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How Millions of Microscopic Fibers Are Ending Up in Our Bodies | The Swim

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Every day, billions of sharp, invisible fibers are making their way out to our oceans and air, and into our water, wine, beer, and cells. Read More How much plastic is your washing machine sending out to sea? https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/19/178006
Robotic fibers can make breath-monitoring garments

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A new kind of fiber developed by researchers at MIT and in Sweden can be made into cloth that senses how much it is being stretched or compressed, and then provides immediate tactile feedback in the form of pressure or vibration. Such fabrics, the team su
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Cord drill and Pump drill

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I made a cord drill and then upgraded it to a pump drill. A cord drill is basically a spindle with a fly wheel attached so it looks like a spinning top. the middle of a piece of cord is then put into a notch at the top of the spindle. The ends of the cord
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Woven bark fiber

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Woven Bark Fibre I made a rough type of textile from bark fibre. This is the same tree I use for making cordage though I don’t know its name. It has been raining a lot here lately (the video also shows how well the hut stands up to rain) and this ca
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How Pillows Are Made

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Watch full episodes of the Science Channel Series "How It's Made." http://insder.co/HowItsMade Here’s how pillows are made. The synthetic fiber pillows come in two styles. Garnet, meaning the pillows are filled with a roll of synthetic fiber. And blown, m
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Paper Towel Plants #Shorts

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Did you know paper towels are made from plant fibers? Watch as the water is drawn upward using capillary action and the colors will spread out in a really cool way! #Shorts
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Paper Towel Art #shorts

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Did you know paper towels contain plant fibers. It has capillary action which pulls the water up and spreads the color on the paper. Art and science coming together so cool to watch #shorts
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Are Smoothies Really Healthy? According To A Sugar Expert

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Robert Lustig, a sugar expert and professor of both pediatrics and endocrinology, explains the problem with fruit smoothies. Fruits are composed of two types of fibers" soluble and insoluble. Both are beneficial to your health, particularly the health of
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This Ancient Mongolian Fishing Method Yields 1000s of Fish China From Above | Smithsonian Channel

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In the northeast province of Jilin, China, local fishermen rely on an ancient Mongolian technique to fish in the frozen waters of Lake Chagan. And despite temperatures reaching minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit, all they need are a net, two horses, and a spindl
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Big Guns: The Muscular System - CrashCourse Biology #31

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Hank tells us the story of the complicated chemical dance that allows our skeletal muscles to contract and relax. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8bCC Like CrashCourse: http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Follow CrashCo
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Watch An Artisan Painstakingly Create Specialty Nuno Felt From Marino Wool

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#HowItsMade Nuno felt is a popular type of fabric that's made by interlocking and compressing different types of fibers. Full Episodes Streaming FREE on Science Channel GO: http://www.sciencechannelgo.com/how-its-made Subscribe to Science Channel: http://
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Popping Popcorn at 30,000 FPS in Ultra Slow Motion

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Popping Popcorn at 30,000 Frames Per Second Filmed in Ultra Slow Motion Macro with the Phantom v2512 Ultra High Speed Camera utilizing my proprietary techniques but I developed for popcorn shoots to be able to reveal exactly what's happening and how the f
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How Do Erasers Erase?

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Erasers lift our mistakes right off the page, but it's not magic - it's the microscopic physics of stickiness. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/everyday-tech/erasers-erase.htm Share on Facebook: Share on Twitter: Subsc
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Surgical Sutures | How It's Made

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Technicians take care to test the strength and safety of collagen or polyester fibers formed to make sutures for a variety of medical purposes. | http://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-its-made/ Catch HOW IT'S MADE Thursdays at 9/8c on Science! Watch
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TIL: From Fleece Jackets to Your Food: The Scary Journey of Microplastics | Today I Learned

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National Geographic explorer and grantee Gregg Treinish wants everyone to know about the hidden toxic cost of synthetic fabrics. Tiny, invisible microplastics are entering our waterways straight from our washing machines. About 2,000 synthetic particles a
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Why Don’t Sheep Shrink In The Rain?

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We appreciate your support on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth Getting wet isn’t REALLY what makes wool shrink; it merely exacerbates the friction between the wool fibers, which is stronger in one direction than another, so when agitated in the washer
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Why Do Clothes Shrink When You Wash Them?

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We've all lost a favorite sweater to shrinkage, but why does this happen? What's the science behind shrinking laundry? Why All Hipsters Look the Same - http://bit.ly/1P4suoO Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Why Doe
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The Heart, Part 2 - Heart Throbs: Crash Course A&P #26

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Today we're talking the heart and heart throbs -- both literal and those of the televised variety. Hank explains how your heart’s pacemaker cells use leaky membranes to generate their own action potentials, and how the resulting electricity travels throug
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Muscles, Part 1 - Muscle Cells: Crash Course A&P #21

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We're kicking off our exploration of muscles with a look at the complex and important relationship between actin and myosin. Your smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscles create movement by contracting and releasing in a process called the sliding filament m
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Autonomic Nervous System: Crash Course A&P #13

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Hank takes you on a tour of your two-part autonomic nervous system. This episode explains how your sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system work together as foils, balancing each other out. Their key anatomical differences - where ner
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What is Slime Mold and is it Intelligent?

