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Leonardo da Vinci's Drawing Materials

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In this short film, conservator Alan Donnithorne explores the materials that Leonardo da Vinci used to produce his magnificent drawings. Using examples from the holdings of the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, the film looks at how Leonardo achieved th
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The Last Banana: A Thought Experiment In Probability - Leonardo Barichello

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-last-banana-a-thought-experiment-in-probability-leonardo-barichello Imagine a game played with two players and two dice: if the biggest number rolled is one, two, three, or four, player 1 wins. If the bigges
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Leonardo da Vinci inventions tested

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Once you start, watch till the end. It's really good models and video. I did spending a lot of time and energy. Please share, thanks. Leonardo da Vinci perpetual motion machine and flying machine are included. He is credited with the inventions of the par
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How Leonardo da Vinci made a "satellite" map in 1502

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It was a feat of technological and symbolic imagination. And it was pretty accurate, too. Join the Video Lab to see Phil's Q&A! http://bit.ly/video-lab Leonardo da Vinci’s known for his art and inventions — but also his groundbreaking maps, like this one
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook: The Codex Leicester

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Codescope is an interactive kiosk with a touch screen that lets you explore the Codex Leicester, a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci’s that Bill Gates bought in 1994. The Codex and the Codescope are traveling together to various museums in Europe as part of t
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Can you solve the Leonardo da Vinci riddle? - Tanya Khovanova

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ Solution to Bonus Riddle: https://brilliant.org/tededautobiographical/ You’ve found Leonardo da Vinci’s secret vault, secured by a series of combination locks. Fortunately, your treasure map ha
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I made a catapult to launch marshmallows! Thanks, Leonardo da Vinci.

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Its time to make a catapult.Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids! We wanted to launch some marshmallows, so we built a miniature machine based on Leonardo da Vincis designs.Leonardo da Vinci was a famous artist and inventor, and his sket
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How To Draw Leonardo Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Learn how to draw Leonardo from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! If you liked this lesson be sure to also check out how to draw a TMNT head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6XubtYfFdk EMAIL A PHOTO OF YOUR ART: myart@artforkidshub.com MAIL US YOUR ART: Art f
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Leonardo DiCaprio & The Nature Of Reality: Crash Course Philosophy #4

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Today Hank gains insight from that most philosophical of figures...Leonardo DiCaprio. In this episode, we’re talking about the process of philosophical discovery and questioning the relationship between appearance and reality by taking a look at Plato’s f
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Sesame Street: Leonardo da Crunchy's "The Muncha Lisa"

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Behold a masterpiece of cookie art -"The Muncha Lisa." Do you ever wonder what was happening at Leonardo da Crunchy's studio when Muncha Lisa struck her famous stare? Subscribe to the Sesame Street Channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?
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HOW TO MAKE A DA VINCI BRIDGE // Full-size Leonardo Da Vinci bridge

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Ever wondered how to make a Da Vinci bridge? We made a full-size Leonardo Da Vinci bridge that could hold the weight of a father and son. This design was invented by Leonardo Da Vinci as a bridge that could be quickly assembled with no fasteners such as n
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Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion

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Exhibition at California University of Pennsylvania
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Leonardo da Vinci Created a Satellite Map Without the Use of a Satellite

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Leonardo da Vinci most famous for his work Mona Lisa was so much more than a painter. He was a mathematician, writer, historian, engineer, and an amazing invento, just to name a few. He was a man truly and almost eerily ahead of his time. Actually, withou
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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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Captains Of Spaceship Earth

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Media is a tool that can program and reprogram the human bio-computer. Stories pattern the imagination. Language helps us think about our thinking. Cinema can open up new vistas for our minds. These new tools give us new "spaces of possibility" to explore
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Illuminating photography: From camera obscura to camera phone - Eva Timothy

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VIew full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/illuminating-photography-eva-timothy The origins of the cameras we use today were invented in the 19th century. Or were they? A millenia before, Arab scientist Alhazen was using the camera obscura to duplicate i
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Giant Egg Surprise Opening Ninja Turtles Out Of The Shadows Toys Kids Video Ryan ToysReview

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Join Ryan ToysReview as we open this Super Mega Giant Egg Surprise with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows toys inside that's from Kid'sHit shows on Nickelodeon! We open giant 24 Inch Leonardo Turtle Playset. This TMNT toy Leonardo action fig
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Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? - Noah Charney

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Discover what factors helped Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa become the worlds most famous painting.--More than 500 years after its creation, Leonardo da Vincis Mona Lisa is arguably the worlds most famous painting. Many scholars consider it an outstanding w
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What's The Most Expensive Book In The World?

