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Bernstein, The greatest 5 min. in music education

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This amazing lecture series (The unanswered Question ), is actually an interdisciplinary overview about the evolution of Western European classical music from Bach through the 20th century crisis and beyond a bit . Mr. Bernstein uses linguistics namely Ch
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theredntve

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This script was a nightmare to pronounce. Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/662535562508517376/lingthusiasm-episode-60-thats-the-kind-of More Language Files: htt
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This baby hunter may be the world’s toughest snake

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Nature’s strongest snakeskin defends against attacking rodent bites. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2ji7qzb Read the paper (Journal of Morphology $): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.20756/
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The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But Humans Can

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The Winograd schema is a language test for intelligent computers. So far, they're not doing well. MORE LANGUAGE FILES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLDEnHuhD7CTZES3KXFnwm0 Written with Gretchen McCulloch and Molly Ruhl. Gretchen's podc
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: The Most Common Vowel in English

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"Schwa" is the most common vowel in English. Every English speaker uses it, all the time, but most people have never heard of it. Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast Lingthusiasm is at http://lingthusiasm.com/Gretchen's book
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Ogham is an old Irish scrip ᚛ᚈᚑᚋ ᚄᚉᚑᚈᚈ᚜ and ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜

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Ogham is an old Irish script made by carving notches into stones. It fell out of use more than a millennium ago - but it's an interesting exception to a linguistics and computer-science rule that I'd never even realised existed. Let's talk about the Ogham
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The Fastest Animal on Earth: the Snap-Jaw Ant

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Find the original research paper here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181447Press release: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/727667"Snap-jaw morphology is specialized for high-speed power amplification in the Dracula ant, Mystrium c
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Watch this caterpillar fling its beetle attacker through the air

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Hornworm moth larvae have several tricks to defend themselves against predators. Learn more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/watch-caterpillar-fling-its-beetle-attacker-through-air Read the paper ($): https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/advance-art
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Why Are Adults Bad At New Languages?

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Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/Learning a new language as an adult is harder than doing so as a child because adults usually arent as invested and often use the wrong strategies.Thanks also to o
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Secrets of the feline tongue

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Three-dimensional scans and thermal imaging give unprecedented insight into cat grooming. Learn more: https://scim.ag/2ORLtnF Read the paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/11/14/1809544115 CREDITS producer Sarah Crespi story/script Frankie Schemb
What's the Longest Word? | Otherwords

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For more word-nerdery, subscribe to Storied!: http://bit.ly/pbsstoried_subBefore we decide from a long list of contenders, we'll have to figure out what the word "word" really means...Otherwords is a new PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this
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How to name a product, from the man behind Swiffer and BlackBerry

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Have you ever wondered how products get their names? Swiffer, BlackBerry, Febreze, Dibs, Dasani– all these brands have one thing in common. They are products named by a small firm in Sausalito, California, called Lexicon Branding. The firm, founded by Dav
Popular Words Invented by Authors | Otherwords

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For more word-nerdery, subscribe to Storied!: http://bit.ly/pbsstoried_subAuthors often create words just for a one-time usage... but a special few will gain traction and become full-fledged parts of our shared lexicon!Otherwords is a new PBS web series o
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An Egg Is Just One Cell

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One of Earth's biggest cells is one you're probably really familiar with. See what we're cooking up over at our BRAND-NEW channel, MinuteFood: https://www.youtube.com/user/minutefoodLEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googli
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The Odd History of English Spelling | Otherwords

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The English spelling system is a MESS... arguably more than any other language. How did it get this way?Otherwords is a PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this quintessential human trait of language and fnds the fascinating, thought-provoking,
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Animal Behavior - CrashCourse Biology #25

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Hank and his cat Cameo help teach us about animal behavior and how we can discover why animals do the things they do. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8css Like Crash Course on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/youtubecrashcour
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Where Do Bananas Come From? | Botany for Kids

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Jessi and Squeaks are getting ready to make some delicious banana bread, but did you know that bananas aren't your typical fruit? ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowkids ---
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What is a sentence? | Syntax | Khan Academy

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A sentence is a grammatically complete idea. All sentences have a noun or pronoun component called the subject, and a verb part called the predicate. David and Paige explore this division across several different example sentences. Watch the next lesson:
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Complex sentences | Syntax | Khan Academy

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Complex sentences are simple sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them. Paige and Rosie explain how to spot them and use them in this video. Watch the next lesson: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax/v/compound-comple
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Which Is "Bouba", and Which Is "Kiki"?

