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Minecraft, But Structures Spawn Every Minute...

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Minecraft, But Structures Spawn Every Minute... (Challenge) Follow My Socials: • twitter: @SpeedSilverr • twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/speedsilver • discord: https://invite.gg/speedsilver • tiktok: @SpeedSilver This is a Minecraft Cha
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Representing Structures of Organic Molecules

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Representing Structures of Organic Molecules More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=pMoA65Dj-zk
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Bonding Models and Lewis Structures: Crash Course Chemistry #24

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Models are great, except they're also usually inaccurate. In this episode of Crash Course Chemistry, Hank discusses why we need models in the world and how we can learn from them... even when they're almost completely wrong. Plus, Lewis Structures! -- Tab
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Self-folding printable structures

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A team of researchers from MIT and Umass Amherst have designed 3-D printed structures that can fold themselves up without any outside stimulus, and the folding begins the instant it is peeled off the printing platform. (Learn more: http://news.mit.edu/201
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6 Animals with Extraordinary Adaptations to Cave Life

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Living in a cave isn’t easy, but these six cave-dwelling animals have gained some amazing traits to help them survive there! Hosted by: Michael Aranda Head to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe! ---------- Support SciSho
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How are Underwater Structures Built?

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A quick overview of how we build underwater structures. Get $80 off your first month of Hello Fresh: https://bit.ly/2VGUxzl Oceans, rivers, and lakes are often beautiful, but they’re not necessarily convenient places to build things. Yet, many types
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The Amazing Adaptations of Cave Animals! | Let's Explore Caves! | SciShow Kids

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Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Mister Brown and Squeaks are visiting Sam the Bat's family in their cave! Now, animals that live in caves are pretty special. Since caves are real
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Can You Actually Build These Impossible Structures?

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In today's video we're recreating some puzzling physics structures that seem to defy the very laws of gravity. How do they work and can we get them to work?Check out the TKOR Shop: http://bit.ly/2UCNpEbSee What Else We're Up To:TKOR Discord: http://bit.ly
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Mysterious Jiggly Crystals and Other Intracellular Structures

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Let's journey deep into the cells themselves to take a look at some of the structures that keep cells alive and others that do... something... that we'll figure out someday... probably.Follow Journey to the Microcosmos:Twitter: https://twitter.com/journey
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How This Guy Balances Impossible Rock Structures | Obsessed | WIRED

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Michael Grab's mind-bending rock formations aren't held together by glue or steel rods. Shockingly, his rock piles are stacked using only the laws of gravity. Michael's rock formations have taken the internet by storm, and brought an even greater attentio
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How To Stop Structures from SHAKING: LEGO Saturn V Tuned Mass Damper

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Thanks to LEGO for sponsoring this video. Find your own LEGOs at https://shop.lego.com/?cmp=SOC-OneMinutePhysics or https://shop.lego.com/product?p=21309&cmp=SOC-OneMinutePhysics This video is about Tuned Mass Dampers, which can be used to reduce or avoid
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Data Structures: Crash Course Computer Science #14

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Today we’re going to talk about on how we organize the data we use on our devices. You might remember last episode we walked through some sorting algorithms, but skipped over how the information actually got there in the first place! And it is this abilit
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Fire Ants Build "Eiffel Tower" Structures

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When fire ants build a structure, they avoid getting crushed by their fellow ants by following a simple set of rules to distribute the load evenly.
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The Mystifying Structures Hidden Within Earth’s Mantle

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Over four decades have passed since researchers discovered two continent-sized blobs wrapped around Earth's core, and they're still trying to figure out what they are. Here's what they know so far. There’s a Subterranean Biosphere Hiding in the Earth’s Cr
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Martian Structures Could Someday Be Built From Literal Blood, Sweat and Tears

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It might sound gross, but it creates a material stronger than concrete.
How origami is inspiring new kinds of emergency shelters

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Engineers have come up with a way of designing structures based on the ancient art of origami. The structures can be put up with by inflation, fold up flat for storage and transport, and can be made of strong, rigid materials. One hope is that these struc
Why Do Deep-Sea Animals Look So Weird? | Monterey Bay Aquarium's Into The Deep

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"Strange." "Alien." "Bizarre." "Scary." These are just some of the words used to describe deep-sea creaturesbut what if they're *not* the weird ones?! Join Monterey Bay Aquarium scientists Alicia, Ellen, Mackenzie and Tommy to learn more about the fascina
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Meet Your Master: Getting to Know Your Brain - Crash Course Psychology #4

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George Gets Beaten by a Girl! | George Of The Jungle | Full Episode | Videos for Kids

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Watch More George of the Jungle Videos : https://bit.ly/34Ax9sc Watch George of the Jungle Season 1: http://bit.ly/2vVMgL1George should never underestimate Ursula! Watch George of the Jungle Season 2: http://bit.ly/2uwmBsX Meet the Characters of George of
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Jungle Pool Party | George Of The Jungle | Full Episode | Videos for Kids

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Watch More George of the Jungle Videos : https://bit.ly/34Ax9sc Watch George of the Jungle Season 1: http://bit.ly/2vVMgL1Even in the jungle, people love a pool party! Watch George of the Jungle Season 2: http://bit.ly/2uwmBsX Meet the Characters of Georg
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Pink George | George Of The Jungle | Full Episode | Videos for Kids

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Watch More George of the Jungle Videos : https://bit.ly/34Ax9sc Watch George of the Jungle Season 1: http://bit.ly/2vVMgL1George gets lost in a swirl of pink when he looks for the spirits of lunches past! Watch George of the Jungle Season 2: http://bit.ly
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The bizarre physics of fire ants

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They're not just an animal, they're a material. And that's got engineers interested. // Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO For more information about the Hu lab: http://www.hu.gatech.edu/ Red imported fire ants (solenopsis invicta) are native
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Crustaceans, the 'Insects' of the Deep Sea

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Crustaceans, of all the animal groups in the ocean, are by far the most successful. Coming in a boundless array of colours, shapes and sizes, crustaceans have diversified so much that they are often called the insects of the oceans, a title reflecting the
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The Wonderful World of Deep Sea Worms

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Polychaete worms in the deep sea are among the most diverse organisms in the ocean. From giant tube worms and Pompeii worms at deep sea vents, to the ghostly tomopteris in the twilight zone, they display a number of unique adaptations in order to survive
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Magnetic shape-shifters

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MIT engineers have created soft, magnetic 3-D-printed structures that can transform their shape almost instantaneously by the wave of a magnet. The structures are flexible, yet strong and could be used to develop remotely controlled biomedical devices. (L
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Covalent Networks, Metallic, and Ionic Crystals