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Sometimes super-wealthy people like to spend millions on a single book. Which one cost the most? Hint: It’s about water and it's written backwards. Learn more at HowStuffWorks.com: http://www.howstuffworks.com/arts/literature/10-rare-books4.htm Share on F
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We Don't Cry Because We're Sad

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"The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be." - Alain de Button More from Alain de Button http://alaindebotton.com Why Do We Cry When We Are Happy? https://www.psychologyt
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Musicians and Artists of History | Horrible Histories

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Subscribe for more Horrible History: http://bit.ly/HorribleHistoriesSubscribeVisit our website: horrible-histories.co.ukFrom sensational Shakespeare to Leonardo Da Vinci, let's take a brief look at some of the musicians and artists from Horrible Histories
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Sesame Street: Me Love Cookie Art (song)

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Maybe it's no surprise at all, but Cookie Monster loves Cookie Art. Whether it's Leonardo Da Crunchy's "Muncha Lisa" or Vincent Van Dough's "The Cookie Eaters," Cookie Art speaks to Cookie Monster. Do you love Cookie Art too? The Cookie Museum is a feast
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Mechanical Television: Incredibly simple, yet entirely bonkers

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You can support this channel on Patreon! Link belowJohn Logie Baird is often considered to be the inventor of television, but not of television as we know it. His mechanical television is a remarkable invention for its simplicity, but as you'll soon see,
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Adult Cats Only Meow At Humans #shorts

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The cats meow is only for humans. #shortsSUPPORT MINUTEEARTH**************************If you like what we do, you can help us!:- Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Share this video with your friends and family- Leave us a comment (we rea
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What is the Fibonacci Sequence & the Golden Ratio? Simple Explanation and Examples in Everyday Life

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The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers in which a given number is the addition of the two numbers before it. So, if you start with 0, the next number will be 1, followed by 1, followed by 2, followed by 3 and so on. As you can see, every number in
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1 year old puppy = 30 year old human #shorts

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A new study finds that dog years dont work like we thought they did. #shortsSUPPORT MINUTEEARTH**************************If you like what we do, you can help us!:- Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Share this video with your friends and
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We're making hurricanes stronger #shorts

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We're making hurricanes stronger. Here's how. #shorts #sponsoredSign the petition to urge the US Congress to support localized renewable energy solutions: https://go.acespace.org/page/86439/petition/1?utm_medium=infl&utm_source=youtube_social_inf&utm_camp
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Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything

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Water can dissolve more substances than anything else on earth...so why doesn't it dissolve everything away?LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: solvent: a substance that dissolves a solutesolubi
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The World's Largest Nuclear Weapon (ft. Stephen Fry) #shorts

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How devastating is the worlds largest nuclear weapon? Stephen Fry explains. #shortsSUPPORT MINUTEEARTH**************************If you like what we do, you can help us!:- Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Share this video with your frie
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The Bach Effect: What the GREATS Hear That You Dont

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In today's episode I explore the profound influence of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) on music legends, revealing the timeless impact of Bach's genius across genres. The Beato Ultimate Bundle — $99 FOR ALL OF My Courses: https://rickbeato.com/ &m
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What Happens If We Nuke Space?

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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to:http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACESign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetimeEMPs arent science fiction. Real militaries are
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Why Don't Electric Eels Shock Themselves?

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Check out @MinutoDaTerra and join our Patreon community at https://patreon.com/minuteearth. (Links to other language channels down in the description)Electric eels can emit some of the largest shocks in the animal kingdom - but why don't they shock themse
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What if Humans Are NOT Earth's First Civilization? | Silurian Hypothesis

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Enjoy 10% OFF and free worldwide shipping on all Hoverpens with code PBS: North America & other countries: https://bit.ly/pbs_novium UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/pbs_noviumeuTo support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACESign Up on Patr
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How Will We (Most Likely) Discover Alien Life?

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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to:http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACESign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord!https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetimeThe first discovery of extraterrestrial life wil
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Evolutions great mystery - Michael Corballis

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Learn how to identify, develop, and share your best ideas with TED Masterclass: http://bit.ly/tedmasterclass --What we call language is something more specific than communication. Language is about sharing whats in our minds: stories, opinions, questions,
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The greatest mathematician that never lived - Pratik Aghor

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Dig into the mystery of Nicolas Bourbaki one of the most influential mathematicians of all time who never actually existed.--When Nicolas Bourbaki applied to the American Mathematical Society in the 1950s, he was already one of the most influential mathem
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Can you solve the dark matter fuel riddle? - Dan Finkel

