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Why American public transit is so bad
77 views / 0 likes - addedMost Americans have no choice but to drive. How do we change that?What do you wish the presidential candidates would talk about? http://vox.com/ElectionVideosIn the middle of the 20th century, the US government made a decision that would transform America
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Pros And Cons Of Public Opinion Polls - Jason Robert Jaffe
571 views / 1 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/pros-and-cons-of-public-opinion-polls-jason-robert-jaffe How do public opinion polls work? And, more importantly, are they accurate? Jason Robert Jaffe reveals the complexities and biases of polls and provides t
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Public Opinion: Crash Course Government And Politics #33
807 views / 0 likes - addedSo today, Craig is finally going to start talking about politics. Now up until this point we've specifically been looking at government - that is answering the questions of who, what, and how in relation to policies. But politics is different in that it l
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Hidden Secrets of the New York Public Library | Architectural Digest
294 views / 0 likes - addedNoted historians serve as your personal audio guide through a virtual walking tour of the New York Public Library. Find out about hidden details of the famed NYC building as these expert reveal the history behind the Winnie the Pooh toys, the Rose Main Re
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How America's Public Parks Were Born
408 views / 0 likes - addedManhattan is home to one of America's best urban ideas: public parks. Learn how Central Park, the first of its kind, was given a completely visionary design that's since influenced cities around the country. From: AERIAL AMERICA: Man-Made Marvels http://b
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How a Fire Opened Buckingham Palace Up to the Public
379 views / 0 likes - addedIn 1992, a fierce backlash about the repair cost of a fire-damaged Windsor Castle led to a startling royal decision: For the first time ever, Buckingham Palace would be opened to the public, to raise money for the renovation. From: INSIDE BUCKINGHAM PALAC
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VR Theme Park Hopes to Push Public Pickup
339 views / 0 likes - addedVR World is a virtual reality theme park that presents curated video games and 360-degree artistic cultural experiences in order to help the public overcome some of the barriers that have prevented mass adoption. The team wants to prime people for the VR
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The Country Where All Public Transit Is Free
71 views / 0 likes - addedFrom March 1st 2020, Luxembourg will have free public transit throughout the country: you'll be able to travel on buses, trains, trams, and that one funicular railway without a ticket. It sounds like a good idea: but is it?Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsm
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Amazing Wave Illusion: Public Media Art #1 "WAVE"
111 views / 0 likes - addedPublic Media Art #1 "WAVE" with Anamorphic illusion APR. 2020 We, d'strict specializes in designing, making, and delivering breathtaking visual content on Digital Out of Home. In order to offer the world a new experience, we are proud to announce some exc
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The New York Public Library Has a Human Google
285 views / 0 likes - addedAt the New York Public Library, you can call a librarian who will answer any researchable question you might have. The help-line has been around for over 40 years, and to this day it receives more than 30,000 calls a year. Need to know the color of an arc
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Shaping Public Opinion: Crash Course Government And Politics #34
344 views / 0 likes - addedSo today Craig is going to talk about where our political opinions come from. Of course, most people’s politics are grounded in their ideologies, but there are also other external influences such as the government itself, interest groups, and the media. S
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Public Enemy Number One | See It First | Ninjago | Cartoon Network
394 views / 0 likes - addedAfter the Ninjas are labeled "enemies" by the world they used to protect, our heroes find themselves hunted by their old friend, Ronan. CN GAMES: http://bit.ly/CNGames SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/109Y6wq WATCH MORE: http://bit.ly/24BwQHH About Lego Ninjago:
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Buddwick Public Library | Steven Universe | Cartoon Network
265 views / 0 likes - addedIt's Steven's first time at a library! Watch an amazing 360 VR Video from SDCC with the cast of Steven Universe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D5tlrv0Hp4 CN GAMES: http://bit.ly/CNGames SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/109Y6wq WATCH MORE: http://bit.ly/St
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THE FLOOR IS LAVA CHALLENGE IN PUBLIC!! - Crazy Family Moments
573 views / 6 likes - addedWe play the floor is lava challenge in public plus all kinds of crazy family moments! Click Here To Join The Family! ► http://bit.ly/ehbeefamily Check us out at http://www.EhBeeFamily.com *******Follow Us******* TWITTER - http://twitter.com/EhBeeFamily FA
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How Dirty Are Public Restrooms?
397 views / 1 likes - addedWhat is lurking in the bathroom? Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ If you liked this episode, check out this awesome video by AsapSCIENCE, “Should You
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What happens when you bring meditation to public schools
263 views / 1 likes - addedClassrooms all over the country are trying something new: sitting and breathing. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines
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Fighting Plastic and Public Ridicule: Afroz Shah and His "Dates with the Ocean"
140 views / 0 likes - addedIn this brief, inspirational story, you will meet Afroz Shah and learn about the undertaking that brought new life to Versova Beach, while inspiring countless others in India and around the world.