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Covalent Networks, Metallic, and Ionic Crystals: Some of the strongest molecular structures. More free lessons at: http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=Rw_pDVbnfQk
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The Great Marine Migrations

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Migrations are a key to survival in the marine ecosystem. From whales and turtles to sardines, by travelling to different locations, nektonic animals stand better chances offinding food or a suitable place to breed and raise their young. In this video, we
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Endomembrane System

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An overview of how the cellular membrane, nuclear membranes, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus and other membrane-bound structures collectively form the endomembrane system in eukaryotic cells.
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Ursula's New Pet | George of the Jungle | Full Episode | Cartoons For Kids

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Ursula adopts a rather dangerous new pet!George of the Jungle | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Beetle Invasion/Naked Ape ManUrsula's new pet beetle threatens to destroy the forest, and George loses his loincloth! Watch More George of the Jungle Videos :https://bi
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Christmas Everyday | George of the Jungle | Full Episode | Cartoons For Kids

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George finds out why we don't celebrate Christmas everyday!George of the Jungle | Season 1 | Episode 23 | Jungle Bells/The Goat of Christmas PresentsIt's jungle bells for all as George spreads holiday cheer, and decides to celebrate Christmas every day of
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Hydrocarbon Power! - Crash Course Chemistry #40

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George VS Zombies | George of the Jungle | Compilation | Cartoons For Kids

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George unleashes the zombies!George of the Jungle | Season 1 | Episode 11 | FrankenGeorge/Afraid of NothingGeorge accidentally unleashes a horde of zombie critters, and catches a campfire fright.George of the Jungle | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Cone Head/Cous
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Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-are-sloths-so-slow-kenny-coogan Sloths spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping; in fact, they descend from their treetops canopies just once a week, for a bathroom break. How are these creature
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Ant architecture: The simple rules of ant construction

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Fire ants work together to build complex structures out of their own bodies. Research that reveals the simple rules behind this behaviour could be used to inform robotics. Read more at http://www.nature.com/news/1.22290 12th July 2017
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George Goes Ape | George of the Jungle | 1 Hour Compilation | Cartoons For Kids

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George discovers he's not actually an ape!George of the Jungle | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Brother George/Ape MitzvahGeorge spreads himself thin, and discovers he's not actually an ape!George of the Jungle | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Rainy Season/Love in the
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Network Solids and Carbon: Crash Course Chemistry #34

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I, Octopus

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SCIENCE FRIDAY'S CEPHALOPOD WEEK 2016 BEGINS May 17th! http://www.sciencefriday.com/cephalopodweek With thousands of chemically-sensitive suckers, color-changing skin, and a brain that literally stretches when they eat, octopuses seem like aliens living i
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Jacket George | George of the Jungle | Compilation | Cartoons For Kids

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George always makes himself useful, even as a jacket...George of the Jungle | Season 2 | Episode 12 | My Georging JacketIt looks like George's reign as king is over when Tiger and Weevil paralyse him with a poisonous No-Licky Frog. But George proves that
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How Exactly is the Human Body Organized?

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Welcome to Seeker's newest series, Human! Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.comThis Seeker health mini-series will take a deep dive into the cellular structures, human systems, and overall anatomy that
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How This Craftsman Weaves Huge Wooden Sculptures | Obsessed | WIRED

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Charlie Baker is an artist and builder who weaves materials found in nature to make astonishing and beautiful wooden structures. Charlie's creations are made so they look like they could've grown that way, and this ethos permeates the majority of his work
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15 Most Mysterious Archaeological Discoveries In the World

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Humans have been on this planet for tens of thousands of years, and since were incapable of ever clearing up after ourselves, there are countless ancient structures and objects that have become buried and hidden over time. These can, of course, be vital i
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Creating artificial tissues just got easier, thanks to this tetris-like building technique

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New method allows researchers to build structures from cells with unprecedented precision. Read more: http://bit.ly/2eMuUcv Read the research ($): http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1600911 JOIN AAAS: http://scim.ag/2bxrxnH
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The Bug Hunting Game!

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There are some animals with special adaptations that help them blend in to the places they live! See for yourself how this works as you take on the role of a hungry bird looking for tasty bugs! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Bec
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Michael Green: Why We Should Build Wooden Skyscrapers

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Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of ... wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes, higher)
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Engineering the Perfect Pop

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Using scissors, tape, and reams of creativity, Matthew Reinhart engineers paper to bend, fold, and transform into fantastic creatures, structures and locales. By adjusting the angles of folds and the depth of layers, Reinhart animates his subjects to tell
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The Baby Bears Visit Glitterwood | We Baby Bears | Cartoon Network

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The Baby Bears take a trip to Unicas hometown, Glitterwood Forest, where the town is busy preparing festivities for the Grand Magnolia Trees big bloom.Watch We Baby Bears on Cartoon Network on Max.Episode: The Big BloomSUBSCRIBE: http://cartn.co/subscribe
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Why Sharks get Creepier the Deeper you Go

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Why Deep Sea Sharks Appear so Mysterious. Sharks have ruled the deep sea for 450 million years. A time during which sharks have adapted and diversified into an array of weird and wonderful species. Many, like the well-known Great White Shark, have adapted
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Using Nature To Grow Batteries - Angela Belcher

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Inspired by an abalone shell, Angela Belcher programs viruses to make elegant nanoscale structures that humans can use. Selecting for high-performing genes through directed evolution, she's produced viruses that can construct powerful new batteries, clean
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Scientists have solved one of Pluto's most puzzling mysteries.

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There are regions in Pluto where huge ice structures exist. Scientists finally think they know how they are formed. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSTA
Earthquake in the Classroom

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Students learn how engineers design and construct buildings to withstand earthquake damage by building their own model structures using toothpicks and marshmallows. They experiment to see how earthquake-proof their buildings are by testing them in an eart
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Nature's fortress: How cacti keep water in and predators out - Lucas C. Majure

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Discover the adaptations that allow cacti to not only survive, but thrive, in some of the harshest desert climates on Earth. --If you were a jackrabbit in the desert, youd be glad to stumble across a cactus: the flesh of these plants is a water source for
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18th / 19th century muskets. Learn why soldiers dressed so strange.