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An ancient, abandoned alien space station has been discovered. Can you beat everyone in the galaxy and reach it first?--Its an incredible discovery: an abandoned alien space station filled with precursor technology. Now every species in the galaxy is in a
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Why kids write letters backward

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Almost all kids will mirror write at some point. Why?*Our in-studio shoot with other Vox team members was done before the Covid-19 outbreak. We are currently safely working from home.*Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-labIf you work with (or
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The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god - Kay Almere Read

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Discover the myth of how the weak and pimply Aztec god Nanahuatl sacrificed himself to become Lord Sun and created a new world. -- Nanahuatl, weakest of the Aztec gods, sickly and covered in pimples, had been chosen to form a new world. There had already
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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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What If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun? | Hawking Stars

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Check out the NEW Space Time Merch Store: https://www.pbsspacetime.com/shop Use Code: PBS at Checkout for 15% off in DecemberPBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to:http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACESign Up on Patreon
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Hawking's black hole paradox explained - Fabio Pacucci

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Where does quantum information go when it enters a black hole? Investigate the theories of the black hole information paradox. --Today, one of the biggest paradoxes in the universe threatens to unravel modern science: the black hole information paradox. E
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Ugly History: Witch Hunts - Brian A. Pavlac

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Uncover the history of the witch hunts that swept through Europe and the American colonies from the 15th century until the 18th century.--In the German town of Nrdlingen in 1593, innkeeper Maria Hll found herself accused of witchcraft. She was arrested fo
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Vultures: The acid-puking, plague-busting heroes of the ecosystem - Kenny Coogan

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Explore the essential role vultures play in cleaning our ecosystems and why their conservation is key to a healthy planet.--In the African grasslands, a gazelle suffering from tuberculosis takes its last breath. The animals corpse threatens to infect the
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Whats that ringing in your ears? - Marc Fagelson

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Travel into the auditory system to explore the constant ringing sensation of tinnitus, why it happens and how to treat it. --Tinnitus has been bothering humanity since Ancient Babylon, plaguing everyone from Leonardo da Vinci to Charles Darwin. Today, rou
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The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire - Anne F. Broadbridge

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Trace the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire which, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, became the largest contiguous land empire in history.--It was the largest contiguous land empire in history stretching from Korea to Ukraine, and from Siberia to sou
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Why should you read The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy? - Laura Wright

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Dig into Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things, and follow the story of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by societys Love Laws. --Set in a small town in India, The God of Small Things revolves around fraternal twins Rahel and Estha, who are sepa
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A day in the life of an Aztec midwife - Kay Read

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Join the Aztec midwife Xoquauhtli as she tends to her patients and honors the warrior goddess Teteoinnan at a festival ushering in the season of warfare.--The midwife Xoquauhtli has a difficult choice to make. She owes a debt to her patron Teteoinnan, the
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Can you solve the feeding frenzy riddle? - Henri Picciotto

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Practice 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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Ethical dilemma: The burger murders - George Siedel and Christine Ladwig

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Whats the best way to handle a crisis in business? Dig into how different strategies can work when faced with an ethical dilemma.--You founded a company that manufactures meatless burgers that are sold in stores worldwide. But youve recently received awfu
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Why It's Good To Have A Weak Hand

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Watch the new season of MinuteBody - and get access to both CuriosityStream and Nebula - at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearth.We might have a strong hand because having a weak hand is actually useful.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this
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How bones make blood - Melody Smith

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Dig into the science of how bone marrow transplants work and find out how you could become a donor by visiting https://join.bethematch.org/teded--Bones might seem rock-solid, but theyre actually quite porous inside. Most of the large bones of your skeleto
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Can we create the "perfect" farm? - Brent Loken

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Explore the innovative ways countries are revolutionizing farming to ensure we can feed humanity in a way that works with the environment.--About 10,000 years ago, humans began to farm. This agricultural revolution was a turning point in our history and e
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Why The Shortest Day Of The Year Isn't The Coldest

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Watch the new season of MinuteBody - and get access to both CuriosityStream and Nebula - at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearth.The way we experience seasons don't necessarily line up with how they're technically defined - here's why.LEARN MORE*******
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How do antidepressants work? - Neil R. Jeyasingam

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Dig into the discovery of antidepressant drugs, how they work, and what we still dont know about depression.--In the 1950s, the discovery of two new drugs sparked what would become a multi-billion dollar market for antidepressants. Neither drug was intend
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The hidden life of Rosa Parks - Riche D. Richardson

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Learn about the life of civil rights activist Rosa Parks her work with the NAACP, bus boycotts, and her lifelong fight against racial inequality.--Throughout her life, Rosa Parks repeatedly challenged racial violence and the prejudiced systems protecting
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How one scientist took on the chemical industry - Mark Lytle

