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Auditory Transduction (2002)

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This 7-minute video by Brandon Pletsch takes viewers on a step-by-step voyage through the inside of the ear, to the acoustic accompaniment of classical music. Pletsch, a former medical illustration student at the Medical College of Georgia, first built a
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Jurassic Park Remake by Kids

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During the summer of 2002 a group of kids recreated Jurassic Park scene-for-scene using only a hi-8 camcorder, a collection of Jurassic Park actions figures, and the best costumes no money can buy. Since that Jurassic Park summer, Steven and David (Hammon
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Meet the Voice Behind Your GPS

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Meet Karen Jacobsen, a voiceover artist from Queensland Australia, who has one of the most recognisable voices in the world. As the original voice of GPS, shes helped billions of us to reach our destination. Back in 2002, she recorded more than 50 hours o
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War and Nation Building in Latin America: Crash Course World History 225

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In which John Green teaches you about nation building and nationalism in Latin America. Sometimes, the nations of Latin America get compared to the nations of Europe, and are found wanting. This is kind of a silly comparison. The rise of democratic, econo
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NASA | Brazil’s Extreme Drought Seen From Space

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For 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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Why Do Bats Transmit So Many Diseases Like Ebola?

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Why Does This Frog Have So Many Legs?!

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These frogs can have up to TEN back legs. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/annarothschild/ ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more gross info?↓ Parasite (Ribeiroia ondatrae) infection linked to amphibian
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These Ancient Windmills Were Built Over 1,000 Years Ago

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When you think of windmills, the Netherlands might first come to mind. But some of the oldest windmills in the world are in Nashtifan, Iran. Dozens stand atop a wall in the windy city, not far from the Afghanistan border. From a distance, they look like w
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Movie Geometry - Shaping the Way You Think

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Shapes have meaning. That may sound crazy, but hear me out. Let's explore how cinematographers and directors create shapes inside the frame to add visual storytelling to their films. Twitter: http://bit.ly/1QvLI0H Patreon: http://bit.ly/1UaO9MU Music: htt
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3 Amazing Facts About Dogs!

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Even if you have a dog of your own, we bet you don’t know these three amazing things about our furry best friends! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check ou
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What Is the Sun Made Of? | Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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Have you ever wondered what the sun is made of? Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin wondered that, too, and she used science to figure out the answer! Find out how she did that and more about her amazing life and discoveries!Standards:Scientists search for cause
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Why Beans Give You Gas

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Should Animals Have Human Rights?

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In theory, all human beings have a certain set of inalienable rights simply by virtue of being self-aware, of having the ability to consider abstract concepts. Nowadays an increasing number of scientists, legislators and global institutions are asking whe
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How Risky Are Vaccines?

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Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought

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Please help us keep making MinuteEarth by supporting us on Patreon: https://goo.gl/ZVgLQZ Thanks to our Patreon patrons: - Today I Found Out - Jeff Straathof - Mark - Maarten Bremer - Tony Fadell - Alberto Bortoni - Valentin - Nicholas Buckendorf - Antoin
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Help a Snail Find True Love!

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You can help a special snail find a mate—while also helping scientists unravel a mystery. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ Press Release from the Univ
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One-handed pitcher Jim Abbott's amazing no-hitter

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9/4/93: Watch the last out of impressive one-handed pitcher Jim Abbott's no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium Check out http://MLB.com/video for more! About MLB.com: About MLB.com: Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig announced
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What Actually Causes Dandruff?

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This fungus lives on your scalp and may affect the genes you express. Check out Head & Shoulders research on getting rid of dandruff: https://ve42.co/HS Animation by Pindex: https://ve42.co/pindex When I started this project, I wasn't sure what caused dan
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Why Insects Love Summer – Flight, Fights And Booze

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Have you ever wondered what happens when insects get drunk? Can you tell the temperature by the frequency of a cricket’s chirps? Do you know what temperature a butterfly has to be to take off? Kate buzzes around the science of summer insects. Subscribe fo
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The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But Humans Can

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The Winograd schema is a language test for intelligent computers. So far, they're not doing well. MORE LANGUAGE FILES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLDEnHuhD7CTZES3KXFnwm0 Written with Gretchen McCulloch and Molly Ruhl. Gretchen's podc
Can a Lego Car Roll Downhill Forever?

