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  Making Soap DIY to combat COVID19 (Easy Recipe)

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  Share This Video: https://youtu.be/fGz0pB66omEIn our last video, we showed you how to make hand sanitizer and while this might work because you have those ingredients in your house as it stands many stores are totally out of isopropyl alcohol, the active

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  Why Can’t You Buy *Fresh* Olives?

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  Olives are a strange food: a fruit that you can’t buy fresh, just swimming in salty brine. Why? They contain a bitter chemical called oleuropein. This week on Reactions, we’re talking about the science of how we can eat this unique stone fruit. Subscribe!

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  What causes dandruff, and how do you get rid of it? - Thomas L. Dawson

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  Explore the head-scratching problem of dandruff, and find out why it happens, and how it can be treated.--On top of our heads, there is a type of yeast that lives and dines on all of our scalps. Feasting constantly, its in paradise. And in about half of t

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  Can you solve the demon dance party riddle? - Edwin Meyer

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  The 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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  These squids can fly... no, really - Robert Siddall

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  Dive into the incredible flying capabilities of squids, and how they use flight as a survival tactic.--In 1947, explorers noticed a strange phenomenon while crossing the Pacific Ocean. Somehow, small squid known to live deep beneath the waves kept appeari

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  A brief history of divorce - Rod Phillips

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  Dig 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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  The incredible, bendable, twistable, expandable elephant trunk - Chase LaDue & Bruce A. Schulte

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  Discover 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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  The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky

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  What 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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  Can you outsmart the apples and oranges fallacy? - Elizabeth Cox

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  Dig into the false analogy fallacy, which assumes that because two things share a characteristic, they must be alike in other respects.--Its 1997. The United States Senate has called a hearing about global warming. Some expert witnesses point out that pas

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  The spear-wielding stork who revolutionized science - Lucy Cooke

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  Explore 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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  Change Your Life One Tiny Step at a Time

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  Change Your Life One Tiny Step at a TimeGet your Habit Journal here: https://shop-us.kurzgesagt.org/collections/habitSources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-change/If you are like most people, there is a gap between the person you

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  The Last Human A Glimpse Into The Far Future

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  Because of the potential size of the future, the most important thing about our actions today might be their impact on future generations. This simple-sounding idea has some surprising moral implications: https://80000hours.org/kurzgesagt-last-humanSource

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