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Discover the groundbreaking environmental work of Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring explores how human actions threaten the balance of nature. --In 1958, after receiving a letter describing the deaths of songbirds due to the pesticide known as DDT,
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Why should you read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan? - Sheila Marie Orfano

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Get to know Amy Tans novel The Joy Luck Club, a series of interconnected vignettes centered around four Chinese American families. --In her Auntie An-meis home, Jing-Mei reluctantly takes her seat at the eastern corner of the mahjong table. At the north,
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Could a solar storm destroy modern civilization? - Fabio Pacucci

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Explore 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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Can you solve the birthday cake riddle? - Marie Brodsky

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd--Your friends birthday is tomorrow, and hes turning well youve forgotten. A ginormous cake has been prepared and your job is to sculpt his age as the chocolate centerpiece. The birthday boy is a
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The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe - Iseult Gillespie

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Discover the Norse myth of Baldur, the most beloved being in Asgard, and how the trickster god Loki plotted his death. --Baldur was the gentlest and most beloved being in all of Asgard. But lately, he had been plagued by gruesome visions foretelling his o
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What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush? - Geoff Emberling

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Trace the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Kush, an overlooked ancient African civilization which fought off both the Egyptians and Romans. --Along the Nile River, in what is now northern Sudan, lay the ancient civilization of Kush. Though they were once c
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A day in the life of an Ancient Greek oracle - Mark Robinson

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Follow 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 Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3

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The adventure continues! Episode 3: Ethic and Hedge must sabotage the furnace-bots to get to the first artifact. Can they find a way out? --This is episode 3 of our animated series Think Like A Coder. This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and h
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Nature's fortress: How cacti keep water in and predators out - Lucas C. Majure

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Discover 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 strange history of the world's most stolen painting - Noah Charney

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Discover Jan van Eycks masterpiece, the Ghent Altarpiece, and explore how it became the worlds most stolen artwork.--Throughout six centuries, the Ghent Altarpiece, also called The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, has been burned, forged, and raided in three
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Is Soil Alive?

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To learn more about restoration action - and get involved - visit RESTOR from the Crowther Lab at https://restor.eco.Soil doesn't seem like it's "alive", yet it functions like a living thing in lots of key ways.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about
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The method that can "prove" almost anything - James A. Smith

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Explore the data analysis method known as p-hacking, where data is misrepresented as statistically significant.--In 2011, a group of researchers conducted a study designed to find an impossible result. Their study involved real people, truthfully reported
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The Japanese myth of the trickster raccoon - Iseult Gillespie

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Dive into the Japanese myth of the shape-shifting tanuki, as the raccoon-like creature rewards a traveling salesman for his kindness.--On the dusty roads of a small village, a traveling salesman was having difficulty selling his wares. As he wandered the
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The surprising secrets of hummingbird flight - Kristiina J. Hurme and Alejandro Rico-Guevara

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Dig 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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Who decides whats in the dictionary? - Ilan Stavans

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Explore the history of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and find out how old words get redefined and how new words are added. --While the concept of a dictionary dates back to ancient civilizations, the first English dictionary wasnt published until 1604. I
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Why was India split into two countries? - Haimanti Roy

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Dig 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 most notorious scientific feud in history - Lukas Rieppel

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Get to know one of the most infamous scientific rivalries in history, known as the Bone Wars, where two scientists competed to find dinosaur fossils.--After the California Gold Rush of 1848, settlers streamed west to strike it rich. In addition to preciou
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What is MSG, and is it actually bad for you? - Sarah E. Tracy

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Dig into the seasoning known as MSG, and find out how this flavoring was developed and if its actually bad for your health.--In 1968, Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok felt ill after dinner at a Chinese restaurant and wrote a letter to a medical journal connecting h
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Savitri and Satyavan: The legend of the princess who outwitted Death - Iseult Gillespie

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Dig 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

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Uncover 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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An Egg Is Just One Cell

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One of Earth's biggest cells is one you're probably really familiar with. See what we're cooking up over at our BRAND-NEW channel, MinuteFood: https://www.youtube.com/user/minutefoodLEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googli
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The worlds most painful insect sting - Justin Schmidt

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Find out whether a honeybee, a tarantula hawk wasp, or a bullet ant has the most painful insect sting, and what each of their stings feel like. --One of these three creatures is thought to possess the worlds most painful insect sting: theres an ant that f
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Whos Eating All The Spiders?

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Start learning with your free 30-day trial of Brilliant at https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarthThe average human, in theory, eats 3 spiders a year. If you're not eating them and I'm not eating them, who is?LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this top
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Venus May Have Life!

