, the turning
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03:22 Popular
ballet rotoscope
802 views / 1 likes - addedThis work is an experimental video created from a research about "Rotoscope" and “Computer Geometry”. Rotoscope is known as an traditional technique for creating animation invented in 1905 by Max Fleischer in which animators traced the actors
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06:29
What If Earth Started Spinning Twice as Fast Right Now?
503 views / 0 likes - addedThe first 500 people to use this link will get a 2 month free trial of Skillshare: http://skl.sh/RLL7 Get the new RealLifeLore book here: http://amzn.to/2ieJLyN Please Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2dB7VTO Animations courtesy of Josh Sherrington of Heliosphere
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12:48
The Genes We Lost Along the Way
269 views / 0 likes - addedOur DNA holds thousands of dead genes and weve only just begun to unravel their stories. But one thing is already clear: were not just defined by the genes that weve gained over the course of our evolution, but also by the genes that weve lost along the w
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06:16
The Phenomenon of the Missing Fundamental
349 views / 0 likes - addedWhy do some higher frequencies sound like they have lower pitch than lower frequency sounds? Engineer and music lover Shaun Fitzgerald explores the phenomenon of the missing fundamental.Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibeShaun
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08:51
What Is It Like To Have Synesthesia?
240 views / 0 likes - addedCan 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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08:24
NASAs Future Telescopes Will Float at the Edge of Space
236 views / 0 likes - addedNASA wants a new type of space telescope. A team of scientists and engineers at NASA are developing ways to send ultra cold and ultra large balloon telescopes to the edge of space, which could open up a brand new way of seeing the cosmos.Subscribe to Seek
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05:42
What Are Pentaquarks and Why Are They So Rare?
272 views / 0 likes - addedIn 2015, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider found data suggesting the existence of super-rare, super-elusive particles called pentaquarks. Tara Shears explains how our investigation into these particles has the potential to revolutionise our lives i
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05:04 Popular
Inside the killer whale matriarchy - Darren Croft
937 views / 2 likes - addedCheck out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-amazing-grandmothers-of-the-killer-whale-pod-darren-croft Pods of killer whales inhabit the waters of every major ocean on Earth. Each family is abl
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05:06
What Is the Sun?
396 views / 0 likes - addedSqueaks can't sleep because the sun is too bright, and Sam the Bat stops by to talk about what makes the sun so special----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf you have a questi
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11:31
When a Billion Years Disappeared
346 views / 0 likes - addedIn 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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03:39 Popular
Disney's Frozen "Let It Go" Sequence Performed by Idina Menzel
6,721 views / 62 likes - addedFrozen is now available to own on Blu-ray & Digital HD.In this clip from Disney's "Frozen," Elsa, whose secret powers have just been revealed, flees Arendelle and unleashes her magic, creating a breathtaking ice palace. Performed by the voice of Elsa,
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Metal Mayhem - with Andrew Szydlo
325 views / 0 likes - addedChemistry teacher and science demonstration virtuoso Andrew Szydlo is back at the Ri, for an unforgettable evening exploring the exciting world of metals.Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibeMetals make up the bulk of the Periodi
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Ella Baker - 'The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement'
178 views / 1 likes - addedAfter graduating from Shaw University, Ella Baker moved to New York City and began her career as a grassroots organizer. Joining the NAACP in 1940, the Virginia native assisted in developing some of the brightest minds in the Civil Rights Movement.Baker c
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03:41
Would Living on the Moon Suck? - Dear Blocko #31
202 views / 0 likes - addedI'm back! It's time for Dear Blocko #31!Meet The Team!Director/Voice - Pat Graziosi: http://twitter.com/PatGraziosi Animation by Steven LawsonWritten by Michael Sago Sources:https://phys.org/news/2019-07-moon.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019
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How the Egg Came First
540 views / 0 likes - addedThe 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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