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What Is Life? (featuring Prof. Brian Cox)

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Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?

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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to:http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime What is inside a black hole? Inevitable crush
Martin Luther King Jr. - Was his 'I Have a Dream' speech Improvised?

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While 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
Inside Big Ben's Makeover

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Join Fred Mills inside the 80M restoration of London's Elizabeth Tower, the iconic structure at the heart of the UK's Palace of Westminster. For more by The B1M subscribe now - http://ow.ly/GxW7y.Downloading, ripping and/or editing this video is illegal a
The Birth of Hip Hop

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In 1973, DJ Kool Herc set up his turntables and introduced a technique at a South Bronx house party that would change music as many people knew it. His ability to switch from record to record as well as isolate and repeat music breaks led to the discovery
Ella Baker - 'The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement'

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After 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
Electric fields elicit ballooning in spiders

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The 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
Perspective - Juggling From Above

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Sometimes you just need a change of perspective.See all the tricks in SLOW MOTION!: https://youtu.be/3XF3uuzmDzU Buy juggling balls and MERCH! -- https://shop.gotrystuff.com/ Support my work on Patreon -- https://www.patreon.com/taylortriesThis video is d
Frederick Douglass | The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century

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Born 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
A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck

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PBS 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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Greedy Boss CHEATS His CUSTOMERS, What Happens Is Shocking | Dhar Mann

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History vs. Tamerlane the Conqueror - Stephanie Honchell Smith

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Tamerlane was one of historys greatest conquerors but was he a great state builder or a bloodthirsty tyrant? You decide. --He was born in the 1330s in the Chaghatayid Khanate, formerly the Mongol Empire. On the steppe, he rose from a lowly sheep thief to
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The movement that inspired the Holocaust - Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira

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Trace the history of the eugenics movement in the US, and discover how the belief in ideal genetics led to forced sterilizations.--Since ancient Greece, humans have controlled populations via reproduction, retaining some traits and removing others. But in
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Intern Is FIRED By MEAN BOSS, He Instantly Regrets It | Dhar Mann

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How Big Is The Universe?

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Is the Universe infinite? Or does it somehow fold in on itself? And if so in what shape? Join us today as explore the size of the Universe. Written and presented by Prof David Kipping, with special thanks to cosmologist Prof Colin Hill for fact checking.
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The Science Of Cardboard

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Visit brilliant.org/NewMind to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscriptionIn 2020, the United States hit a record high in its yearly use of one the most ubiquitous manufactured materials
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The Extreme Physics Pushing Moores Law to the Next Level

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A look inside a new precision machine that wants to reinvent the chip making industry. »Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker »Watch more Focal Point |https://bit.ly/31Ms6mj An integrated circuit, or chip, is one of the biggest in
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Which animal has the best eyesight? - Thomas W. Cronin

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Explore the incredible diversity of eyes and vision in the animal kingdom, and find out which creature has the best eyesight.--The animal kingdom boasts an incredible diversity of eyes. Some rotate independently while others have squiggly-shaped pupils. S
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The myth of Narcissus and Echo - Iseult Gillespie

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Download a free audiobook version of Atlas of the Heart and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed--One day, Echo was drifting through the woods and fell in love with a handsome young hunter named Narcissus. Cursed by Hera to o
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The Mathematical Code Hidden In Nature

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Check out MEGAWOW from @PBS KIDS https://youtu.be/meU4f31gqYIWere on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below How do zebras get their stripes? How do leopards get their spots? And how do giraffes get
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What Is Nothing?

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Thank you to M1 Finance for Supporting PBS. For more information please go to https://m1finance.com/besmart Take the PBS Digital Studios audience survey: https://to.pbs.org/2021survey More info and sources below This is a video about nothing. Hope you lea
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The Strange Science of Why We Dream

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Take the PBS Digital Studios audience survey: https://to.pbs.org/2021surveyWere on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below It would be a lot easier to study the science of dreaming if we werent asle
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The Weird Brain Illusion That Makes Movies Work

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Thank you to Wren for supporting PBS. To learn more, go to https://wren.co/start/besmart Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below Movies. Video games. YouTube videos. All of them work because
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How Do We Read? Its Magic (Almost)

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Check out Otherwords on @Storied! https://www.youtube.com/pbsstoried Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below Reading. Youre doing it right now. I bet you dont even have to think about it. Bu
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What happened to Old London Bridge?

