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From SciShow. SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. You might be familiar with the phrase "like water off a ducks back". But it’s not that ducks don’t get wet, it’s that they get wet, with style. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow is on TikTok!…
From “Extra Credits”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Wanna watch without ads and see exclusive content? Go to https://curiositystream.com/extracredits to get a full year of Curiosity Stream & Nebula for 26% off With Rasputin’s reputation worsening by the day, the public had a single burning question: why did the royals refuse to get rid…
From SciShow. SciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. In the insect world, there are few creatures as gentle and innocent as a butterfly. And yet, some butterflies have… an unexpected side to them. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out…
From Crash Course. The American Civil War is one of the deadliest in US History, and let’s just get this out of the way: it was about slavery. In the more than 150 years since the end of the Civil War, there have been many attempts to litigate the reasons for the war, but the…
From DW Documentary. Angela Merkel has been Germany’s Chancellor for 16 years. In that time, she has steered the country through countless international crises, frequently crossing swords with other world leaders. When Angela Merkel was sworn in as the first female Chancellor in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany on 22 November 2005,…
From SciShow. Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. Sign up now and get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. The origin story of turtles is a mystery that has perplexed many for centuries, but thanks to more recent studies, we might be one step closer to figuring out their lineage. Hosted by:…
From “Extra Credits”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Wanna watch without ads and see exclusive content? Go to https://curiositystream.com/extracredits to get a full year of Curiosity Stream & Nebula for 26% off Marcus Garvey is an interesting and divisive figure in civil rights history. Influenced by the writings of Booker T Washington, he pushed…
From The Royal Institution. Constructor theory holds promise for revolutionising the way fundamental physics is formulated and for providing essential tools to face existing technological challenges. Chiara’s book "The Science of Can and Can’t" is available now: https://geni.us/ChiaraMarletto Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/q9hCRLCLztI Physicist Chiara Marletto proposes a new way of thinking about laws of nature.…
From DW Documentary. Child labor is common in Myanmar. Impoverished families are often faced with the hard choice of exploiting or abandoning their children. Some underage workers are even adopted by their employers, leaving them exposed to physical and emotional abuse. In September 2016, it was revealed that a locally well-known tailor shop had enslaved…
From MinuteEarth. Check out the heroes who saved the ozone layer at https://futureoflife.org/future-of-life-award/ Lots of global problems seem intractable, but there’s a formula for success that we can follow. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Ozone layer: A thin layer of ozone concentrated in the Earth’s…
From TED Ed. Download a free audiobook version of “The Vanishing Half“ and support TED-Ed’s nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed — While searching for a kidney donor, Karen Keegan stumbled upon a mystery. After undergoing genetic testing, it turned out that some of her cells had a completely different set of genes from the others. And this…
From PBS Terra. How did the molecules that make our world—and us—come to be? Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/c/pbsterra?sub… ↓ More info below ↓ PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateTerra. To understand the dawn of chemistry, scientists can’t use test tubes and flasks: they need an atmospheric observatory,…
From It’s OK to be Smart. “In Our Nature” is a NEW special limited series on It’s Okay To Be Smart! We’re on PATREON! Join the community ►► https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ Seemingly distant ecosystems, even half a world apart, are connected in surprising ways. In this special limited series, Emily…
From SciShow. We’re generally taught that chromosomes determine an animal’s sex, but it is way more nuanced than that. Hosted by: Rose Bear Don’t Walk SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ———- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ———- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping…
From “Extra Credits”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Wanna watch without ads and see exclusive content? Go to https://curiositystream.com/extracredits to get a full year of Curiosity Stream & Nebula for 26% off Ariana Grande’s concert in Fortnite might not been the first of its kind, but it was the first that made Matt feel the…
From The Royal Institution. Join Ben Still as he deconstructs particle physics brick by brick on a journey through the creation of the standard model. Ben’s book: https://geni.us/X7Tggm Learn more on Ben Still’s channel: youtube.com/drbenstill Visit Ben Still’s website: http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~still/wordpress/ Ben Still is a physicist, author, and educator. As a physicist he has worked on…
From DW Documentary. The Soviet deployment in Afghanistan triggered a 10-year conflict that changed the world. This film unveils the full story of this war, which marked the beginning of the fall of the USSR. In April 1978, Afghanistan’s President Mohammed Daoud Khan was overthrown and murdered in a coup d’état led by communist rebels.…
From SciShow. In baseball, a curveball can be pretty hard for a batter to hit. And it turns out the reason why might have more to do with the batter’s eyes than the pitcher’s arm! Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ———- Support SciShow by becoming a patron…