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Sooner or later, I was going to get around to this: it's one of the most famous experiments in linguistics. • Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/175127434871
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Dependent and independent clauses | Syntax | Khan Academy

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Independent clauses can stand on their own as sentences, but dependent clauses can’t. We’ll take a closer look at what this means. Practice this yourself on Khan Academy right now: https://www.khanacademy.org/syntax/e/dependent-and-independent-clauses Wat
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Subject-verb agreement | Syntax | Khan Academy

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Agreement is the art of making sure that sentence parts agree with one another; you want to make sure that your subjects and verbs match up. Practice this yourself on Khan Academy right now: https://www.khanacademy.org/syntax/e/subject-verb-agreement Watc
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Exclamations | Syntax | Khan Academy

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An exclamation is a sentence that expresses great emotion! David and Paige covered declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentences; now they tackle a fourth type of sentence that ends in an exclamation mark. Find out more! Watch the next lesson: http
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Why Do Some Organs Come In Pairs?

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We all have two of certain organs, like kidneys and lungs, but why not multiple hearts, livers or brains? Read More: Bilaterial Symmetry http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/evolution/what-is-the-evidence/morphology/bilateralism/ “Humans have body plans tha
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Compound-complex sentences | Syntax | Khan Academy

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Compound-complex sentences are compound sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them. Paige and Rosie explain how to spot and use them. Practice this yourself on Khan Academy right now www.khanacademy.org/syntax/e/complex-and-compound-com
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Three types of sentence | Syntax | Khan Academy

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Three essential types of sentence are declarative sentences (which are statements), interrogative sentences (which are questions), and imperative sentences (which are orders). Join us as we give examples of each! Practice this yourself on Khan Academy rig
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Parallel structure | Syntax | Khan Academy

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Parallel structure isn’t a set rule, but more of a stylistic choice: it helps sentence elements maintain a pattern. This is a very special episode because it’s Paige’s last video with us as a KA intern! We will miss having Paige as a contributor to the Gr
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Dangling modifiers | Syntax | Khan Academy

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A modifying word or phrase “dangles” when it doesn’t apply to the word it’s supposed to modify. Learn how to spot and fix this problem! Practice this yourself on Khan Academy right now: https://www.khanacademy.org/syntax/e/dangling-modifiers/ Watch the ne
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Simple and compound sentences | Syntax | Khan Academy

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A simple sentence contains one independent clause. A compound sentence contains more than one! Put another way: a simple sentence contains a subject and a predicate, but a compound sentence contains more than one subject and more than one predicate. Pract
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Pronoun-antecedent agreement | Syntax | Khan Academy

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An antecedent is “the thing that came before”. When you use a pronoun, it’s standing in for a word you used previously—that’s the antecedent. Join us as we demonstrate how to make sure that your pronouns and antecedents match up with one another: that’s c
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What Does Your Uvula Do?

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Ever wonder what that dangling thing in the back of your throat is good for? Hank Green explains in this episode of SciShow Quick Questions. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciSh
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Recognizing fragments | Syntax | Khan Academy

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A sentence fragment is a chunk of language that hasn’t made it all the way to being a working sentence; it might be missing a verb, or there might not be a subject. Learn how to turn a fragment into a sentence in this video! Practice this yourself on Khan
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Run-ons and comma splices | Syntax | Khan Academy

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A run-on sentence doesn’t separate any of its independent clauses with the punctuation that it needs, and a comma splice incorrectly separates two independent clauses with a comma, instead of a comma-and-coordinating-conjunction. Practice this yourself on
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Subjects and predicates | Syntax | Khan Academy

