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Richard Dawkins - CHRISTMAS LECTURES 1991 - Growing up in the Universe

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The world-famous evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins presents the Royal Institution CHRISTMAS LECTURES in 1991. Original broadcast live on the BBC, the series explored "our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe."This is the first l
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Mary Neely - "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast (1991)

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10,000% credit to actress Mary Neely! @mneelzy on Twitter. This was released in three parts via Twitter. They're difficult to share, so I've stitched them together here on YouTube. Enjoy this brilliant use of quarantine time.
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James Burke- The Masters of Illusion 1991 Special

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Host James Burke relates the visual effects created by modern filmmakers to the use of perspective in Renaissance art. Uses state-of-the-art computer graphics to demonstrate how scientific linear perspective was used by Renaissance artists to create the i
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Yngwie Malmsteen - Echo Etude

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From Yngwie Malmsteen REH Video 1991 - I do not own the rights to this video nor was I authorized to publish it, I'm just sharing it for fans.
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How Stick Insects Use Camouflage - with Richard Dawkins

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Some insects have evolved incredibly detailed foms of camouflage, so they appear to blend almost perfectly into their surroundings. In this clip from 1991 CHRISTMAS LECTURES "Growing up in the Universe"', Richard Dawkins gets into a sticky situation with
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The evolution of the eye

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Creationists and supporters of Intelligent Design like to point to what they call the "irreducible complexity" of the eye as proof of the existence of a designer/creator. In other words, they like to say that complex components of our physiology like the
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The Dreams Of An Astronaut - With Helen Sharman

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What do astronauts dream of? In 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space; in this animation she shares a dream she has about returning to space, and talks about what it’s like to gaze down on the earth from above. This is the first instalment
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The Loch Ness Watchman: Hunting Nessie for a Quarter Century

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The Loch Ness Monster is one of our most enduring myths. People have sought to uncover ol’ Nessie’s secrets for 1,500 years. But only one man has devoted his life to learning the truth … and living alone in a van by the loch to do so. Meet Steve Feltham,
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Beauty and the Beast US Official Trailer

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Watch the brand new trailer for Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," starring Emma Watson & Dan Stevens.See the film in theatres March 17, 2017!Official Site: http://disney.com/BeautyandtheBeastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyBeautyAndTheBeastTwi
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A Disease's Guide to World Domination

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Get 3 weeks of free access to CuriosityStream by visiting http://curiositystream.com/minute and using the promo code "minute" There's something surprising that helps determine how damaging a disease is: distance. Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https:/
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Why Do Squirrels Dig?

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Squirrels eat a lot of things that are pretty tricky to find in the winter, like nuts and berries. Luckily for them, they have lots of clever ways to store up food to last them through the cold parts of the year! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to h
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A Rare White Whale Spotted Near Australia | Nat Geo Wild

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An extremely rare white whale has been spotted off the east coast of Australia. This is one of only three white humpback whales that have been recorded in the region. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe About Nat Geo Wild: Welcome to a place so
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Ukraine Russia Conflict Explained | What is happening with Ukraine and Russia 2022?

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In this video we look at what is happening with the Ukraine and Russia conflict in 2022. We first take a look at the historical background that has led to the conflict, including the collapse of the Soviet Union back in 1991. Then We discuss the 2014 revo
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How to solve problems like a designer

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The design process for problem-solving, in 4 steps. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Many thanks to Tim Brown and TED for this interview we recorded at TED 2017. IDEO is an international design company founded in 1991. In the beginning, IDEO
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The Sokol Space Suit: Helen Sharman On Being In Space

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A space suit is a carefully engineered cocoon, designed to protect an astronaut from the perils of the abyss. Helen Sharman walks us through the suit she trusted with her life when she went into space. Day 6 of our advent calendar, A Place Called Space: h
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What Is The Magician's Oath?

