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How your emotions change the shape of your heart | Sandeep Jauhar

  “A record of our emotional life is written on our hearts,” says cardiologist and author Sandeep Jauhar. In a stunning talk, he explores the mysterious ways our emotions impact the health of our hearts — causing them to change … Continue reading

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Why the Weird are Destined to Change the World | George Monbiot Extinction Rebellion speech

“It’s no coincidence that the person who’s done more than anyone to change the entire global conversation on climate breakdown has Aspergers”

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What It’s Like To See 100 Million Colors

SUBSCRIBE Concetta Antico is an artist with a superhuman power: she can see up to 100 million colors, a hundred times more than the average human. She is a tetrachromat: a person with four (instead of three) photoceptors in their … Continue reading

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This Is How Birds See The World As Compared To Humans And It’s Pretty Amazing

For many years, people were in the dark about how other animals see. Thankfully, recent scientific researches have revealed an amazing world of vision diversity across the animal kingdoms. For example, a dragonfly’s brain works so fast that it sees … Continue reading

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Pete the fern takes world’s first plant-powered selfies | The Canary

Pete the fern has taken the world’s first plant-powered selfies, in a scientific trial that could revolutionise conservation in the wild, scientists have said. The team at London Zoo has hailed the trial – which aims to develop a way … Continue reading

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Some corals ‘killed’ by climate change are now returning to life | New Scientist

Warm water can leave corals looking dead – but in some cases polyps still survive deep in the coral skeleton and in time they can return the coral to life More: Some corals ‘killed’ by climate change are now returning … Continue reading

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Killing Time – Animation Short Film 2019 – GOBELINS

GOBELINS 325K subscribers SUBSCRIBE Loukoum en a marre du Temps et décide de le confronter pour se libérer de son joug. Mais peut-on vraiment se débarrasser du Temps? Loukoum can’t stand the passage of Time anymore. She decides to go … Continue reading

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How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit | Sam Van Aken

Artist Sam Van Aken shares the breathtaking work behind the “Tree of 40 Fruit,” an ongoing series of hybridized fruit trees that grow 40 different varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines and cherries — all on the same tree. What … Continue reading

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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, adopted in March 2015, was the first of four agreements approved by the international community in 2015 with the overall aim of making development more sustainable … Continue reading

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The New Alchemists: could the past hold the key to sustainable living?

It’s 50 years since the New Alchemy Institute created its ‘living machine’ – a research project of organic farming, renewable energy and sustainable architecture. Did these eco pioneers design a blueprint for our future? n 1982, Richard Buckminster Fuller visited the New Alchemy … Continue reading

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