From Crash Course. You may not realize it, but your body is like a fortress, designed to defend you from tiny foreign invaders known as pathogens. This seemingly small world is actually super diverse, and sometimes super dangerous too. That’s why in this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we’re going to get familiar with…
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From DW Documentary. Dairy cows are calculated to be profitable for only six years in industrial farming. After that, the long-suffering dairy cows get sent to the slaughterhouse. An association in Germany is working to save as many animals as possible from this fate. Matthias Obenhack runs a family farm in central Germany. But he…
From TED Ed. Explore the phenomenon and uses of chlorophyll fluorescence, a small amount of light emitted by plants during photosynthesis. — In 2009, a satellite circled Earth, scanning and sorting the wavelengths reflecting off the planet’s surface. Researchers noticed something baffling: an unexpected wavelength of unknown origin. They tried looking at Earth with only…
From SciShow. Poop can be pretty gross, but newborn poop is in a league of its own! We can learn a lot from a baby’s first poop, which forms before it’s even had its first meal. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ———- Support SciShow by becoming a…
From Crash Course. Today we’re going to talk about glaciers. These behemoth globs of compressed ice and snow moving across the land created fertile soils and physical features while also serving as frozen time capsules. They recorded both Earth’s climatic history over several million years and contain clues to its climatic future. By now we…
From UpFlip. Have you ever wanted to start a mobile detailing business, fire your boss, and start your own company and empire? That’s what Abu Waggeh did when he started his car detailing business. In this video interview, he talks about pivoting from his previous work as a construction worker to starting this amazing mobile…
From DW Documentary. The pharmaceutical industry exerts a huge amount of influence on health policy. Some companies develop highly profitable drugs with public money, while others have been found to have covered up serious side effects. The fight against Covid-19 is further fueling the greed of pharmaceutical companies. Does the industry’s influence threaten public health…
From SciShow. Unlike humans, domestic canaries don’t have the option of social distancing when one of their own is ill. But canaries may have evolved a nifty workaround for protecting their populations when disease strikes! Hosted by: Niba Audrey Nirmal SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It’s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ———-…
From “Extra Credits”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Use code EXTRACREDITS14 for up to 14 FREE MEALS across your first 5 HelloFresh boxes plus free shipping at https://bit.ly/3wbnmH1 ! Rasputin was known to the royal family but how exactly did he manage to get so close to them? There was a lot at work, and…
From DW Documentary. The attacks of September 11, 2001, changed the lives of many children and young people dramatically. But they are committed to overcoming their harrowing experiences — despite the shadow the Twin Towers cast over their lives. "Those pictures… Nothing is the way it was, but I’ve made my peace with it. I…
From SciShow. For your chance to win the Tesla Model S Plaid and support a great cause, enter at https://www.omaze.com/scishow Today we’re talking about birds — from how they are evolving in response to climate change and how one species is surprisingly healthy, genetically, despite being critically endangered. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a…
From Crash Course. Clint Smith teaches you about one of the most famous writers, orators, and advocates of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born in slavery, escaped to the North, and became one of the most influential people of his time. Douglass wrote about the experience of slavery in a way that captured…
From DW Documentary. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 sent the world into a state of shock. Yet some had been loudly and publicly warning of the dangers posed by terrorism. Ahmad Shah Massoud, an Afghan Mujahideen commander, was among them. It’s September 9, 2001, two days before the terrorist attacks on the World…
From DW Documentary. Twenty years after 9/11, clean-up workers are fighting for recognition. Jorge Roldan is one of them. Twenty years on, there are still unsung heroes of 9/11. Many of the workers who cleared up after the attack on the World Trade Center were undocumented immigrants and their contributions remain unrecognized. Jorge Roldan hopes…
From SciShow. Poop kind of stinks, but the stuff inside of poop can tell us a lot about the natural world. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It’s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ———- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ———- Huge thanks go to the…
From MinuteEarth. 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 there’s no consensus on which way time goes. PREORDER OUR FIRST BOOK (out October 12th): DTFBA (get SUPER-cool book bundles here!): https://store.dftba.com/collections/minuteearth Amazon…
From The Royal Institution. Recent and dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the body will profoundly change the experience of being human in the coming century. Dan’s book "The Secret Body" is available now: https://geni.us/I185Yg Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/SAzpyLLrEwQ We may soon be eating bespoke diets for our microbiome, taking drugs to improve our brains…
From TED Ed. Dig into the distinction between a language and a dialect, and uncover the history of standardized languages. — Outside of China, Mandarin and Cantonese are often referred to as Chinese dialects, despite being even more dissimilar than Spanish and Italian. On the other hand, speakers of Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, which are…
