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Why Are Adults Bad At New Languages?
Learning a new language as an adult is harder than doing so as a child because adults usually aren’t as invested and often use the wrong strategies.
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Are Plastics Too Strong?
The same chemistry that makes plastic tough, light and flexible also makes it nearly impossible to get rid of, because it’s hard to break those resilient chemical bonds.
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Climate Change - The View From MinuteEarth - #OursToLose
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some keywords/phrases to get your googling started: greenhouse gases, climate change, radiative forcing,
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The Problem With Concrete
Concrete is responsible for 8% of humanity’s carbon emissions because making its key ingredient - cement - chemically releases CO2, and because we burn fossil fuels to make it happen. ___________________________________________ To learn...
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Where Did Earth's Water Come From?
Earth didn't have water when it formed, but it does now! How did it get wet?
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El lugar más caliente de la Tierra
Este video es una traducción de "The Hottest Place on Earth" -------------------- MinutoDeLaTierra proporciona una visión energética y entretenida de las tendencias en el medio ambiente terrestre -- ¡en sólo unos pocos minutos!...
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MinuteEarth Explains: Poop
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we dive into one of our favorite topics, well at least our #2: poop.
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The Most Common Allergy In The World
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 threat.
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How Cats Became our Feline Overlords (ft. It's Okay To Be Smart)
Check out how cats became our favorite little murder machines. Buy the CAT CAT T-shirt here: https://store.dftba.com/products/cat-cat-shirt To learn how dogs and humans got together, watch the companion video over at It's OK To Be Smart:...
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Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods
Not all hardwood trees have hard wood and softwoods soft wood, because these terms denote their taxonomic ancestry, not the wood's actual hardness.
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How Do Greenhouse Gases Actually Work?
Thanks to Kurz Gesagt for illustrating this video! http://www.youtube.com/kurzgesagt And for composing the music!: https://soundcloud.com/epicmountain/minute-earth Thanks also to our Patreon patrons: - AshrafDude - Nasser Hamed Alminji -...
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A Disease's Guide to World Domination
There's something surprising that helps determine how damaging a disease is: distance. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: Direct transmission: occurs when a pathogen is...
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You Have More Bones Than You Think
Because the ossification process can differ so much from human to human, we have a wide range of potential bone numbers. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: Cartilage: The...
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Why You Can't Build A Clone Army... (Yet)
Because of the way genetic reprogramming works, it’s hard to make one clone based on an adult cell, and it’s almost impossible to make a second-generation one.
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Is There A Better Way To Power Airplanes?
It’s hard to replace jet fuel because the alternatives aren’t energetic enough, are too dangerous, or aren’t yet being made at scale.
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How Chaos Makes Your Fingerprints Unique
Because of the chaotic way fingerprints develop and the multiplying effect of compound probability, it's basically impossible for any two fingers to have matching prints. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start...
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How to Turn Cancer Against Itself
This video was made in partnership with the Swiss National Science Foundation. To see more videos about the importance of basic research, go to https://www.youtube.com/SNSFinfo ↓↓↓ Or watch the THREE OTHER VIDEOS we made with SNSF↓↓↓...
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The Super Secrets of Sewage
In 2020, many cities started monitoring wastewater for viruses, and there are a lot of non-virus reasons to keep doing it.
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Why Are There Penguins At The Equator?
When nutrients from the ocean depths reach the sunlit surface (like in the Galapagos), life is more productive. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these keywords: Net Primary Production...
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Would You Drink Water Made From Sewage?
FYI: We try to leave jargon out of our videos, but if you want to learn more about this topic, here are some handy keywords to get your googling started: - Disgust: A feeling of revulsion at something unpleasant - Emotion: A mental state...