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How Jawbreakers Are Made
1,288 views / 1 likes - addedJawbreakers, also known as gobstoppers, are a popular candy that originated in the United Kingdom. While the size of the candy ball varies, jawbreakers often have multiple layers of color and sugar. It can take about four days to make a jawbreaker. To wat
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Let's Learn The Ocean Zones!
1,109 views / 2 likes - addedLearn about the three ocean zones with our ocean experts, Dr. Irene Stanella and her lab assistants Wyatt and Ned! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check ou
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Our ancestor contracted a virus - millions of years later, we still have it
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Elephants joyfully react to didgeridoo performance - ABQ BioPark Zoo
375 views / 0 likes - addedThe ABQ BioPark’s Asian elephants received a very special performance from Allan McKenzie, a Gamilaroi/ Wiradjuri man, internationally acclaimed artist and Aboriginal advisor of Boomalli Consulting based in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. Allan p
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What is a carnivorous plant?
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Snake Detection Hypothesis
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Popcorn Under A Microscope | NPR's Skunk Bear
1,109 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out one of the world's most ancient snacks up close - and it looks like a bunch of bubbles. (Reposting to correct "Central America" to "Mesoamerica.") ↓↓ Links & Info ↓↓ SUBMIT A QUESTION HERE: http://www.npr.org/skunkbear SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/2
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You're Living On An Ant Planet
72 views / 1 likes - addedHow did ants take over the world? Well, it looks like they didnt achieve world domination all by themselves. They may have just been riding the wave of a totally different evolutionary explosion.*****PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To suppor
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Why parrots can talk like humans
976 views / 5 likes - addedMonkeys are our closest biological relatives, and they can't speak. But parrots don’t seem to have a problem at all. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 2016 researchers released a study with an incredible headline: monkey vocal tracts are s
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That Time The Ocean Lost (Almost) All Its Oxygen
75 views / 0 likes - addedFind Bizarre Beasts here! https://www.youtube.com/bizarrebeastsThis is the story of how our planet rescued itself from extreme conditions in the Cretaceous Period, at the cost of essentially suffocating the oceans for half-a-million years.*****PBS Member
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Theres something weird about this 105 million-year-old amber.
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How did humans become (mostly) right-handed?
74 views / 0 likes - addedBeing right-handed may have deep evolutionary roots in our lineage.*****PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons*****Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital StudiosSuper special thanks t
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Why did blinking evolve?
123 views / 0 likes - addedWe blink all the time, but until recently, we didn't know how, why, and when blinking evolved.*****PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons*****Produced by Complexly for PBS Digital St
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The Island of the Last Surviving Mammoths
190 views / 1 likes - addedThe Wrangel Island mammoths would end up being the final survivors of a once-widespread genus. In their final years, after having thrived in many parts of the world for millions of years, the very last mammoths that ever lived experienced whats known as a
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Why The Giraffe Got Its Neck
81 views / 0 likes - addedHow and why the giraffe's neck emerged in the first place has been a mystery that generations of biologists have argued over one that has made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution actually works over and over again.*****PBS Member Stations rel
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The Traits That Spawned the Age of Mammals
800 views / 0 likes - addedLots of the traits we think of as defining us as mammals show up pretty early, during the time of the dinosaurs. And, in some cases, they show up a lot earlier and in things that werent mammals at all.Big thanks to Julio Lacerda (https://twitter.com/Julio
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Revolutionizing Heart Surgery With Virtual Reality
793 views / 0 likes - addedHave you ever wondered what it would be like to take a ride through the human body on the Magic School Bus? Well, a new bit of virtual reality technology is taking that concept and applying it to medical training. Doctors can now teleport inside the human
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Can you solve the feeding frenzy riddle? - Henri Picciotto
311 views / 0 likes - addedPractice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd--As Numberlands best detective, you thought youd seen it all. But the desiccated corpses of prominent natural numbers have been showing up all over the city. A lockdown is ordered from sundown t
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How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
529 views / 0 likes - addedThe Amazon rainforest of South America is a paradise for flowering plants. But long ago, the landscape that we now think of as the Amazon looked very different. And would you believe that the entire revolution of the Amazon began with just one day?Produce
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The myth of the moon goddess - Cynthia Fay Davis
428 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the Maya myth of the moon goddess, Ix Chel, and follow her story as she falls in and out of love with the sun god. --The sun god was in love with the moon goddess, Ix Chel. But the goddess grandfather was very possessive, and would not let the su
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Why bats don't get sick - Arinjay Banerjee
392 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the relationship between viruses and their hosts, and find out how the evolutionary adaptations of bats keep them safe from viruses. --Consider a bat that is infected with several deadly viruses, including ones that cause rabies, SARS, and Ebola.