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The Creature That Stumped Darwin

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Check 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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The Fossil Record In Your Mouth

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The hardened residue scraped off your teeth at the dentist is called your dental calculus, and your dental calculus is the only part of your body that actually fossilizes while youre alive! And scientists have figured out how to study & trace the evolutio
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How Our Deadliest Parasite Turned To The Dark Side

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Around 10,000 years ago, somewhere in Africa, a microscopic parasite made a huge leap. With a little help from a mosquito, it left its animal host - probably a gorilla - and found its way to a new host: us. *****PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like yo
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How Do Our Brains Perceive the World Around Us? - with Anil Seth

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How does our brain translate visual signals into a conscious experience?Watch Anil's talk on the same topic: https://youtu.be/qXcH26M7PQMAnil's new book "Being You" is available now: https://geni.us/anilAnil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computationa
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Where Do New Viruses Come From?

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Where do new viruses come from and how do they end up infecting humans? One way this can happen is via zoonosis - when a disease jumps from an animal to a human via a spillover event.Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe---A very
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How Do Pandemics Get Around the World?

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Most outbreaks of diseases area localised events but some such as Black Death, chikungunya and the swine flu break the norm and become worldwide pandemics. How do they travel around the world and how do scientists map them?Subscribe for regular science vi
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Why Do Animals Cooperate? - with Nichola Raihani

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Helping relatives is a common evolutionary trait, but there are some species that also help non-relatives and even strangers. What can the cleaner wrasse tell us about this type of cooperation?Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRib
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When Trees Took Over the World

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420 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 Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon

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The 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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When Pterosaurs Walked

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Take the PBS Digital Studios audience survey: https://to.pbs.org/2021surveyIf you know one thing about pterosaurs, its that theyre flyers. And while pterosaurs may be well-known for their domination of the skies in the Mesozoic Era, they didnt live their
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The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of

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Analog computers were the most powerful computers for thousands of years, relegated to obscurity by the digital revolution. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly sub
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Blood, concrete, and dynamite: Building the Hoover Dam - Alex Gendler

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Dig into the engineering of the Hoover Dam, a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River that supplies water to the US southwest.--In the early 20th century, the US had expanded from coast to coast, but many cities in the southwest still lacked relia
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Kristen Bell - The Next Right Thing (From "Frozen 2"/Sing-Along)

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Sing along to The Next Right Thing from Disneys Frozen 2 featuring the original song performed by Kristen Bell (voice of Anna) and written by Academy Award winners Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez.Stream Disney's Frozen 2 on Disney+. Disney+ is the o
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The Engineering Puzzle of Storing Trillions of Bits in your Smartphone / SSD using Quantum Mechanics

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It's a puzzle as to how your smartphone or the solid-state drive in your laptop can store gigabytes to terabytes of data by the click of a button! It's amazing that your devices work flawlessly, and the information doesn't leak out. In this video, we'll l
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The Guy Who Figured Out How Snowflakes Work

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Dr Ken Libbrecht is the world expert on snowflakes, designer of custom snowflakes, snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen - his photos appear on postage stamps all over the world. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up vi
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We Built An Unrideable Bike To Show How Bikes Work

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Why are bicycles stable? The most common answer is gyroscopic effects, but this is not right. This video was sponsored by Kiwico. Get 50% off your first month of any crate at https://kiwico.com/veritasium50Huge thanks to Rick Cavallaro for creating this b
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Are Viruses Alive? - with Carl Zimmer

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Are viruses alive or are they lifeless packages of protein and nucleic acid? Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/-LUQTjdHYNo Carl's book "Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive" is available now - https://geni.us/zimmer Countless scientists
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Can you solve the human cannonball riddle? - Alex Rosenthal

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd--They call you the human cannonball. Your act involves flying through rings of fire, bouncing through a trampoline course, and catching the trapezist in the grand finale. Todays pre-flight test
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The Big Misconception About Electricity

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The misconception is that electrons carry potential energy around a complete conducting loop, transferring their energy to the load. This video was sponsored by Caséta by Lutron. Learn more at https://Lutron.com/veritasium Further analysis of the l
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This Robot Walks, Flies, Skateboards, Slacklines