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Excellent portrayal of history, this video focuses on the basics of battle of the late 18th and early 19th century. Fort Niagara, New York, Unitied States of America. We stumbled on the Fort as a quick stop to see lake Ontario before beginning a one night
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The Evolution Of The Human Eye - Joshua Harvey

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-evolution-of-the-human-eye-joshua-harvey The human eye is an amazing mechanism, able to detect anywhere from a few photons to a few quadrillion, or switch focus from the screen in front of you to the distant
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These animals are also plants wait, what? - Luka Seamus Wright

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Explore the incredible adaptations of Elysia chlorotica, a species of sea slug that can photosynthesize food. --The species of slug known as Elysia chlorotica may not look like much it resembles a bright green leaf but its one of the most extraordinary cr
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The sharks that hunt in forests - Luka Seamus Wright

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Discover the unique adaptations of marine forests, the ecosystems that provide food and shelter for sharks and diverse coastal species.--Forests dont usually come to mind as a habitat for sharks. But marine forests provide a home for 35% of the worlds sha
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Hydrogen Can Be a Metal?! Plus, Other Weird States of Matter (Part 2 of 3)

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Solids, liquids, and gases are only the beginning. What are the other states of matter? Hint: There are more than you think. Part 1 of 3 - https://youtu.be/58C-gtX6uCY Part 3 of 3 - coming next Thursday! Read More: Matter: Definition & the Five States of
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Amazing Ways to Live in the Desert!

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Life in a desert can be tough, but the plants, animals, and people that live there have some special skills to help them survive! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowkids ---
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Self-assembling material pops into 3D

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Get 50% off your first month of KiwiCo. Use code STEVEMOULD at https://kiwico.com/stevemouldThis bistable auxetic material gets bigger in all directions when you stretch it. It's also becomes 3 dimensional!The paper by Tian Chen and colleagues is:Bistable
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Metabolism & Nutrition, Part 1: Crash Course A&P #36

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Metabolism is a complex process that has a lot more going on than personal trainers and commercials might have you believe. Today we are exploring some of its key parts, including vital nutrients -- such as water, vitamins, minerals, carbs, fats, and prot
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UPenn's magnetic, modular drones

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The University of Pennsylvania invented a network of drones that can magnetize themselves to each other and arrange themselves mid-flight to form patterns and structures. SUBSCRIBE: https://goo.gl/kdDpXu FOLLOW QUARTZ: Facebook: https://goo.gl/DsmLvx Twit
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Armadillos: Animals with Armor!

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Animals use all kinds of tricks and adaptations to keep themselves safe from predators, but armadillos stand out for a really special reason: they have their own, built-in suit of armor! ----------- Hi there! We at SciShow want to learn more about you and
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Auto-Inflatables

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Auto-inflatables explores the design space of self-inflating structures. By using chemical reactions as a source of carbon dioxide on-demand, we are able to induce a wide range of interaction-triggered transformations in our designs. These include changes
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Meet the bluefin tuna, the toughest fish in the sea - Grantly Galland and Raiana McKinney

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Discover the unique adaptations that make the Atlantic bluefin tuna one of the most dominant predators in the ocean.--Whats as big as a polar bear, swallows its prey whole, and swims at forty miles an hour? Its not a shark or a killer whale... its the Atl
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Mosasaurs 101 | National Geographic

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Mosasaurs were Earth's last great marine reptiles. Learn about the surprising places they'd hunt, how some species dwarfed even the Tyrannosaurus rex, and how key physical adaptations allowed these reptiles to become a prehistoric apex predator. ➡ Subscri
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How ancient Romans made stronger concrete than today

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Many structures built by ancient Romans around 2,000 years ago are still standing, and some are still in excellent condition. Over the last decade, researchers have come discover the Romans' secret concrete recipe that has maintained so many of its now-an
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A year in the life of one of Earth's weirdest animals - Gilad Bino

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Trace a year in the life of a platypus, and explore how the animals unique adaptations ensure its survival.--Waddling along the parched Australian earth, a female platypus is searching for fresh water. Over the past year, a severe drought turned rivers an
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Q&A: How Are Skyscrapers Engineered? - with Roma Agrawal

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What's the hardest material to build a building out of? How would we build structures on the moon? Roma Agrawal answers audience questions following her talk.Watch the talk: https://youtu.be/cSyNqwbUB8kBuy Roma's book "Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our
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Cell membranes are way more complicated than you think - Nazzy Pakpour

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Check out TED-Ed's Tumblr: http://teded.tumblr.com/ View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/cell-membranes-are-way-more-complicated-than-you-think-nazzy-pakpour Cell membranes are structures of contradictions. These oily films are hundreds of times t
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This Massive Wall of Galaxies Is Lurking Beyond the Milky Way

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Cosmographers recently revealed a massive wall of galaxies lurking shockingly close by. But why was it hidden from our view for so long? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop
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Did AI Just Solve a 50 Year Old Biology Problem?

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You may remember Google's DeepMind from their AI system, AlphaGo, which beat the world champion Go player in 2016. DeepMind has recently achieved breakthrough success in accurately predicting protein structures, using its system, AlphaFold. TRY IT YOURSEL
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World Wonders That Didn't Make The Cut

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From China's Terracotta Warriors to Mexico's Teotihuacan, we're uncovering the beauty and history of the structures that didn't make the cut for the Seven Wonders of the World list. Feeling adventurous? Explore anything you might have missed from this epi
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Real Star Trek Like Transporter. Why This 3D Light Printer Is A HUGE Game Changer

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Computed Axial Lithography is the first printer of it's kind. It can shape objects, all-at-once, using specialized synthetic resin and rays of light. We Can Now 3D Print in Suspended Gravity (And It’s Mesmerizing!) - https://youtu.be/FgCedvTbKso Read More
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Why Are These Urban Lizards Evolving in Overdrive?

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Learn more about Human Footprint: https://www.pbs.org/show/human-footprintPuerto Rican Crested Anoles are a prime example of adaptation in action. In just a few decades, these city-dwelling lizards have undergone remarkable evolutionary changes to thrive
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What Gives the Morpho Butterfly Its Magnificent Blue? | Deep Look

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What does it mean to be blue? The wings of a Morpho butterfly are some of the most brilliant structures in nature, and yet they contain no blue pigment -- they harness the physics of light at the nanoscale. Learn more about these butterflies: http://goo.g
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How Animals Can Change Colors

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Iridescence is a natural phenomenon that changes the color of objects based on the angle we view them. Many animals including peacocks, butterflies, and snakes, have special structures that cast this shiny glow. It happens when color wavelengths interfere
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Some people have evolved bigger spleens to hunt underwater

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Researchers have found that Indonesia’s Bajau people, who for generations have spent the majority of their days diving and hunting underwater, also have genetic adaptations for their unusual lifestyle. Read more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/04/ind
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How Are Skyscrapers Engineered? - with Roma Agrawal

