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In 1995, 14 wolves were released in Yellowstone National Park,,,

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The tiny COVID mistake with deadly implications | Katie Randall | TEDxKC

Dr. Katie Randall was a graduate student in medical rhetoric when COVID-19 changed the world. Her talk describes how she discovered the origins of a fundamental mistake in public health officials’ understanding of the virus, and why we mishandled our … Continue reading →

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What Streets Do You Want? Fixing Urban Planning in Paris and Barcelona

Urban heat, air pollution, road safety: All cities face the same challenges, just the solutions are different. Paris (15-Minute City) Barcelona (Superblocks), Groningen (Quality of Life Program) feature in this DW documentary. Three European cities with unique histories and common … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Waste: What Do We Do With It?

[…] How much nuclear waste is there, how dangerous is it, what can we do with it? Today we look into nuclear waste disposal and nuclear waste recycling. The website that lets you calculate the radiation dose from uranium is … Continue reading →

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The Insane Scale of Europe’s New Mega-Tunnel

Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany. For more by The B1M subscribe now – https://bit.ly/the-b1m Full story here – https://theb1m.com/video/building-the… Additional footage courtesy of Femern A/S, TV2 ØST, NDR, DW, Dissing+Weitling, Crossrail, BBT Clips, Microsoft Flight Simulator and … Continue reading →

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Why does your Microwave waste half its Power?

Clarification: By saying half the energy is wasted, I only meant that it was available but unused. In other words, the device doesn’t take full advantage of what the wall is providing. It only uses 40-50% of the provided potential. … Continue reading →

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Evolution of the Giant Flightless Birds

The ratites or palaeognaths, animals like Emus, Ostriches and Cassowaries are incredibly interesting animals, being some of the largest birds that have ever existed and possessing many primitive looking features that give them a very unique look. However, they also … Continue reading →

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On the advantages of believing that nothing is true | Aeon Essays

Alethic nihilism is the theory that nothing is true. There is much to gain by taking this radical idea seriously Truth is a topic philosophers have spent centuries considering. We have asked questions such as: what is the content of … Continue reading →

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JWST’s successor: The Carl Sagan Observatory – a 12 METRE optical telescope searching for exo-Earth

Big thank you to Matt Mountain (STSci, AURA) who recently gave a lecture in Oxford on his experience leading the planning and development of JWST and who touched on the Carl Sagan observatory in his talk. #jwst #alienlife #carlsagan Hammel … Continue reading →

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MEGACITIES: Reality or Fiction? [Architecture in Sci-Fi]

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From sheep to sea – an ode to the iconic sweater that warms Cornish sailors | Aeon Videos

It all begins with the sheep who wears the fleece: a seafaring ode to the sweater that’s warmed Cornish sailors for centuries Famed for its indigo shade of the ocean and its place-specific knit pattern, the iconic sweater known as … Continue reading →

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How is Europe tackling the climate crisis? | DW Documentary

The climate emergency and shrinking biodiversity have taught us that we need to change our relationship with nature. People across Europe are looking to find to a new balance with nature in their lives. Sitting back and doing nothing is, … Continue reading →

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