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Snippet: Human migration over the centuries based on 86 million public genealogy profiles
363 views / 0 likes - addedBy mapping a set of crowd-sourced family trees, researchers were able to watch human migrations over the centuries and learn about changes in behavior over time--like changes in the distance traveled to find love. In the pre-industrial era, people tended
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Public piano performance played boogie - woogie by Olivier (9 years old) at King's Cross Station
163 views / 0 likes - addedOlivier (9 years old) plays boogie-woogie at the on the Kings Cross Station, London, U.K. - "Play me I'm yours" Subscribe for more
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If The Earth Gave Earth Day Awards | Presented by Ze Frank of True Facts
127 views / 0 likes - addedMother Earth herself is giving out awards on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. Created by Ze Frank in collaboration with PBS NATURE and KQEDs Deep Look. Visit pbs.org/nature for more Earth Day content. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed it! http://
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (Live)
1,801 views / 1 likes - addedOn January 2018, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) hosted three orchestral concerts called 'Duellen - Morricone trækker først' (The Dual - Morricone draws first) which included some of the soundtrack from various western and gangster m
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Why Is Oobleck Both Hard & Soft? | Home Science Experiment
84 views / 1 likes - addedWhy does oobleck a mixture of cornflour and water behave so unusually? Rad Yeo throws eggs at this mysterious non-Newtonian fluid to show you how to make it at home. Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube https://ab.co/2YFO4GoLike: https://www.facebook.com/ABCS
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Testing Magnetic Fields At Home | Science Experiments
72 views / 0 likes - addedYou might not 'see' them' but magnetic forces are everywhere, from electric trains to contactless credit cards. And apparently dogs are able sense them let's put that to the test! Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube https://ab.co/2YFO4Go Here's the magnetore
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Plastic Wars (full film) | FRONTLINE
53 views / 0 likes - addedHave efforts to solve the plastic pollution problem made it worse? Go inside the battle over plastics, recycling and what’s at stake. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donat
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How to reduce your food's carbon footprint | Your Planet
87 views / 0 likes - addedA community in Brisbane is reducing their carbon footprint by embracing a local, seasonal food system, which supports farmers in their region and reduces food miles. Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube https://ab.co/2YFO4Go Create your own community solution
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Filming the High Line: Day One
418 views / 0 likes - addedCalled the "Miracle above Manhattan" by National Geographic, the High Line, built on a defunct railroad line in New York City's West Side, is an elevated public park, an historic site, and a cultural center. Enjoy the first of many video blogs from on-loc
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Growing Tomatoes Indoors With 94% Less Water And No Soil
98 views / 0 likes - addedWith climate change and rising populations, we have to find more sustainable ways to farm our food. Are hydroponic greenhouses the key to farming's future? Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube https://ab.co/2YFO4Go This is an excerpt from the Australian docum
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Did asteroids bring life to Earth? | Catalyst
65 views / 0 likes - addedFifty years ago, a meteorite landed in regional Victoria, Australia. We now know those charred rocks contained complex organic compounds with clues as to how life kickstarted on Earth. Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube https://ab.co/2YFO4Go This is an exce
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Great Museums Television: Highlights
320 views / 0 likes - addedGREAT MUSEUMS is an award-winning television series celebrating the museum world—in the U.S. and abroad—created by executive producers Marc Doyle and Chesney Blankenstein Doyle. The series opens the doors of museums to millions of viewers through public t
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Heaven Sent: Skydiver Luke Aikins jumps 25000 feet without parachute
176 views / 0 likes - addedMillions of people across the globe held their breath as American skydiver Luke Aikins jumped out of a plane to fall into a net 25,000 feet (7,620 m) below. The daring stunt is now in the history books as the first complete jump without a parachute. READ
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Teleoperation of RC car from inside a cylindrical dome
143 views / 0 likes - addedWe just had a cylindrical dome installed at our office! Our Player now supports calibrating a dome with several projectors and short-latency rendering to domes. Our initial tests indicate that teleoperation in a dome outperforms other screen alternatives
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Merrie Melodies | Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (Classic Cartoon)
232 views / 0 likes - addedPublic Domain, 1939.
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Popeye the Sailor Man | Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (Classic Cartoon)
193 views / 0 likes - addedPublic Domain, 1936.
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Looney Tunes | The Ducktators (Classic Cartoon)
132 views / 0 likes - addedPublic Domain, 1942.
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Looney Tunes | Wackiki Wabbit (Classic Cartoon)
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Looney Tunes | Case of the Missing Hare (Classic Cartoon)
165 views / 0 likes - addedPublic Domain, 1942.
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Merrie Melodies | The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (Classic Cartoon)
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Looney Tunes | Yankee Doodle Daffy (Classic Cartoon)
241 views / 1 likes - addedPublic Domain, 1943.
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Woody Woodpecker | Pantry Panic (Classic Cartoon)
204 views / 0 likes - addedPublic Domain, 1941.
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Looney Tunes | To Duck or not To Duck (Classic Cartoon)
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Superman | Billion Dollar Limited (Classic Cartoon)
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Merrie Melodies | Foney Fables (Classic Cartoon)
187 views / 0 likes - addedPublic Domain, 1942.
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SkyDrive Piloted Flight Demo
90 views / 0 likes - addedSkyDrive performed the first public flight demonstration of its SD-03 eVTOL on Aug. 25, 2020. The flight took place at the 10,000-square-meter (approximately 2.5-acre) Toyota Test Field, which is one of the largest test fields in Japan and home to the com
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Waymo's fully self-driving cars are here
279 views / 0 likes - addedWaymo, which started as the Google self-driving car project in 2009, is ready for the next phase. Starting now, Waymo’s fully self-driving vehicles — the most advanced self-driving vehicles on the road today — are test-driving on public
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How To Be Present With Mindfulness (5 Minute) | Natural Mindful
88 views / 0 likes - addedMeditate all around Australia with this series of free guided mindfulness sessions. From the peaceful Snowy Mountains to the serene coastal desert, unwind and take five for your mental health. Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube https://ab.co/2YFO4Go Mindful
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The Origianl First Superman Cartoon | The Mad Scientist
211 views / 0 likes - addedThis is the first Superman Cartoon. Public Domain, 1941.
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Guided Meditation For Calming The Mind (5 Minutes) | Natural Mindful
93 views / 1 likes - addedMeditate all around Australia with this series of free guided mindfulness sessions. From the peaceful Snowy Mountains to the serene coastal desert, unwind and take five for your mental health. Subscribe to ABC Science YouTube https://ab.co/2YFO4Go Mindful
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Epidemiologist-Designed, No-Sew face Mask to Protect Yourself and Others from Coronavirus COVID-19
112 views / 0 likes - addedEveryone should wear a mask in public during this pandemic. Our no-sew mask is easily constructed from materials you already own in 10 minutes, and does not contribute to the shortage of masks needed by frontline workers. This video also explains how publ
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Should Everyone wear Masks?
56 views / 0 likes - addedWHO recommends masks to be worn by the following people:People who are either sick or showing symptoms.Also, by those who are caring for people suspected of having coronavirus.As per WHO, medical masks should be reserved for healthcare workers.WHO is not
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Tragedy of the Commons
275 views / 0 likes - addedHow public resources can be abused More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=0b2Tl0x-niw
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Curly Takes the Stand
147 views / 0 likes - addedCurly Howard testifies in the public domain classic "Disorder in the Court." He's a victim of circumstance!
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An IPO
326 views / 0 likes - addedThe initial public offering of our online sock company. More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=ywOr4OYqXOs
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How Does A Slinky Fall?
14 views / 0 likes - addedSome months a go I filmed a slinky falling in slow motion. Now I have interviewed the public about what they expect to happen for ABC TV's Catalyst program and this is the result.
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NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV
838 views / 10 likes - addedDirect from America's space program to YouTube, watch NASA TV live streaming here to get the latest from our exploration of the universe and learn how we discover our home planet. NASA TV airs a variety of regularly scheduled, pre-recorded educational and
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Martin Luther King | "I Have A Dream" Speech
996 views / 14 likes - addedOne of the most famous speeches of the 20th century by Martin Luther King on Wednesday, August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. A heartfelt speech which reminds us our all our fundamental rights and values. "I Have A Dream" is the popul
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (webisode)
339 views / 0 likes - addedGreat Museums TV presents a preview of "The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Collective Vision". This episode aired on national public television stations across the country. A patron with exquisite taste and a zest for life, Isabella Stewart Gardner trav
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The Wall,
292 views / 0 likes - addedA look at the landmark cases that have helped defined the role religion can play in public schools. Check out www.hiphughes.com for hundreds of social studies videos, teachertips and other fun stuff!
