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The Yalta Conference Explained

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A super short primer on the Yalta Conference also known as the Crimean Conference. Meet FDR, Stalin and Churchill and prepare to end one war and start another cold one.
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Great Museums at the High Line Groundbreaking Ceremony: September 2012

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Great Museums Television celebrates the High Line groundbreaking ceremony&press conference on September 20, 2012.
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Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer Playday FULL VERSION

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From Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2001
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Elvis Presley & Frank Sinatra

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Elvis does a press conference at Graceland after being discharged from the army and appears on The Frank Sinatra Show performing Love Me Tender & Witchcraft in 1960. Enjoy.
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Proffies - The Professor's Selfies

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This is the video shown by Professor Poliakoff during his closing remarks at the Commonwealth Science Conference 2014. ALL HIS SELFIES: http://bit.ly/Proffies ALL VIEWER SELFIES: http://bit.ly/CommSelfies Commonwealth Science Conference 2014: http://commo
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The evolution of juggling | Jay Gilligan | TEDxHelsinki

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Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB Jay Gilligan is a professional juggler and performer from Arcadia, Ohio currently performing and living in Europe. Jay is the main teacher of juggling and creator of the juggling prog
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[PRODRONE] Dual Robot Arm Large-Format Drone PD6B-AW-ARM

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Prodrone Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce it has developed the PD6B-AW-ARM, a large-format drone equipped with two internally-developed robotic arms, enabling it to directly accomplish a variety of tasks. PRODRONE will showcase the new model at its booth
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Alternate Realities from Relativity | Jason Padgett | TEDxTacoma

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Jason Padgett explains relativity, and uses the Doppler Effect to demonstrate how every potential can be any reality. Jason is an aspiring number theorist and mathematician with acquired savant syndrome and synesthesia. His memoir, Struck By Genius, is th
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Sophia the humanoid robot just became a 'robot citizen'

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Saudi Arabia granted Sophia the humanoid robot with 'robot citizenship' ahead of the Future Investment Initiative conference. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/techins
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The mistake that toppled the Berlin Wall

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One of the Cold War's biggest moments began at a routine press conference.Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-labThe fall of the Berlin Wall has a lot of memorable moments: US President Ronald Reagans declaration to tear down this wall; David H
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Clown Parent Prank | DIAL P FOR PRANKS

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Hiring a clown to be your parent? Izzy attempts to hire a clown for his parent/teacher conference, in this hilarious prank phone call!Join the fun on Peacock Kids where you can find an endless supply of laugh-out-loud jokes, lovable characters, life hacks
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Precise Hopping with Salto-1P

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Salto-1P is a small monopedal jumping robot capable of continuous high-power hopping. We demonstrate a new control algorithm that can land Salto-1P's foot at particular spots on the ground like jumping on stepping stones or playing one-leg hopscotch. We c
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Xinhua's first English AI anchor makes debut

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Xinhua's first English AI anchor makes debut at the World Internet Conference that opens in Wuzhen, China Wednesday. Follow us on: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChinaViewTV Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/XinhuaNewsAgency Twitter: https://twitt
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Overcoming Dyslexia, Finding Passion: Piper Otterbein at TEDxYouth@CEHS

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Piper Otterbein is a senior at Cape Elizabeth High School. Piper was born in New York, but she has lived in Cape Elizabeth for the past eleven years. When Piper was in first grade, she was diagnosed with a learning disability. While Piper struggled throug
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John Graham-Cumming: The Greatest Machine That Never Was

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TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus
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Cheap smart wall can sense movement and electronics in a room

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A paint job enables walls to monitor movement and computer and appliance use nearby. Learn more: https://scim.ag/2I2NV8L CREDITS producer Sarah Crespi story by Elizabeth Pennisi supervising producer Nguyên Khôi Nguyên citation Y. Zang et al., Proceedings
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These Incredible Sculptures Are Breathing Because They Are Dogs

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If the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show had a more free-wheeling, hair-dying, loud and eccentric sibling, it’d be the Intergroom international grooming conference, held once yearly in Secaucus, New Jersey. Extreme makeovers, lip-sync challenges, and “styl
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What Will We Do When The Robots Can Feel? | Daniel Faggella | TEDxAmoskeagMillyard