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Could a solar storm destroy modern civilization? - Fabio Pacucci
161 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the science of solar storms, and find out why they occur and just how prepared we are for a major event. --In September 1859, miners following the Colorado gold rush woke up to another sunny day. Or so they thought. To their surprise, they soon di
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A quantum thought experiment - Matteo Fadel
254 views / 0 likes - addedCan you win a game of quantum foosball using a giant electron instead of a ball? Explore how to use quantum mechanics to your advantage. --After a long day working on the particle accelerator, you and your friends head to the arcade to unwind. The lights
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Could we build a wooden skyscraper? - Stefan Al
1,005 views / 1 likes - addedExplore the viability of wooden skyscrapers, and see how cross-laminated timber (CLT) helps make these once impossible structures possible.--Towering 85 meters above the Norwegian countryside, Mjstrnet is the worlds tallest wooden building, made almost en
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Why are airplanes slower than they used to be? - Alex Gendler
245 views / 1 likes - addedWhy arent commercial flights getting faster? Dig into the technological and environmental problems facing supersonic flight. --In 1996, a British Airways plane flew from New York to London in a record-breaking two hours and fifty-three minutes. Today, how
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How much electricity does it take to power the world?
743 views / 1 likes - addedDiscover how much electricity humanity uses, and how clean energy sources could help revolutionize our energy supply in the future. --All around the world, millions of people are flipping a switch, plugging in, and pressing an on button every second. So h
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Can you solve the demon dance party riddle? - Edwin Meyer
454 views / 1 likes - addedThe only way into the worlds most exclusive club is to solve a challenge from the Demon of Reason. Can you get into the party?--Once a year, thousands of logicians descend into the desert for Learning Man. At the center of that gathering is the worlds mos
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How does heart transplant surgery work? - Roni Shanoada
197 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the science of how heart transplants happen, how donors are matched and find out how this complex surgery saves lives.--Your heart beats more than 100,000 times a day. In just a minute, it pumps over five liters of blood throughout your body. But
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A day in the life of an Ancient Greek oracle - Mark Robinson
277 views / 0 likes - addedFollow Aristonike, an Oracle-in-training in Delphi, as she studies to become the Pythia and communicate Apollos will and prophecies.--As the sun rises over Delphi in 500 BCE, Aristonike hurries to the temple of Apollo where a single oracle known as the Py
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The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang
233 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which suspended Chinese immigration to the U.S. and blocked Chinese immigrants from citizenship.--In 1882, the United States Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first federal law that restricted immig
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What causes seizures, and how can we treat them? - Christopher E. Gaw
227 views / 0 likes - addedDiscover what we know and dont know about the causes and treatment of seizures, and what to do if you encounter someone experiencing a seizure.--Nearly 3,000 years ago, a Babylonian tablet described a curious illness called miqtu that caused symptoms rang
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Where Are All the Medium-Sized Dinosaurs?
