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A new vision of sustainability, 700 years old | Mananui Ramsden | TEDxChristchurch

In August 2019, the I.P.C.C. issued a report saying, “Agricultural practices that include indigenous and local knowledge can contribute to overcoming the combined challenges of climate change, food security, biodiversity conservation, and combating desertification and land degradation.” This insight came … Continue reading →

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How the Republican Party went from Lincoln to Trump

It wasn’t always this way for the Republican Party. Help us make more ambitious videos by joining the Vox Video Lab. It gets you exclusive perks, like livestream Q&As with all the Vox creators, a badge that levels up over … Continue reading →

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5 Brits Take A DNA Test

We took a DNA test to find out our ancestry. Many of us have an idea of where we came from, but we wanted to see how much we really know about our family history. 23andMe’s DNA testing kit gives … Continue reading →

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Race commission report: the rights and wrongs

Raminder Kaur Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex Gill Margaret Hague Professor Emerita of Violence Against Women Studies, University of Bristol The widely contested report has caused outrage across the UK. But is it inaccurate? Confusion and … Continue reading →

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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Aliens and How the Universe Will End | Amanpour and Company

Why is the universe the way it is? How did life begin? And how might it end? Our next guest has spent his life in search of the answers. Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist, author and popular science communicator. … Continue reading →

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Population Growth. Is it out of control?

Population growth tends to invoke quite an emotional response in many people. Some say it’s the root of all the problems we will face in the future and that it is rapidly spiralling out of control. But a new report … Continue reading →

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We May Have Been Wrong About the Origin of Life

We’ve had the idea that life began in the oceans since the 1920s, when it was first put forward. This was cemented in our minds in the 1950s by the classic Miller-Urey experiment from which scientists hypothesized that the ocean-atmospheric … Continue reading →

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Scientists Find Everything In Our World Could Be Ruled By a Secret Pattern? | A Natural Code

Scientists are using Alan Turing’s theory about patterns to grasp a better understanding of nature’s hidden design; from tracking migrating birds, to conserving whale sharks across the world. » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker​ » Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.com​ » … Continue reading →

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The Bayesian Trap

I didn’t say it explicitly in the video, but in my view the Bayesian trap is interpreting events that happen repeatedly as events that happen inevitably. They may be inevitable OR they may simply be the outcome of a series … Continue reading →

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This is why we can’t have nice things

This video is about stuff: light bulbs, printers, phones and why they aren’t better. Go to https://NordVPN.com/veritasium​ and use code VERITASIUM to get a 2-year plan plus 1 additional month with a huge discount. It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 … Continue reading →

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How Humans Became (Mostly) Right-Handed

No other placental mammal that we know of prefers one side of the body so consistently, not even our closest primate relatives. But being right-handed may have deep evolutionary roots in our lineage. And yet, being a leftie does seem … Continue reading →

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These Extinct Birds Really Stretch the Definition of “Bird”

[…]From birds with no wings to giant fowl that were once mistaken for predators, here are 6 birds that who’s strange features may not be what you think of when you think of birds! Hosted by: Stefan Chin […]

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