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Physical Vs Digital Existence
622 views / 0 likes - added“We're post-geographical beings, attentional proximity has been decoupled from physical proximity, collapsing geography.” Join Jason Silva every week as he freestyles his way into the complex systems of society, technology and human existence and discusse
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Mapping How Americans Talk - Soda vs. Pop vs. Coke
570 views / 0 likes - addedWhat's your general term for a sweetened carbonated beverage? What word or words do you use to address a group of two or more people? What do you call it when the rain falls while the sun is shining? Former Harvard professor Bert Vaux asked tens of thousa
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Why Are There Stones Along Railway Tracks?
144 views / 0 likes - addedThe crushed stones that line railroad tracks are collectively called track ballast. More specifically, the track ballast constitutes the trackbed upon which sleepers or railroad ties are laid. As you may have seen, these stones are packed below, between a
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How To Celebrate Christmas On A Volcano
566 views / 0 likes - addedHow do explorers celebrate Christmas? Hint: It's on a volcano. Evolutionary biologist and National Geographic grantee Borja Milá and fellow biologist Christophe Thébaud traveled to Réunion, a volcanic island in the southern Indian Ocean, in hopes of figur
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Can We Harness Electricity From Lightning?
503 views / 0 likes - addedLightning is one of the incredible forces of nature. A single bolt of it carries a few billion joules of energy, sufficient enough to power a tens of homes for a day. Humanity since the time of Franklin and Maxwell has been contemplating the idea of captu
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Where Does One Ocean End And Another Begin?
284 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Brilliant (and get 20% off) here: https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth/Earth's ocean water is continuous. How can we divide it into sections that are more useful?Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth and our YouTube
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The Science of Spotting Fake Foods – Speaking of Chemistry
987 views / 0 likes - addedFood fraud often boils down to politics or semantics. Something labeled parmesan cheese may not come from Parma, for instance. But sometimes food producers try to feed us cheap fillers and other lies. In this episode of Speaking of Chemistry, Sophia Cai e
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Inside the Illegal Songbird Trade in Indonesia
247 views / 0 likes - addedThere are few birds more colorful or with a more beautiful song than the Javan green magpie. Unfortunately, this beauty has led the birds to be captured and sold illegally into the songbird trade in Indonesia for singing competitions or as pets. Conservat
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Why Billions of Cicadas Are About to Emerge After 17 years
190 views / 0 likes - addedFor the first time in 17 years, one of the largest broods of cicadas is about to swarm the Midwestern and Northeastern United Stateshere's what you need to know. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/Element
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How Old Is The Oldest Fairy Tale?
807 views / 0 likes - addedWe know folklore goes back hundreds of years, but thanks to a new study using biological research methods, we now know it’s even older than that. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://people.howstuffworks.com/10-da... Share on Facebook: https://goo.gl/K
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2019 Breakthrough of the Year
319 views / 0 likes - addedLearn about our Breakthrough of the Year: the first image of the a black hole. Nine other advances are recognized as runners-up.Read more: https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2019/Editor's Note: The original posting of this video identified the geograp
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