163 views / 0 likes - addedThe remains of medium-sized predatory dinosaurs are pretty rare in places where giant predators like T. rex existed. Which is weird, because thats just not how ecosystems work today.Thanks to Franz Anthony, Jack Mayer Wood, ABelov2014, Fabrizio De Rossi,
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A brief history of divorce - Rod Phillips
245 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the complicated history of divorce from the earliest known divorce laws in ancient Mesopotamia to modern day. --Formally or informally, human societies across place and time have made rules to bind and dissolve couples. The stakes of who can obta
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Nature's fortress: How cacti keep water in and predators out - Lucas C. Majure
185 views / 0 likes - addedDiscover the adaptations that allow cacti to not only survive, but thrive, in some of the harshest desert climates on Earth. --If you were a jackrabbit in the desert, youd be glad to stumble across a cactus: the flesh of these plants is a water source for
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The incredible, bendable, twistable, expandable elephant trunk - Chase LaDue & Bruce A. Schulte
1,186 views / 4 likes - addedDiscover the incredible ways elephants use their trunks to sense and communicate information and emotion. --As a breeze blows through the savannah, a snake-shaped tube stretches into the air and scans the horizon like a periscope. But its not seeing its s
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Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered? - Lisa Krause
255 views / 2 likes - addedGet to know the story of the Mirabal sisters, who led a revolution against Rafael Trujillos dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. --For over 30 years, thousands of people were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered under Rafael Trujillos dictatorship in the
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How Our Deadliest Parasite Turned To The Dark Side
240 views / 0 likes - addedAround 10,000 years ago, somewhere in Africa, a microscopic parasite made a huge leap. With a little help from a mosquito, it left its animal host - probably a gorilla - and found its way to a new host: us. *****PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like yo
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This tool will help improve your critical thinking - Erick Wilberding
218 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the technique known as the Socratic Method, which uses questions to examine a persons values, principles, and beliefs. --Socrates, one of the founding fathers of Western philosophical thought, was on trial. Many believed he was an enemy of the sta
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The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine - Melanie E. Peffer
320 views / 2 likes - addedExplore how a scientist and artist discovered how our brains transmit signals throughout the body, and laid the foundation for modern neuroscience.--In the 1860s, scientists believed they were on the verge of uncovering the brains biggest secret: how the
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How the Starfish Got Its Arms
196 views / 1 likes - addedThank you to Blinkist for supporting PBS. For more information and trial go to https://www.blinkist.com/pbseonsThe story of how the starfish got its arms reminds us that even animals that might be familiar to us today can have incredibly deep histories -
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Why is pneumonia so dangerous? - Eve Gaus and Vanessa Ruiz
313 views / 1 likes - addedExplore how pneumonia attacks the tiny air sacs in your lungs and how your immune system works to fight off the infection.--Every time you breathe, air travels down the trachea, through a series of channels, and then reaches little clusters of air sacs in
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The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight - Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara
259 views / 1 likes - addedDig into the incredible fighting, feeding, and flying capabilities of hummingbirds.--In just a matter of seconds, hummingbirds can perform astonishing aerial acrobatics, eat lunch in midair, pollinate a flower, even escape threats while upside-down. And t
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The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky
305 views / 0 likes - addedWhat gives opals their signature shimmering colors? Dig into the science of the gemstones formation, millions of years in the making. --In November 1986, Australian miners climbed Lunatic Hill and bored 20 meters into the Earth. They were rewarded with a
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The surprisingly long history of electric cars - Daniel Sperling and Gil Tal
173 views / 0 likes - addedCan electric cars reclaim their place on the road? Discover how developments in battery technology are making these cars more efficient and powerful.--By the end of the 19th century, nearly 40% of American cars were electric. But these vehicles had a few
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The Fossil Record In Your Mouth
175 views / 0 likes - addedThe hardened residue scraped off your teeth at the dentist is called your dental calculus, and your dental calculus is the only part of your body that actually fossilizes while youre alive! And scientists have figured out how to study & trace the evolutio