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What is the value of a human life? Is it more -- or less -- than the value of a deer’s life? What about the value of a robot’s life? And what happens when artificial intelligence develops to the point where a robot can feel and sense and become self-aware
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How to draw to remember more | Graham Shaw | TEDxVienna

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How to draw to remember more! You may not believe it yet, but we are all capable of drawing sketches that make information memorable. In this talk you will discover talents you may have never known you had. Be prepared to amaze yourself! More information
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Secrets Of Elite Athletes | Kenn Dickinson | TEDxSnoIsleLibraries

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This talk was given at a local TEDxSnoIsleLibraries event and produced independently of the TED Conferences. Kenn Dickinson, former basketball athlete and business coach, shares secrets of great athletes which can help anyone. Kenn played basketball at th
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Hamsters, Happiness And Here-ness | Martin Aylward | TEDxThimphu

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Rediscovering happiness within oneself rather than looking for samsara. Martin Aylward has been in ‘happiness training’ for 25 years, spending several years in Asian monasteries and hermitages as well as studying with senior western Buddhist teachers. He
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The magic of Fibonacci numbers | Arthur Benjamin

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Math is logical, functional and just ... awesome. Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin explores hidden properties of that weird and wonderful set of numbers, the Fibonacci series. (And reminds you that mathematics can be inspiring, too!) TEDTalks is a daily vide
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MAMMAL March Madness!

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This month, I've been following Mammal March Madness. Here's the basic idea: a team of evolutionary biologists pick a bunch of animals to enter a tournament, and then imagine who would win each match-up based on SCIENCE. I thought it made sense for this f
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The transformative power of classical music | Benjamin Zander

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http://www.ted.com Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. TEDTalks is a daily vi
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Mick Mountz: What Happens Inside Those Massive Warehouses?

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We make millions of online purchases daily, but who (or what) actually puts our items into packages? In this talk, Mick Mountz weaves a fascinating, surprisingly robot-filled tale of what happens inside a warehouse. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of th
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Jonathan Eisen: Meet Your Microbes

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Our bodies are covered in a sea of microbes — both the pathogens that make us sick and the "good" microbes, about which we know less, that might be keeping us healthy. At TEDMED, microbiologist Jonathan Eisen shares what we know, including some surprising
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What Is Life? | Jeff Marlow | TEDxBeaconStreet

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What is life? Even as we send robotic explorers into space to look for signs of life and answer eternal questions of life beyond Earth, scientists lack a coherent definition of the phenomenon. A theoretical underpinning of life is needed, and expeditions
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Drones Will Save Lives | Michael Korman | TEDxEdina

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Public discussion of drones in the media is largely negative and fear-based. But is there a way for us to embrace this technology safely? Can drones help first responders save lives? Mike Korman is a Warrior turned Corporate Executive turned Entrepreneur.
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The playful wonderland behind great inventions | Steven Johnson

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Necessity is the mother of invention, right? Well, not always. Steven Johnson shows us how some of the most transformative ideas and technologies, like the computer, didn't emerge out of necessity at all but instead from the strange delight of play. Share
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How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes | Adam Leipzig | TEDxMalibu

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Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB Adam Leipzig has overseen more than 25 movies as a producer, executive and distributor. and has produced more than 300 stage plays and live events, and he was one of the founders of t
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Musical Fire Table!

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Standing waves of fire!Check out Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVeFysikshow: http://bit.ly/Fysikshow - I'm hosting Michio Kaku in Melbourne ONLY: http://bit.ly/VeKakuTicketsRubens' Tube is an awesome demo and here we take it to the next level with a two-di
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Latif Nasser: The Amazing Story Of The Man Who Gave Us Modern Pain Relief

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For the longest time, doctors basically ignored the most basic and frustrating part of being sick — pain. In this lyrical, informative talk, Latif Nasser tells the extraordinary story of wrestler and doctor John J. Bonica, who persuaded the medical profes
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The Math Behind Basketball's Wildest Moves | Rajiv Maheswaran | TED Talks

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Basketball is a fast-moving game of improvisation, contact and, ahem, spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Rajiv Maheswaran and his colleagues are analyzing the movements behind the key plays of the game, to help coaches and players combine intuition with
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Seth Shostak: ET Is (probably) Out There — Get Ready