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How high can we build skyscrapers with the help of new materials and technologies?Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibeBuy Roma's book "Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures" now - https://geni.us/UcXf3Roma Agrawal delv
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The Fungi in Your Future

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From bricks to furniture to leather, mushrooms can be made into a wide variety of materials. Philip Ross, of the San Fransisco based start-up, MycoWorks, explains how his company aims to fashion fungus into environmentally friendly clothing or structures
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Crafting a Basket out of Bamboo StripsBamboo Woodworking Art

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Crafting a Basket out of Bamboo StripsBamboo Woodworking Art Make your own beautiful and useful bamboo basket, this bamboo basket will be used to hold vegetables, fruits, vegetables and more. Bamboo art is really interesting. Bamboo, like true wood, is a
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Crystal Structure and the Laws of Thermodynamics

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Crystals bring order out of chaos. Does their formation violate the laws of thermodynamics? Materials chemist Dr Suze Kundu explores the relationship between crystals and entropy, with footage from the Ri Archives channel. Watch more classic archive foota
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Artificial Atoms Could Harness the Secret Power of Metamaterials

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The superlattices used in metamaterials can be built using crystals called “artificial atoms.” What exactly are these tiny building blocks? These Nanostructures Are Hacking Nature - https://youtu.be/6-JjCvlPSF4 For a 30-day, unrestricted trial, go to http
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The Invisible Creatures That Keep You Alive!

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Try Audible today: http://www.audible.com/ok “I Contain Multitudes” by Ed Yong http://amzn.to/2aE5rlf ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Get yourself an awesome IOTBS shirt! http://dftba.com/besmart Learn more/references: Fujimura, Kei E., et al. "House dust
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Why Do You Stop Noticing Smells After A While?

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Our brains lie to us. Not maliciously – they think they’re helping. Which is why smells seem to disappear: It’s olfactory adaptation. How it happens is complicated, but Lauren breaks it down. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://health.howstuffworks.co
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How Do Sharks and Rays Use Electricity to Find Hidden Prey? | Deep Look

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When it comes to spotting prey, sharks and rays have a secret sense beyond sight and smell. Tiny goo-filled organs called Ampullae of Lorenzini detect the invisible electric fields produced by all living creatures. DEEP LOOK: a new ultra-HD (4K) short vid
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How 3D Printing Could Help Colonize Mars | WIRED

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To live on Mars humans may have to rely on robotically 3D printed homes like the structures designed by AI SpaceFactory. WIRED's Arielle Pardes talks with AI SpaceFactory CEO and architect David Mallot about how this new technology works and could be used
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Could we build a wooden skyscraper? - Stefan Al

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Explore the viability of wooden skyscrapers, and see how cross-laminated timber (CLT) helps make these once impossible structures possible.--Towering 85 meters above the Norwegian countryside, Mjstrnet is the worlds tallest wooden building, made almost en
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These 8 Unique Creatures Are As Rare As They Are Fascinating

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Great Big Reel 147: New to our channel, or don't have time to look through our back catalog? This video is part of a series of Great Big Reels we've put together for a blast through our world. In this reel, we meet 8 of our planet's rarest and most unique
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The animal architecture visible from space - Glynnis Hood

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Explore how beavers build their impressive dams, and what impact these structures have on the surrounding environment. --Nestled in the forests of Canada sits the worlds longest beaver dam. This 850-meter-long structure is large enough to be seen in satel
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Where is our earth in relation to the rest of the universe? Our supercluster.

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Superclusters – regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies – are the biggest structures in the Universe. But scientists have struggled to define exactly where one supercluster ends and another begins. Now, a team based in Hawaii ha
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How to Make an Amazing Anti-Gravity Structure

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We made a sculpture out of wood batten based on the principle of tensional integrity (tensegrity for short), where all the strings are under continuous tension. The result is the impression that the sculpture levitates.Tensegrity is a design principle tha
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How Natural Selection Works

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Through natural selection, living things have evolved over billions of years from simple cells into an awe-inspiring array of organisms. “Life at the Limits” Co-curators John Sparks and Mark Siddall explain how over time natural selection leads to changes
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This New State of Matter Is a Liquid and a Solid at the Same Time!

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Scientist have just discovered that, at an atomic level, these elements have both liquid and solid states, giving context to what may be hidden in the cores of celestial bodies. A New State of Water Reveals a Hidden Ocean in Earths Mantle - https://youtu.
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Alkenes&Alkynes - Crash Course Chemistry #41

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You can directly support Crash Course at http://www.subbable.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Also, if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing great content.
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Everything We Know About Dinosaur Evolution Just Changed, Here's Why

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While it's been known that dinosaurs had feathers, the question of when feathers evolved is longstanding in the paleontological community. Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylistIn 2019, scient
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Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do

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Sign up for a free month's trial at the Great Courses Plus: http://ow.ly/6u4h304922j Support Wendover Productions on Patreon: http://Patreon.com/WendoverProductions Rich Americans live in the Suburbs; Rich Europeans live downtown. Why do cities on the two
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Why Bridges Move...

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...and other musings on thermal movement of large civil works. This video is sponsored by Blue Apron. First 100 people to sign up will get $40 off their first two weeks of Blue Apron orders. Click here: http://cook.ba/2HO67T5 Most people have a certain in
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Animal Slime and Other Weird Stuff

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Ever wonder why some animals don't need sunscreen or how they can live in dry climates without water? Well, some of them can use the slime their bodies produce in weird and helpful ways! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a p
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In Japan, Repairing Buildings Without a Single Nail

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In the past, making and developing metal was too costly for carpenters in Japan. So instead of using nails, carpenters called “miyadaiku” developed unique methods for interlocking pieces of wood together, similar to a giant 3D puzzle. Takahiro Matsumoto h
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A Peek Into Italy's Surreal 'Ideal City'

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In Terni, Italy, you'll find an architectural wonder that blends classical and medieval structures with surrealist and neo-mannerist elements. Once a Franciscan monastery, the idiosyncratic, dream-like site you’ll find today began with one man's vision. K
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Origami: Art, Engineering or Both?

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How can one sheet of folding paper inform engineering and the future of space travel?Subscribe so you never miss an episode: https://bit.ly/3mOfd77More info below Jinkyu JK Yang sees endless possibilities in a single sheet of paper. The aeronautics and as
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How Exactly Is the Human Brain Organized?