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What keeps magicians from revealing the secrets to their illusions? It’s not a pact with The Devil… Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com Share on Facebook: https://goo.gl/d8pJsy Share on Twitter: https://goo.gl/M9IocY Subscribe: http://goo.gl/ZYI7Gt Visit our
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What You Should Know Before Eating Another Twix

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Twix has been a staple on grocery store shelves and candy racks for a long time, and it's possible you don't even really think about it anymore... except to enjoy it. But Twix candy has a fascinating story behind it.This is the untold truth of Twix.We're
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The Null Hypothesis

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While I was trying to read a script to a camera in zero-g, the student researchers behind me were trying to prove their own ideas -- or rather, to disprove their "null hypothesis". Let's talk about how science works -- and have a look at one of the teams
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How Words Get Stuck On The Tip Of Your Tongue

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You know that feeling, when you know a word but it’s just out of reach, stuck on the tip of your tongue? Well, why does it happen? And what can you do about it? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we
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How the Two-Hour Marathon Limit Was Broken | WIRED

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On Saturday, October 12, 2019, Eliud Kipchoge became the first person ever to run a marathon in under two hours, a staggering achievement in athletics and human performance. Dr. Michael Joyner, an exercise physiologist at the Mayo Clinic, first predicted
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Rapid Evolution Is Real…These Species Changed in Front of Our Eyes

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Evolution doesn’t have to take a hundred millennia. Some species can biologically adapt to new environments in a few short years, here’s how. Seeker is now on Prime Video! Watch here: https://www.amazon.com/v/seeker Read More: What is Darwin's Theory of E
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The Northern Renaissance: Crash Course European History #3

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The European Renaissance may have started in Florence, but it pretty quickly moved out of Italy and spread the art, architecture, literature, and humanism across Europe to places like France, Spain, England, and the Low Countries.SOURCES:Hunt, Lynn et al.
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How Dolphins Protect the U.S. Navy

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Get 1 year of both Nebula and CuriosityStream for just 14.79 here: http://curiositystream.com/realscience using the code "realscience"New streaming platform: https://watchnebula.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realscienceTwitter: https://twitter.com/
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Why the triple axel is such a big deal

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Triple axels can turn skaters into legends. This is why. Watch the rest of Skate Week, and our other sports explainers, here: http://bit.ly/2FfxM17 Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Note: The video states Mirai Nagasu was the second American
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BEST Guess Who Strategy- 96% WIN record using MATH

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Here is a strategy for winning 96% of your competitive Guess Who games. Now all you need is a time machine to return to 1991 and CRUSH Jeff Lee in the 5th grade Guess Who Championships. FREE trial for Lynda.com- http://bit.ly/LyndaMarkRober MUSIC- 0:21- M
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Florence and the Renaissance: Crash Course European History #2

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The Renaissance was a cultural revitalization that spread across Europe, and had repercussions across the globe, but one smallish city-state in Italy was in many ways the epicenter of the thing. Florence, or as Italians might say, Firenze, was the home to
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How Do Squirrels Find Nuts?

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Try Squarespace: http://squarespace.com/okaytobesmart You’d have to be nuts not to love this video! ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Special thanks to Jason Goldman (@jgold85) for help with this episode! References: Jacobs, Lucia F., and Emily R. Liman. "G
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How to Milk a Cockroach

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Cow, almond, soy, goat. There are a lot of choices when it comes to milk, but if you're looking for that nutritious boost of vitamins and minerals in the morning, have you considered cockroach milk?Hosted by: Olivia GordonSciShow has a spinoff podcast! It
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T. rex Arms & BEARDOGS! | Natural News from The Field Museum | Ep. 6

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We’ve got three big stories talking about tiny things! Tiny arms, tiny plants, tiny beardog fossils. Big science. Want more natural history research? Check out the other episodes of NN! http://bit.ly/2fFSzOg ↓ More info + Links! ↓ ------------------------
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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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512 Year Old Greenland Shark. Oldest Shark in the World.

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Researchers have found an ancient shark in the North Atlantic, believed to be 512 years old, which could be the oldest living vertebrate in the world. This particular shark, was measured at 18 feet in length and weighed over a tonne. By measuring the size
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Photosynthesis: The Biochemistry Behind How Plants Make Their Food

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Plants, unlike most living things, produce their own food through a process called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis means 'making using light'. Plants use the energy from the sunlight to make food. The food matter comes from carbon dioxide present in the ai
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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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A 5,300-year-old murder mystery - Albert Zink

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Get to know the story of tzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old glacier mummy who researchers discovered had been murdered.--In September 1991, two hikers discovered a corpse emerging from the ice. Researchers soon realized they were looking at the mummified bo
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How To Hear Halfway Around The World