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More on IPOs
314 views / 0 likes - addedPublic vs. Private Equity. Why people buy equity to begin with. More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=opEy6iN9kqc
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The YikeBike Is Like A Modern-Day Electric Big Wheel
334 views / 0 likes - addedThis is the YikeBike. An electric bike you can fold. It’s small enough to fit on public transit and light enough to carry. The bike can go up to 14.3 mph. It has a range of up to 12.5 miles. A full recharge will take 90 minutes. It has permanent LED light
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A World of Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
475 views / 0 likes - addedFounded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is a three dimensional encyclopedia of art history. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV. For more information, visit http://greatmuseums.org.
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Freedom Of The Press: Crash Course Government And Politics #26
517 views / 0 likes - addedToday, Craig is going to finish up our discussion of the First Amendment with freedom of the press. Like an individual's right to free speech, the press has a right, and arguably responsibility, to tell the public what the government is doing. But of cour
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Curious About Cuba: The Great Museums of Havana
396 views / 0 likes - added"Curious About Cuba" shows a side of this island nation that we seldom hear about: her art, history, and culture. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV. For more information, visit http://greatmuseums.org.
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Collective Vision: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
338 views / 0 likes - addedIsabella Stewart Gardner traveled the globe for over three decades, assembling one of the world's most remarkable art collections. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV. For more information, visit http://greatmuseums.org.
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Movies are Magic: Crash Course Film History #1
390 views / 0 likes - addedWell, they're not really "magic." Maybe "illusion" is a better way to say it. As we begin this journey of the history of cinema, we need to understand how movies trick our brains into even understanding that a movie is a movie. In this episode of Crash Co
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Smithsonian National Zoo (webisode)
411 views / 0 likes - addedA brief look at Great Museums' episode featuring the Smithsonian National Zoo and its efforts to save endangered species of our planet, which aired on Public Television in Fall 2008. Click on http://greatmuseums.org for more information.
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The real reason streetcars are making a comeback
242 views / 0 likes - addedIt’s mostly about economic development. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Starting in the late 20th century, modern streetcar proposals started rippling across municipalities in the United States. They’re touted as infrastructure carrying ben
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Face of America: The Ellis Island Immigration Museum
560 views / 2 likes - addedMore than 100 million Americans can trace their ancestry to New York's Ellis Island. Hear some of their fascinating stories about their voyage to America in this Great Museums TV special produced for Public Television. For more information, visit http://g
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The Blues Lives On: The Delta Blues Museum
433 views / 1 likes - addedLocated in Clarksdale, Mississippi, this museum tells the powerful story of the origins of the Delta Blues. Narrated by Morgan Freeman. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV. For more information, visit http://greatmuseums.org.
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Horse Power: The National Museum of Racing
596 views / 0 likes - addedLearn the history of thoroughbred horse racing at the National Racing Museum and Hall of Fame. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV. For more information, visit http://greatmuseums.org.
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Richard Dawkins Debates Deepak Chopra Whether Cells Have Consciousness
171 views / 0 likes - addedRichard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
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Why Build A Clock That Will Last 10,000 Years?
427 views / 0 likes - addedInventor Danny Hillis is working with a team of futurists and engineers to build the 10,000 Year Clock, a multimillennial timekeeper. Designed as a symbol of long-term thinking, the formidable piece will be assembled and housed in a mountain in West Texas
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China: West Meets East at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
419 views / 0 likes - addedThe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is home to the finest collection of Chinese masterpieces of any museum outside of China. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV. For more information, visit http://greatmuseums.org.
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In Our Time: The Museum of Modern Art
427 views / 0 likes - addedWhat do the superstars of modern art have in common with the Vincent Black Shadow motorcyle? They share the stage at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, also known as MoMA. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV. For more information, visit
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China: West Meets East at The Metropolitan Museum of Art - A Webisode
414 views / 0 likes - addedA preview of the Great Museums episode titled "China: West Meets East at the Metropolitan Museum of Art". A public television tribute to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, we learn in this clip what distinguishes Chinese art from Western art. Click on http://grea
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What Will We Name the Solar Systems Next Planet? || PLANET X??
155 views / 0 likes - addedIn 2006, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet. This had two main effects on our solar system: it reduced the number of recognized planets to eight, and left many Earthlings very sad. But Plutos demotion reignited a conversation that scientists have ha
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Why This Stuff Costs $2700 Trillion Per Gram
136 views / 0 likes - addedPhysics Girl is on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/physicsgirl Theres a factory in Europe that makes antimatter! Its the rarest, most expensive, and potentially the most dangerous material on earth. Scientists dont know why this material is so rare. Anti
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Social distancing during coronavirus, explained by an expert
128 views / 0 likes - addedTo fight coronavirus, we need to change how we live.Read more about the coronavirus pandemic at http://vox.com/coronavirusSocial distancing, also called physical distancing, is the best way to slow the spread of coronavirus and save lives in your communit
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What Can You Learn From Ancient Poop?
80 views / 0 likes - addedFossilized 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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Great Museums TV Series: Highlights
381 views / 0 likes - addedA highlights reel featuring some of the most memorable episodes of Great Museums to appear on public television. A full listing of Great Museums episodes can be found at www.GreatMuseums.org.
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Home Base: The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
448 views / 0 likes - addedEstablished in 1936, the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York is a wonderful place to explore America's favorite pastime and the great players who make it so popular. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV. For more inform
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Billie Eilish Gets Candid About Tourette Syndrome
273 views / 1 likes - addedBillie Eilish spoke candidly with Ellen about living with Tourette Syndrome, and why she decided to go public with it only last year. Plus, the 17-year-old pop star talked about celebrities like Paul McCartney and Sporty Spice, who she couldn’t beli
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Great Museums of Havana: Curious about Cuba (webisode)
521 views / 0 likes - addedA preview of Great MuseumsTV's episode featuring the museums of Cuba, including the City of old Havana - a living museum - which aired on public television stations in December 2008. GREAT MUSEUMS OF HAVANA: CURIOUS ABOUT CUBA -- narrated by Mariel Heming
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Where Does the Poop in Antarctica Go? | Antarctic Extremes
43 views / 0 likes - addedWhat happens to all the garbageand human poopin Antarctica?Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?suAntarctica is home to McMurdo Station, the U.S. Antarctic Programs base of operations, and a handful of other research stations. These stations are
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Liquid Nitrogen Geyser - Simulating Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park
251 views / 0 likes - addedCraig Beals was inspired in Yellowstone National Park at Old Faithful Geyser to make a demonstration to show how a geyser works. But, instead of using super-heated water, like in a geyser, he uses liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen boils at room temperature
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Locusts: Their Destructive Capacity, Our Sense of Self | NPR | Invisibilia
145 views / 0 likes - addedWe’re not the only ones who have a range of versions of ourselves. Learn how scientists got the bottom of the mystery of swarming locusts plagues. • Read VIDEO: Locusts: What Their Destructive Capacity Says About Our Sense of Self at LINK ----------------
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What Do You Eat in Antarctica? | Antarctic Extremes
45 views / 0 likes - addedIf youre a penguin or other seabird in Antarctica, theres plenty of fish (and some seal placenta) to go around. But what do the people eat?Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?suGenerally, an adult human consumes around 1,600 to 3,000 calories da
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ShowHawk Duo - Acoustic Tribute to Daft Punk
406 views / 0 likes - addedAlice Park 2014 - Larkhall Festival. First Public Performance of this number. For downloads etc. go to ShowHawk Duo Official youtube page. Brilliant gig @ Larkhall Festival 2014 - Aerodynamic,Get Lucky,One more time,Robot Rock, Harder Better Faster. Thank
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TIL: Almost 40 Percent of New Yorkers Are Immigrants | Today I Learned
258 views / 0 likes - addedOn display in the heart of Times Square, "We Were Once Strangers Too” was a public data sculpture that highlighted the role of immigrants in the Big Apple. The installation won the 2017 Times Square Valentine Heart Design Competition, which celebrated Val
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The Meaning Of Knowledge: Crash Course Philosophy #7
442 views / 0 likes - addedOn today’s episode...CATS. Also: Hank talks about some philosophy stuff, like a few of the key concepts philosophers use when discussing belief and knowledge, such as what defines an assertion and a proposition, and that belief is a kind of propositional
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Are These Butterflies The Same?