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This is a #robot that walks, flies, #skateboards, #slacklines, and might do much more one day. A portion of this video was sponsored by Bluehost. Start building a website with Bluehost today. Use my link to receive more than 65% off: https://bluehost.com/
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I Rented A Helicopter To Settle A Physics Debate

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The story of a controversial physics question on the qualifying exam for the 2014 US Physics Olympiad team. How does a uniform cable beneath a helicopter hang? Visit https://SimpliSafe.com/veritasium to learn more and to get at least 30% off your SimpliSa
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How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented

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A general solution to the cubic equation was long considered impossible, until we gave up the requirement that math reflect reality. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a y
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How to Build the Universe with Ben Still

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Ben Still shows how a handful of different building bricks and a few construction rules cooked up the chemical elements essential to life on Earth. Ben's book: https://geni.us/X7TggmWatch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/5GB6HH0O0XoLearn more on Ben Still's chan
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What Are the New Discoveries in Human Biology? - with Dan Davis

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Recent and dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the body will profoundly change the experience of being human in the coming century. Dan's book "The Secret Body" is available now: https://geni.us/I185YgWatch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/SAzpyLLrEwQ
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How Climate Change Causes Biodiversity Loss and What We Can Do About It

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As the climate has heated over the last century, species extinction has rapidly accelerated. However, protecting biodiversity can help us mitigate and adapt to climate change.Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/AtveK2rIFSIFrom increased forest fires to rising
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The Norse myth that inspired The Lord of the Rings - Iseult Gillespie

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Download a free audiobook version of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed--The dwarves were master craftspeople. One dwarf, Andvari, forged marvelous creations. He often t
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Catching Criminals Using Their Relative's DNA

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Your genetic code is probably already in a database, without you ever giving a sample or permission. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription. A huge thank
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How Hidden Technology Transformed Bowling

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Bowling has been reinvented many times over the past seven thousand years but especially in the last 30. This is the fascinating physics of balls, oil, lane and pins. A portion of this video was sponsored by Salesforce. Go to https://salesforce.com/verita
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The Fundamental Constituents of Matter and the Eightfold Way

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Join Ben Still as he deconstructs particle physics brick by brick on a journey through the creation of the standard model.Ben's book: https://geni.us/X7TggmLearn more on Ben Still's channel: youtube.com/drbenstill Visit Ben Still's website: http://pprc.qm
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Elephant Moms Carry the Wisdom of Generations | IN OUR NATURE

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In Our Nature is a NEW special limited series on Its Okay To Be Smart!Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below Seemingly distant ecosystems, even half a world apart, are connected in surprisi
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How Much Of You Is Alive?

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Follow me to Out of Our Elements! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp-FsXHVFoU Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below Youre alive right now at least Im pretty sure you are. But youre not TOT
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What is MSG, and is it actually bad for you? - Sarah E. Tracy

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Dig into the seasoning known as MSG, and find out how this flavoring was developed and if its actually bad for your health.--In 1968, Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok felt ill after dinner at a Chinese restaurant and wrote a letter to a medical journal connecting h
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The Surprising Species That Everything Else Depends On | IN OUR NATURE

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In Our Nature is a NEW special limited series on Its Okay To Be Smart!SUBSCRIBE so you dont miss the next episode! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub More info and sources below Seemingly distant ecosystems, even half a world apart, are connected in surprising ways.
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Dung Beetles: The Poop-Rolling Stargazers of the Serengeti | IN OUR NATURE

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In Our Nature is a NEW special limited series on Its Okay To Be Smart!Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below Seemingly distant ecosystems, even half a world apart, are connected in surprisi
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These Butt-Tickling Ants Are Endangered Butterfly Bodyguards | IN OUR NATURE

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Check out "Out of Our Elements" on PBS Terra! https://youtu.be/tp-FsXHVFoUIn Our Nature is a NEW special limited series on Its Okay To Be Smart!Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below Seemin
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The Universe is Hostile to Computers

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Tiny particles from distant galaxies have caused plane accidents, election interference and game glitches. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription.This vi
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The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets

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3D printed rockets save on up front tooling, enable rapid iteration, decrease part count, and facilitate radically new designs. For your chance to win 2 seats on one of the first Virgin Galactic flights to Space and support a great cause, go to https://ww
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Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective

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The title and thumbnail play a huge role in a video's success or failure.Check out http://kiwico.com/Veritasium50 for 50% off your first month of any subscription! Special thanks to Patreon supporters: Alvaro Naranjo, Burt Humburg, Blake Byers, Dumky, Mik
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The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals

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Lots 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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The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths

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The 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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Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?