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Check Out Overview of PBS Terra: https://bit.ly/33otrUnIf you rank the most habitable places in our solar system Venus lands pretty low, with surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead and sulphuric acid rain. And yet it may have just jumped to the fron
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The myth of the boiling frog

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Explore how greenhouse gas emissions impact global warming and why its necessary to get emissions down to net zero. --Since 1850, global average temperatures have risen by 1 degree Celsius. That may not sound like a lot, but it is. Why? 1 degree is an ave
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Ugly History: Cambodian Genocide - Timothy Williams

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Dig into the era of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, which perpetuated a genocide that killed a quarter of the countrys population. --From 1975 to 1979, the Communist Party of Kampuchea ruled Cambodia with an iron fist, perpetrating a genocide that killed one
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Can origami save your life? - Evan Zodl

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Dig 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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Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history - Karen L. Cox

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Examine the myth of the Lost Cause: a campaign created by pro-Confederates after the Civil War to promote the lie that they seceded for state's rights.--In the 1860s, 11 southern states withdrew from the United States and formed the Confederacy. They sece
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The movement that inspired the Holocaust - Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira

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Trace the history of the eugenics movement in the US, and discover how the belief in ideal genetics led to forced sterilizations.--Since ancient Greece, humans have controlled populations via reproduction, retaining some traits and removing others. But in
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When 90dB is LOUDER than 120dB

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Learn to use your career to make a difference at https://www.80000hours.org/minuteearthWe often use decibels, a measure of sound pressure, to describe how loud something is - but loudness is caused by how we perceive sounds, and the two often don't line u
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You Cant Actually Die Of Old Age

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Go to our sponsor https://betterhelp.com/minuteearth for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help.Despite centuries of death records to the contrary, dying of old age is not medically po
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What happened when we all stopped narrated by Jane Goodall

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An animated poem exploring how the Covid-19 pandemic has reminded us of the importance of living in harmony with nature. Download a free children's book version: https://bit.ly/TEDEdWhisper#WorldEnvironmentDay--As millions around the world shelter at home
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Can you solve the rogue submarine riddle? - Alex Rosenthal

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Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd--Smuggling yourself aboard the rogue submarine was the easy part. Hacking into the nuclear missile launch override a little harder. And youve got a problem: you dont have the override code. You
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The myth of Narcissus and Echo - Iseult Gillespie

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Download a free audiobook version of Atlas of the Heart and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed--One day, Echo was drifting through the woods and fell in love with a handsome young hunter named Narcissus. Cursed by Hera to o
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The Norse myth that inspired The Lord of the Rings - Iseult Gillespie

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Download a free audiobook version of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed--The dwarves were master craftspeople. One dwarf, Andvari, forged marvelous creations. He often t
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Run, sail, or hide? How to survive the destruction of Pompeii - Gary Devore

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Download 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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This Is Not A Bug

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Its common to call creepy crawlies bugs, but because entomologists refer to a specific class of insects as bugs, its wrong to call other things bugs - right?LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: -
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What Historical Figures Might Look Like If They Lived Today

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What Historical Figures Might Look Like If They Lived Today Hello everyone and welcome back to Mystery Scoop. An artist uses AI tools to create a modern version of historical figures. Have you ever wondered what historical figures might look like if they
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Why Does Nature Have Redundant Copies?

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Signup for your FREE trial to Wondrium here: http://ow.ly/AOkb30sfmakWho needs redundancy? Well, everyone, it turns out.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Ecological redundancy (also: functio
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The Place Where Time Flows Backwards

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Watch the new season of MinuteBody - and get access to both CuriosityStream and Nebula - at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearth.People all around the world tend to represent time via space, but theres no consensus on which way time goes.PREORDER OUR F
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Inside The Sunny Center of a Hurricane

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To learn more about how Florida International University is revolutionizing what we know about hurricanes, visit https://FIU.edu Why is the middle of a hurricane sometimes so clear and calm?LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start you
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Why Sharks Are Covered In Teeth

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Watch the new season of MinuteBody - and get access to both CuriosityStream and Nebula - at http://www.curiositystream.com/minuteearth.Sharks wouldnt be known for their fierce teeth today if it werent for their ancient scales.LEARN MORE**************To le
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The Plankton Paradox

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Start building your ideal daily routine The first 100 people who click on the link will get 25% OFF Fabulous Premium https://thefab.co/minuteearth2The competitive exclusion principle predicts that there would just be a few species of plankton, but instead
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The Crabs Are Coming