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The human brain remains one of the biggest mysteries in science, but weve learned a lot about how it works over the years. In this episode, Patrick breaks down all things brain. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Human! http://b
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Proof Of Evolution That You Can Find On Your Body

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You have your mom's smile, your dad's eyes, and the ear muscles of a Triassic mammal. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Forty-two percent of Americans say that humans were created in their present form within the past 10,000 years — a percent
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Festo – 3D Cocooner

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Just like a caterpillar, the 3D Cocooner spins delicate lightweight structures freely in space. With the help of a high-speed handling system, the spinneret is precisely controlled and glues a glass fibre into the desired bionic lattice shape with UV-curi
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Why Youll Fail the Milk Crate Challenge | WIRED

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The goal of the "Milk Crate Challenge" is to make it from one side of the pyramid to the other. As you can see, well, it isn't so easy to pull off. We spoke with Dr. Nehemiah Mabry, an engineer, about why these milk crate structures are so unstable, and w
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This Is How Your DNA Made You

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DNA is the genetic instructions that tell your body where to put each finger and how to orient the heart, but how does this process work on a cellular level? In this episode, Patrick breaks down each step of the process and explains how you end up as you
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Microworlds: Fiercest Ocean Predators

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Plankton stick, sting, sense, and sneak to keep their bellies full. See how these ferocious creatures find food in a vast ocean. Hey, teachers! Here’s a cheat sheet of what’s included in this episode of Microworlds: - Plankton, zooplankton - C
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Do Penguins Fly? | Penguin 101

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We get this question a lot at the Aquarium: "Do penguins fly? They're a bird, right?" And the answer is: "Yes, penguins fly—but not through the air!" Penguins are expert swimmers and use their paddle-like wings to fly through the water. Penguins are shape
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Wireless Power Transfer

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Wireless power delivery has the potential to seamlessly power our electrical devices as easily as data is transmitted through the air. However, existing solutions are limited to near contact distances and do not provide the geometric freedom to enable aut
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How To Draw A Chimpanzee

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Hey, art friends! Today, Hadley and I are learning how to draw a chimpanzee. We hope you have a lot of fun following along with us. Materials:Art For Kids Hub markers Marker paper Fun Fact:Did you know that chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, sh
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How Not To Be Wrong: The Power Of Mathematical Thinking

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The maths we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. Jordan Ellenberg shows how wrong this view is through stories that show the power of mathematical thinking. Subscribe for regular science v
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Madagascar’s Eerie Forest of Stone

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With stones rising 220 feet from the ground, Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve in Madagascar casts a landscape unlike any other. Composed of large limestone structures, the stone forest was once submerged completely underwater, some 200 million yea
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What Exactly Is the Blood Brain Barrier?

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Our brains are choosy about what they let in, and that's thanks to the blood brain barrier. In this episode, Patrick explores how this anatomical separation between our blood and brain keeps us safe from potential harm. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/
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How viruses are slowly turning Greenland black | We The Curious

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What is a virus? How can some of the smallest structures in the world influence the climate of our entire planet?Find out more about biogeochemistry, microbiology in arctic environments & the Black and Bloom project here: https://blackandbloom.org/ FInd o
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How do fish make electricity? - Eleanor Nelsen

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-fish-make-electricity-eleanor-nelsen Nearly 350 species of fish have specialized anatomical structures that generate and detect electrical signal
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One of the Worlds Largest Film Studios Is in This Moroccan Desert

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Its not a miragethere is indeed a medieval castle and a Buddhist temple in the middle of the desert in Ouarzazate, Morocco. These structures are among the massive sets at Atlas Studios. TV shows like Game of Thrones and Prison Break and films such as Glad
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Whats Inside A Caterpillar 'Cocoon'

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Contrary to popular belief, a chrysalis is not a pouch or a sac Its actually the caterpillars own body! During metamorphosis, the former caterpillar releases digestive juices that dissolve cells in its muscles, gut, and other organs. Then, special groups
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Why You Shouldn’t Eat Too Fast

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SpaceX Just Sent Algae to the ISS, Here's How It'll Power Deep Space Missions

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SpaceX has taken over refueling missions to the ISS, and they're bringing some exciting new experiments along the way. NASA Just Launched a Mission to Mars to Dig Deep Inside the Planet’s Core - https://youtu.be/MusWmN1i5vE Read More: Plants, Algae and Ot
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Natural Language Processing: Crash Course Computer Science #36

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Today we’re going to talk about how computers understand speech and speak themselves. As computers play an increasing role in our daily lives there has been an growing demand for voice user interfaces, but speech is also terribly complicated. Vocabularies
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What's the Largest Living Thing On Earth?

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Check out American Veteran on @PBS Voices https://youtu.be/P8bt1bwllZg Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below The biggest thing that has ever lived on Earth is a tree? Hard to believe, but
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How Did This Animal Survive Extinction In Dubai?

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Have you heard of the Arabian Oryx? If you haven't, it's probably because they were once declared extinct!This symbol of the Arabian Peninsula was almost completely lost when declared extinct in the early 1970s due to poaching. Since then, theres been a h
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Baby Flying Foxes Rescued in the City | Cities: Nature's New Wild | BBC Earth

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These cute bats have found shelter from the dangers of city life. Subscribe to BBC Earth for more amazing animal videos - http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub Watch more videos from BBC Earth: Planet Earth http://bit.ly/PlanetEarthPlaylist Blue Planet http://bit.ly/
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How squids outsmart their predators - Carly Anne York

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-squids-outsmart-their-predators-carly-anne-york There are about 500 species of squid, and they live in all the world’s oceans, making them a reliabl
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How to Build the Universe

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Don't build a universe at home before watching this! SUBSCRIBE: http://youtube.com/whatthephysics?sub ↓Want more info?↓ Scientific notes: Stellar mass black holes vs. supermassive black holes * Stellar mass black holes form from the collapse of massive st
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Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew

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In the late 1800s, paleontologists in Nebraska found huge coils of hardened sand stuck deep in the earth. Local ranchers called them Devil's Corkscrews and scientists called them Daemonelix. It was clear these corkscrews were created by some form of life,
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Humpback Whales Return To New York | Cities: Nature's New Wild | BBC Earth

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Are whales returning to New York? Learn more about "Cities: Nature's New Wild", : https://bbc.in/2LtM66F Subscribe to BBC Earth for more amazing animal videos - http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub Watch more videos from BBC Earth: Planet Earth http://bit.ly/PlanetE
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Watch Flesh-Eating Beetles Strip Bodies to the Bone | Deep Look