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The 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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How the Starfish Got Its Arms

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Thank 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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Grandma FIRES Her MAID With OCD, She Instantly Regrets It | Dhar Mann

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100 artists build a seamless 3D contraption from a single prompt | Dynamic Machines

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To support more challenges like this, consider becoming a patron https://www.patreon.com/pwnisher Win hardware from PNY this month! https://www.pny.com/promo/professional/expanding-machines I teamed up with PNY and NVIDIA to host my third big render chall
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Zelda Piano Medley - A Link to the Past - Laurence Manning

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Hi everyone :)! Finally, here is my new Zelda video clip from A Link to the Past! This is my first time playing piano as Princess Zelda, I hope that you will enjoy this video as much as I loved composing this arrangement and realizing this project. To get
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Essential Functions of Sleep: Learning, Memory and Changing Your Mind - with Gina Poe

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Sleep is vital to our wellbeing. The stages of deep and dreamless slow wave sleep and vivid dreaming REM sleep both have important traits. They each have their role to play in cleaning, up, putting away, and integrating new items into our knowledge schema
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What Can Intelligent Materials Do? - with Skylar Tibbits

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How can we design simple and elegant intelligent materials, that may one day animate and improve themselves?Buy Skylar's book: https://geni.us/3ORQAAEWatch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/C1liR2zeS4sTodays researchers are designing materials that physically sen
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The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve

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The Collatz Conjecture is the simplest math problem no one can solve it is easy enough for almost anyone to understand but notoriously difficult to solve. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veri
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Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now

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How close are we to having fully autonomous vehicles on the roads? Are they safe? In Chandler, Arizona a fleet of Waymo vehicles are already in operation. Waymo sponsored this video and provided access to their technology and personnel. Check out their sa
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The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang

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Dig 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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Kid Is FAT SHAMED At His School ft. @BigBoyTV | Dhar Mann

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What you believe, you can achieve. Hi #DharMannFam, thanks for watching my video! For exclusive giveaways & more inspirational content follow me on Instagram here: http://bit.ly/2Kcbgs2Also, did you know we have an official Facebook Group? Connect with ot
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How Do Neural Networks Grow Smarter? - with Robin Hiesinger

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Neurobiologists and computer scientists are trying to discover how neural networks become a brain. Will nature give us the answer, or is it all up to an artificial intelligence to work it out?Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/DoTSICEUm90Get Robin's Book: ht
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The Biggest Myth In Education

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You are not a visual learner learning styles are a stubborn myth. Part of this video is sponsored by Google Search.Special thanks to Prof. Daniel Willingham for the interview and being part of this video.Special thanks to Dr Helen Georigou for reviewing t
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How To Terraform Venus (Quickly)

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The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/kurzgesagtinanutshell08211Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-terraform-venus/Leaving earth to find new homes in space is an ol
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A Physics Prof Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong

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A UCLA Physics Professor bet me $10,000 that my video about going downwind faster than the wind was wrong. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription. For mo
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How Did Beethoven Hear Music?

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In this episode I discuss Ludwig Van Beethoven's hearing loss and demonstrate how music may have sounded to his ears and in his mind towards the end of his life. BEATO EAR TRAINING → https://beatoeartraining.com THE BEATO CLUB → https://bit.ly/3
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Why We Faint (When Other Animals Don't)

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Get a limited edition MinuteEarth YETI tumbler when you become a new patron at the $6 or above tiers or upgrade an existing pledge: https://patreon.com/minuteearthHumans are the only animals known to faint due to triggers like shock, fear, or pain; this i
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These Acrobatic Beach Hoppers Shred All Night Long | Deep Look

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As the sun sets, hordes of tiny crustaceans called beach hoppers also known as sand hoppers emerge from underground burrows to frolic and feast. They eat so much decaying seaweed and other beach wrack that by morning all thats left are ghostly outlines in
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Firebrats and Silverfish Are Rocking Some Old-School Looks | Deep Look