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SETI researcher Seth Shostak bets that we will find extraterrestrial life in the next twenty-four years, or he'll buy you a cup of coffee. At TEDxSanJoseCA, he explains why new technologies and the laws of probability make the breakthrough so likely — and
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These Robots Come To The Rescue After A Disaster | Robin Murphy | TED Talks

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When disaster strikes, who's first on the scene? More and more, it’s a robot. In her lab, Robin Murphy builds robots that fly, tunnel, swim and crawl through disaster scenes, helping firefighters and rescue workers save more lives safely — and help commun
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Understanding electric motor Windings!

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Its a pleasure to watch fabrication process of windings in the factories. What you see here is a fully automatic winding process. The windings take in electric current and create a Rotating magnetic field out of it. This RMF is responsible for the motors
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Nikola Tesla's Mysterious Electricity Generator | The Complete Physics

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Nikola Tesla claimed that one machine he developed for producing constant frequency electricity caused earthquake in NewYork city. Is his claim true? Let's explore the working of this beautiful piece of technology and also try to find out the truth behind
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Chris Urmson: How A Driverless Car Sees The Road

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Statistically, the least reliable part of the car is ... the driver. Chris Urmson heads up Google's driverless car program, one of several efforts to remove humans from the driver's seat. He talks about where his program is right now, and shares fascinati
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How to control someone else's arm with your brain | Greg Gage

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Greg Gage is on a mission to make brain science accessible to all. In this fun, kind of creepy demo, the neuroscientist and TED Senior Fellow uses a simple, inexpensive DIY kit to take away the free will of an audience member. It’s not a parlor tric
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Congressional Committees: Crash Course Government and Politics #7

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This week Craig Benzine clears up the role of committees in Congress. We’ll talk about standing committees, joint committees, conference committees, and caucuses (and not the candidate-choosing kinds) as well as the staff agencies that help advise these c
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Henry Lin: What We Can Learn From Galaxies Far, Far Away

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In a fun, exciting talk, teenager Henry Lin looks at something unexpected in the sky: distant galaxy clusters. By studying the properties of the universe's largest pieces, says the Intel Science Fair award winner, we can learn quite a lot about scientific
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Could We Cure HIV With Lasers? | Patience Mthunzi | TED Talks

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Swallowing pills to get medication is a quick, painless and often not entirely effective way of treating disease. A potentially better way? Lasers. In this passionate talk, TED Fellow Patience Mthunzi explains her idea to use lasers to deliver drugs direc
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What soccer can teach us about freedom | Marc Bamuthi Joseph

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"Soccer is the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together," says theater maker and TED Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Through his performances and an engagement initiative called "Moving and Passing," Joseph combines music, dance and socc
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How Quantum Biology Might Explain Life’s Biggest Questions | Jim Al-Khalili | TED Talks

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How does a robin know to fly south? The answer might be weirder than you think: Quantum physics may be involved. Jim Al-Khalili rounds up the extremely new, extremely strange world of quantum biology, where something Einstein once called “spooky action at
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What I learned when I conquered the world's toughest triathlon | Minda Dentler

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A 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and then a full-length marathon on hot, dry ground -- with no breaks in between: the legendary Ironman triathlon in Kona, Hawaii, is a bucket list goal for champion athletes. But when Minda Dentler decided to take
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A Rare Interview With The Mathematician Who Cracked Wall Street | Jim Simons | TED Talks

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Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he’s working to support the next generation of math teachers and scholars. TED’s Ch
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This New Telescope Might Show Us The Beginning Of The Universe | Wendy Freedman | TED Talks

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When and how did the universe begin? A global group of astronomers wants to answer that question by peering as far back in time as a large new telescope will let us see. Wendy Freedman headed the creation of the Giant Magellan Telescope, under constructio
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How I Built The Number One New Restaurant In America | Aaron Silverman | TEDxMidAtlantic

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Aaron Silverman is a chef and founder of Washington, DC restaurant Rose’s Luxury, which was recently named as ‘the best new restaurant in America’ by Bon Appétit Magazine. Aaron shares the story of creating Rose's, and why it became so successful from day
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Optical illusions show how we see | Beau Lotto

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http://www.ted.com Beau Lotto's color games puzzle your vision, but they also spotlight what you can't normally see: how your brain works. This fun, first-hand look at your own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints your perception of what's
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Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included

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What do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (kids included) should participate in science and, through the process of discovery, change perceptions. He's seconded by 12-year-old Amy O'Toole, who, along with 25 of h
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Why Do We Care About Gravitational Waves?

