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You can slow down aging with zero weird tricks | Dr Morgan Levine

Former Yale professor Morgan Levine explains how to calculate your ‘bio age’ to live longer. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► / @bigthink Up next, Michio Kaku: How to reverse aging ► • Michio Kaku: How … How old … Continue reading

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Nobel Prize-winning scientist defines life | Paul Nurse

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► / @bigthink Up next, You can slow down aging with zero weird tricks ► • You can slow down… What is … Continue reading

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Bach’s Suite No.1

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Skeptic Check: Shroom with a View | Big Picture Science

Monday, May 15, 2023 – 09:00 Magic mushrooms – or psilocybin – may be associated with tripping hippies and Woodstock, but they are now being studied as new treatments for depression and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Is this Age of … Continue reading

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Ukrainian Artist Julia Pilipchatina Draws on the Centuries-Old Tradition of Porcelain Painting with the Future In Mind | Colossal

MAY 5, 2023 KATE MOTHES All images © Julia Pilipchatina Formally educated as a historian, Pilipchatina is fascinated by the profound connections to ancestry and culture that tableware represents. In the 7th or 8th century, Chinese artisans devised a way … Continue reading

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9 Poisonous Plants You Might Own

Plants can be beautiful, provide oxygen and improve your mental health, but some of your favorite houseplants might actually be super toxic. Join Stefan Chin for a new episode of SciShow, and learn about the potential dangers that might be … Continue reading

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Barry Underwood Illuminates Human Presence in the Landscape in Geometric Light Sculptures | Colossal

MAY 1, 2023. KATE MOTHES All images © Barry Underwood A variety of landscapes set the scene for Barry Underwood’s vivid light sculptures, illuminating sites of human interference and destruction. A variety of landscapes set the scene for Barry Underwood’s … Continue reading

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Silphium: The Miracle Plant The Romans Wiped Out

[…] Miracle contraceptive, wonder drug, aphrodisiac, the origin of the heart symbol, and hemorrhoid cure??? Tiktok, National Geographic, even FACEBOOK are all obsessed with this plant, Silphium, which grew over 2000 years ago here near Cyrene, Libya. It’s been called … Continue reading

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The fantastic anatomy of spiders – all you have to know

This video is about the fascinating and fantastic anatomy of spiders by means of a vivid 3D animation of a black widow. It is about the external structure with cephalothorax / prosoma and abdomen, chelicerae, pedipals and about the organs … Continue reading

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Where does gold come from? – David Lunney

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/where-does-… Did you know that gold is extraterrestrial? Instead of arising from our planet’s rocky crust, it was actually cooked up in space and is present on Earth because of cataclysmic stellar explosions called supernovae. CERN Scientist … Continue reading

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