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What *is* that bizarre fishlike thing squirming in your sink at night? Firebrats and silverfish are pretty darn similar to some of the earliest insects on Earth. With three long filaments poking out their back, no wings and mini-me babies, they have somet
The Little Things: Small Kindness, Big Impact

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You know, its the little things that you do day in and day out that I admired for the last 8 years. I dont think you can find a better person to be friends with.Every week, Herman Travis loads up a heavy shopping cart full of groceries from a food bank to
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The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment

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If you ran evolution all over again, would you get humans? How repeatable is #evolution? This video is sponsored by @BountyBrand. #biology #science #QPU #HygieneBeginswithBounty #BountyPartnerSpecial thanks to Prof. Richard Lenski and team for showing me
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The Day the Dinosaurs Died Minute by Minute

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DISCOVER ANCIENT WORLDSPeek into the past and learn about dinosaurs and other amazing creatures: https://kgs.link/dinoSources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sourcesdinosaurapocalypse/66 million years ago, maybe on a Tuesday afternoon, lif
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The Incredible Story of Robert Smalls | WHAT THE PAST?

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Robert 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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When Is Now?

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The Transcontinental Burrito Hypertunnel

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How Ocean Currents Work (and How We Are Breaking Them)

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PBS 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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Why Are We Warm-Blooded?

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What Is the Speed of Thought?

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Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmartFollow me to Animal IQ: https://youtu.be/yPrQ3Pl-iEM More info and sources below Heres a thought: What IS a thought? I know it involves my brain, and my brain is made of neurons.
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Vilnius and Lublin in Poland became the first two cities to connect through a virtual Portal

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Welcome to PORTAL where Lithuania's capital, Vilnius and Lublin in Poland became the first two cities to connect through this virtual ‘bridge’! Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, PORTAL is a new wave community accelerator, aiming to bring people of d
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Risking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate

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Everyone will say this craft breaks the laws of physics. This video is sponsored by Kiwico, For 50% off your first month of any subscription crate from KiwiCo (available in 40 countries!) head to https://www.kiwico.com/Veritasium50 A HUGE thanks to Rick a
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There's a Hole at the Bottom of Math

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Not everything that is true can be proven. This discovery transformed infinity, changed the course of a world war and led to the modern computer. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium ge
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Business Man THREATENS ASIAN Owner, Lives To Regret It | Dhar Mann

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Sister Calls BROTHER'S Girl A GOLD DIGGER, She Instantly Regrets It | Dhar Mann

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How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room

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If there's a hotel with infinite rooms, could it ever be completely full? Could you run out of space to put everyone? The surprising answer is yes -- this is important to know if you're the manager of the Hilbert Hotel. References: Ewald, W., & Sieg, W. (
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YOU ARE MOVING A MILLION MPH NOW!

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How fast are you moving? Remarkably you are moving, by some definitions, around a million miles per hour. But, why don't we feel this motion? Is this speed useful in some way? And what does the question of speed really even mean? Join us today as Cool Wor
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Scammer STEALS From SENIOR HOME, Lives To Regret It | Dhar Mann

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These Mites Rain Down To Save Your Strawberries | Deep Look

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Two tiny mites duke it out on strawberry plants throughout California. One is a spider mite that sucks the juices out of the delicious crop and destroys it. The other, persimilis, is a crafty predator that growers drop by the thousands from high-tech dron
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Why Did the Mexican Jumping Bean Jump? | Deep Look

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To find its place in the shade! Each hollowed-out seed is home to a head-banging moth larva, just trying to survive the harsh Sonoran Desert sun.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt Please join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/dee
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Leaf Miner Fly Babies Scribble All Over Your Salad | Deep Look

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This flys larvae tunnel inside bitter-tasting greens like arugula and kale, leaving squiggly marks behind. The plants fight back with toxic chemicals. So before laying her eggs, the fly mom digs into a leaf and slurps its sap a taste test to find the leas
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The Undying Hydra: A Freshwater Mini-Monster That Defies Aging | Deep Look

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Could this tiny creature, named after a mythical multiheaded monster, hold the secret to eternal youth? Related to jellyfish and anemones, the hydra has an almost otherworldly ability to heal itself and stave off aging.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.g
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This Unstoppable Robot Could Save Your Life

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This robot has applications to archaeology, space exploration, and search and rescue with a simple elegant design inspired by a plant. Sign up to Morning Brew for free today: https://ve42.co/mbMake your own Vine Robot! https://www.vinerobots.orgSpecial th
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Pool Sized Magic Milk Experiment!

