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Why Does Your Skin Look Green?
The beard appears as dots of color when it first begins growing back because each hair is still tiny and short. When the stubble has just begun to sprout, the young facial hair emerges as small black or brown dots on fair skin. Seen from...
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Why Do You See Colorful Rainbow Patches On A Wet Road?
The appearance of patches of different colors on roads on a rainy day is due to a combination of oil, water, and light rays. When it rains, the oil on the road comes in contact with water, and the light rays bounce off the surface of the...
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Circadian Rhythms: Why Teens Are Tired in School
When children become teenagers, hormonal changes shift their circadian rhythm—they get tired later. Since schools typically don't adapt to their new natural sleep cycle, they often get less sleep during weekdays, affecting their memory...
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Rare Transit of Venus Draws Crowds to Royal Observatory
Witness the rare and historic transit of Venus at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, where hundreds gathered to observe this celestial spectacle. This event, occurring for the first time since 1882, offers scientists a unique...
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Critical Assessment of Emotional Intelligence: The Cases For and Against
Emotional Intelligence is an appealing model with a lot of ‘face validity’. That is, subjectively people see it as covering the concept it purports to measure. However, there is also a lot of academic criticism of the concept. So, in...
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Revolutionizing Communication: Bone Conduction Technology and Future Phone Innovations
Multimedia Laboratories, a research center for NTT Docomo in Japan, has developed a prototype phone called Finger Whisper that uses bone conduction technology to transmit sound from phones into the human bones via vibrations. This...
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Leaving an Impression
Five experts describe how their attitudes and approaches to research were strongly influenced by the insights or attitudes of others. Featured are: Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), Artur Ekert (University of Oxford &...
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Midnight Sun: Why Sun Never Sets in Alaska for Months?
The reason the sun does not set in Alaska for more than two months is because of Earth’s axial tilt. The axial tilt causes the seasons and determines when places like Alaska are exposed to the sun. When the Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is...
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The 10 Stages of Genocide
The 10 stages of genocide have been observed and described by Dr Gregory Stanton as a framework to understand how crimes against humanity happen. The framework is supposed to help us spot early warning signs and potentially prevent a...
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The Evolution of Bridge Construction
From the earliest days we ve been building bridges to make it easier to cross over water, other roads or treacherous terrain. Bridges have evolved from stone constructions to modern monoliths of concrete and steel.
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The Mere Exposure Effect: The Science Behind Ads
Some people think they are immune to ads. If you are one of them, you might not have heard of the mere exposure effect— a psychological phenomenon by which we tend to like things the more we are exposed to them. Beware, it takes just...
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Egg Corns: Uncovering Linguistic Mishearings and Language Evolution
This video explores the linguistic phenomenon of egg corns, which are misheard versions of terms that have become popularized. The term "eggcorn" was coined by linguists to describe these quirky mishearings, which often make their own...
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Lesson 68 - More Things That Look Like Letters (Levels 3-5)
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Light Pillars: What Are Those Mysterious Light Beams From The Sky?
Light pillars are optical phenomena that occur in extremely cold atmospheres, when flat ice crystals form close to the ground. They reflect natural and artificial light in columns that extend through the sky. This captivating spectacle...
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The Peak-End Rule: 2 Things We Actually Remember
People tend to judge and remember experiences based on how they felt at the peak and at the end of it. This psychological phenomenon is known as the peak-end-rule. The model was first proposed by Barbara Fredrickson and Daniel Kahneman...
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Defining What You're Looking For
Award-winning violinmaker and acoustical researcher Joseph Curtin describes many intriguing aspects of the age-old question of whether or not a Stradivarius violin is fundamentally different from other violins.
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Paying Attention to Plucked Strings
Nobel Laureate in Physics David Politzer (Caltech) shows how simply paying attention to plucked strings on a banjo can lead to deep insights about how the world works.
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The Benefit of Statistics
Award-winning violinmaker and acoustician Joseph Curtin describes the importance of using double-blind tests to remove subjective biases.
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Distracted by Language
Particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study, describes how we must make sure that we don't distract ourselves by the language that we use to describe the physical world, and must instead simply focus on precisely...
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Wrestling with Quantum Theory
Nobel Laureate Anthony Leggett (Illinois) highlights some of the difficulties with quantum mechanics.
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Lesson 68 - More Things That Look Like Letters (Levels 3-5)
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Link of the Day #15 - Sir Linkalot (#Homeschooling, #Revision, #Learning)
You can forget Lennon, McCartney and Sheeran when it comes to catchy tunes as this wins, hands down!
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Why Do Space Photos Look Like There Are No Stars?
Although stars are visible in space, pictures of celestial bodies taken from satellites by astronauts do not show any stars in the background. This is because the stars are very far away and, therefore, appear incredibly dim in contrast...
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Why Do Wheels Appear to Spin Backwards (at High Speeds)?
At high speeds, wheels may appear to be turning backwards, creating an optical illusion known as the Wagon wheel effect. This happens because our brains fill in gaps between images to create the illusion of continuous movement. As a...