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We made this video in partnership with the Bik Lab at University of Georgia and the National Science Foundation.As the waters warm in the deep sea around Antarctica, ecosystem-crushing crabs are able to live closer and closer to the continent.LEARN MORE**
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Theres No Such Thing As Warm- Or Cold- Blooded

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Thanks to Wondrium for sponsoring today's video! Signup for your FREE trial to Wondrium here: http://ow.ly/8i0L50L1imgThe concept of warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals is outdated because there are actually tons of different animal thermoregulation str
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Why The Ocean Needs Salt

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Offset your carbon footprint with Wren! They'll plant 10 extra trees for each of the first 100 people who sign up at https://www.wren.co/start/minuteearth.Our oceans dont technically contain salt, but the ions salt is made of play a critical role in plane
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The Most Common Allergy In The World

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Get both CuriosityStream and Nebula when you sign up at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearth.The urushiol molecules in poison ivy have the ability to trigger a harmful immune response in most people because the immune system mistakenly labels them as a
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Why Is There So Much Land In The North?

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Watch the new season of MinuteBody - and get access to both CuriosityStream and Nebula - at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearthMost of Earths land is currently in the northern hemisphere because we happen to exist in a time where uneven heating in the
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Why Most Fossils Are Incomplete

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In 1990, fossil collectors in South Dakota stumbled across a dinosaur that turned out to be a really big deal. Not just because it was a T. rex basically the most popular dino out there or because it ended up in Chicagos famous Field Museum but because of
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The Science of Hobbit Gluttony

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Offset your carbon footprint with Wren! They'll plant 10 extra trees for each of the first 100 people who sign up at https://www.wren.co/start/minuteearth.Because smaller animals have to eat more relative to their bodyweight, Tolkeins hobbits need to eat
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Should More Species Be Extinct?

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Watch these amazing rewilding videos from our friends at Planet Wild, in which theyre saving Europes cutest bird from extinction or resurrecting a dying forest. Saving Europes cutest bird: www.planetwild.com/minuteearth/4 Forest resurrection: www.planetwi
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How Fish Get Away With Being Colorful

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Coral reef fish get away with being colorful thanks to a weird quirk of underwater optics. LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Visual resolution: the ability to see fine spatial detailSUPPORT
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Is Meat Really that Bad?

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The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare:https://skl.sh/kurzgesagtinanutshell11211Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-climate-meat/Food is arguably the best thing about being alive. No
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Why Hurricane Paths Are WEIRD

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Check out our Black Friday sale at http://dftba.com/minuteearth Hurricane path prediction seems straightforward, until it is not thats because hurricanes can encounter atmospheric effects that turn their paths into erratic nonsense.LEARN MORE*************
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What if We Replaced Nuclear With Potatoes

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This video was made in partnership with Gates Ventures.Energy use can be confusing I mean, how do you compare gasoline in your car to electricity piped to your house? That's why we made these things spud-tacularly simple.LEARN MORE**************To learn m
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How Long Did People Use To Live?

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Start building your ideal daily routine The first 100 people who click on the link will get a FREE week trial and 25% OFF Fabulous Premium https://thefab.co/minuteearthBy analyzing survivorship curves over the centuries, we can learn whats changed about h
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Our Lungs Have A Fatal Flaw

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Get started mitigating your carbon footprint with Wren at https://www.wren.co/start/minuteearthOur respiratory systems do a great job of protecting us, but they are no match for the smallest pollution particles created by the modern world.LEARN MORE******
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Why It's Impossible To Win a Nuclear War

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Check out the recipients of the 2022 Future of Life Award at https://futureoflife.org/future-of-life-award/Nuclear war is a terrifying existential threat, but we shouldn't only fear the blasts because the ensuing smoke is the real killer.LEARN MORE*******
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Why Do Weeping Willows Weep?

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Most trees reach for the sun but not the weeping willow. Why?LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Hormones: chemical messengers that are secreted directly into the blood, which carries them to
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Why Some Fruits Won't Ripen On Your Counter

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Thank you to HelloFresh for sponsoring this video! Use code EARTH14 for up to 14 FREE MEALS across your first 5 HelloFresh boxes plus free shipping at https://bit.ly/3vvSdyoTrying to ripen some fruits on your kitchen counter is totally fruitless - here's
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The Never Ending Lightning Storm

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Venezuelas Lake Maracaibo is home to a legendary lightning storm that has been going on for over 500 years. Watch @SeeYouOutsideShow video about Catatumbo Lightning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ABZOUvZ_WYEsther's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tosee
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Do the Past and Future Exist?

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Is all that exists just whatever exists right now? Is the past erased and the future a void yet to be filled? Well, the answer lies in between the past and the future - in the elusive, ever-moving eye-blink that we call the present. Sign Up on Patreon to
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What if We Nuke a City?