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Thanks to CTBTO for sponsoring this video: https://www.ctbto.orgSounds in the ocean can travel more than 10,000 miles - that's halfway around the world! Here's how.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keyw
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How to get better at video games, according to babies - Brian Christian

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Explore what happened when the AI system Deep Q Networks (DQN) attempted to beat the Atari game Montezumas Revenge.--In 2013, a group of researchers wanted to create an AI system that could beat every Atari game. They developed a system called Deep Q Netw
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The World in UV

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UV cameras expose a hidden world and reveal the incompleteness of our perception The Physics Girl looks at sunscreen: https://youtu.be/GRD-xvlhGMc How to make sunscreen from scratch: https://youtu.be/lMXAY5F28L0 In summary, ultraviolet light interacts dif
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The Bizarre Behavior of Rotating Bodies, Explained

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Spinning objects have strange instabilities known as The Dzhanibekov Effect or Tennis Racket Theorem - this video offers an intuitive explanation.Part of this video was sponsored by LastPass, click here to find out more: https://ve42.co/LPReferences:Prof.
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Does Someone Else Have Your Face?

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To learn more about Brilliant, check out https://brilliant.org/BeSmart/ SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ They say everyone has a doppelgänger, but is that really true? This week we meet a
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What Happens During a Solar Eclipse? Get Ready for the Great American Eclipse on August 21, 2017

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North America is preparing itself for the August Eclipse, so we thought it would be a good time to explain how eclipses work and what’s going on as the Moon briefly destroys the Sun. Support us at: http://www.patreon.com/universetoday More stories at: htt
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When Giant Amphibians Reigned

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Temnospondyls were a huge group of amphibians that existed for 210 million years. And calling them ‘diverse’ would be putting it mildly. Yet in the end, two major threats would push them to extinc
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The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment

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If you ran evolution all over again, would you get humans? How repeatable is #evolution? This video is sponsored by @BountyBrand. #biology #science #QPU #HygieneBeginswithBounty #BountyPartnerSpecial thanks to Prof. Richard Lenski and team for showing me
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A Brief History Of Recording Ourselves

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In Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desert knows:— "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows "The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,— Noug
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There's a Hole at the Bottom of Math

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Not everything that is true can be proven. This discovery transformed infinity, changed the course of a world war and led to the modern computer. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium ge
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Why This Enormous Plane Really Exists: The An-225 Mriya

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Sign up for an annual CuriosityStream subscription and you’ll also get a free Nebula subscription here: http://CuriosityStream.com/mustard The Energia-Buran was the most expensive and ambitious Soviet space project in history. As the Soviet Union&rs
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Why Do Rivers Curve?

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We're now on Patreon! Please support us at: http://www.patreon.com/minuteearth Can you find an oxbow lake in GoogleEarth? Share your findings (pictures or coordinates) on Twitter, Facebook and other social media using the hashtag #oxbowlake And subscribe!
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How the Chalicothere Split In Two

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Two extinct relatives of horses and rhinos are closely related to each other but have strikingly different body plans. How did two of the same kind of animal, living in the same place, end up look
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The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math

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Do odd perfect numbers exist? Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If youre looking for a molecular modeling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where
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How One Line in the Oldest Math Text Hinted at Hidden Universes

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Discover strange new universes that turn up at the core of Einsteins General Relativity. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If youre looking for a m
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Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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The blue LED was supposed to be impossibleuntil a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If youre looking for a
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The History of the Internet, Part 2

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In part 2 of our History of the Internet series, Hank explains how public access became declared a human right! Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks g
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The Algorithm That Transformed The World

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The Fast Fourier Transform is used everywhere but it has a fascinating origin story that could have ended the nuclear arms race. This video is sponsored by 80,000 Hours. Head to http://80000hours.org/veritasium to sign up for their newsletter and get sent
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When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean

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Support us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/eons The best evidence we have suggests that, while Caviomorpha originated in South America, they came from ancestors in Africa, over 40 million years ago. So how did they get there? Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the
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What Does IQ Actually Measure?

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IQ is supposed to measure intelligence, but does it? Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If youre looking for a molecular modeling kit, try Snatoms a
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The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History

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One scientist caused two environmental disasters and the deaths of millions. A part of this video is sponsored by Wren. Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/veritasium. For the first 100 people who sign up, I will personally pay
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When Humans Were Prey

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

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