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This Object has Infinite Surface Area, but Finite Volume

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What happens to balloon animals in liquid nitrogen? | The Kid Should See This

How can you fit a bunch of balloon animals into a small container? Add some liquid nitrogen into the mix, as demonstrated in this video by Real Physics Live, the YouTube channel for Texas A&M University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. … Continue reading

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Mami-Wata & The Mermaids in African Mythology | Swali Africa

CHRIS CAMPO March 25th 2016 HISTORY OF MERMAIDS IN AFRICA African culture has portrayed the idea of the mermaid in many ways across the continent. It has also been observed that certain features are similar across these variations; she has … Continue reading

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Over 700 Stars Mysteriously Vanished In The Last 70 Years, But Why?

[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the mystery of vanishing stars Articles/Links: Click to access 2009.10813.pdf Click to access 1911.05068.pdf https://www.seti.org/event/going-dark… http://user.it.uu.se/~kripe367/MLblin… […]

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Is there a symmetry between metacognition and mindreading? | Aeon Essays

Tokyo, 1996. Photo by Harry Gruyaert/Magnum Knowing the content of one’s own mind might seem straightforward but in fact it’s much more like mindreading other people   In 1978, David Premack and Guy Woodruff published a paper that would go … Continue reading

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Oldest Living National Park Ranger Celebrates Her 100th Birthday | My Modern Met

View this post on Instagram A post shared by National Park Service (@nationalparkservice) Happy birthday, Ranger Betty!   By Sara Barnes on September 23, 2021 Betty Reid Soskin has achieved amazing milestones in her life. One of them has been … Continue reading

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What Do Our Brains Do When We’re Dreaming?- with Mark Solms

Sigmund Freud was the first scientist to support the popular notion that dreams are meaningful. Fifty years later, the discovery of REM sleep thoroughly discredited the notion. Watch the Q&A: https://youtu.be/SgdbguclqSk Mark’s latest book “The Hidden Spring” is available now: … Continue reading

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Why Swahili is becoming Africa’s Official Language

The Remarkable Rise of Swahili in Africa. Swahili is a Bantu language, which stands out from the rest in Africa and is the most spoken and widely studied indigenous African language. Swahili’s rise, development and spread also makes it the … Continue reading

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CO2 Spike 55 Million Years Ago Had an Interesting Effect on Our Planet

[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a very important period of time on the planet 55 million years ago when a lot of CO2 was suddenly released. Links: https://climeworks.com/orca Ian … Continue reading

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Did the pandemic signal the end of the American era? | The Bottom Line

Canadian-American anthropologist Wade Davis holds a mirror up to the United States and sees a society in decline. Davis argues that the US dominated the world in the post-WWII era because Americans came out of the war with a sense … Continue reading

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