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SciShow

Football Disease, Moon Base Dreams, and the Deepest Vents Ever!

12th - Higher Ed
Hank breaks the news to you about your brain on football, the reality behind the latest moon-base plan, and an epic win -- and fail -- in the animal kingdom.
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Bigfoot, Yeti: Meet Science

12th - Higher Ed
This week in SciShow News, hard science meets cryptozoology, as biologists reveal the results of their investigation into samples suspected to have come from such beasties as Sasquatch and yeti. The findings are pretty much what you'd...
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TED Talks

TED: How mobile phones helped solve two murders | Paul Lewis

12th - Higher Ed
Two murders sat unexplained and unsolved -- until reporter Paul Lewis starting talking to bystanders who had evidence on their mobile phones. Step by step, Lewis pieced together their evidence and their stories to find justice for the...
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TED Talks

TED: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news) | Bono

12th - Higher Ed
Human beings have been campaigning against inequality and poverty for 3,000 years. But this journey is accelerating. Bono "embraces his inner nerd" and shares inspiring data that shows the end of poverty is in sight … if we can harness...
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TED Talks

TED: How to step up in the face of disaster | Caitria + Morgan O'Neill

12th - Higher Ed
When a freak tornado hit their hometown, sisters Caitria and Morgan O'Neill -- just 20 and 24 at the time -- realized they had to jump in and help. What they learned is: After a natural disaster, there's only a tiny window before the...
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TED Talks

TED: How (and why) Russia hacked the uS election | Laura Galante

12th - Higher Ed
Hacking, fake news, information bubbles ... all these and more have become part of the vernacular in recent years. But as cyberspace analyst Laura Galante describes in this alarming talk, the real target of anyone looking to influence...
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SciShow

Pain-Killing Hunger and Superpowered Diabetic Fish

12th - Higher Ed
Animals that eat things are at the forefront of this week’s news, from mice with pain-killing hunger to fish with signs of diabetes.
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SciShow

The Tallest, Smallest, and Oldest Science of 2019

12th - Higher Ed
Scientific discovery often dabbles in the extreme, challenging and exceeding what we think of as "possible." And this year's discoveries were no different! We present to you three scientific discoveries made this year that set out to...
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What You Need to Know About Ebola

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News give you the facts about ebola, one of the world’s deadliest diseases that’s making a stand in West Africa.
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Breaking News: Mars Suitable for Life

12th - Higher Ed
Earlier today, mission specialists with NASA's Mars Science Laboratory announced that they have found, for the first time, evidence of an ancient environment on Mars that could have sustained life. Hank tells us the specifics in this...
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SciShow

What Will the World Look Like, 2°C Warmer?

12th - Higher Ed
A world only 2°C warmer, or 3.6°F, would be one that is much different than the world we live in today, but what does that actually look like?
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Science Superlatives of 2013

12th - Higher Ed
Hank counts down some of the science superlatives from 2013: the first, biggest, strongest and longest things that were discovered, built or otherwise described. Find out his year's superlatives. They're the best!
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SciShow

Dual-Sex Butterfly and the Risks of ... Oxygen

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News shares the latest science headlines, including a newly-found butterfly that’s half male and half female, and new insights into the association between cancer and … breathing.
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DNA and Dung Beetles

12th - Higher Ed
Chapters View all CARL LINNAEUS 1:24 20% OF KNOWN SPECIES 1:38 NOT 100 MILLION 1:51 DEEP SEA LOBSTERS 2:25 VENEZUELAN SNAIL 2:28 FISH COUNT 2:39
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SciShow

Facebook's Secret Psychological Experiment

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News explains the science behind a psychological experiment performed on about seven hundred thousand Facebook users, although none of them knew that they were participating.
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TED Talks

TED: A call to end the media coverage mass shooters want | Tom Teves

12th - Higher Ed
On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting in a movie theater of Aurora, Colorado left the town, and its nation, reeling. To many -- including Tom Teves, who lost his son in the tragedy -- the news coverage that followed focused on all the wrong...
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SciShow

Meet Blue Moon: Blue Origin's Lunar Lander SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Blue Origin announced a a new lunar lander, Blue Moon, that will be delivering supplies, and eventually astronauts to the lunar surface within the next 5 years, and robots like Chang’e-4 are giving us an early glimpse at what we might...
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SciShow

What Do We Know About T Cells and COVID-19 Immunity? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
There's another theory about the Covid-19 pandemic going around, and while it is pretty cool, it's not exactly the solution some are suggesting it might be.
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Top 10 New Species and the First Fusion Reactor

12th - Higher Ed
Hank shares the week in science news, including the top 10 new species discovered in 2014, and the start of construction of the first fusion reactor. It's gonna be big!
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SciShow

Secrets of the Vampire Squid

12th - Higher Ed
This week in SciShow News, Hank tells us about some weird science, including a squid that's not a squid, animals that can talk, and new insights into how you can mess up your body much faster and for much longer than you ever thought...
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How To Make a Mutant Flu

12th - Higher Ed
Hank dishes out updates on the mutant flu virus and the James Webb Space Telescope, and gives us some new bits about new exoplanets, secret space planes, and a study that shows that music evolves according to Darwin's rules.
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A Violent Origin Story for Tiny Space Diamonds | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists may have discovered some clues to two vastly different anomalies. Microscopic diamonds inside of meteors, and why ancient black holes are so massive.
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TED Talks

TED: If a story moves you, act on it | Sisonke Msimang

12th - Higher Ed
Stories are necessary, but they're not as magical as they seem, says writer Sisonke Msimang. In this funny and thoughtful talk, Msimang questions our emphasis on storytelling and spotlights the decline of facts. During a critical time...
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SciShow

Huge Sperm and Giant Tentacles: Relax, It's Marine Biology

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow shares the latest developments in science, this week including new insights into the evolution of giant sperm, and the discovery of a whole new order of animal.