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Today we are using the physical and chemical properties of fats and surfactants to create cool milk magic tricks. How much can we scale it up??Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsSend Us Some Mail:TKOR1881 W Traverse ParkwaySte. E #
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Can Elephant Toothpaste Blow Up a Toilet?!

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Today we're taking elephant toothpaste and putting it inside a couple of things. First, we'll put it inside a Mrs. Potato Head, then scale it up and put it into a toilet. We'll set the toilet reaction off by flushing the elephant toothpaste ingredients th
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Does Blowing On Hot Food Actually Work?

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Watch The King of Random in Spanish | Mira The King of Random en Espaol: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf9RdZvBJGQUjSCBMnXGAPQIn this video we are testing if blowing on hot food actually cools it down or if it's a waste of time. Do you think it will wo
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How Those Viral Science TikToks Are Made

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Today we are testing different viral TikToks to see if they are just camera tricks or if they actually work!! How many of these will actually be real?Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsWatch The King of Random in Spanish | Mira The
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Turning a Glue Gun Into a 3D Printer

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Today we are putting 3D printing filament into a hot glue gun to see if we can make a 3D print pen! Will this actually work??Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsWatch The King of Random in Spanish | Mira The King of Random en Espaol
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Using a Rock Tumbler to Make This Popular Candy

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Check out https://www.kiwico.com/TKOR50 and get 50% off your first month of any subscription!Today we are using a rock tumbler to make our own version of Jelly Beans! How will they turn out??Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsWatch
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Can You Upgrade Moon Shoes With Industrial Springs?

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In today's video we are modifying Moon Shoes by rigging them with bungee cords and springs. How high can we jump in them??Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsSend Us Some Mail:TKOR1881 W Traverse ParkwaySte. E # 221Lehi, UT 84043Mus
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The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours

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Seriously. How is this so old and yet so advanced?We need kitchen appliance reform. Vote YES on prop SRCT.The second channel video is here now!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBD1NyabTt4Technology Connections on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TechConnectifyT
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Reusable handwarmers that get hot by freezing

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These things are so cool they're hot.Here's some links.Technology Connextras (the second channel that stuff goes on sometimes):https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClRwC5Vc8HrB6vGx6Ti-lhATechnology Connections on Twitter:https://twitter.com/TechConnectifyThe
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What's the Point of Maths? - with Nira Chamberlain

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All around the world children, and even some adults, ask the question: What is the point of mathematics?. The field of mathematical modelling not only helps answer this question, it can help quench the human thirst for knowledge.Watch the Q&A: https://you
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Why good ideas get trapped in the valley of death and how to rescue them

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Explore why zero-carbon technologies are vulnerable to the valley of death in product development and how we can change it.--All new products must pass through the "valley of death" before they reach the market. Many never make it out, and sometimes thats
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Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition - Kayla Wolf

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Dig into the era of the Spanish Inquisition, when the Catholic Church was charged with rooting out and punishing heresy.--In 1478, Pope Sixtus IV issued a decree authorizing the Catholic monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, to root out heresy in the Spanish
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This is why we can't have nice things

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The Secret of Synchronization

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How does order spontaneously arise out of chaos? This video is sponsored by Kiwico go to https://www.kiwico.com/Veritasium50 for 50% off your first month of any crate.An enormous thanks to Prof. Steven Strogatz this video would not have been possible with
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The Genes We Lost Along the Way

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Our 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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How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed

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Thank 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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How does this SSD store 8TB of Data? || Inside the Engineering of Solid-State Drive Architecture

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Imagine storing every single video, movie, and picture you have ever seen in your entire life on a single solid-state drive. Well, these high-end solid-state drives [30TB] can do that. But how can SSDs organize so much information? Well in this video we a
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Whats the best fuel for your car?

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Dig into which fuel gasoline, electric, biofuels, or electrofuels is both affordable for consumers and sustainable for the planet.--Historically, most cars have run on gasoline, but that doesnt have to be the case in the future: other liquid fuels and ele
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The Golden Ratio: Is It Myth or Math?