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On Feb 11, 2016 Scientists at LIGO announced that they had detected gravitational waves for the first time. In the press conference heard round the world, they showed the tell-tale waveforms indicating that huge event in which two black holes merged 1.3 b
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How researchers are teaching AI to learn like a child

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Machine learning algorithms may need programmed instincts to gain common sense. Learn more: https://scim.ag/2IZyTUd Credits producer/editor/script/animator/narrator Nguyen Khoi Nguyen supervising producer Sarah Crespi original story Matthew Hutson graphic
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Bill Gates: The next outbreak? Were not ready

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In 2014, the world avoided a horrific global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, thanks to some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done better. So, now's the time, Bill Gates sugg
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The wonderful world of life in a drop of water | Tom Zimmerman and Simone Bianco

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"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny organisms produce two-thirds of our planet's oxygen -- without them, life as we know it wouldn't exist. In this talk and tech demo, Zimmerman and cell engine
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Our Planet Now Winning Animation by 8 year-old | COP26 | BLUE PETER

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An 8 year old won the 'Our Planet Now' story writing contest which saw their words transformed into this amazing animation which played at the opening ceremony to COP26Watch Delphine's winning story come to life in this beautiful animation created by Aard
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How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet | Dustin Schroeder

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Antarctica is a vast and dynamic place, but radar technologies -- from World War II-era film to state-of-the-art miniaturized sensors -- are enabling scientists to observe and understand changes beneath the continent's ice in unprecedented detail. Join ra
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Axial flux motors - The new hope

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Axial flux motors are considered the ultimate future of electric vehicles and most importantly of electric aviation because they have a high torque-to-weight ratio, which is ideal for aircraft. Companies like Rolls Royce and Magnax have intense research a
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How a typeface helped launch Apollo | Douglas Thomas

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When humanity first landed on the moon in 1969, the typeface Futura was right there with them. In this fascinating history of typography, designer Douglas Thomas shares Futura's role in launching the Apollo 11 spacecraft -- and how it became one of the mo
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What I learned from going blind in space | Chris Hadfield

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There's an astronaut saying: In space, "there is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse." So how do you deal with the complexity, the sheer pressure, of dealing with dangerous and scary situations? Retired colonel Chris Hadfield paints a vivid por
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Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water | Raymond Tang

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How do we find fulfillment in a world that's constantly changing? Raymond Tang struggled with this question until he came across the ancient Chinese philosophy of the Tao Te Ching. In it, he found a passage comparing goodness to water, an idea he's now ap
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10 ways to have a better conversation | Celeste Headlee

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When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great con
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What a driverless world could look like | Wanis Kabbaj

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What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the future. In this forw
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How to take a picture of a black hole | Katie Bouman

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At the heart of the Milky Way, there's a supermassive black hole that feeds off a spinning disk of hot gas, sucking up anything that ventures too close -- even light. We can't see it, but its event horizon casts a shadow, and an image of that shadow could
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Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology

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http://www.ted.com We have no ways to directly observe molecules and what they do -- Drew Berry wants to change that. At TEDxSydney he shows his scientifically accurate (and entertaining!) animations that help researchers see unseeable processes within ou
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The psychology of self-motivation | Scott Geller | TEDxVirginiaTech

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Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB Scott Geller is Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech and Director of the Center for Applied Behavior Systems in the Department of Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American
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Why you should make useless things | Simone Giertz

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In this joyful, heartfelt talk featuring demos of her wonderfully wacky creations, Simone Giertz shares her craft: making useless robots. Her inventions -- designed to chop vegetables, cut hair, apply lipstick and more -- rarely (if ever) succeed, and tha
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Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100 plus

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http://www.ted.com To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that kee
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Homeopathy, quackery and fraud | James Randi