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How much brain do you need to be smart? Bees and ants perform marvels as colonies, though each insect has barely any brain. And plantswith no brain at allexhibit behaviors that, by any definition, count as intelligent. Brace yourself for a mind-bending ex
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How Does Your Body Process Pain?

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Pain is much more complicated than getting a nasty cut on your knee. In this episode of Human, Patrick breaks down how your body feels pain on a physiological level. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Human! http://bit.ly/HUMANp
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Non-Invasive Brain Surgery

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Scientists have combined ultrasound, viruses and synthetic drugs to control regions of the brain. Check out Skillshare: https://skl.sh/veritasium (first 500 get 2 months free) Special thanks to Prof. Mikhail Shapiro and Dr. Jerzy Szablowski: http://shapir
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The Roots of Exploring Plant Intelligence

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Tune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "Intelligence Without Brains" on Friday, November 8th at 8pm EST.PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONHow much brain do you need to be smart? Bees and ants perform marvels as colonies, though each insect has barely a
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Can a Plant Remember?

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Tune in and join the conversation during the premiere of "Intelligence Without Brains" on Friday, November 8th at 8pm EST.PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONHow much brain do you need to be smart? Bees and ants perform marvels as colonies, though each insect has barely a
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Trapping a Beam of Light In a Loop Of Fiber Optic Cable

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You can get 21% off BEAR here: https://foreo.se/kyrmA few published studies talking about microcurrent devices: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022202X19325266https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7866966/Wound care with electri
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Tissues, Part 3 - Connective Tissues: Crash Course A&P #4

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•••SUBBABLE MESSAGE••• TO: Ashley FROM: Fee Happy birthday nerd also I love you lots and lots *** 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 y
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Would You Wear Clothing Made of Slime?

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Scientists think hagfish slime could be the next eco-friendly, high-performance material.Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/Want more info?More on hagfish slime from the Fudge
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How To Make Rope From Grass [Easy Method] - NightHawkInLight

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Rope is one of the most valuable items to have in the wilderness, and this ancient method of creating it produces very good results. Even today some commercially made ropes are wound with the same process. Other natural fibers can be used to create rope (
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Cross a Canyon on Peru’s Last Handwoven Bridge

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In the region of Cusco in Peru, a unique centuries-old Incan tradition continues to this day. Each year during the second week of June, hundreds of locals gather to hand build a new Q’eswachaka bridge over the Apurímac River. The 124-foot-long rope bridge
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How UV Causes Cancer and Aging

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UV at ground level is non-ionizing but it damages DNA and causes photoaging - how? Also, it turns out glass doesn't block all UV (specifically UVA passes through). This is something I learned filming with the UV camera inside. Special thanks to Dr. Hayley
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Muscles made of nylon

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MIT researchers have come up with one of the simplest and lowest-cost systems yet for developing artificial muscles, in which a material reproduces some of the bending motions that natural muscle tissues perform. The key ingredient? Nylon fiber. (Learn mo
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How Do Anti-Aging Creams Work?

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Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions Want a younger, more perfect-looking you? Skin can stay firm and stretchy thanks to protein fibers called collagen and elastin in the tissue beneath the surface. But environmental factors like smoking or ultraviolet r
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Cold War Nuclear Fallout Is Still Affecting the Pacific, What Does That Mean for Us?

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Dr. Ken Buesseler and his team returned to remote Pacific nuclear testing sites to measure radioactive elements left over from the Cold War. Seventy years later, these sites remain uninhabitable—a fact that will only become more salient as sea levels rise
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Bioluminescence Explained | Lights of the Deep Sea

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Bioluminescence in the deep sea is a natural phenomenon present in many deep sea creatures. Bioluminescent twinkling, flashing, pulsating lights are the result of a chemical reaction that produces light energy within the body of an organism. It is a commo
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Paleo Got It Wrong: We've Loved Carbs for Over 100,000 Years | SciShow News

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Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. If you’re on the “paleo diet,” you’ve probably been avoiding wheat and potatoes
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Why Does Stepping On a Lego Hurt So Bad?

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Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ACSReactions There are some things you wouldn't wish upon even your worst enemy. Stepping on Legos being no such exception. The mind bending pain of a bare foot pressing down on a Lego is one of the worst known to humanity, but ho
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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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‘The Great Dying’ Was Our Worst Extinction Ever, And It Could Happen Again

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What exactly caused the greatest extinction on earth? New research may finally hold the answer to this long time mystery. Read More: Increased UV from ozone depletion sterilizes trees http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/02/07/increased-uv-from-ozone-depletion-s
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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 Much Force Does It Take To Break A Bone?