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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 The golden ratio. Some say its the most mythical number in the universe. Others say it unde
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What is Impossible in Evolution?

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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 Could humans ever evolve to have wings? Why dont fish have propellers? Why dont tigers have
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The Plant Thats Full Of Metal

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Special Christmas Deal! Use the link https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/MinuteEarth to support our channel and get 3 years + 2 months free for $79. Just $2.08 for a MONTH!The amount of metal some special plants are able to take up from the soil would b
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The Invisible Insect Highway Above You

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An 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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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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The Ridiculous Way We Used To Calculate Pi

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For thousands of years, mathematicians were calculating Pi the obvious but numerically inefficient way. Then Newton came along and changed the game. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 314 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium
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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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Stirling Engine | An ingenious invention

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The Scottish engineer Robert Stirling invented an amazing engine called Stirling engine long back. The specialty of this machine is that it works based on constant temperature difference. Let's learn about the details of this invention in this video.Be ou
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The worlds most dangerous fart - Nick Caruso and Dani Rabaiotti

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Dive into the bowels of the animal kingdom to explore why animals fart, and find out which creature has the foulest flatulence. --For most humans, farts are a welcome relief, an embarrassing incident, or an opportunity for a gas-based gag. But for many ot
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The material that could change the world... for a third time

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Explore the role concrete plays in global warming and how scientists are working to create a cleaner, more sustainable concrete.--Today roads, sidewalks, bridges, and skyscrapers are made of a material called concrete. Theres three tons of it for every pe
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Prosecutor Sends Innocent Black Man To Jail, Lives To Regret It | Dhar Mann

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How do Steam Engines Work?

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We make steam every morning while preparing our morning coffee. But how can it be used to move this massive machine? In this episode, we explore how engineers designed steam engines to turn fire, water, and steam into tremendous amounts of force.This vide
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The Engineering Inside Noise-Canceling Headphones

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The engineering inside noise-canceling headphones is rather intricate. Let's see how.Check out https://www.pcbway.com/ for all kinds of PCBs, easy ordering, and quick delivery.Take a look at their PCB Assembly, for an inexpensive population of the compone
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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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"Why Should We Go To Mars?"

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Dr. 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 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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Why Do We Lie?

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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 Everyone lies. Even you and even me. We lie about small things and we lie about big things.
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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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I Asked Bill Gates What's The Next Crisis?

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I 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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Who decides how long a second is? - John Kitching

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Discover how scientists developed atomic clocks, which use the vibrations of atoms to measure and maintain a globally consistent time.--In 1967, researchers gathered to answer a long-running scientific question: just how long is a second? It might seem ob
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What Happened to the World's Biggest Beaver?

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Check 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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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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The Pandemic That Lasted 15 Million Years

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Our 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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These squids can fly... no, really - Robert Siddall

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Dive 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 Illusion Only Some Can See

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Ames window illusion illustrates how we don't directly perceive external reality. Special Holiday deal! Go to https://NordVPN.com/veritasium and use code VERITASIUM to get 68% off a 2 year plan plus 4 additional months free. Its risk free with Nords 30 da
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How do personality tests work? - Merve Emre

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Examine how popular personality tests, like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Enneagram, are designed and their inconsistencies. --In 1942, a mother-daughter duo named Katherine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers developed a questionnaire that clas
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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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When Lizards Took Over the World

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Check 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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When the Earth Suddenly Stopped Warming

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For 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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The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"

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Figuring out what this creatures face actually looked like would take paleontologists years. But understanding this weird animal can help us shine a light on at least one way for ecosystems to bounce back from even the worst mass extinction.Thanks to Ceri
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Why the Heck Is Glass Transparent?

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Thank you to CuriosityStream for supporting PBS! For more information, go to https://curiositystream.com/smart and USE code SMART. More info and sources below Follow me to Overview on PBS Terra! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjez0W8SPXc Glass is made of
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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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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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The worlds largest organism - Alex Rosenthal

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Discover the worlds largest organism: Pando, an enormous and ancient quaking aspen, and find out how it became so huge.--The largest animal in the world is the blue whale, which weighs a massive 150 metric tons. Even so, its not remotely close to being th
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Can You 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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COVID-19 & Mask Myths DEBUNKED!