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http://www.ted.com Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world's psychics: Prove what you do is real, and
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The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | Karen J. Meech

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In October 2017, astrobiologist Karen J. Meech got the call every astronomer waits for: NASA had spotted the very first visitor from another star system. The interstellar comet -- a half-mile-long object eventually named `Oumuamua, from the Hawaiian for "
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Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future | Raffaello D'Andrea

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When you hear the word "drone," you probably think of something either very useful or very scary. But could they have aesthetic value? Autonomous systems expert Raffaello D'Andrea develops flying machines, and his latest projects are pushing the boundarie
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The power of introverts | Susan Cain

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http://www.ted.com In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to t
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A garden in my apartment | Britta Riley

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http://www.ted.com Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many
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DNA Sequencing Is Cracking Down on Shark Poaching

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About one in five fish sold around the world are captured illegally. But proving that a fish was poached can be especially difficult once it gets to shore. Now, a new device is taking forensics to a genetic level allowing field experts to crack down on sh
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Why You Should Embrace Your Stutter | Juan V. Lopez | TEDxUniversityofNevada

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Juan V. Lopez is an MBA student at The University of Nevada. In this inspiring talk, Juan explains why he now embraces his stutter as an integral part of his unique self. Juan V López is a MBA Candidate at the University of Nevada, first-generation
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The Language Sounds That Could Exist, But Don't

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The International Phonetic Alphabet: one sound for each symbol, and one symbol for each sound. Except for the sounds we can't make. Pull down the description for the references! MORE LANGUAGE FILES: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96C35uN7xGLDEnHu
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The surprising beauty of mathematics | Jonathan Matte | TEDxGreensFarmsAcademy

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Never miss a talk! SUBSCRIBE to the TEDx channel: http://bit.ly/1FAg8hB Jonathan Matte has been teaching Mathematics for 20 years, the last 13 at Greens Farms Academy. Formerly the Mathematics Department Chair, he is currently the 12th Grade Dean and Coac
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The Ocean Cleanup celebrates first haul of plastic from the Great Pacific garbage patch

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The Ocean Cleanup's System 001/B has successfully captured 60 1-cubic-meter bags of plastic from the Great Pacific garbage patch and returned it safely to Vancouver, British Columbia, where the organization held a press conference today to discuss its pla
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How little people can make a big difference | Charlie Cooper | TEDxJCUCairns

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Charlie Cooper is a nine year old boy who is wiser than his years. Charlie tells the story of how the buddy bench at Trinity Beach State School came to be a tool to
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This Unstoppable Robot Could Save Your Life

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This robot has applications to archaeology, space exploration, and search and rescue with a simple elegant design inspired by a plant. Sign up to Morning Brew for free today: https://ve42.co/mbMake your own Vine Robot! https://www.vinerobots.orgSpecial th
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Inside Japans Earthquake Simulator

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This is the worlds largest earthquake simulator, heres how it works. For a free trial to Shopify go to https://www.shopify.com/veritasium.If youre looking for a molecular modeling kit, head to https://ve42.co/SnatomsV to try Snatoms a kit I invented where
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3 Perplexing Physics Problems

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Why does shaken soda explode? Does ice melt first in fresh or salt water?Thank you Squarespace for sponsoring this video. Go to https://squarespace.com to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code: VERITASIUMThis video features ex
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Was YOUR vote counted? (feat. homomorphic encryption) - Numberphile

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How to be sure your vote was counted ---- "End to End Verifiable Voting" with cryptopgraphy expert Professor Ron Rivest. See our other election video with Professor Rivest: https://youtu.be/ZM-i8t4pMK0 Problems with e-Voting via Computerphile: https://you
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25 Chemistry Experiments in 15 Minutes | Andrew Szydlo | TEDxNewcastle

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Whacky colour changes, magic disappearing water, blowing up dustbins, clouds of steam, thunder air explosions. Are you ready to fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ‘explosive’ journey? In his talk, Andrew aims to promote chemistry as the scien
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Real-time Expression Transfer for Facial Reenactment