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Learn more about nuclear weapons and what you can do to stop themEN: http://www.notonukes.org FR: http://www.sansarmesnucleaires.org ES: http://www.nomasarmasnucleares.org PT: http://www.fimdasarmasnucleares.org DE: http://www.neinzuatomwaffen.orgAR: http
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The WEIRD Way Monkeys Got to America

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Many of the greatest biological dispersal events in history likely happened because animals inadvertently traveled across the oceans on floating debris.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Ocea
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Why Flushing Isn't For Everyone

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This video was made in partnership with Bill Gates. To learn more about how we can help improve the lives and health of people around the world, visit https://gatesnotes.comSewers are a great way to make pooping safe, but theyre not always the right solut
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Why These Bears Waste Food

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Offset your carbon footprint with Wren! They'll protect 5 extra acres of rainforest for each of the first 100 people who sign up at https://www.wren.co/join/minuteearth.Optimal foraging theory means that turning down food is sometimes more efficient than
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Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse?

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What We Owe The Future is available now you can get it wherever you get your (audio)books or here: https://www.amazon.com/What-Owe-Future-William-MacAskill/dp/1541618629This video was sponsored by the author, Will MacAskill. Thanks a lot for the support.S
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Solving Quantum Cryptography

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Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetimeCheck out the Space Time Merch Storehttps://pbsspacetime.com/Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements!https://m
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Why Continents Are High

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Learn to use your career to make a difference at https://80000hours.org/minuteearthLots of geological forces need to come together for continents to form, but they all require one ingredient: water.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, s
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How eclipses proved that the Earth is slowing down

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This video is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), part of NASAs Science Activation portfolio.Without eclipses, our world would be a lot different because eclipses give us the ability to do science we otherwise wouldnt
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The Himalayan Mountains: How They Formed

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This is the story of how India broke free from Africa to form the tallest mountains in the world. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ScopeofScience Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scopeofscience/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kurtisbaute Blog: http://www.
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How Much Gold is in Our Poop?

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Could Life Evolve Inside Stars?

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Take the PBS Digital Studios annual survey: http://to.pbs.org/2020surveyOne of the most bizarre proposals for life not as we know it doesnt even use atoms. It proposes that fundamental kinks and defects in the fabric of the universe - cosmic strings beade
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The Illusion Only Some Can See

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Ames window illusion illustrates how we don't directly perceive external reality. Special Holiday deal! Go to https://NordVPN.com/veritasium and use code VERITASIUM to get 68% off a 2 year plan plus 4 additional months free. Its risk free with Nords 30 da
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How Fevers REALLY Work

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Watch the new season of MinuteBody - and get access to both CuriosityStream and Nebula - at https://curiositystream.com/minuteearth.Fevers are one of our best weapons against infections, but they don't work like you might think. We'd like to give a big th
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Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From?

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Order your copy of How To Prevent The Next Pandemic here: https://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Next-Pandemic-Bill-Gates/dp/0593534484 The most likely cause of the next pandemic will be the spillover of a disease from one of a select group of animals with partic
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The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years

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Keep exploring at https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth. Get started for free, and hurry the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.Methuselahs environment lacks nutrients, water, and oxygen. In other words, its the perfect place to grow
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What Is The Best Shape For A Farm?

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This video was made in partnership with Gates Ventures.The shape of a farm can tell you a surprising amount about the land it's on and the people that use it.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
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We don't know what a tree is (and this video won't tell you)

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

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Find out how DeepMind is working to improve ""nowcasting" - https://www.deepmind.com/blog/nowcasting-the-next-hour-of-rain - and learn more about their scholarship program - https://www.deepmind.com/scholarships. There are two types of rain, and one of th
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We Have No Idea Why

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Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: https://www.wren.co/start/minuteearth The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name!Also, our shop is getting a glow-up! Check out our shiny new story-based merch at https://dftba.com
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Why Do People Hate Koalas?

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Go to our sponsor https://betterhelp.com/minuteearth for 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp and get matched with a therapist who will listen and help.On the Internet, koalas get an unnecessary amount of hate, so let's debunk some of the m
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Why Are They All In Antarctica?

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Download the Tab For A Cause browser extension at https://tab.gladly.io/trees/minuteearth2/Meteorite hunters dont search for meteorites in the places most frequently peppered by them they go to Antarctica instead, because thats where they are easiest to f
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How To Solve Every Global Crisis

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Check out the heroes who saved the ozone layer at https://futureoflife.org/future-of-life-award/Lots of global problems seem intractable, but theres a formula for success that we can follow.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start you
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This Chemical Does Nothing, But It's Still Bad For You

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Check out the MinuteFood video on Teflon here: https://youtu.be/R1hbV3EzOD4PFAS - also known as the forever chemicals we use in all sorts of household products - are able to cause all sorts of health problems without ever really reacting with anythingLEAR
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Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?