From PBS Terra. PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateTerra. ↓ More info below ↓ In the 1930s, the US experienced what has been called its greatest ecological disaster, when the dust bowl ravaged the midwest, eroding topsoil, destroying crops, and displacing millions. As climate change…
From SciShow. If you plant a seed from your orange, you might have to wait as long as 15 years to get a tree with fruit, which is kind of a bummer for the impatient types among us. Fortunately, there’s an age-old trick called grafting that can shorten that wait. And grafting do all kinds…
From Crash Course. So far in this series we’ve focused on molecules with tens of atoms in them, but in organic chemistry molecules can get way bigger! Polymers are molecules that contain hundreds, thousands, or even millions of identical subunits. In this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry, we’ll look at different examples of addition…
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From “LegalEagle”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Welcome back to LegalEagle. The most avian legal analysis on the internets. 🚀 Extended & ad-free versions on Nebula/CuriosityStream! https://legaleagle.link/extras 👔 Suits by Indochino! https://legaleagle.link/indochino GOT A VIDEO IDEA? TELL ME! ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Send me an email: devin@legaleagle.show MY COURSES ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Interested in LAW SCHOOL? Get my guide to…
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From “LegalEagle”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Welcome back to LegalEagle. The most avian legal analysis on the internets. 🚀 Extended & ad-free versions on Nebula/CuriosityStream! https://legaleagle.link/extras 👔 Suits by Indochino! https://legaleagle.link/indochino GOT A VIDEO IDEA? TELL ME! ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Send me an email: devin@legaleagle.show MY COURSES ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Interested in LAW SCHOOL? Get my guide to…
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From “LegalEagle”. ( YouTube / Nebula ) Welcome back to LegalEagle. The most avian legal analysis on the internets. 🚀 Extended & ad-free versions on Nebula/CuriosityStream! https://legaleagle.link/extras 👔 Suits by Indochino! https://legaleagle.link/indochino GOT A VIDEO IDEA? TELL ME! ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Send me an email: devin@legaleagle.show MY COURSES ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Interested in LAW SCHOOL? Get my guide to…
From SciShow. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It’s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ———- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ———- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey…
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From Crash Course. Infectious disease has affected the human species for as long as we’ve existed, but in that time we’ve come a long way in understanding what they are and how they spread. In this episode of Crash Course Outbreak Science, we’ll introduce some of the core concepts that will help us throughout this…
From DW Documentary. After the withdrawal of international troops, the Taliban swiftly seized control of Afghanistan. Just a few months prior, a team of journalists had the opportunity to film in a village already under Taliban control. At that time, the Islamist fundamentalist group controlled almost half of the country. They especially had a firm…
From TED Ed. Trace 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 buffalo hunting grounds in the…
From It’s OK to be Smart. Follow me to Out of Our Elements! ►► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp-FsXHVFoU We’re on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ You’re alive right now… at least I’m pretty sure you are. But you’re not TOTALLY alive. Bits of you are always breaking down, being thrown out,…
From SciShow. Scientists have been searching for the hard-to-find nests of Storm Petrels in order to protect them, but first, they’ll have to follow their nose. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It’s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ———- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ———-…
From UpFlip. Do you have an idea you want to turn into an ecommerce business? That’s what David Stankunas did when he started Beard Head, now a $1 million/year company that’s been featured on big shows like The Today Show and The Doctors. David started Beard Head in 2008 after leaving his career in corporate…
From DW Documentary. In mid-August, a major earthquake struck Haiti. Over 2000 people were killed, and 160,000 families lost their homes. In the worst-affected areas in the south, tensions are running high. Aid shipments are subject to looting. Plastic sheets are highly sought-after in the parts of Haiti devastated by the earthquake; homeless families can use them to…
From SciShow. Your genetic code is neat, but could be better! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It’s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ———- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ———- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for…
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From Crash Course. In this video, we’ll learn about the US Supreme Court decision in Scott vs Sanford, handed down in 1857. The case ultimately rejected the idea that Black people could be citizens of the United States, and this helped entrench the institution of slavery, denied a host of rights to a huge number…
From DW Documentary. Iran is the cradle of a great civilization. It’s also dry: arid land makes up close to a third of the country. In its center lies a vast tableland of rocky plateaus and desert. Yet this merciless climate has been home to humans for thousands of years. Central Iran, with its sand…
From SciShow. Researchers have been able to engineer super-strong fibers made of muscle proteins with the help of protein-assembling microbes. And some other research might eliminate the need to temper chocolate, a part of the chocolate production process that is the bane of amateur bakers everywhere. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast!…