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SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Technical Paper Video Project Page: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niessner/thies2015realtime.html We present a method for the real-time transfer of facial expressions from an actor in a source video to an actor in a target video, thus e
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In the Key of Genius: Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockelford at TEDxWarwick 2013

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Born prematurely at just 25 weeks, Derek Paravicini has suffered from blindess, learning impairment and severe autism for his entire life. Despite his impairment, Derek has the unique gift of perfect pitch, and is able to play any piece of music after hea
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Robots learn to use their hands

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Having robots learn dexterous tasks requiring real-time hand-eye coordination is hard. Many tasks that we would consider simple, like hanging up a baseball cap on a rack, would be very challenging for most robot software. What's more, for a robot to learn
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The art of misdirection | Apollo Robbins

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Visit http://TED.com to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch
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We Bare Bears | Hanging with Ranger Norm | Cartoon Network

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When Tabes leaves for a conference, the Bears have to deal with her substitute, Ranger Norm. Episode: Ranger Norm CN GAMES: http://bit.ly/CNGames SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/109Y6wq WATCH MORE: http://bit.ly/1TTwg6s About We Bare Bears: Cartoon Network’s We
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Could You Get Hit By Falling Space Junk?

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The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More | Mark Rober | TEDxPenn

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When 50,000 of Mark Rober's 3 million YouTube subscribers participated in a basic coding challenge, the data all pointed to what Rober has dubbed the Super Mario Effect. The YouTube star and former NASA engineer describes how this data-backed mindset for
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The Best Little Person Basketball Team in the US

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Whats life like for a little person, living in a world built for taller people? The short documentary The Towers, directed by Oliver Arnoldi and Maria Chiu, was born out of that question. I was very interested in how they interact with a city like New Yor
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Fetching Omnicopter

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Fetching Omnicopter We have developed a computationally efficient trajectory generator for six degrees-of-freedom multirotor vehicles, i.e. vehicles that can independently control their position and attitude. The trajectory generator is capable of generat
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DemDebate Secret Video: What The U.S. Promised In Paris

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NBC & YouTube actually asked us to make TWO videos for the Democratic Presidential Debate on January 17th, 2016. Here’s the video that DIDN’T get shown at the debate. Our video that was shown: https://youtu.be/vbE5PSu-p0s Watch the whole debate: https://w
Ella Baker - 'The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement'

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After graduating from Shaw University, Ella Baker moved to New York City and began her career as a grassroots organizer. Joining the NAACP in 1940, the Virginia native assisted in developing some of the brightest minds in the Civil Rights Movement.Baker c
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Most People Don't Know Wine Moves Like This | EVERYDAY MYSTERY

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Wine legs aka wine tears or wine fingers are stranger than they seem. Check out Vsauce3 Can You Survive the Movies!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfcdJ7sizcZero G with Veritasium and e-penser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_AJWZajEkBursting Droplete
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What Video Games Teach Us About The Aging Brain

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40,000 years of music explained in 8 minutes | Michael Spitzer

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The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up Next The science of music: why your brain gets hooked on hit songs https://youtu.be/gwmijEZ5sbM The evolution of music over mi
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Why locusts are descending on East Africa

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This video is sponsored by ExpressVPN. To find out how to get three months free, click here: http://ExpressVPN.com/VoxIn a region where food is already scarce, billions of insects are now eating everything in sight.Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly
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We FINALLY Know What a Black Hole Looks Like

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The Event Horizon Telescope project has been working relentlessly to composite the first black hole photo the world has seen and it will change how we look at physics moving forward. Thumbnail Credit (Background Image): Hotaka Shiokawa / EHT How Close Are
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Why Are Old People Taking The Blood Of Young People?