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Making Lego cars roll downward on a Lego treadmill with an incline, using various methods to create tire friction, in order to make the cars roll downhill indefinitely. The angle of the slope is gradually increased to intensify this challenge. The final c
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The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks

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Head to https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics to sign up for free and get 20% off a Premium subscription to Brilliant!This video was written in collaboration with Aatish Bhatia - https://aatishb.com To learn more about using & decontaminating N95 masks: htt
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Is The Alcubierre Warp Drive Possible? | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios

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Is mankind capable of achieving warp speed? Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime Inspired by Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, physic
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US voting machines are failing. Here’s why.

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The greatest threat to American voting machines might not be hacking, but old age. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In our latest collaboration with ProPublica, we take a look at US election security and the status of American voting machine
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How Many Species Are There?

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How 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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How To Keep Elephants And Wolves Out Of Your Yard

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Does Homeopathy Work?

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Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions Homeopathy is a category of “alternative medicine” that emerged some 200 years ago. But does it work? While a growing number of people are turning to such remedies to treat a range of health conditions, the majority o
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When Trees Go Nuts

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Please support us through Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/minuteearth Or, click the "Sponsor" button to support us through YouTube itself. Thank you! Every once in a while, all the oaks or spruces or other plants in a region suddenly produce a tremendous
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8 Sick Remedies That Actually Work - Scientifically!

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Which of your sick remedies are actually helping? Watch Us Debunk 6 Sick MYTHS: http://youtu.be/CaEg42YYy18 GET THE BOOK: http://asapscience.com/book Subscribe! (It's free): http://bit.ly/asapsci Written by Rachel Salt, Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown Inst
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Telescopes: Crash Course Astronomy #6

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Today Phil explains how telescopes work and offers up some astronomical shopping advice. -- How Telescopes Work 1:07 Refractors vs Reflectors 2:50 Technology and the Light Spectrum 7:45 -- PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Follow P
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The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake

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Check out America from Scratch: https://www.youtube.com/americafromscratch In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully pr
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Where Does One Ocean End And Another Begin?

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Check out Brilliant (and get 20% off) here: https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth/Earth's ocean water is continuous. How can we divide it into sections that are more useful?Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth and our YouTube
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Do Five Dimensional Black Holes Prove Einstein Wrong?

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Scientists have recently modeled a strange black hole in a 5D universe. What does this mean to Einstein's Theory of Relativity? Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG NASA Accidentally Discovers Giant Black Holes►►►►http://bit
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theredntve

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This script was a nightmare to pronounce. Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/662535562508517376/lingthusiasm-episode-60-thats-the-kind-of More Language Files: htt
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How to Turn Cancer Against Itself

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This video was made in partnership with the Swiss National Science Foundation. To see more videos about the importance of basic research, go to https://www.youtube.com/SNSFinfo Or watch the THREE OTHER VIDEOS we made with SNSFWhats intelligent about artif
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Plate Tectonics Explained

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How do plate tectonics REALLY work? We're now on Patreon! Please support us at: http://www.patreon.com/minuteearth And subscribe! - http://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth?sub_confirmation=1 Thanks to our Patreon patrons: - @AntoineCoeur - salar tel - @To
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An Egg Is Just One Cell

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One of Earth's biggest cells is one you're probably really familiar with. See what we're cooking up over at our BRAND-NEW channel, MinuteFood: https://www.youtube.com/user/minutefoodLEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googli
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Radium Was a Miracle Product, Until it Started Killing People

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People used to think radium had mystical healing properties, but then things went horribly awry. The Bizarre Story Of The Very First Vaccine - https://youtu.be/fF5-aJ-o0Os Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Learn More: Can Burn
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Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Concussions?