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The secrets of the worlds most famous symphony - Hanako Sawada
2,707 views / 0 likes - addedDiscover what makes Ludwig van Beethovens Symphony Number Five a musical masterpiece, and uncover the story behind its inception. --Eight ferocious notes open one of the most explosive pieces of music ever composed. Ludwig van Beethovens Symphony Number F
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The rise and fall of the Lakota Empire - Pekka Hmlinen
202 views / 0 likes - addedTrace the rise and fall of the Lakota Empire which, at their height, were the most dominant power in the American West.--In 1776, a powerful empire was born in North America. The Lakotas had reached the Black Hills, the most sacred place and most coveted
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The Creature That Stumped Darwin
182 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Mega Wow: https://youtu.be/meU4f31gqYI And go get our pins!! https://store.dftba.com/collections/eonsToxodon was one of the last members of a lineage that vanished 11,000 years ago after thriving in isolation for millions of years. And its fossi
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Why was India split into two countries? - Haimanti Roy
400 views / 2 likes - addedDig into the 1947 Partition of India, when Britain split the region into two states, India and Pakistan, and the mass migrations and violence that followed.--In 1947, the British viceroy announced that after 200 years of British rule, India would gain ind
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The tragic myth of the Sun God's son - Iseult Gillespie
348 views / 0 likes - addedDive into the Greek myth of Helios and Phaethon, where the Sun God allows his mortal son to drive his chariot for a day.--Every morning, Helios unleashed his golden chariot, and set out across the sky. As the Sun God transformed dawn into day, he thought
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The genes you don't get from your parents (but can't live without) - Devin Shuman
120 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the essential role that mitochondrial DNA played in the evolution of living things on Earth, and find out why its still evolving.--Inside our cells, each of us has a second set of genes completely separate from our 23 pairs of chromosomes. And th
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Savitri and Satyavan: The legend of the princess who outwitted Death - Iseult Gillespie
521 views / 2 likes - addedDig into the tale of Princess Savitri and her one true love, Satyavan, and the tragic prophecy that entwined their fates forever.--Princess Savitri was benevolent, brilliant, and bright. Her grace was known throughout the land, and many princes and mercha
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The dark history of Mount Rushmore - Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means
437 views / 2 likes - addedUncover the hidden history of the building of Mount Rushmore, and how its creation destroyed sacred Native American land.--Between 1927 and 1941, workers blasted 450,000 tons of rock from a mountainside using chisels, jackhammers, and dynamite. Gradually,
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When Ants Domesticated Fungi
188 views / 0 likes - addedWhile we’ve been farming for around 10,000 to 12,000 years, the ancestors of ants have been doing it for around 60 million years. So when, and how, and why did ants start … farming? Thanks to Franz Anthony (https://franzanth.com) for the exce
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Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal - Alex Gendler
326 views / 0 likes - addedDiscover what it took to build the Panama Canal, and how this colossal construction project changed the region. --In the 19th century, the California gold rush brought thousands of settlers to America's west coast. But finding gold may have been easier th
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Iceland's superpowered underground volcanoes - Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl
318 views / 0 likes - addedExplore how geothermal energy the heat in the Earths crust is being used to create renewable electricity and power.--While the weather in Iceland is often cold, wet, and windy, a nearly endless supply of heat bubbles away below the surface. In fact, almos
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The infamous overpopulation bet: Simon vs. Ehrlich - Soraya Field Fiorio
233 views / 0 likes - addedDiscover an infamous bet between two professors, which sought to predict whether the earth would run out of resources due to a growing human population.--In 1980, Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon bet $1,000 on a question with stakes that couldnt be higher: w
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A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul - Soraya Field Fiorio
293 views / 0 likes - addedFollow Beltani, a Babylonian priestess and businesswoman, as she investigates who is undermining her barley fields and tavern.--Its 1762 BCE. As dawn breaks in the Babylonian city of Sippar, Beltani a priestess and businesswoman receives an urgent visit f
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The epic of Gilgamesh, the king who tried to conquer death - Soraya Field Fiorio
365 views / 3 likes - addedDive into the Epic of Gilgamesh, and follow the king of Uruk on a series of dangerous quests as he searches for immortality.--In 1849, in the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq, archaeologists sifted through dusty remains, hoping to find records to prove tha