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Don't make us crabby! Join our Patreon at https://patreon.com/MinuteEarthMany crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. Thats sort of like what happens with YouTube videos.LEARN MORE**
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Volcano VS Glacier

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Sign up for your FREE trial to Wondrium here: http://ow.ly/aZqY30spaZ6Volcanoes might seem like an unstoppable force of nature - but there is at least one OTHER force on Earth that seems to be able to keep them down.LEARN MORE**************To learn more a
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The Super Secrets of Sewage

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Order your copy of ""How To Prevent The Next Pandemic"" here: https://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Next-Pandemic-Bill-Gates/dp/0593534484In 2020, many cities started monitoring wastewater for viruses, and there are a lot of non-virus reasons to keep doing it.LE
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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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Proteins: Explained

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To start using Tab for a Cause, go to: http://tabforacause.org/minuteearth2You might already know that proteins are a fundamental part of your diet, but they're much more than that.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googlin
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How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World

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Hey MinuteEarthlings! If you join us on Patreon this month (April 2023) at https://patreon.com/minuteearth, we will draw you a custom MinuteEarth stick figure (that we could feature in an upcoming video) AND send you a custom coffee mug with your beautifu
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How We Learned That Water Isn't An Element

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Keep exploring at https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth. Get started for free, and hurry the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.For thousands of years, water was thought to be an element. That is, until some of the greatest chemists i
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Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?

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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to:http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime What is inside a black hole? Inevitable crush
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Where The Weird Things Are

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We made this video in partnership with the Bik Lab at University of Georgia and the National Science Foundation.Life in Antarctica's ocean has followed a completely different evolutionary path from other ocean life because of how cold and isolated the oce
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When Tree Planting Goes Wrong

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Special thanks to the Society for Ecological Restoration and its global partners for their support during this production; and to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which is part of the United Nations Environment Programme. Thanks to Kingsley Dixon a
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Dominoes - HARDCORE Mode - Smarter Every Day 182

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Click here if you're interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED If you want your own personalized DNA genotype data here's the link: http://www.23andme.com/smarter Get a free audio book! http://www.audible.com/Smarter ⇊ Click below for more li
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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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Apparently tree FINGERPRINTS are a thing

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Thanks to the ASCEND project for partnering with us on this video!Every species on Earth has a fingerprint - whether or not they have fingers at all. LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Spectr
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The Invention of Dragons

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Watch my newest video, "The Game You Win By Losing (Parrondo's Paradox)": https://youtu.be/PpvboBJEozMVitality that is the test; and, whatever its components, mere truth is not necessarily one of them. A dragon, for instance, is a more enduring animal tha
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An Unexpected Consequence of COVID

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Learn more about Lydalls mission to create a cleaner, quieter and safer world at https://www.lydall.com. The global pandemic led to a drop in outdoor air pollution, but it also led to an increase in indoor air pollution - and our exposure to it.LEARN MORE
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Eclipses Used To Be Terrifying

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This video is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), part of NASAs Science Activation portfolio.Because eclipses are powerful and frightening events, ancient cultures went to great lengths to understand eclipses, leading
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How Birds Almost Escalated The Cold War

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To find out how you can help Nature Canada protect at least 30% of the worlds lands and ocean by 2030, visit https://www.naturecanada.ca/?utm_source=MinuteEarth.A technology to ignore birds on radar ended up being useful to study and conserve them.LEARN M
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Will Robots Make Us More Human?

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/VsauceTwo Huge Thanks To British Pathé http://www.britishpathe.com/ *** Sources & Links *** BOOKS Working by Studs Terkel http://goo.gl/ZoAqnr Science And Technology In World History by James E. McClellan, Harold Dorn http://g
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Birds

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This summer, we partnered with Nate Senner of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Tebughna School in Beluga, Alaska to make this series of videos all about how, why, and where birds migrate. We had so much fun making these videos that we decided t
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Is Bigger Better?

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This video was made in partnership with Popsci! They recently published their "Muscles" issue, and wrote an article to go along with this video that you can read here: https://popsci.com/environment/strongest-animal-by-weightElephants might be strong, but
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How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System

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For your chance to win two seats on one of the first commercial flights to space with Virgin Galactic all while supporting a great cause enter at https://omaze.com/minuteearth.While the rest of the worlds megafauna are still foundering in the anthropocene

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