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A subject is the noun or pronoun-based part of a sentence, and a predicate is the verb-based part that the subject performs. Let’s explore how that works in context. Practice this yourself on Khan Academy right now: https://www.khanacademy.org/syntax/e/id
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Information, Evolution, And Intelligent Design - With Daniel Dennett

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Daniel Dennett explores the first steps towards a unified theory of information, through common threads in the convergence of evolution, learning, and engineering. Subscribe for regular science talks: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe The concept of information i
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Relative clauses | Syntax | Khan Academy

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A relative pronoun is a word like “that” or “which” or “who”, so a relative clause is a clause that begins with a relative pronoun. In the sentence “The dragon who breathed blue fire has retired,” “who breathed blue fire” is a relative clause. Learn more
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Phrases and clauses | Syntax | Khan Academy

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A phrase is any collection of words that behaves like a part of speech, like a noun phrase (“my brother Stu”), an adjectival phrase (“in a different shade of blue”), or an adverbial phrase (“with elegance and tact”). A clause is any noun phrase plus a ver
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Why Only Some Monkeys Have Awesome Tails

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Almost all mammals with prehensile tails live in the neotropics because the forest is different there. Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minuteearth for sponsoring this video. Thanks also to our supporters on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth : _________
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Taxonomy: Life's Filing System - Crash Course Biology #19

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Hank tells us the background story and explains the importance of the science of classifying living things, also known as taxonomy. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8css Like CrashCourse on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/You
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Why Y Is a Vowel According to Physics (and so is W)

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Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below Human language is an incredible thing: a combination of mouth sounds that we combine into words, sentences, poems, and constitutions. They carry meani
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Camel Spiders: Neither Camels, nor Spiders

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Dr. Paula Cushing has been studying these strange animals for nearly 17 years, and says there is so little known about them, that anyone can discover something new. They're camel spiders: neither camels, nor spiders! So... what are they, anyway? We've set
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Subject, direct object, and indirect object | Syntax | Khan Academy

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A subject is the noun phrase that drives the action of a sentence; in the sentence “Jake ate cereal,” Jake is the subject. The direct object is the thing that the subject acts upon, so in that last sentence, “cereal” is the direct object; it’s the thing J
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Why our Oceans need Great White Sharks

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Great White Sharks are key to the health of our oceans. Here's why they're so important.Sharks help to increase the species diversity of our oceans by driving competition and controlling population sizes in the ocean ecosystem. Great whites are notoriousl
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World's First Images of Newborn White Shark?

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In light of the recent press regarding this shark, I'm releasing some select footage of this encounter that occurred off on July 9th, 2023. I have over 18 minutes of footage of this little creature. You can read the corresponding research paper in the sci
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Why Is The Very Hungry Caterpillar So Dang Hungry? | Deep Look

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Because it's hoarding protein. Not just for itself, but for the butterfly it will become and every egg that butterfly will lay. And it's about to lose its mouth... as it wriggles out of its skin during metamorphosis. DEEP LOOK is a ultra-HD (4K) short vid
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The Guy Who Figured Out How Snowflakes Work

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Dr Ken Libbrecht is the world expert on snowflakes, designer of custom snowflakes, snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen - his photos appear on postage stamps all over the world. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up vi
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Why the Immune System Is a Bats Secret Superpower

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Bats are the only mammal group that can fly, but this key trait may allow them to do much more. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.comBats make up about twenty percent of all mammals and because of that
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Why Are Your Fingerprints Unique?

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Try Dashlane Premium free for 30 days: https://www.dashlane.com/MinuteEarth. Use the coupon code ‘MinuteEarth’ to get 10% off Dashlane Premium. Because of the chaotic way fingerprints develop and the multiplying effect of compound probability, it's basica
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The Most Useful Fossils in the World

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons For decades, one of the most abundant kinds of fossils on Earth, numbering in the millions of specimens, was a mystery to paleontologists. But geologists discovered that these mysterious fossils c
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History's Most Powerful Plants

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Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted largely of some downright bizarre plants that once covered the Earth, from Col
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How Do You Actually Understand Language?

