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Ancient Ice-Making Machines Found In Persian Desert, The Yakhchāl

Ancient Desert “FREEZER” Invented Around 400 bc In Persia, The Yakhchāl […]

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MANCHESTER BUILDING BOOM #24 | Massive Changes IN Salford Greengate

Greengate is the area in Salford, just to the west across the River Irwell from Manchester’s Medieval Quarter. Astonishing transformation is taking place as new residential towers are springing up in what was a run-down former industrial area. 0:00 Introduction … Continue reading

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Cephalopods Have a Totally Wild Way of Adapting

With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s resident aliens. But researchers have discovered yet another thing that separates them from most other animals on Earth! Hosted by: Hank Green […]

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It’s a carp cafe?

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After 3 Years of Hiatus, LIGO Is Finally Back! New Era For Gravitational Waves

[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about newly begun search for gravitational waves with LIGO and several other observatories Links: https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/… https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03606 https://theconversation.com/gravitati… https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/li… https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/33813 https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158… https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10… #ligo #gravitationalwaves #universe […]

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DNA Evidence That Humans & Chimps Share A Common Ancestor: Endogenous Retroviruses

I now have a series of videos doing a deep dive into ERVs on the “Stated Casually” channel. Check it out here: • Did God put Endog… Here we explore the amazing discovery of Endogenous Retroviruses (ERVs) in our own … Continue reading

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Evolution’s Hidden Wildcard: The Single-Cell Bottleneck

#Evolution, #Darwin, #Mystery The paper this video is based on can be found here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas… The zygote is a single cell with half its DNA from the mother, and half from the father. Why is it that we gamble everything … Continue reading

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How We Made the Internet

On March 9, 1999, U.S. Vice President Al Gore, made a statement during a campaign interview that, unbeknownst to him, would soon become the subject of somewhat humorous controversy. What followed were a bunch of newspaper articles, comic strips, and … Continue reading

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Why Texas is Becoming America’s Most Powerful State

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What really matters at the end of life | BJ Miller

[…] At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it’s simply comfort, respect, love. BJ Miller is a palliative care physician who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life … Continue reading

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