575 views / 1 likes - addedWatch "This Exists" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/thisexists Please subscribe! - http://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth?sub_confirmation=1 And please support MinuteEarth on Patreon - https://patreon.com/minuteearth A tale of how two butterflie
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How British suffragettes fought for the vote
54 views / 0 likes - addedIn 1913, suffragette Emily Davison disrupted a major horse race in the name of winning British women the vote. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-labBritish suffragettes in the early 20th century used spectacle and drama to draw attention to t
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Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed: Feb. 13, 1957)
421 views / 1 likes - addedWalt Disney explains his invention. Probably the most advanced tool ever made in the field of animation. (At least until the computer was made.) (C) Disney If you are the owner or the lawyer of the owner of this film, please contact me before Flagging the
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How Antarcticas Cutest Baby Seals Grow Up I Antarctic Extremes
37 views / 0 likes - addedPenguin 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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How Superbugs Could Mean The End Of Antibiotics | Let's Talk | NPR
355 views / 0 likes - addedEasy global access to antibiotics is raising the risk of drug-resistant superbugs. Subscribe to NPR - http://bit.ly/NPRsubscribe ------------------------------------------------------ Subscribe to NPR on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/npr Follow NPR els
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Where Are The Women In Computing? | Planet Money | NPR
288 views / 0 likes - addedHow did women go from being at the center of the computing world -- to being sidelined? Listen to the full Planet Money episode from 2014 here: http://n.pr/29R7QKd ------------------------------------------------------ Subscribe to NPR on YouTube: https:/
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The Electoral College | Ron's Office Hours | NPR
271 views / 0 likes - addedHow Does The Electoral College Work, And Is It Fair? Here's what you need to know from NPR's Ron Elving. • Read "How Does The Electoral College Work, And Is It Fair?" at https://n.pr/2f1wlFG ------------------------------------------------------ Subscribe
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Inspired By A Fungus, Inventor Creates Biodegradable Packaging | Joe's Big Idea | NPR
282 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is from the Joe’s Big Idea series Changing The World One Invention At A Time. Check out the entire series at https://n.pr/2U6iwXU. • Read "Inventor Inspired By Childhood Memories Of Fungus" at https://n.pr/2R77Q9M. -----------------------------
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XYZT: Abstract Landscapes | Arts | NPR
231 views / 0 likes - addedOne of a growing trend of interactive art exhibits, "XYZT: Abstract Landscapes" is a collection of ten digital pieces that mimic nature through projectors, motion sensors and LCD screens. ------------------------------------------------------ Subscribe to
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Why do taxpayers pay billions for football stadiums?
314 views / 0 likes - addedCities want football teams. Owners want stadiums. Watch how NFL rule changes made linemen gigantic: http://bit.ly/2BSOf5n Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In the past 20 years, over $7 billion in public money has gone towards financing the c
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How diseases rise and fall with the seasonsand what it could mean for coronavirus
124 views / 0 likes - addedScientists and doctors have observed for thousands of years that some diseases, like polio and influenza, rise and fall with the seasons. But why? Ongoing research in animals and humans suggests a variety of causes, including changes in the environment (l
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What Can A President Really Do? Hint: It Has A Lot To Do With Congress | Ron's Office Hours | NPR
292 views / 0 likes - addedPresidents have a great deal of power, but they can't accomplish many of their goals without the support of Congress. In order for President Trump, or any president, to change a lot of existing policy they will need the support of Congress. --------------
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Cookie Monster Practices Self-Regulation | Life Kit Parenting | NPR
142 views / 0 likes - addedCookie Monster joins NPR's Life Kit Parenting Podcast to talk about practicing self-control, especially when you have to wait for something you really want... like a plate of delicious chocolate chip cookies. Read more about the story at https://n.pr/2LQC
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Why Don't Fish Freeze in Antarctica? I Antarctic Extremes
41 views / 0 likes - addedUnder the ice in Antarctica is a world few people ever get to see.Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?suBizarre creaturesancient sponges, gigantic jellyfish, sea spiders, ribbon worms, and notothenioid fishes that manage not to freezemake their
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Trial By Fire: The New York City Fire Museum
479 views / 0 likes - addedHoused in a 1904 firehouse, the New York City Fire Museum chronicles the history of firefighting from colonial times to the present, including the heroic efforts of firefighters on 9/11/01. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV. For more info
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Wild Thing: The Smithsonian National Zoo
694 views / 2 likes - addedAs part of its mission to "advance research and scientific knowledge in conserving wildlife and to teach and inspire people to protect wildlife, natural resources, and habitats," scientists at the National Zoo breed endangered species for the purpose of r
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A Brief History Of Religion In Art - TED-Ed
548 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-brief-history-of-religion-in-art-ted-ed Before we began putting art into museums, art mostly served as the visual counterpart to religious stories. Are these theological paintings, sculptures, textiles and ill
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What Is the Debt Ceiling? |Ron’s Office Hours | NPR
301 views / 1 likes - addedIt keeps on coming back like a bad penny: Congress’ fight over whether to raise the “debt ceiling.” That’s the limit on how much Congress can borrow to run the federal government. Where did the idea come from and how big is the debt now? NPR senior politi
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How To Find Your Own Seafood | The Salt | NPR
155 views / 0 likes - addedMussels, clams and a monkeyface eel, oh my! The Sea Forager, Kirk Lombard, shows us how to sustainably forage and eat wild animals found on the Northern California coast. • Read "VIDEO: Watch The Sea Forager Sustainably Harvest The Ocean's Bounty" at http
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Unmasking Malaria With A Cheap Magnet And A Laser Pointer | Joe's Big Idea | NPR
242 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is from the Joe’s Big Idea series Changing The World One Invention At A Time. Check out the entire series at https://www.npr.org/series/571897138/watch-joes-big-idea-invention-stories. Read How A Cheap Magnet Might Help Detect Malaria at https:
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A Solar-Powered Step In The Fight Against Water Scarcity | Joe's Big Idea | NPR
179 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is from the Joe’s Big Idea series Changing The World One Invention At A Time. Check out the entire series at https://n.pr/2U6iwXU. • Read "WATCH: This Device Pulls Clean Water Out Of Desert Air" at https://n.pr/2oEfZYC --------------