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Don’t be hard-headed. You should SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Tweet this video ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSbang Share on FB ⇒ http://bit.ly/OKTBSbangFB ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Translate this video: LINK TKTK Want to wear your love for science? We’v
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What Would Happen If You Never Brushed Your Teeth?

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Besides bad breath, there are some SERIOUS consequences if you don't brush your teeth! Watch More: What Would Happen If You Never Showered? ►►►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqXzmiAvav0 Get your exclusive Life Noggin merch: http://www.keeponthinking.co
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What Really Happened to the Library of Alexandria?

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Picture the Recipe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEBtDzuikFw24LPsgGyW1AQ If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page where we've got a variety of perks for our Patrons, including Si
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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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I found the BEST coronavirus depiction (+ explanation)

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To start comparing quotes and simplify insurance-buying check out Policygenius: http://policygenius.com/minuteearth. Thanks to Policygenius for sponsoring this video!Ever found a fantastic coronavirus illustration that led him to learn about viral attachm
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You Cant Actually Die Of Old Age

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Go to our sponsor https://betterhelp.com/minuteearth for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help.Despite centuries of death records to the contrary, dying of old age is not medically po
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Genetically Modified Humans? CRISPR/Cas 9 Explained

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Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions Fans of Blade Runner have already caught a glimpse of world with super-powered humans secretly living among us, capable of physical feats far beyond your everyday person. But now, with the the CRISPR/CAS9 Gene editing
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Why It's So Hard For The Government To Hack Your Phone

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The FBI is currently in a battle with Apple to allow encrypted phones be unlocked, but how does encryption even work? How Powerful Is Apple? ►►►► http://bit.ly/1OBOqRk Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG How Secure Are Fing
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The goose that conquered America

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The Canada goose is a nuisance. But you might not realize how it got that way.Start listening with a 30-day Audible trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free. Visit https://audible.com/vox or text VOX to 500-500Become a Video Lab
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What Happens If A Star Explodes Near The Earth?

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People have witnessed supernovae for millennia, but what threat do they pose to life on Earth? This video is sponsored by Brilliant. You can get started for free, or the first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly
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We're Oversalting Our Food, And It's Not What You Think

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This video was supported in part by Leesa, an online mattress company. Use the offer code "EARTH75" for $75 off your purchase at https://www.leesa.com/earth https://www.leesa.com/ Thanks also to our Patreon patrons: - BurmansHealthShop - Jeff Straathof -
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Can You Solve The 21 Flags Game From Survivor?

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Contestants on the TV show "Survivor" faced off in a series of challenges for a grand prize of $1 million. Most of the challenges were physical like hiking many miles or diving underwater. But one challenge was mathematical. The game had 21 flags and cont
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When Fish Wore Armor

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Check out Hot Mess: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaEBhRsI6tmmz12fkSEYdw 420 million years ago, some fish were more medieval. They wore armor, sometimes made of big plates, and sometimes made of interlocking scales. But that armor may actually have se
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The Largest River On Earth Is In The Sky

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Learn more about your personal DNA story by going to https://23andMe.com/okay SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ What’s the largest river on Earth? If you said “the Amazon”… you’re only half
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What Really Happens to Your Blood After You Donate?

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Plasma gathered from your blood can be exported across the globe, but what exactly is it, and why is it in demand? A New Genetic Alphabet Is Creating Things Nature Has Never Seen - https://youtu.be/X3uHfRVjVVI Read More: Why Blood is Needed https://www.uc
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Neutron Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #32

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In 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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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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Sesame Street - Mahna Mahna (1969)

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From 1969 (Ep 14, aired on November 27, 1969), the first performance of the classic "Mahna Mahna" by Bip Bippadotta (Jim Henson) and two Anything Muppet girls (Frank Oz and Loretta Long). Not new to YT, just a cleaner source. CLICK ON SHOW MORE FOR INFO A
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What Can You Learn From Ancient Poop?

