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The Hottest Place and the Coldest Place in the Universe are the SAME PLACE

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You've finally got it, my absolute favorite cocktail party fact. I hope it provides as much joy for you as it has for me!Pizzamas Continues! http://www.pizzamas.comThanks to Ben Acker for helping me write jokes for this!Thanks to Incompetech for the music
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How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter)

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It is a very weird moment and it is really important that a lot of people have both the kinds of skills that give them good signals for when to get suspicious AND strong abilities to figure out whether things are real or not. Both of those things, IMO, ar
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The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals

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In which John discusses the extraordinary life of Margarete Steiff and the invention of stuffed animals. I first learned about Margarete Steiff while researching the (genuinely astonishing) history of teddy bears; you can listen to my essay on them here:
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Why Avocados Still Exist

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In which John discusses the strangely hopeful history (and future?) of avocado trees and their extraordinary fruit. It's a tale of coevolving with mammals that no longer exist, and yet finding a way to go on. ----Subscribe to our newsletter! https://nerdf
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Everything a Normal Person Needs to Know About Helium

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Last chance: http://AwesomeSocks.club/vbSign up to be delighted every month by a sock designed by a different independent artist. 100% of after-tax profit goes to charity. Cancel any time. Free shipping everywhere!Helium is so great...and we are running o
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The Worst Product Ever

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Waste is super not simple...so we have ways of simplifying it in our heads. The Flexplay DVD gives us insight into exactly how that works. We decide whether it's OK to throw something away by thinking about how valuable it is. A plastic bottle is just a c
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The Amazon isn't "Burning" - It's Being Burned

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This is a thing that is happening right now, and (taking a page from the global warming playbook) a think I've been hearing from Bolsonaro's supporters is, "Who even knows how bad it is...deforestation is actually down." It's so sad to watch us play with
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Yellowstone: The Terror Of Change

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In which Hank has some thoughts from Yellowstone National Park, one of the coolest and most dangerous places on Earth. In a weird way, this video is a response to John's about the refugee crisis. Anything that makes us confront that cliff of the unknowabl
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454 Days: Understanding America's Ridiculous Political Campaigns

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In which John explores why he is not (yet) interested in the so-called Presidential Race, and discusses the U.S.'s campaign length in the context of other democracies. Side note that I couldn't fit into the video: The media is heavily invested in longer c

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