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Join The Challenge Dance Workout For Kids (Full Version)
1,044 views / 3 likes - addedMaricopa County Public Health partnered with the Phoenix Suns, Phoenix Mercury, and Univision Arizona, to produce a fun, easy-to-follow dance workout video for schools. This is our way to fight obesity among school-aged children. This workout could be don
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The Evolution Of Parenting | Goats & Soda | NPR
176 views / 0 likes - addedThe real secret to humans' success? It might have a lot to do with how we raised our kids. • Read or listen to: "Why Grandmothers May Hold The Key To Human Evolution" at https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/07/617097908/why-grandmothers-may-h
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George Washington (1732-1799) President of the USA
428 views / 2 likes - addedFigures in History: George Washington (1732-1799) George Washington was born on 22 February 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, into a family of prosperous farmers. He began his career as a professional surveyor in 1749 at the age of 17 and was quickly
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Baby Talk | Let's Talk | NPR
156 views / 0 likes - addedWhen babies babble they are in a heightened state of arousal and ready to learn. Subscribe to NPR! https://bit.ly/2o5dHjo Host of NPR’s Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam breaks down the four types of baby babble. • Read or listen to: "#HowToRaiseAHuman" at np
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How a Volcano Simulator Helps Scientists Prepare For The Real Thing | Maddie About Science | NPR
207 views / 0 likes - addedStudying active volcanoes can be dangerous, which is why a group of scientists from around the world came together to simulate volcanic blasts. What they're learning will help them at a real eruption. Read "To Safely Study Volcanoes, Scientists Bring The
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‘Art Enables’ Artists with Disabilities to Feel Like Celebrities | NPR
301 views / 0 likes - addedArt Enables is a lot like any other arts studio—big windows, a paint-splattered sink, quiet enough to hear a paintbrush clink the sides of a water glass, and, of course, it’s filled with people making art. What’s unique about the studio is that they work
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Chop Suey With Beans And Rice: A Mexican-Chinese-American fusion. I NPR Hot Pot
304 views / 0 likes - addedJoaquin "Jocko" Fajardo makes a spicy Mexican version of chop suey, a classic Chinese-American dish. He tells us how his great-aunt learned to make the dish from the Asian employees at her Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles. -------------------------------
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Do Cities Need More Green Roofs? | NPR
271 views / 0 likes - addedWe took a field trip to the largest green roof in New York City. Then we imagined what the city could be like if all of its roof space was green. Note: A previous version of this video incorrectly thanked the Audubon Society. We meant to thank the NYC Aud
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For Kids, How Much Screen Time is Too Much? | Let's Talk | NPR
299 views / 0 likes - addedThere's so much information -- and anxiety -- out there about how much time your kids should spend using devices. Here's our video guide to balancing the need for limits with the potential benefits. • Read "5 Things To Know About Screen Time Right Now" at
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Foraging a Wild Lunch | The Salt | NPR
312 views / 0 likes - addedWhen most of us are hungry for lunch, we pick up supplies at the grocery store or stop by the nearby cafe with the best lunch specials. Nick Spero? He heads into the wilderness. (Note: Spero is a foraging professional and we urge caution when foraging on
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World Held Its Breath As Valentine's Asteroid Neared Earth
37 views / 0 likes - addedFebruary 14, 2000. Just a regular Valentines Day! Some flowers and candies, the beginning of the new millennium, and A good day to make history. A spacecraft finally got a date with asteroid 433 Eros. This "date" almost didnt happen because an engine misf
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The Pledge of Allegiance Was Written to Sell Magazines | Let's Talk | NPR
372 views / 0 likes - addedA true American tale about how the need to sell more magazines Subscribe to NPR - http://bit.ly/NPRsubscribe EDITOR'S NOTE: Francis Bellamy’s first draft of the pledge did not include the word “to” before "the Republic.” He added &
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How to beat nerves! | Cosmic Kids Zen Den - Mindfulness for kids
722 views / 4 likes - addedHow to beat nerves! | Cosmic Kids Zen Den - Mindfulness for kids Join Jaime in the Zen Den to talk about something we all get sometimes - NERVES! Why do we feel nervous sometimes - before a public performance or big event - and what can we do about it? Ja
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Norway’s $47BN Coastal Highway | The B1M
201 views / 0 likes - addedThe Norwegian government are embarking on the largest infrastructure project in the country's history. For more by The B1M subscribe now: http://ow.ly/GxW7y Footage and images courtesy of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Vianova Plan og Trafikk
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How to Make an Origami Frog
48 views / 0 likes - addedThe dome is closed, but Science World is still at work. During Science Worlds COVID-19 closure, we are fielding science questions from the public, directing families to our BC-curriculum-linked online resources, and preparing video content for the entire
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Radiation vs Radioactive Atoms
37 views / 0 likes - addedThere seems to be confusion about what radiation is and where it comes from. Many people believe it is the radiation that comes directly from nuclear power plants that poses a threat to public safety. In fact it is the radioactive atoms, which can escape
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Oreshki: A Rich, Nutty Cookie From The Soviet Era | NPR Hot Pot
293 views / 0 likes - addedNPR journalist Alina Selyukh makes oreshki, a cookie from the former Soviet Union. The walnut-shaped cookies, which have a rich, nutty filling, were popular during a time when people had to make do with limited ingredients. Selyukh tells us about her memo
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A Day with Thomas A Edison 1921 General Electric Co.
177 views / 1 likes - addedEdison, Thomas A.--(Thomas Alva),--1847-1931 About this Item Title: A day with Thomas A Edison at the Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/00694187/ PPOC Prints & Photographs and On-Line Catelog http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpbh.04044
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These photos ended child labor in the US
202 views / 1 likes - addedChild labor was widely practiced until a photographer showed the public what it looked like.This video is presented by CuriosityStream: https://www.curiositystream.com/VoxBecome a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-labThe 1900 US Federal Census reveale
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Invention Stories: These Boots Are Made For Talking … To The Internet | Joe's Big Idea | NPR
279 views / 0 likes - addedFailure is always a part of invention. Hahna Alexander, CEO of SolePower, talks about how failure challenged her to come up with bigger and better solutions. In "Invention Stories" we explore the unexpected paths to discovery. • Read After A Failed Launch
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Can You Really Name A Star?