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Fossilized poop, called coprolites, can reveal surprising secrets about the past.Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/Want more info?More on Coprolite preservation and analysis:
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Why Do Some Species Thrive In Cities?

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Urban development can be tough on wildlife. But some plants and animals are adapting to our cities in surprising ways. Thanks to squarespace.com for supporting this video. Go build a website! http://www.squarespace.com/minuteearth (use your 10% discount c
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Why the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture | Monstrum

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Check out Subcultured on @PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/oSCj8H4TGToDont miss future episodes of Monstrum, subscribe! http://bit.ly/pbsstoried_subThe Chinese dragon is one of the worlds most globally recognized monsters. Playing a major role throughout Chin
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What Is the RNA World Hypothesis?

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Click this link to take a survey about the video: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VS8SNBH All living creatures today reproduce and evolve using a complex gene-enzyme cycle. If we look at a cell, for example, information encoded in its genes is used to prod
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The Last Time the Globe Warmed

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far) Produced
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Why Are There Dangerous Ingredients In Vaccines?

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why typing like this is sometimes okay.

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Language changes over time, and that's fine. Time for a dose of descriptivism, as the Language Files return. Pull down the description for the references! MORE LANGUAGE FILES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLDEnHuhD7CTZES3KXFnwm0 Writte
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How Electricity Actually Works

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This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription. Special thanks to: Bruce Sherwood, Ruth Chabay, Aaron Titus, and Steve Spicklemore https://matterandinteractions.
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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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A Brief History of Geologic Time

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By looking at the layers beneath our feet, geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in life’s history. These key events frame the chapters in the story of life on earth and the system we use to bind all these chapters together i
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How To Get Venom From The World's Deadliest Spider

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Go to our sponsor https://betterhelp.com/veritasium to get matched with a professional therapist who will listen and help.Huge thanks to the Australian Reptile Park for having us over to film special thanks to Jake Meney for showing us the spiders and Cai
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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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Why Poor Places Are More Diverse

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Thanks to The Kwongan Foundation at the University of Western Australia for supporting this video: http://www.plants.uwa.edu.au/alumni/kwongan MinuteEarth is now on Patreon! Please support us at: http://www.patreon.com/minuteearth And subscribe! - http://
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How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse

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Today's wildfires burn, on average, twice the amount of land they did in 1970. The reason? We've been working too hard to put them out. Thanks to our Patreon patrons: - Today I Found Out - Jeff Straathof - Mark - Maarten Bremer - BurmansHealthShop - Duhil
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Why So Many Meteorites Come From The Same Place

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Because of space physics, one faraway asteroid is likely the progenitor of almost a third of all the meteorites on Earth. Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video: http://skl.sh/MinuteEarth Jorge and Daniel's awesome new book, "We Have No Idea": htt
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The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers

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Over the past 20 years, dinosaurs of all types and sizes have been found with some sort of fluff or even full-on plumage. These fuzzy discoveries have raised a whole batch of new questions so we're here to tell you everything we know about dinosaurs and f
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This Is Not A Bee

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It can be hard to distinguish bees from all the other insects out there that look like bees. Thanks also to our supporters on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth ___________________________________________ If you want to learn more about this topic, start
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Thats Not a Rattlesnake Its an Owl!

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Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Search Engines course. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription.When living underground leaves them vulnerable to attack, burrowing owls have a trick up their sleevetheyve develop
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Why Malaria Isn’t Just a Tropical Disease

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Watch Hot Mess here! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub Malaria is a global disease that we've beaten back around the world, including in some tropical places, but we’ve had the hardest time in Africa. Thanks to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/Minut
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Can You Solve The Mind-Bending Self-Counting Sentence Riddle?