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It seems like some people break bones all the time, while others consistently end up unscathed. What exactly does it take to break a bone? Check out Seeker VR! Why Humanity Must Explore The Unknown: A Cosmological Journey - https://youtu.be/rVcwlJEfh24 Pe
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Primitive Technology: New area starting from scratch

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I bought a new property to shoot primitive technology videos on. The new area is dense tropical rainforest with a permanent creek. Starting completely from scratch, my first project was to build a simple dome hut and make a fire. First, I took some wood,
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How to Make a Formal Suit from Scratch | HTME: Remix

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In a new remixed video, we revisit one of my earliest and most challenging projects to date: attempting to make a formal suit from scratch. For it I travel to Colorado for hemp, Texas for cotton, raise my own silkworms, sheer a sheep and alpaca, spin all
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Primitive Technology: Blower and charcoal

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I made a blower and some charcoal at the new area in order to create higher temperatures in for advancing my material technology. I took Fan palm leaves and fashioned them into an impellor (about 25 cm in diameter) held in a split stick as a rotor. I then
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Is Dust Mostly Dead Skin?

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People claim that 70-80% of household dust is dead skin, but is it true?Thanks to Google for sponsoring this video! Learn more about Search here: https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/Special thanks to J.M.E.H van Bronswijk, author of 'House Dust B
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Why Do Scientists Keep Finding New Organs?

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This long ignored connective tissue now serves a more important role and may act as a shock absorber, keeps our organs in place, and even plays a major role in the spread of cancer. But is it an organ? How Scientists Found a New Neuron Hiding in Our Brain
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Classic grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup

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Thanks to HelloFresh for sponsoring this video! Use code 10ADAMRAGUSEA to get 10 FREE MEALS across your first four HelloFresh boxes, including free shipping on your first box: https://bit.ly/39gmm9B***TOMATO SOUP RECIPE, MAKES 6-8 BOWLS***1 large onion1 f
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Could Concrete Buildings be Batteries of the Future? Big Implications for Renewable Energy

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After water, concrete is the most widely consumed material on the planet. As we turn to more green energy, we'll need more batteries to store energy from the sun and wind. Could the enormous number of concrete buildings on Earth become batteries?FOLLOW US
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Your Body's Molecular Machines

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These are the molecular machines inside your body that make cell division possible. Animation by Drew Berry at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. http://wehi.tv Special thanks to Patreon supporters: Joshua Abenir, Tony Fadell, Donal
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Not What You Think It Is | The Swim

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It's not an island twice the size of Texas. But it is severely impacting marine life and human health... and incredibly hard to study. How Millions of Microscopic Fibers Are Ending Up in Our Bodies - https://youtu.be/Bbg0L7JN15U Read More What Happens to
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How Close Are We to Reinventing Plastic?

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Our dependence on plastic is so extreme that we have microplastics not only floating through the ocean, but also in the atmosphere, in our food, and in our bodies. So how close are we to reinventing plastic? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribesee
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Wardruna - Lyfjaberg (Healing-mountain) Official music video

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Video produced by Ragnarok Film – https://www.ragnarok-film.com Original lyrics and English translation: Lyfjaberg Sal din hug og lat den ri og renna Med blinde augo vil du vegen finna Djupt du dreg anden inn – let tankar svinna Langsamt slepp
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This Breakthrough in Lab-Grown Meat Could Make it Look Like Real Flesh

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Scientists at Harvard have created a texture in meat grown in a lab close to the actual animal meat we're used to. Would you eat it? Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Human meat consumpti
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The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks

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Head to https://brilliant.org/MinutePhysics to sign up for free and get 20% off a Premium subscription to Brilliant!This video was written in collaboration with Aatish Bhatia - https://aatishb.com To learn more about using & decontaminating N95 masks: htt
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We don't know what a tree is (and this video won't tell you)

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Offset your carbon footprint with Wren! They'll protect 5 extra acres of rainforest for each of the first 100 people who sign up at https://www.wren.co/join/minuteearth.It turns out that defining what is and isn't a tree is way harder than it seems.LEARN
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The Science Of Cardboard

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Visit brilliant.org/NewMind to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscriptionIn 2020, the United States hit a record high in its yearly use of one the most ubiquitous manufactured materials
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Is Your Fleece Jacket Polluting The Oceans?

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Plastic pollution has been a problem for decades. But new research shines the spotlight on a new plastic pollution menace -- microfibers. SUBSCRIBE to Above the Noise:[https://www.youtube.com/abovethenoise?sub_confirmation=1] ABOVE THE NOISE is a show fro

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