319 views / 0 likes - addedSince the dawn of recorded history humankind has tried to classify and study the stars. It’s a continuing mission, and astronomers are finding new stars all the time. But how do they get their names? Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://science.howstuf
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Invention Stories: How Sick Cows Led to a Blockbuster Drug | Joe's Big Idea | NPR
402 views / 0 likes - addedA deadly bleeding disease in cows led to the development of the most popular blood thinner on the market: Warfarin. In "Invention Stories" we explore the unexpected paths to discovery. • Read When Cow Blood Held The Key To Saving The Future President at w
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How To Make Salsa Verde Tamales | Passport Kitchen | NPR
304 views / 0 likes - addedPati Jinich, an award-winning Mexican-American chef and the host of Pati's Mexican Table, demonstrates how to make this holiday favorite! She's joined by Malaka Gharib of NPR's Goats & Soda blog, and Maria Godoy of NPR's The Salt blog. • Learn more about
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Riches Rivals&Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America
443 views / 0 likes - addedAmerican is a land of museums. America's museum offer solitude, sanctuary and discovery. They reflect who we were, who we are, and who we hope to be. Visit some of America's museums coast-to-coast. Meet the characters whose fervor fueled the revolution th
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Tricky Spoon Riddle - What happens to your reflection if you bend a spoon inward?
91 views / 0 likes - addedPhysics Girl riddle: what happens to your image if you bend a spoon from concave to convex?Check out Antarctic Extremes on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRAuy1ZmTcIf you like riddles, check out these:Can you solve the boat puzzle?https://www
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A Short History Of Humans And Germs: Early Encounters | Goats & Soda | NPR
417 views / 0 likes - addedHumans get along pretty well with most microbes. Which is lucky, because there are a lot more of them in the world than there are of us. We couldn’t even live without many of them. But a few hundred have evolved, and are still evolving, to exploit our bod
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How To Turn Protest Into Powerful Change - Eric Liu
318 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-turn-protest-into-powerful-change-eric-liu We live in an age of protest. On campuses, in public squares, on streets and social media, protestors around the world are challenging the status quo. But while
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How A Children's Toy Led To An Essential Medical Device
293 views / 0 likes - addedInspiration for inventions sometimes come from unusual places. Stanford researcher Manu Prakash needed to create a centrifuge that could run without electricity. He found the answer by studying toys. In "Invention Stories" we explore the unexpected paths
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Zereshk Polow: A Crunchy-Bottomed Rice Dish From Iran | NPR Hot Pot
188 views / 0 likes - addedYasaman Alavi makes zereshk polow, a crunchy-bottomed rice dish popular in her native Iran. Infused with saffron and spiked with tart barberries, it's traditionally eaten with slow-cooked chicken. Alavi prepares this meal while sharing memories of her aun
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The Power of Expectations | Invisibilia | NPR
172 views / 0 likes - addedIn this beautiful animation from Invisibilia’s season one episode “How to Become Batman,” the show explores whether your private thoughts and expectations can influence how well a rat runs a maze, and how those expectations can have a profound impact on o
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The Courage To Invent: A NASA Roboticist Tells Her Story | Joe's Big Idea| NPR
205 views / 0 likes - addedGrowing up, Howard was obsessed with creating robots. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and by the time she was 27 she landed her dream job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Howard describes an experience early on in her career at JP
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NASA’s TESS Catches a Comet
269 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is compiled from a series of images taken on July 25 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The angular extent of the widest field of view is six degrees. Visible in the images are the comet C/2018 N1, asteroids, variable stars, asteroid
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Why It’s Usually Hotter In A City | Let's Talk | NPR
226 views / 0 likes - addedThe way cities are designed and inhabited can make actually make them hotter. So what's the solution? We explore a few ideas for beating the urban heat. Subscribe to NPR - http://bit.ly/NPRsubscribe • NPR explores how to cope with a warming world: https:/
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When Daydreaming Gets In The Way Of Real Life | Invisibilia | NPR
317 views / 0 likes - addedAs a child, M spent hours daydreaming, crafting storylines based off her favorite cartoons and sci-fi books. This fantasy world was more exciting, more vivid than the real world. But as M got older, her daydreaming habit didn't go away. In this excerpt fr
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The Food Of The Future | Elise Tries | NPR
298 views / 0 likes - addedJapan has the most aged society in the world, and as a result, a growing number of senior citizens there are dying in accidental choking deaths. For the past ten years, choking has killed more Japanese than traffic accidents. To prevent these unnecessary
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Eating Dandelions | The Salt | NPR
232 views / 0 likes - addedDandelions are much more than just unwanted weeds, according to expert forager and nutritionist Debbie Naha—they make a delicious (and nutritious) snack. Naha took us foraging for dandelions at Little Buffalo State Park in Newport, Pa. She advises to pick
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Create a Camera Obscura in Your Bedroom
50 views / 0 likes - addedFor the first time in 30 years, Science World has closed its doors to the public. Every day, COVID-19 is eliminating our main revenue source and critical operating funds. We rely on donations and partners to run our vital programs. Give now to ensure that
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These smart palm trees in Dubai can charge your phone and provide free Wi-Fi
231 views / 0 likes - added"Smart Palms" are palm tree-like devices that will provide free Wi-Fi and will charge your phone. There are more than 50 Smart Palms in Dubai, located on beaches and public areas in the city. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai FACEBOOK: https:/
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Baseball Hall of Fame 5 of 10: Sacred Home
371 views / 0 likes - addedThe fifth installment of 10 webisodes featuring The National Baseball Hall of Fame, produced by Great Museums TV using footage from the shoot for the original GREAT MUSEUMS episode which aired on national public television. Each webisode explores a unique
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Why is 2 Degrees of Climate Change a Big Deal? | Let's Talk | NPR
181 views / 0 likes - addedAs powerful storms wreak havoc across the globe, we keep hearing about the important of 2-degrees—a threshold set by many policymakers in the discussion of global warming. NPR Science Correspondent Christopher Joyce explains the changes 2-degrees of warmi
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Baseball Hall of Fame 6 of 10: Game of Change
389 views / 0 likes - addedThe sixth installment of 10 webisodes featuring The National Baseball Hall of Fame, produced by Great Museums TV using footage from the shoot for the original GREAT MUSEUMS episode which aired on national public television. Each webisode explores a unique
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Stealth - How Does It Work? (Northrop B-2 Spirit)
255 views / 0 likes - addedThanks for watching! Sorry the audio is a little off in this video. Currently trying to cut back on my expenses and had to move into a new apartment with shitty acoustics. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2825050&ty=h Facebook: http://facebook.com/
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Telepathy Is Already Possible With a Brain-Computer Interface | Future You | NPR
186 views / 0 likes - addedTelepathy is no longer the stuff of science fiction, so long as you have a brain-computer interface. In this episode of NPR's Future You with Elise Hu, check out how brains directly interact with each other, bypassing the need for language. The team at th
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The Science Of Stage Fright (and How To Overcome It) - Mikael Cho
424 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-science-of-stage-fright-and-how-to-overcome-it-mikael-cho Heart racing, palms sweating, labored breathing? No, you're not having a heart attack -- it's stage fright! If speaking in public makes you feel like
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The goose that conquered America
175 views / 1 likes - addedThe 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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A Journey to the Centre of the Sun - with Lucie Green
362 views / 0 likes - addedLucie Green takes us on a journey from the centre of the sun to planet earth in a run-down of the latest solar physics research. Watch the Q&A here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JkxTILe2Nk 110 times wider than Earth; 15 million degrees at its core; an
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Exploring Antarcticas Glaciers (with a PlayStation Controller) | Antarctic Extremes
32 views / 0 likes - addedBeneath Antarcticas glaciers, a 12-foot-long robot named Icefin explores places neither boats nor divers can reach. Subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?su...Icefin is testing technologies designed for exploring Jupiters icy moon Europa. But befo
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How the Stock Market Works
502 views / 0 likes - addedhttp://www.incomeinvesthome.com/free/ Go there now for free report on 7 Reasons to Invest for Income -- Now More Than Ever. Put your money to work. This old but funny video explains basics of how companies go public and sell stock to investors. A basic pr
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A virtual time machine for Venice
315 views / 0 likes - addedThe State Archives of Venice contain records stretching back over a thousand years. The vast collection of maps, images and other documents provide an incredibly detailed look into Venetian history. This could be used to create a kind of virtual time mach
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What Is CRISPR & How Could It Edit Your DNA?