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"In this sentence, the number of occurrences of the digit 0 is __, of the digit 1 is __, of the digit 2 is __, of the digit 3 is __, of the digit 4 is __, of the digit 5 is __, of the digit 6 is __, of the digit 7 is __, of the digit 8 is __, and of the d
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Testing the US Militarys Worst Idea

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An engineer came up with a plan to drop tungsten telephone poles from space - the idea has been seriously considered on multiple occasions, so we tested it. Head to https://brilliant.org/Veritasium to start your free trial. The first 200 will get 20% off
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The Bird Poop That Changed The World

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Thanks to my grandmother for inspiring this story, and to my mother for helping make it. If you like our videos, please consider supporting MinuteEarth on Patreon! - Alex Bird poop was the gateway fertilizer that turned humanity onto the imported-chemical
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When Giant Fungi Ruled

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420 million years ago, a giant feasted on the dead, growing slowly into the largest living thing on land. It belonged to an unlikely group of pioneers that ultimately made life on land possible -- the fungi. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Stud
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Volcano VS Glacier

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Sign up for your FREE trial to Wondrium here: http://ow.ly/aZqY30spaZ6Volcanoes might seem like an unstoppable force of nature - but there is at least one OTHER force on Earth that seems to be able to keep them down.LEARN MORE**************To learn more a
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Galaxies, Part 1: Crash Course Astronomy #38

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The Milky Way is our neighborhood in the universe. It’s a galaxy and there are many others out there. Galaxies contain gas, dust, and billions of stars or more. They come in four main shapes: elliptical, spiral, peculiar, and irregular. Galaxies can colli
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The Rainiest Place On Earth

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How a rainfall simulator saves millions of lives. Get exclusive NordVPN deal here https://NordVPN.com/veritasium. Its risk free with Nords 30 day money-back guarantee!If youre looking for a molecular modeling kit, try Snatoms a kit I invented where the at
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Where The Weird Things Are

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We made this video in partnership with the Bik Lab at University of Georgia and the National Science Foundation.Life in Antarctica's ocean has followed a completely different evolutionary path from other ocean life because of how cold and isolated the oce
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When Tree Planting Goes Wrong

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Special thanks to the Society for Ecological Restoration and its global partners for their support during this production; and to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which is part of the United Nations Environment Programme. Thanks to Kingsley Dixon a
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Why Don't Americans Eat Reindeer?

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Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minuteearth for sponsoring this video! Reindeer meat could’ve entered North American cuisine and culture, but our turn of the century efforts to develop a reindeer industry were stymied by nature, the beef lobby, and the G
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6 Surgical Devices Inspired by Nature

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From the sharp mouthparts of mosquitoes to the sticky feet of geckos, researchers have found all kinds of amazing adaptations in the natural world that could be useful in the operating room.Hosted by: Hank GreenSciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called S
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How Two Microbes Changed History

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What if I told you that, more than two billion years ago, some tiny living thing started to live inside another living thing … and never left? And now, the descendants of both of those things are in you? Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:
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How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly

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How Quantum Computers Break The Internet... Starting Now

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A quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.A
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Why Don't More Animals Eat Wood?

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Thanks to OIST for sponsoring this video. To learn more, visit https://admissions.oist.jp/Wood is abundant and full of energy, but outside of some insects, almost no animals eat it because the stuff it's made of is hard to break down.Thanks also to our Pa
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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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The blue LED was supposed to be impossibleuntil a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If youre looking for a
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This Country Has Something Everyone Else Wants

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Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/Morocco has 3/4 of the worlds known reserves of rock phosphate, our main source of phosphorus, so Morocco may be key to our long-term ability to grow food.At the t
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The Absurd Search For Dark Matter

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This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription. Astronomers think there should be 5 times as much dark matter as ordinary matter – a shadow universe that m
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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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Five Crazy Bridges For Animals

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How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms

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Support us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/eons Tyrannosaurus rex was big, Tyrannosaurus rex was vicious, and Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms. The story of how T-Rex lost its arms is, itself, pretty simple. But the story of why it kept those little limbs,
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When Humans Were Prey

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Not too long ago, our early human ancestors were under constant threat of attack from predators. And it turns out that this difficult chapter in our history may be responsible for the adaptations that allowed us to become so successful. Thanks to Julio La

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