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The older generation is taking the blood of younger people in increasing numbers. Does young blood transfusions really help adults?Watch more: Can You Give Blood After Death? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs7tyYpKDc0&t=22s Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubL
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Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet M&M's | Gourmet Makes | Bon Apptit

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Join Claire Saffitz in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she attempts to make gourmet M&M's. M&M's are available in just about every color known to man, but there is one color that is objectively the best: green. Scientists have puzzled over
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Music Gloves Create Incredible Music. NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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Imogen Heap showcases the “Mi.Mu Gloves” for the song Hide and Seek. Which, through hand gestures, can alter sounds, creative reverb, etc.Watch Imogen Heap play "Guitar Song", "Speeding Cars" and "Hide and Seek" at the Tiny Desk. More from NPR
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Musics power over your brain, explained | Michael Spitzer

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Humans are musical animals 4 million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer.Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1Up next, 40,000 years of music explained in 8
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Introduction To Intellectual Property: Crash Course IP 1

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This week, Stan Muller launches the Crash Course Intellectual Property mini-series. So, what is intellectual property, and why are we teaching it? Well, intellectual property is about ideas and their ownership, and it's basically about the rights of creat
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How Your Heart Actually Controls Your Emotions

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It turns out that your heart does a lot more than just pump blood. Check out this video to see how it can actually affect your emotions. Do Gut Feelings Actually Exist? - https://youtu.be/DBQYSwhIYXk Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/
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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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Could You Live Without A Body?

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Could uploading our consciousness to the internet be the key to living forever? To create your stunning website & support Life Noggin, go to https://www.wix.com/go/lifenoggin Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubLifeNoggin | Get your exclusive Life Noggin merch:
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Why You Shouldn't Give Ginger To Monkeys (and other animal sayings)

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Learn new skills from this video’s sponsor, Skillshare: http://skl.sh/minuteearth4 Humans from different cultures anthropomorphize different animals to represent the same human traits. Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth
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Could Neural Lace Connect Our Brains To The Internet?

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Elon Musk is funding research towards "neural lace," a brain computer interface technology that could allow our brains to compete with AI. Robots Can Now Sense Your Emotions Via Radio Waves - https://youtu.be/fsrpK7Dra08 Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter
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A 5G World Is on the Horizon, But How Will It Work?

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The rumors of a 5G wireless network, with the fastest connectivity we've ever experienced, is finally coming this year. Can We Power the World With a Single Energy Grid? - https://youtu.be/aE6EQyOFNkM Read More: Qualcomm already has a new 5G chip that pro
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What's the Point of Maths? - with Nira Chamberlain

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All around the world children, and even some adults, ask the question: What is the point of mathematics?. The field of mathematical modelling not only helps answer this question, it can help quench the human thirst for knowledge.Watch the Q&A: https://you
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WWI's Civilians, the Homefront, and an Uneasy Peace: Crash Course European History #34

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World War I was a total war for millions of people in Europe. Many men were enlisted in the fighting, but the war work had implications for the daily lives of a huge number of Europeans. Women entered the workforce in huge numbers, and for a lot of people
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How the US counts votes

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Follow the results of the 2020 presidential election at: http://www.vox.com/2020In a normal presidential election year, many Americans go from casting our vote before work in the morning to turning off the TV before bed, secure in our knowledge of who wil
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The World's Most Expensive Fungus

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The priciest fungus in the world is a parasite that grows from a caterpillar’s head. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/1FkxVLb ‖ Twitter! https://twitter.com/gross_science ‖ Tumblr! http://grossscience.tumblr.com/ ↓Want more info?↓ NPR—Caterpillar Fungus: The Viag
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1940s BELL TELEPHONE "MOBILE TELEPHONES" MOVIE EARLY CELL PHONE / MOBILE TELEPHONE SYSTEM 90884

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Created in the late 1940s, this film from Bell explains the operation of the Mobile Telephone Service (MTS) by showing how it can be used to make business more efficient. The film also shows some of the cutting edge equipment used in the system and shows
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Don't Choose Extinction - UNDP | United Nations | Jack Black | Climate Action

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The world spends an astounding US$423 billion annually to subsidize fossil fuels for consumers – oil, electricity that is generated by the burning of other fossil fuels, gas, and coal. This is four times the amount being called for to help poor coun
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I promise this story about microwaves is interesting.

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I found an article that said "The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments." And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it?Pull down the description for thorough references and credits.Thanks to James Lovelock for his time! His lates
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Why Doesn't All Thunder Sound The Same?