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Dermestid Beetles are fast and fastidious eaters. They can pick a carcass clean in just days leaving even the most delicate bone structures intact. This makes them the perfect tool for museum scientists-- if you keep them far, far away from valuable colle
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This Photon-Printed Carbon Is Stronger Than Diamond

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Scientists might have reached the theoretical limit of how strong this particular material can get, designing the first-ever super-light carbon nanostructure thats stronger than diamond. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elemen
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Slime Houses of Pinky-Size Plankton Cycle Carbon

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This tiny larvacean blows up a mucus balloon up to a meter across. It pumps water through feeding structures to concentrate food particles, and may be an important player in oceanic carbon cycling. Subscribe to our channel: https://youtube.com/SciAmerican
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An Axolotl Is An Incredible Creature That Can Regenerate Its Brain And Heart

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*Editor's note: Dr. James Godwin is now a research scientist at MDI Biological Laboratory.* The story begins with the Aztec God of death and lightning, the Xolotl. As legends have it, he was a monstrous dog that guarded the sun god and ushered souls to th
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The Great Vertical Migration

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Diel vertical migration truly is a phenomenon. This migration serves as the anchor for the food web that supplies the entire planet. Every day, 5 billion metric tonnes of organisms migrate to the surface to feed. Predators chase prey, forming a layer of a
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Elastic knots are really mind bending

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Give it a try at https://ground.news/SteveMould. If you sign up through my link youll get 40% off the Vantage plan which gives you unlimited access to every Ground News feature. Your subscription directly supports Ground News on their mission to make the
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Using Live Oak Trees As A Blueprint For Surviving Hurricanes | Think Like A Tree

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With sturdy, spiral trunks and deep roots that intertwine with neighboring trees, a live oak is a force to be reckoned with. Find out how architects and engineers are starting to think like a tree when designing safe and resilient structures. SUBSCRIBE fo
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Evolution: It's a Thing - Crash Course Biology #20

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Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization. Crash Course Biology is now availabl
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Humans And Other Animals: Cultural Evolution And Social Learning

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What is culture? Is it uniquely human, or do animals have culture too? From dolphins getting high on puffer fish, chimpanzees learning to crack nuts, and how human culture is changing the world around, hear this panel of experts explore the fascinating su
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Europe's Largest Monument Marks Napoleon's Surrender

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Standing nearly 300 feet tall, Europe’s largest monument is a dedication to the army that defeated Napoleon. Named after the battle that took place in 1813, The Monument to the Battle of the Nations is located in Leipzig, Germany, at the very site where N
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Should We Make Robots That Die Like Humans?

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Scientists are developing cutting-edge technology to make robot inter and external structures decomposable! Should We Fear Artificial Intelligence? ►►►►http://bit.ly/1DbqAYF The Shocking Truth About Biodegradable Plastics►►►►http://bit.ly/1UrfS9r Sign Up
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Central Nervous System: Crash Course A&P #11

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Today Hank talks about your central nervous system. In this episode we'll explore how your brain develops and how important location is for each of your brain's many functions. Table of Contents Central Nervous System, Location and Brain Function 1:48 Bra
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Something weird is happening in our galaxy - Ashkbiz Danehkar

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Explore the massive structures known as the Fermi bubbles, and dig into the prevailing theories about how they came to be.--In 2010, NASA announced the discovery of a never-before-seen galactic object: two gigantic gaseous bubbles, each emanating an impre
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Weaver Ants Use Their Children as Cement | 4KUHD | China: Nature's Ancient Kingdom | BBC Earth

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Unlike most ants, weaver ants live above ground building nests out of leaves. But the way they hold their structures together may shock you.Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub #BBCEarth #China #WeaverAntsWatch more: Planet Earth http://bit.ly/PlanetEarth
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Why Is The Universe So Empty? (ft. PHD Comics!)

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A collaboration with Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson. Their book: http://www.WeHaveNoIdea.com Don’t miss our next video! SUBSCRIBE! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ Why is the universe organized the way it is? And why is it so
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How an Egg Hatches

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See the remarkable way hatchlings are able to break out of their eggs. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed! http://bit.ly/1Adl6ht **More info & videos below**The Egg: Lifes Perfect Invention premieres Wednesday, April 10 online and on-air at 8|7c on
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A New Laser Technology Can See Inside Our Bodies Like Never Before

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While X-rays can produce harmful radiation, a new technique using laser-induced sound waves provides highly detailed images of the structures in our bodies. Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlayl
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What's It Like to Live Underground?

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Jessi has a cool pair of gardening gloves, which makes her wonder, what special tools do animals have for living underground?----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf you have a
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Why Do Humans Get So Many Sinus Infections?

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Sinus infections are incredibly common, and it could be linked to our evolution on this planet. In the season 2 premiere of Human, Patrick explains why humans are so prone to these painful infections. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Wat
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How this disease changes the shape of your cells - Amber M. Yates

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Dig into the science of how a single genetic mutation alters the structure of hemoglobin and leads to sickle-cell disease. -- What shape are your cells? Squishy cylinders? Jagged zig-zags? You might not spend a lot of time thinking about the bodies of the
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Eukaryopolis - The City of Animal Cells: Crash Course Biology #4

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Hank tells us about the city of Eukaryopolis - the animal cell that is responsible for all the cool things that happen in our bodies. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dftba.com/product/1av/CrashCourse-Biology-The-Complete-Series-DVD-Se
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Why bats don't get sick - Arinjay Banerjee

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Explore the relationship between viruses and their hosts, and find out how the evolutionary adaptations of bats keep them safe from viruses. --Consider a bat that is infected with several deadly viruses, including ones that cause rabies, SARS, and Ebola.
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Tensegrity Explained

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The first 1000 people to use this link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/stevemould01211Tensegrity (or tensional integrity, or floating compression) is really counterintuitive. These bizarre structures can be explained
Warka Water towers harvest drinkable water from the air | Design | Dezeen

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The fish that walk on land - Noah R. Bressman

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Explore the challenges facing amphibious fish when they leave water and the ingenious ways they survive on land. --We think of fish as completely aquatic animals. But there are actually hundreds of fish species that are amphibious, meaning that they posse
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Why don’t poisonous animals poison themselves? - Rebecca D. Tarvin

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Have you checked out our Patreon page? https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-don-t-poisonous-animals-poison-themselves-rebecca-d-tarvin Thousands of animal species use toxic chemicals to defend themselves from pred
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Why Do We Like Our Own Farts?