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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 Bottom line: Masks work. They are safe for almost everyone to wear, and the more people tha
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Why Time Moves Fast...and Slow

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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 Time passes for all of at the saem rate of one second per second. But why does it sometimes
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Why Are There 7 Days In a Week?

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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 Why does everyone use a 7 day week, and where did it come from? Where do the names of the d
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The SHOCKING Truth About Ben Franklin and the Kite

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Thank you to Target for supporting PBS. You can learn more at: https://target.com/communityShare your story today: https://to.pbs.org/3izZeXh More info and sources below Youve probably heard of Ben Franklin and the kite. But do you know the TRUE story of
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Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine

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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 Here we are, just a year after the first news of the coronavirus we now call SARS-CoV-2 and
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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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How Humans Lost Their Fur

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Were 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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"Don't Come Crying" [VERSION A] Minecraft FNAF SL Animated Music Video (Song by TryHardNinja)

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Would a Frozen Human Shatter Into Pieces?

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In this video, we test if a frozen person would shatter like in movies. We are freezing meat a few different ways and smashing them to see if they shatter.Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsSend Us Some Mail:TKOR1881 W Traverse Par
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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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Can You Power Rockets with Alka Seltzer?

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The Engineering Marvel That is the Sewing Machine!

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Today we are looking at the inside of a sewing machine to figure out how exactly it works. How does it sew two fabrics together without passing a needle through to both sides?Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsSend Us Some Mail:TKO
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Why Does Water Wrinkle Your Hands?

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Did you ever notice how your hands prune underwater? Today we are testing if our hands prune in various liquids like aloe vera gel, milk, vegetable oil, saltwater, and mountain dew.Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsSend Us Some Ma
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Testing Viral TikToks: Does Peanut Butter Glow?

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Today we are trying to create glow in the dark peanut butter with different types of peanut butter and a specific low frequency of light. Will peanut butter actually glow?Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsSend Us Some Mail:TKOR188
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Are Post-it Notes Strong Enough to Tow a Car?

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Install Raid for Free IOS: https://clcr.me/DIEJkF ANDROID:https://clcr.me/kEn17Y PC: https://clcr.me/9rpsGL and get a special starter pack Available only for the next 30 daysToday we are using post-it notes and string to tow a car. How much weight will th
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Making a Marshmallow The Size of Your Head

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In today's video we're making homemade graham crackers, then taking a ton of marshmallows and chocolate to make an enormous s'more.Big thanks to all the teachers out there! If you would like to get your own DO-CAM or for a teacher you know, click here: ht
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These LEGO Are Made From Milk!

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Today we are using 1% milk and vinegar to create plastic then using the plastic to create different LEGO!Check out all of our socials: https://linktr.ee/tkorsocialsSend Us Some Mail:TKOR1881 W Traverse ParkwaySte. E #221Lehi, UT 84043Music by: Kalle Engst
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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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Can you solve the Alice in Wonderland riddle? - Alex Gendler

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ --After many adventures in Wonderland, Alice has once again found herself in the court of the temperamental Queen of Hearts. Shes about to pass through the garden undetected, when she overhears
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How do investors choose stocks? - Richard Coffin

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Explore the strategies investors use to choose stocks and learn whether its better to be an active or passive investor. --Every day, billions of stocks are traded on the New York Stock Exchange alone. But with over 43,000 companies listed on stock exchang
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The Fastest Animals Are Way Faster Than You Think

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Take the PBS Digital Studios annual survey: http://to.pbs.org/2020surveySubscribe to @Ant Lab and @Physics Girl!!! More info and sources below The fastest animal in nature isnt what you think it is. Its way, way smaller than that. Natures tiniest creature
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4 Ways to End the Universe

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Subscribe to my new show Overview!! https://youtu.be/Lt9qYvKFumM And remember: The universe will end, but not for a while probably More info and sources below I dont want to alarm you, but the world is going to end. All of this. Gone. And scientists are c
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The Lizard That Uses Nanotechnology to Walk Upside Down

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Check out Self-Evident on PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/HY_uZfCeljUWere on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below Geckos can grip and climb almost anything. Walking up walls, hanging upside down eve
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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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