355 views / 0 likes - addedGene-editing tool CRISPR is everywhere in the news, but what is it and could it eliminate disease? Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG Should We Make Designer Babies? ►►►►http://bit.ly/1WbDT5s Read More: CRISPR: A game-chan
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Baseball Hall of Fame 9 of 10: Diamonds Are Forever
400 views / 0 likes - addedThe ninth installment of 10 webisodes featuring The National Baseball Hall of Fame, produced by Great Museums TV using footage from the shoot for the original GREAT MUSEUMS episode which aired on national public television. For more information, visit htt
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Baseball Hall of Fame 8 of 10: Swinging In The Seventies
395 views / 0 likes - addedThe eighth installment of 10 webisodes featuring The National Baseball Hall of Fame, produced by Great Museums TV using footage from the shoot for the original GREAT MUSEUMS episode which aired on national public television. For more information, visit ht
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Baseball Hall of Fame 7 of 10: Lightning In A Bottle
369 views / 0 likes - addedThe seventh installment of 10 webisodes featuring The National Baseball Hall of Fame, produced by Great Museums TV using footage from the shoot for the original GREAT MUSEUMS episode which aired on national public television. For more information, visit h
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Baseball Hall of Fame 10 of 10: Connecting the Generations
361 views / 0 likes - addedGREAT MUSEUMS' 10th webisode featuring The Natiional Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum using footage from GREAT MUSEUMS' Home Base, which aired on national public television. Each webisode explores a unique aspect of the legendary museum in Cooperstown, NY
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Do we really need pesticides? - Fernan Pérez-Gálvez
466 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/do-we-really-need-pesticides-fernan-perez-galvez Annually, we shower over 5 billion pounds of pesticides across the Earth to control insects, unwanted weeds, funguses, rodents, and bacteria that may threaten our
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How Stress Affects Your Brain - Madhumita Murgia
658 views / 1 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stress-affects-your-brain-madhumita-murgia Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But
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Baseball Hall of Fame Webisode 1 of 10: Home Base
500 views / 0 likes - addedThe first of 10 GREAT MUSEUMS webisodes featuring The National Baseball Hall of Fame uses footage from the shoot for the original GREAT MUSEUMS public television episode. In 1 1/2 minutes, watch never before seen footage from GREAT MUSEUMS' pilgrimage to
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Citicorp Center | NYC skyscraper saved by a students question
213 views / 0 likes - addedThe Citicorp Center repair is a classic engineering case study of how mistakes must be avoided in engineering and construction of public works. A skyscraper in New York City needed a unique structural system. While reviewing the design a student asked a q
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Lines of Light: How Analog Television Works
85 views / 0 likes - addedYou can support this channel on Patreon! Link belowHave you ever wondered how old-school television worked? It seems almost impossible for a device to make moving images without a computer being involved. Yet analog television is very, very old. How on Ea
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Binary And Multiple Stars: Crash Course Astronomy #34
474 views / 0 likes - addedDouble stars are stars that appear to be near each other in the sky, but if they’re gravitationally bound together we call them binary stars. Many stars are actually part of binary or multiple systems. If they are close enough together they can actually t
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An Animated History of Transportation
219 views / 1 likes - addedEver since the first hominids left Africa, human beings have been on the move. The canoe was invented in 8,000 B.C. and the first form of public transportation was a stagecoach operated in Paris in 1662. Fast forward to today's self-driving car prototype,
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What is a fractal? A lens to infinity
309 views / 0 likes - addedA fractal pattern is a kind of equation occurring all around us in nature. So what's a fractal and what does it have to do with nautiluses, romanesco broccoli, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, peacocks, and predicting diseases? SUBSCRIBE! for more Popular
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Baseball Hall of Fame 3 of 10: Going Pro
458 views / 0 likes - addedThe third installment of 10 webisodes featuring The National Baseball Hall of Fame - produced by Great Museums TV using footage from the shoot for the original GREAT MUSEUMS episode, which aired on national public television. For more information, visit h
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Baseball Hall of Fame 4 of 10: Autumn Glory
375 views / 0 likes - addedThe fourth installment of 10 webisodes featuring The National Baseball Hall of Fame - produced by Great Museums TV using footage from the shoot for the original GREAT MUSEUMS episode, which aired on national public television. For more information, visit
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What Brain-Controlled Exoskeletons Mean For You | Future You | NPR
204 views / 0 likes - addedWill mind-controlled robot suits help end some disabilities as we know them and lead the way to super strength? In this episode of NPRs series, Future You with Elise Hu, the team goes to the University of Houston to try out a mind-controlled exoskeleton.
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Exoplanets: Crash Course Astronomy #27
353 views / 0 likes - addedToday Phil explains that YES, there are other planets out there and astonomers have a lot of methods for detecting them. Nearly 2000 have been found so far. The most successful method is using transits, where a planet physically passes in front of its par
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Great Museums: Elevated Thinking: The High Line in New York City
532 views / 1 likes - addedNarrated by actress Susan Sarandon, this hour-long documentary film showcases the High Line, a most unusual and unlikely public park. Since opening in 2009, it has become a top global tourist destination, with nearly 5 million visitors annually. Since 199
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2lbs of Cheese For Every American | Planet Money | NPR
179 views / 0 likes - addedThere is an argument that our country has to be able to produce its own food because if our farmers go out of business and we become reliant on other countries for food, then that is a kind of national security risk.In 1976, Jimmy Carter made a single cam
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Box jellyfish stings kill—but how often?