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Your farts may smell like roses...to you! Get the AsapSCIENCE book! http://asapscience.com/book Watch The Science of Beards: http://youtu.be/HHSjnbfE8XQ Written by Rachel Salt, Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown Instagram and Twitter: @whalewatchmeplz and @mi
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How the Quantum Vacuum Gave Rise to Galaxies

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All the large-scale structure in the universe may owe its existence to nothing.Sponsored by the Dyson 360 Eye Robot #ad: http://bit.ly/2cGqBRVSupport Veritasium on Patreon: http://bit.ly/VePatreonThanks to Patreon supporters:Bryan Baker, Donal Botkin, Ton
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Here's what we often get wrong about wildfires

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Fire is as natural as wind and rain in large forest and, in fact, needed.The 2020 wildfire season was the worst in Californias recorded history, with more than four million acres burned and almost 10,500 structures destroyed across the state. The fires we
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Making Glass - Melting Sand with High Voltage Electricity!

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Craig Beals from Beals Science meets up with Quinn, a former student of his to experiment with electricity in the lab. Together they use a high voltage microwave transformer to make plasma by pulling an arc from the transformer to a nail causing a flaming
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What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

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What is entropy? Why is it always increasing? And what does that even mean? Dr Valeska Ting explains the second law of thermodynamics. This is the day 12 of our 2016 advent calendar on thermodynamics. Watch all the films here: http://www.rigb.org/christma
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The Perfectionist Trap

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One of the greatest obstacles to a good life is the expectation of perfection. If you like our films, take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide): http://bit.ly/2c8SGST Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: http://bit.
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The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer

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The 100 Prisoners Riddle feels completely impossible even once you know the answer. 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 Destin of Sm
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How Babies Are Smarter Than You Think

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A recent study shows that babies can develop logical reasoning before the age of one! Are they smarter than we think? Get 15% off http://www.domain.com's domain names and web hosting when you use coupon code DNEWS at checkout! Should We Make Designer Babi
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Planktonium

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Planktonium is a short film by Jan van IJken about the unseen world of living microscopic plankton. It is a voyage into a secret universe, inhabited by alien-like creatures. These stunningly beautiful, very diverse and numerous organisms are unknown to mo
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Rogue Wave created by Wave Generator

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With 310 meters of usable length and a width of 5 meters the Large Wave Flume (GWK) in Hanover, Germany is currently the largest wave tank in the world. The wave paddle of the hydraulic wave machine (900 kW) is 7 m tall and includes a ±10 degree ro
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DNA Doesn’t Look Like What You Think!

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The ancient city designed to track time

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Keeping time was challenging for ancient civilizations, so this one built a city to do it. Follow Johnny on Instagram: https://goo.gl/CduwlO and Facebook: https://goo.gl/l0x5cA The first Vox Borders documentary is releasing on Youtube and Facebook on Octo
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Can Your Computer Fight Diseases While You Sleep?

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Computer simulations can aid in understanding how proteins fold incorrectly, possibly leading to therapeutics for some diseases such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia. You can be involved in this process directly using tools like Folding@home!TRY
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How Ferroelectricity Could Change the Way We Store Data

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This hidden ferroelectric “particle” has evaded scientists for years, until recent studies have now discovered it and hacking into their potential. Here’s How We Could Store Data on a Single Atom - https://youtu.be/7FYmHy85A7I Read More: A rhombohedral fe
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Where Does Complexity Come From?

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This video is about the difference between complexity and entropy, and how complex things like life can arise from disorder. Thanks to Google Making and Science for supporting this series, and to Sean Carroll for collaborating on it! His book can be found
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Skyscrapers, Statics, & Dynamics: Crash Course Engineering #26

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What if you were on a high floor of a skyscraper and the building started swaying? Today well explore statics and dynamics, and what they mean for the structures we design. We look at the idea of static equilibrium, forces, and torques, and how free body
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Ants Are Growing Food and They're Better at It Than We Are

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Believe it or not, ants started farming way before we did. How do they do it? What A Bug Scientist Says About 'Ant-Man' - https://youtu.be/-nUpY4M1dWA Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Ants Mastered Sustainable Agri
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What you can do with an extra jaw - Darien Satterfield

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Discover the adaptation of the pharyngeal jaw, a secondary set of jaws that allow fish to capture and eat their prey at the same time. --After stalking a cuttlefish, a moray eel finally pounces. As the eel snags the mollusk in its teeth, its prey struggle
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This Invisible Structure Was Hiding Half the Universe’s Known Matter

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Half of the universe’s baryonic matter has been missing, but astronomers just found it. Where exactly was it and what took us so long? Black Holes And Gravitational Waves Might Help Us Find Dark Matter - https://youtu.be/C68b9EGksuI Read More: The Mystery
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Top 10 Strangest Things Found in Outer Space

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Outer space is home to some incredibly weird objects and strange mysteries that we're uncovering today. Here are the strangest things found in outer space! Subscribe for more! ► https://goo.gl/pgcoq1 ◄ Stay updated ► https://goo.gl/JyGcTt https://goo.gl/5
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The 7 Levels of Jazz Harmony

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Ya like jazz? You will! There are 7 levels of Jazz Harmony, and we'll explore each of them through reharmonizing the chorus of one of my favorite tunes from 2019 - Lizzo's Juice. Thanks to Jae Soto for singing! OUTRO TRACK (Dilla Beat + Intonalist Harmony
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Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down? - Laurence Hurst

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Download a free audiobook version of "Sapiens" and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed Check out our full book recommendation: https://shop.ed.ted.com/collections/ted-ed-book-recommendations/products/sapiens--In the past 3,0
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Why are cockroaches so hard to kill? - Ameya Gondhalekar

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Dig into the genetic adaptations of cockroaches, and find out what makes it so hard to get rid of these tenacious creatures.--In ancient Egypt, there was a spell that declared, Be far from me, O vile cockroach. Thousands of years later, were still trying
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How Shazam Works

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Be one of the first 73 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/realengineering/ New vlog channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMet4qY3027v8KjpaDtDx-g Patreon: https://www.patreon.co
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Seeing The Universe Like We've Never Seen It Before

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Now that the James Webb Space Telescope has released its first images, its time for the science programs to begin. We meet 5 scientists who will be using the telescope during its first cycle of operations looking at the earliest galaxies, red giant stars
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25,000 Dominoes Falling (SATISFYING)

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25,000 dominoes falling in the most satisfying way possible! This project took 3 days to set up and includes many domino tricks: spirals, 3D structures, circle fields, towers, and more! The left side of the project was built by @StickTrickDominoDude and @
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Engineering with Origami

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Origami is inspiring a plethora of new engineering designs. Try yourself: https://ve42.co/Origami Thanks Audible! Start listening with a 30-day trial and your first audiobook, plus two Audible Originals free when you go to https://audible.com/veritasium o
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Blood Vessels, Part 1 - Form And Function: Crash Course A&P #27

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Now that we've discussed blood, we're beginning our look at how it gets around your body. Today Hank explains your blood vessels and their basic three-layer structure of your blood vessels. We're also going over how those structures differ slightly in dif
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Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!

