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How do we know we’re not at the centre of the universe? 🪐 šŸ’« – BBC

Professor Brian Cox explains exactly what it means when your horoscope says “Mercury is in retrograde”, and how it lead to the discovery that we’re not at the centre of our Solar System. You can stream Brian Cox’s Adventures in … Continue reading

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Black Tulsans Work to Rebuild ā€˜Black Wall Street’ Decades After Massacre | WSJ

The Tulsa Massacre of 1921 destroyed hundreds of Black-owned businesses and homes in the city’s Greenwood District. A century later, entrepreneurs and activists are working to preserve ā€œBlack Wall Street’sā€ memory while pushing to rebuild and recover what was lost. … Continue reading

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Biden to target racial wealth gap following 100 year mark of Tulsa Race Massacre

President Biden is targeting the racial wealth gap with initiatives to help communities of color. Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Compass Point Research and Trading, joins CBSN’s Tanya Rivero with the impact Mr. Biden’s plan could have on … Continue reading

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The Woman Who Recorded Everything | Answers With Joe

[…]Marion Stokes was an eccentric Philadelphia native who obsessively recorded multiple TV channels on VHS tapes for 35 years. Her archive of over 40,000 tapes have become a priceless document of a pivotal period of American history – and may … Continue reading

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China’s competition for living space | DW Documentary

More than 60 percent of China’s population of 1.4 billion currently lives in cities. Within a decade, the share of urban dwellers is expected to increase to 75 percent. Construction is booming and competition for residential land is fierce. But … Continue reading

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Meet Our Nitrogen-Breathing Bacterial Relative

[…] Oxygen is pretty great stuff, but this recently discovered organism couldn’t care less about oxygen. It breathes nitrogen and may offer a window into how the types of cells in OUR bodies may have evolved billions of years ago. … Continue reading

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The Patents That Einstein Approved

A look at how Einstein’s job at the Patent Office may have influenced him. Visit http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/Tibees for your free trial today. Links to some of the Patents (3rd FAQ): https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/the-hi…%5B…%5D

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The Shape No One Thought was Possible

The shape that has its own world record but that no one thought could exist. Try Brilliant for yourself at https://brilliant.org/tibees SURFER program: https://imaginary.org/program/surfer Barth Sextic 3D printed sculpture: https://imaginary.org/hands-on/four-m… The Golden Ratio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_…%5B…%5D

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The Ancestral Human Diet | Peter Ungar | TEDxDicksonStreet

Fossil evidence suggests our distant ancestors’ diets became progressively more versatile over time and space. That variation was driven largely by environmental/climate change. So there is no single ancestral diet to which we should aspire. Peter Ungar is a distinguished … Continue reading

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Dr. Pran Yoganathan – ‘The Human Gut: A masterpiece of evolution’

Dr. Pran Yoganathan graduated in medicine from the University of Otago in New Zealand. His training in internal medicine was undertaken in the Westmead Public Hospital. His Advanced training in Gastroenterology was completed in major teaching hospitals in Sydney. Dr. … Continue reading

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