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Meet the bluefin tuna, the toughest fish in the sea - Grantly Galland and Raiana McKinney
313 views / 3 likes - addedDiscover the unique adaptations that make the Atlantic bluefin tuna one of the most dominant predators in the ocean.--Whats as big as a polar bear, swallows its prey whole, and swims at forty miles an hour? Its not a shark or a killer whale... its the Atl
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Scientists Are Close To Eliminating Pain, Here’s How
396 views / 0 likes - addedHow we might experience the unpleasantness of pain might come down to these 150 neurons in mouse brains. How Close Are We to Downloading the Human Brain? - https://youtu.be/DE5e5zF6a-8 Read More: Scientists Find Brain Cells That Make Pain Hurt https://www
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The spear-wielding stork who revolutionized science - Lucy Cooke
336 views / 1 likes - addedExplore ridiculous ancient theories of bird migration and discover how scientists finally solved one of the field's oldest mysteries.--In 1822, Count von Bothmer shot down a stork in Germany. However, the bird had already been impaled by a yard-long woode
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Can origami save your life? - Evan Zodl
295 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the mathematical rules and patterns of folding origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. --Origami, which literally translates to folding paper, is a Japanese practice dating back to at least the 17th century. In origami, a single, trad
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History's deadliest king - by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
318 views / 1 likes - addedDig into the Rubber Terror, the period in which King Leopold IIs horrific regime in the Congo resulted in the deaths of 10 million people.--In 1904, Chief Lontulu laid 110 twigs in front of a foreign commission. Every twig represented a person in his vill
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Should you donate your DNA to help cure diseases? - Greg Foot
216 views / 1 likes - addedDiscover how scientists are using crowdsourced DNA to find the causes of untreatable diseases, and developing new drug treatments for them.--When scientists don't know the cause of a medical condition, developing a drug treatment takes significant trial a
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Run, sail, or hide? How to survive the destruction of Pompeii - Gary Devore
291 views / 4 likes - addedDownload a free audiobook version of Into Thin Air and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed--Its a bustling day in Pompeii. After a quick visit to the market, Fabia spots her brothers, Lucius and Marcus, crossing the Forum. T
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Why doesn't everyone have a jetpack? - Richard Browning
3,776 views / 0 likes - addedExplore the physics of how jetpacks fly, and discover the technology that allows pilots to maneuver the engines.--In 1961, Yuri Gagarin piloted a spacecraft in humanitys first manned space flight. A week later, Bell Aerosystems debuted a gas-powered rocke
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When Pterosaurs Walked
176 views / 0 likes - addedTake the PBS Digital Studios audience survey: https://to.pbs.org/2021surveyIf you know one thing about pterosaurs, its that theyre flyers. And while pterosaurs may be well-known for their domination of the skies in the Mesozoic Era, they didnt live their
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The Evolution of Dance - 1950 to 2019 - By Ricardo Walker's Crew
669 views / 0 likes - addedIf you enjoyed this video, make sure to SUBSCRIBE, this is the best way for you to support us! Don't forget to hit the LIKE bottom and comment below what do you think about this video! Musics that we used on the video: 00:03 - 00:13 - Singin'in the Rain -
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Girl Is BODY SHAMED by MEAN GIRLS, What Happens Next Is Shocking | Dhar Mann Studios
598 views / 0 likes - addedDon't forget to SUBSCRIBE to my channel by clicking here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hK9fOxyy_TM8FJGXIyG8Q?sub_confirmation=1 Watch my favorite videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnBCOhf_VBTVGGC7OryYH7wO87PCostB3REMEMBER - We're not jus
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Dad FAVORS 1 Son Over The OTHERS, What Happens Next Is Shocking | Dhar Mann Studios
150 views / 2 likes - addedDon't forget to SUBSCRIBE to my channel by clicking here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hK9fOxyy_TM8FJGXIyG8Q?sub_confirmation=1 Watch my favorite videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnBCOhf_VBTVGGC7OryYH7wO87PCostB3Inspired by The Iron Cla
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Why Do We Eat Spoiled Food?
832 views / 1 likes - addedSponsored by Tab for a Cause: http://www.tabforacause.org?r=3 MinuteEarth is also now on Patreon! Please support us at: http://www.patreon.com/minuteearth And subscribe! - http://www.youtube.com/user/minuteearth?sub_confirmation=1 Thanks to: - Subbable s
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Voyager 2 Discovers Wall of Fire at Solar System's Edge
593 views / 1 likes - addedYou can buy Universe Sandbox 2 here: http://amzn.to/2yJqwU6 Wonderful Person t-shirts: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the reports of what Voyager 2 discovered as it left th
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