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Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/Observing the effects of microbes using satellites can give us all sorts of useful information about life on Earth ... and other planets too.Thanks also to our Pat
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The Double-Crossing Ants to Whom Friendship Means Nothing | Deep Look

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The Peruvian Amazon is a dangerous place when you're small. So the young Inga tree hires ants as bodyguards to protect its vulnerable leaves. Their pay: delicious nectar served up in tiny ant-sized dishes. But will the ants keep up their end of the bargai
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Why Does Some DNA Self-Destruct?

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Mitochondrial DNA is a lot more selective that we thought. Here's why mom (and not dad!) plays a crucial role in a baby's DNA development. How A Baby Can Have 3 Biological Parents http://bit.ly/29w7Dtn Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here http://bit.ly/
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The Unique Biology of Cephalopods

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Cephalopods exhibit some incredible features. Out of all 8,000 living species of marine invertebrates in the oceans, by far the largest, most deadly and most intelligent are the cephalopods. A class of highly developed mollusks that includes octopuses, sq
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What If Dark Matter Doesn’t Exist?

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What if dark matter isn’t the solution to space’s greatest mysteries? These are the alternative theories. There’s a New Form of Matter in Town: EXCITONIUM! - https://youtu.be/17Kvxe6v5Ms Read More: Does Dark Matter Exist? Bold New Study Offers Alternative
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2018 Breakthrough of the Year

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Learn about our Breakthrough of the Year: tracking development cell by cell. Nine other advances are recognized as runners-up. Read more - https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2018/ CREDITS --------------------------- producer/editor/animator Chris Burn
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Why is cotton in everything? - Michael R. Stiff

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Dig into the science of how cotton transforms from seed to fiber, and how these cotton fibers are used to make everything from fabrics, to currency, and fishing nets.--Centuries ago, the Inca developed ingenuous suits of armor that could protect warriors
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CERNs Ambitious Plan to Build the Largest Particle Smasher Ever

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The LHC is the worlds largest particle collider, but has it hit its limit? An international community of physicists are calling for a new CERN discovery machine that can reach even higher collision energies and potentially unlock the biggest mysteries of
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NASA-funded inflatable robots are safe in space, and in homes

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Working with a grant from NASA, BYU engineers (led by mechanical engineering professor Marc Killpack) are programming inflatable robots so that they can be used in everything from space research to home care. Because they are inflatable, these robots -- l
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There Are 30,000 Particle Accelerators In The World; What Do They All Do?!

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There are over 30,000 particle accelerators all over the world, so what are they used for? Hint: It's not just particle physics. Subatomic Particles Explained In Under 4 Minutes - https://youtu.be/eD7hXLRqWWM Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http:
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3-D Technology Offers Clues to How Egypt’s Pyramids Were Built

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Archeologist Yukinori Kawae is leading an interdisciplinary approach to studying the Egyptian pyramids by combining computer science, 3-D data, and the latest technology to help decode how and why the pyramids were built. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeo
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Why do humans have a third eyelid? - Dorsa Amir

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Discover how evolution and natural selection influence why the human body has vestigial organs body parts that no longer serve their original purpose. --You know that little pink thing nestled in the corner of your eye? Its actually the remnant of a third
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How do crystals work? - Graham Baird

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What makes crystals grow into their signature shapes? Dig into the atomic patterns and unique properties of crystals. --Many crystals have signature shapes like the cascade of pointed quartz or a pile of galena cubes. Every crystals atoms have a defining
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How Scientists See Through Walls Using Particles From Space

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A void was just discovered in Khufu’s Pyramid using muon tomography. What are these cosmic particles and how do scientists use them to see through walls? A New Source of Fukushima Radiation Was Just Found, Now What? - https://youtu.be/ifBAvnxrWsM IG: @TBD
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Do Whales Communicate In Different Accents?

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Whales have a complex system of speech that even includes regional dialects, but how does it work exactly? Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG 4 Freshwater Animals More Terrifying Than Sharks ►►►►http://bit.ly/24GlXWa Read
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What Gall! The Crazy Cribs of Parasitic Wasps | Deep Look

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Plenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky wasps make the tree do all the work. And each miniature mansion the trees build for the wasps' larvae is weirder and more flamboyant than the next. SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http:
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How did teeth evolve? - Peter S. Ungar

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-did-teeth-evolve-peter-s-ungar You may take them for granted, but your teeth are a marvel. They break up all your food over the course of your life,
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What are Eye Boogers?

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Watch PBS Eons! https://www.youtube.com/eons Eye crusties, sleep, sand, eye boogers. What’s that stuff in the corner of your eyes when you wake up? This week, Reactions explains the chemistry of the film that protects your eyes. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/A
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Neanderthals Were Smarter Than We Thought!

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Your ancestral history might be a lot more interesting than you think. Here's what makes us human... and part Neanderthal. Could Neanderthals Talk Like Us? - http://bit.ly/28Lf8uP Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: N
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How to Build Muscle, According to Science

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Your muscles change a lot over the course of your life. In this episode, Patrick breaks down everything you need to know about how muscles form, grow, and how to stay strong later in life. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Huma
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How Close Are We to Building a Moon Base?

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For decades, humans have fantasized about living on the moon, but we haven't sent anyone there since 1972. So, how close are we to a moon base? Apollo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wo1jasvnUg&list=PL6uC-XGZC7X6t9SWSCN0ETF6HWcxy6bVc How Close Are We?
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New Subatomic Particles Are Shifting the Standard Model of Physics

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The Large Hadron Collider just discovered a new pentaquark, but how does it fit in our current understanding of the Standard Model?Could Everything We Know About String Theory Be Wrong? - https://youtu.be/gVcwcaI_viQRead More: LHCb experiment discovers a
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How do oysters make pearls? - Rob Ulrich

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Explore how oysters use calcium carbonate to create pearls, and how this chemical compound creates a vast array of other materials.--Despite their iridescent colors and smooth shapes, pearls are actually made of the exact same material as the craggy shell
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When Camels Roamed North America

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Camels are famous for adaptations that have allowed them to flourish where most other large mammals would perish. But their story begins over 40 million years ago in North America, and in an environment you’d never expect: a rainforest. Special thanks t

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