246 views / 0 likes - addedBox jellyfish stings are an underestimated public health problem Read more: https://scim.ag/2OyXE8y Credits editor/animator/narrator Meagan Cantwell story by Yao-Hua Law supervising producers Sarah Crespi Chris Burns script Meagan Cantwell Sarah Crespi Ma
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The City of Golf Carts
275 views / 0 likes - addedSome American cities use buses, or trams, or trains. Peachtree City, Georgia, has a different solution: it's not quite public transit, but a hundred miles of golf cart tracks helps to keep cars off the road. More about Peachtree City: https://www.peachtre
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Do as the Romans: Construct an Aqueduct!
124 views / 0 likes - addedStudents work with specified materials to create aqueduct components that can transport two liters of water across a short distance in the classroom. The design challenge is to create an aqueduct that can supply Aqueductis, a (hypothetical) Roman city, wi
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Why New Yorkers Insisted On a "Worse" Subway Map - Cheddar Explains
197 views / 0 likes - addedSimplified metro system maps have been adopted by cities around the world, but when New York City tried to follow suit the public pushback forced a reversal. We dive into why New Yorkers insisted on using a "worse" subway map instead of the one that was w
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Body Code
296 views / 0 likes - addedBody Code is a selection of biomedical animations that explore the human body at the microscopic and molecular scale. Body Code was designed for museum and art gallery exhibition, with the goal of reaching public audiences who do not usually seek out or a
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Britain's Largest Battery Is Actually A Lake
217 views / 0 likes - addedDinorwig Power Station, otherwise known as Electric Mountain, is a pumped-storage hydro station in Llanberis, Wales. And yes: it's Britain's largest battery. Here's how it works, and why some of the things you think you know about TV pickups might not be
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World's Largest Van de Graff Generator
357 views / 0 likes - addedScience Bob visits the world's largest Van de Graaff generator on display at the Museum of Science in Boston, USA. The generator was generously donated to the Museum by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Designed and built by Dr. Robert J. Van de
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What Did John Snow Know About Cholera? - with James Grime
171 views / 0 likes - addedPhysician 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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How Exposing Anonymous Companies Could Cut Down On Crime - Global Witness
449 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-exposing-anonymous-companies-could-cut-down-on-crime-global-witness Companies are artificial entities created to allow real people to do business. But, unfortunately, there are some types of companies that a
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Why Murals? | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
385 views / 0 likes - addedToday we're going to continue our discussion of public art, this time focusing on murals. We've invited Richard McCoy back to the studio to share with us what exactly murals are, where they came from, and how they can contribute to the betterment of the c
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Why we need national parks - Elyse Cox
69 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the creation of national parks and the importance of finding a balance between public use and ecological preservation.--In 1903, US President Theodore Roosevelt took a camping trip in Californias Yosemite Valley with conservationist John Muir. Roo
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Coronavirus Animation: High Impact Demonstrates How COVID-19 Impacts the Body
204 views / 0 likes - addedhttps://highimpact.com/ Coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, originated in the city of Wuhan, China, and has since spread across the globe at an alarming rate. We produced this 3D coronavirus animation to show how COVID-19 is believed to be transmitted whi
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14 Songs That 'Rip Off' Classical Music
239 views / 0 likes - addedTo get $30 off Soundcore Liberty 2 Pro ear buds use the promo code DAVIDL2P30 at the links below: UK viewers: https://amzn.to/2uSuzB5 US viewers: https://amzn.to/322PVYY (The discount is for a limited time only. UK shoppers won't need to apply the promo c
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How Plastic Made Things Too Cheap | Planet Money | NPR
196 views / 0 likes - addedThis is the story of the moldable, affordable, miracle product of the modern age - Plastic.The story starts with some frustrated electrical scientists and a clever chemist named Leo Baekeland. A century ago stuff was expensive. Back then, people relied on
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The 170-Year Search for a Planet Beyond Neptune I NOVA I PBS
198 views / 1 likes - addedPlanet Nines existence is not the first time astronomers have predicted a planet they couldnt see. Clyde Tombaugh was looking for Planet X when he accidentally found Pluto. After Voyager 2 flew by Neptune in 1989, new calculations determined there was no
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The Race To Sequence The Human Genome - Tien Nguyen
602 views / 0 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-race-to-sequence-the-human-genome-tien-nguyen In 1990, The Human Genome Project proposed to sequence the entire human genome over 15 years with $3 billion of public funds. Then, seven years before its schedu
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Archimedes by Douglas Hollis | Exploratorium
342 views / 0 likes - addedThe Exploratorium commissioned San Francisco artist Douglas Hollis to create the newest public artwork in our Over the Water series. Archimedes, is a reimagined, thirtieth anniversary edition of Listening Vessels, a beloved and iconic Exploratorium exhibi
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LOONEY TUNES (Looney Toons): All This and Rabbit Stew (Bugs Bunny) (1941) (Remastered HD)
352 views / 0 likes - addedAll This and Rabbit Stew is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on September 20, 1941 by Warner Bros. and Vitaphone. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by
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10 Cartoon Characters That Have Copies in Real Life
97 views / 0 likes - addedPRIVATE DIARY https://goo.su/1S4kHave you ever wondered how animators come up with their characters? Of course, they often use appearance-based stereotypes ingrained in the public consciousness. For example, if a person has thin lips, he is supposed to be
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Watch a prodigy create -- from four notes in a hat
569 views / 1 likes - added60 Minutes pulls four musical notes out of hat, and young composer Alma Deutscher takes off, improvising a piano sonata in under a minute Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/1S7CLRu Watch Full Episodes of "60 Minutes" HERE: http://cb
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Is Global Warming Causing All Of These Hurricanes?
300 views / 1 likes - addedIs global warming causing all of these hurricanes? Find out in this all new episode of Global Weirding. Be sure to check out these other videos on this topic from our friends at Above the Noise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4U4H5xLCoM and It’s Ok
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A Short History Of Humans And Germs: Humans Get A Clue | Goats & Soda | NPR
405 views / 0 likes - addedFor most of human history, we had a lot of bad ideas about how we were getting sick: angry gods, misaligned planets, stinky fumes. We also had plenty of bad ideas about how to prevent it, like bloodletting, large holes in the head and drinking arsenic. Th
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What is a Horsepower?
404 views / 0 likes - addedWhen it comes to car engines and automobiles, most of us know one word in particular—horsepower. But where does that term come from? And what is a horsepower anyway? -- Producer/Video by: Jason Lederman Research: Sara Chodosh Narrator: Jessica Boddy Media
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