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Language is fascinating, but how do we really understand it? Check Out Reina Scully's Channel! ►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtWdodDSWt8 Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubLifeNoggin | Get your exclusive Life Noggin merch: http://keeponthinking.co Support
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Dinosaur Parasites!

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Even the mighty T. rex was covered in creepy, crawly parasites. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more gross info?↓ Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinos
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Are You Tricked By These Optical Illusions?

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Fooled by these optical illusions? Don't feel bad, it's normal. Watch more: How Can You Control Your Dreams? ►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU14JY3x81A&index=8&list=PL8L0MzSk_V6JtEDRfRMyb6rFd1acqYSlO Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubLifeNoggin | Get your
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The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs

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You can go to https://wix.com/go/eons to get started on your website! A huge and diverse subfamily of dogs, the bone-crushers patrolled North America for more than thirty million years, before they disappeared in the not-too-distant past. So what happened
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Dogs vs Cats: The Diversity Paradox

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To make our work paw-sible, join us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/MinuteEarth!Different dogs look incredibly different - but that doesn't mean they are necessarily more diverse. LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googlin
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Does the language you speak change how you think?

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No. Mostly. Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about Arrival: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/157167562811/transcript-lingthusiasm-episode-3-arrival-of-the More Language Files: https://www.youtube.com/playl
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why typing like this is sometimes okay.

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

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This is a video about how Japanese samurai swords, aka katanas, are made from the gathering of the iron sand, to the smelting of the steel, to the forging of the blade. Head over to https://hensonshaving.com/veritasium and enter code 'Veritasium' for 100
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How Many Languages Are There?

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The answer is, of course, a bit more complicated than you might think. Written with Molly Ruhl and Gretchen McCulloch. Gretchen's podcast has an episode all about this: https://lingthusiasm.com/post/154520059101/lingthusiasm-episode-1-speaking-a-single-la
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2019 Breakthrough of the Year

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Learn about our Breakthrough of the Year: the first image of the a black hole. Nine other advances are recognized as runners-up.Read more: https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2019/Editor's Note: The original posting of this video identified the geograp
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The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years

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Keep exploring at https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth. Get started for free, and hurry the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.Methuselahs environment lacks nutrients, water, and oxygen. In other words, its the perfect place to grow
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Why Do People Hate Koalas?

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Go to our sponsor https://betterhelp.com/minuteearth for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help.On the Internet, koalas get an unnecessary amount of hate, so let's debunk some of the m
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The Similarity Trap

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Try Squarespace for free: http://squarespace.com/MinuteEarth And subscribe to MinuteEarth! http://goo.gl/EpIDGd As we try to figure out the evolutionary trees for languages and species, we sometimes get led astray by similar but unrelated words and traits
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Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?

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Don't make us crabby! Join our Patreon at https://patreon.com/MinuteEarthMany crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. Thats sort of like what happens with YouTube videos.LEARN MORE**
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The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake

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Check out America from Scratch: https://www.youtube.com/americafromscratch In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully pr
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Ancient Humans Made Millions Of These - We Dont Know Why

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The Acheulean handaxe was the most common tool of early humans, but we still dont know what the heck they used it for.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Acheulean handaxe: large, chipped ston
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Why Do Rivers Have Deltas?

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Where rivers meet the ocean, coastlines tend to bend either inward or outward, creating estuaries and deltas. But how do they get those shapes? A huge thank-you to the following organizations, all working toward sustainable deltas, for sponsoring this vid
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When We First Walked

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Fossilized footprints have proved that human ancestors were already striding across the landscape 3.6 million years ago. But who started them on that path? What species pioneered this style of loc
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The Plant Thats Full Of Metal

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

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This video was made in partnership with Popsci! They recently published their "Muscles" issue, and wrote an article to go along with this video that you can read here: https://popsci.com/environment/strongest-animal-by-weightElephants might be strong, but
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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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When Fish Wore Armor

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

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