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Ghana plants 5 million trees in a single day to combat deforestation | The Hindu

The expansion of farming, and to a lesser degree mining and logging, has led to high levels of deforestation in Ghana, environmentalists say. Ghana aimed to plant at least 5 million trees in a single day on Friday to help … Continue reading

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If We Plant 1 TRILLION Trees Can We Stop Climate Change ?

Can trees really save us from climate change? For eons, nature has relied on photosynthesis as a big way to keep carbon dioxide levels from getting out of control. But as we have put more carbon into the air, we’ve … Continue reading

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Diver Nearly Swallowed by Humpback Whale Gets Spat Out Alive

“Oh, my God, I’m in a whale’s mouth. I’m in a whale’s mouth, and he’s trying to swallow me.” Commercial lobster diver Michael Packard was nearly swallowed by a humpback whale while searching for lobsters off the coast of Massachusetts. … Continue reading

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The Secret Language of Trees

[…] Credits: Narrator: Stephanie Sammann Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1) Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations) Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/) Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net) Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel) Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realenginee…) Imagery courtesy of Getty Images References: [1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/… … Continue reading

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You are a network | Aeon

Kathleen Wallace is professor of philosophy at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She works on ethics and metaphysics of personal identity and is the author of The Network Self: Relation, Process, and Personal Identity (2019). She lives in New York City. … Continue reading

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The Entire Human Genome Finally Sequenced! Here’s What This Means

[…] Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the revelation in regards to human genome project T2T: https://github.com/marbl/CHM13#telome… Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11… […]

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Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky – Moscow Nights (Подмосковные вечера) (2013)

“Moscow Nights” (Russian: Подмосковные вечера, tr. Podmoskovnie vechera) is a Russian song, one of those best known outside its homeland. The song was originally created as “Leningradskie Vechera” (“Leningrad Nights”) by composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Matusovsky in 1955 … Continue reading

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This Is Your Brain on Language

You have a lot of choices if you’re looking to learn a new language, from Spanish to coding, or even whistling! And there are some broad similarities and patterns in the ways our brains process these different forms of communication. … Continue reading

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Why You Always Have Room for Dessert, and Other Common Experiences Explained | Compilation

Did you know we have a whole channel dedicated to the human mind, people and interactions between people? It’s called SciShow Psych! And here is a compilation of five videos from that channel explaining some common experiences you may have … Continue reading

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Essential Functions of Sleep: Learning, Memory and Changing Your Mind – with Gina Poe

Sleep is vital to our wellbeing. The stages of deep and dreamless slow wave sleep and vivid dreaming REM sleep both have important traits. They each have their role to play in cleaning, up, putting away, and integrating new items … Continue reading

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