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Is There Life on Earth?

I mean… how do you really know? SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ If we lived light years from Earth, how would we know there’s life here? Let’s take a … Continue reading

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Blue balls made “cause of climate change visible” says Real World Visuals | Dezeen

Jennifer Hahn | 22 June 2021 A 2012 animation showing New York buried under a mountain of bubbles allowed people to appreciate the scale of carbon emissions, says Real World Visuals.   A 2012 animation showing New York City being … Continue reading

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Dark Fish | Kottke

Sometimes you run across an aspect of reality and it just completely blows your mind. You’ve heard of dark matter, right? Well, meet dark fish: biologists suspect that up to 95% of the world’s total fish population lives in a … Continue reading

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How quantum mechanics help birds find their way

Some birds can sense Earth’s magnetic field, using it to navigate. But precisely how they do this has long remained a mystery. Now, researchers have confirmed that a protein found in bird eyes displays a quantum mechanical phenomenon which makes … Continue reading

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Mathematics and sex | Clio Cresswell | TEDxSydney

[…] Mathematics and sex are deeply intertwined. From using mathematics to reveal patterns in our sex lives, to using sex to prime our brain for certain types of problems, to understanding them both in terms of the evolutionary roots of … Continue reading

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Organism, 1975—A Film by Hilary Harris | From the Vaults

Using time-lapse footage of New York City, the filmmaker Hilary Harris imagines the metropolis as a living organism. Traffic arteries are seen as the bloodstream circulating through the urban body; skyscrapers are the skeletal structure. Shops, railroads, bridges, beaches, and … Continue reading

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Why Brazil’s indigenous people fight for the Amazon rainforest | Nixiwaka Yawanawá | TEDxBedford

Nixiwaka Yawanawá is a member of the Yawanawá tribe — a community of indigenous people who live within the Amazon rainforest — on the Acre River Headwaters Indigenous Land. Like many other Amazonian tribes, the Yawanawá rely on the rainforest … Continue reading

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The TRUTH about JFK’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech | German Girl in America

Did President Kennedy really embarrass himself by saying “I’m a jelly doughnut” in front of 120,000 Germans when he gave his famous speech in West Berlin in 1963? Or was all of this just a huge misunderstanding? What do Germans … Continue reading

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5 Mythical Creatures That (Kinda) Actually Existed | Answers With Joe

[…] There are myths and legends of mythical creatures through out the folklore of civilizations around the world. Myths like dragons, cyclops and the kraken. But where did these myths come from? And could they have actually existed in some … Continue reading

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linguistic discrimination and the pitfall of intelligence.

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