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Use the promo code "minuteearth" at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearth for 26% off an annual subscription to CuriosityStream, plus access to Nebula!We've all experienced thunder, but what ARE all those claps, booms, and rumbles?LEARN MORE************
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The Truth about AI 2/3 - 2023 Christmas Lectures with Mike Wooldridge

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'My AI Life' - Professor Mike Wooldridge reveals the huge role AI already plays in our daily lives, sometimes without us even realising what it is doing.This is the second of the 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution, supported by CGI, on the
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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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The Truth about AI 1/3 - 2023 Christmas Lectures with Mike Wooldridge

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'How to build an intelligent machine' - Professor Mike Wooldridge explores the nature of artificial intelligence. By using experiments and demonstrations, he investigates how AI learns and what it can do.This is the first of the 2023 Christmas Lectures fr
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The Truth about AI 1/3 - 2023 Christmas Lectures with Mike Wooldridge

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'How to build an intelligent machine' - Professor Mike Wooldridge explores the nature of artificial intelligence. By using experiments and demonstrations, he investigates how AI learns and what it can do.This is the first of the 2023 Christmas Lectures fr
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The Truth about AI 2/3 - 2023 Christmas Lectures with Mike Wooldridge

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'My AI Life' - Professor Mike Wooldridge reveals the huge role AI already plays in our daily lives, sometimes without us even realising what it is doing.This is the second of the 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution, supported by CGI, on the
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How We Evolved To Browse The Web

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Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/The decisions we make while we browse the internet are suprisingly similar to the ones animals make as they forage for food...here's why.Thanks also to our Patreon
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This Is Not A Bee

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It can be hard to distinguish bees from all the other insects out there that look like bees. Thanks also to our supporters on https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth ___________________________________________ If you want to learn more about this topic, start
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Is There Any Cheese in Cheez Whiz? (And the Story of Kraft)

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If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page where we've got a variety of perks for our Patrons, including Simon's voice on your GPS and the ever requested Simon Whistler whistling packa
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Asteroid Impact: What Are Our Chances?

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Stephen Hawking thought an asteroid impact posed the greatest threat to life on Earth. Thanks to Kiwico for sponsoring this video. For 50% off your first month of any crate, go to https://kiwico.com/veritasium50 For other potential world ending catastroph
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I Got A $500K Deal On Shark Tank

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Samantha John never imagined that her attempts at trying to get kids to code would lead her straight into the Shark Tank. Check out the Hopscotch app: https://www.gethopscotch.com/Credits: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bfmp/videos/126287Subscribe to BuzzFeedVi
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The Truth about AI 3/3 - 2023 Christmas Lectures with Mike Wooldridge

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'The future of AI: dream or a nightmare?' Professor Mike Wooldridge is joined by leading experts to grapple with the future of AI. What opportunities and dangers lie ahead as AI continues to evolve?This is the third of the 2023 CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the
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What Happens if You Accidentally Damage or Destroy a Priceless Work of Art in a Museum

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Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video! First 200 people will get a 2 month trial for free here: http://skl.sh/2xwnKCg If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our Patreon page where we've go
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I Accidentally Became A Meme: Overly Attached Girlfriend

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An entry in a Justin Bieber video contest led to one of the biggest memes on the internet and changed one girl's life forever. Be sure to follow along with Laina at: Instagram: https://instagram.com/Laina TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@laina622 Youtube: http
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The Rainiest Place On Earth

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How a rainfall simulator saves millions of lives. Get exclusive NordVPN deal here https://NordVPN.com/veritasium. Its risk free with Nords 30 day money-back guarantee!If youre looking for a molecular modeling kit, try Snatoms a kit I invented where the at
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Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?

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Thanks to OIST for sponsoring this video. To learn more, visit https://admissions.oist.jp/ Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things. Thanks also to our Patreo
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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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How does this SSD store 8TB of Data? || Inside the Engineering of Solid-State Drive Architecture

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Imagine storing every single video, movie, and picture you have ever seen in your entire life on a single solid-state drive. Well, these high-end solid-state drives [30TB] can do that. But how can SSDs organize so much information? Well in this video we a
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The Engineering Puzzle of Storing Trillions of Bits in your Smartphone / SSD using Quantum Mechanics

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It's a puzzle as to how your smartphone or the solid-state drive in your laptop can store gigabytes to terabytes of data by the click of a button! It's amazing that your devices work flawlessly, and the information doesn't leak out. In this video, we'll l
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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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