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Making chocolate is a lot more disgusting than you think

Have you ever wondered how chocolate is made? Alright, let’s go from cacao pod to chocolate bar today on this super-intensive video. I am not going to lie, although this was a lot of fun, it was also a lot … Continue reading

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Why so many Covid-19 variants are showing up now

And what that tells us about the pandemic. Subscribe and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Like any virus, SARS-CoV-2 has been mutating constantly since the beginning of the pandemic. Until November of 2020, though, … Continue reading

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The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment

If you ran evolution all over again, would you get humans? How repeatable is #evolution? This video is sponsored by @BountyBrand. #biology #science #QPU #HygieneBeginswithBounty #BountyPartner Special thanks to Prof. Richard Lenski and team for showing me around the lab … Continue reading

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There’s No Such Thing as a Tree

Obviously, there are trees. But speaking phylogenetically, trees aren’t a thing. Some things that are trees evolved from things that are not trees and other things that are trees evolved into things that aren’t trees. Confused? This might clear things up. … Continue reading

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Hilarious Ad Shows Why You Should Always Wear a Helmet

“Svend, you can go looting and pillaging all you want, but you have to wear a helmet.” From helmet hair to looking uncool, there are a million silly reasons why you might not want to wear a helmet when you … Continue reading

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Dutch Language | Can English speakers understand it? | #1

Can English speakers understand the Dutch language? 🤓 Watch the video and play along to find out! 😁 LINKS: 🙏 Volunteer your language skills for the future videos → https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA… 🤓 Join the Ecolinguist DISCORD Server → https://discord.gg/xKBQCc3V57 🏋️‍♀️ Support … Continue reading

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The Brewer Who Secretly Revolutionized Statistics | Great Minds: William Gosset

When you have a study with a small sample size, how do you know that the results represent the broader population? Well, thanks to a brewer who needed to assess beer quality in the early 1900s, we now have a … Continue reading

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Are We Automating Racism?

Many of us assume that tech is neutral, and we have turned to tech as a way to root out racism, sexism, or other “isms” plaguing human decision-making. But as data-driven systems become a bigger and bigger part of our … Continue reading

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You are a network | Aeon

Kathleen Wallace is professor of philosophy at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She works on ethics and metaphysics of personal identity and is the author of The Network Self: Relation, Process, and Personal Identity (2019). She lives in New York City. … Continue reading

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99% Of People Don’t Know This Math Secret

This little trick makes math calculations much easier. Sources/references (March 2019) https://twitter.com/stephens_ben/stat… https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/hea… https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-n… http://www.ravimohanmishra.com/2014/0… Updated reference June 2021 Pink Pencil Math did a video on TikTok which has over 18 million views. Definitely watch it! https://www.popsugar.com/smart-living… https://www.tiktok.com/@pinkpencilmat…

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