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3 Ways Of Seeing Invisible Air Flow

In this lab, they use different flow visualization techniques to help detect contraband, residues, and develop trace particle detection methods. Part of this video was sponsored by Caseta by Lutron. Find out more at https://casetawireless.com/veritasium […]

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The true history of the IPA | The Craft Beer Channel

The history of India Pale Ale is fraught with cliches, inaccuracies and pure invention – so we met with award-winning author and beer historian Martyn Cornell to get to the bottom of it then taste through the evolution it has … Continue reading →

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ANCIENT DISEASE: How Healthy Were the Ancient Romans (audio fix)

How healthy, or rather, how unhealthy, were ancient people? The Roman Empire was famed for its plumbing systems and aqueducts, but what did the nutritional levels of the population look like? These are questions to which new methods, drawn from … Continue reading →

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Vandals Destroy 30,000-Year-Old Indigenous Rock Art in Australia | Hyperallergic

Elaine Velie December 21, 2022 Murrawijinie Cave on the Nullarbor Plain (image via Wikimedia Commons) The drawings, which experts say are irrecoverable, are of particular significance to the Mirning People.   In Southern Australia, vandals forced their way into the … Continue reading →

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What If We Just…Stopped Working?

[…] Ever think about how the average person is orders of magnitude more productive than workers of the past, and yet our work week hasn’t gotten any shorter? What’s the deal? In this week’s episode we’re looking at the idea … Continue reading →

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3 ways to end a virus

Explore the three main ways viruses can be driven to extinction, and dig into the possibility of COVID-19 dying out. — Viruses are wildly successful organisms. There are about 100 million times as many virus particles on Earth as there … Continue reading →

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Inside the Mind of a Musk OX

Musk oxen are not the only charismatic creatures perfectly suited to the wind-blasted, tundra of the Alaskan Arctic. Meet Joel Berger, Wildlife Conservation Society senior scientist, Colorado State University professor – as well as expert on hoofed mammals. In addition … Continue reading →

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Historical Figures Brought To Life (Akhenaten, King Charles II, Bach, Mata Hari)

691,713 views 16 Dec 2021 #MysteryScoop #BroughtToLife #HistoricalFigures ► Historical Figures Brought To Life Using AI Technology. AI motion by Mystery Scoop ► The photos of the subjects in this video have been digitally manipulated and brought to life using … Continue reading →

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Can’t agree what wisdom means? All the more reason to seek it | Aeon Essays

Outside the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England. Photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty There are no transcendent insights that rise above human difference. Yet wisdom exists if we look in the right places   Then, one day, your best friend … Continue reading →

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Whale Songs and AI, for everyone to explore

xplore thousands of hours of humpback whale songs at https://g.co/patternradio Pattern Radio: Whale Songs is a website that lets anyone use AI to explore thousands of hours of NOAA’s underwater ocean recordings. It’s a new kind of tool that visualizes … Continue reading →

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Abrupt global ocean circulation collapse. Time to start prepping?

An abrupt collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, was the plotline for the 2004 hit movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’. Thankfully the apocalyptic scenes depicted in that film are not going to happen, but the AMOC system … Continue reading →

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The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life | Sean Carroll

What is time? What is humankind’s role in the universe? What is the meaning of life? For much of human history, these questions have been the province of religion and philosophy. What answers can science provide? In this talk, Sean … Continue reading →

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