MinuteEarth
From the creators of the popular science show with millions of YouTube subscribers comes the MinuteEarth podcast. Every episode dives deep into a science question you might not even know you had, but once you hear the answer, you’ll want to share it with everyone you know. The team of scientists digs into the research and breaks it down into a short, entertaining explanation jam-packed with science facts and terrible puns. They tell incredible stories like how monkeys crossed the Atlantic ocean on natural rafts and why it gets hotter the deeper you dig underground.
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The most powerful volcanoes in the world - supervolcanoes, which can alter the entire earth’s climate with one eruption - require three things to get really explosive.
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If you don’t like broccoli, you might have a good excuse.
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Capsaicin and Menthol trick our brains
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Caribbean hermit crabs are always growing
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Trash vs. Garbage
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Frozen food
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Why Don't Blue Whales Eat Fish?
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Jarman-Bell Principle: As herbivore species get bigger in size, they tend to eat less nutritious food, but more of it, thanks to increased gut efficiency.
Klieber’s Law: As an animal gets bigger, it needs less energy per unit mass. (Specifically, an animal's basal metabolic rate scales to the 3/4 power of the animal's
Suburbs vs Cities
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Why Bees Mostly Ignore The Waggle Dance
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Choreography: The sequence of steps and movements in a dance or other performance.
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Fetus Poop
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Biological Control
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There’s Really Only One Way To Die
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Adenosine triphosphate (ATP): the principal molecule for storing and transferring energy in cells.
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yellow crazy ants
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Invasive species
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Could This Thing *Really* Fly?
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Pterosaurs: are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria and are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight.
Quetzalcoatlus: is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur. Quetzalcoatlus northropi has gained fame as a candidate for the largest flying animal ever discovered.
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Hottest Place
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When Does It Make Sense To Kill Your Sibling?
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Siblicide: the killing of a sibling or siblings, as a behavior pattern typical in various animal groups.
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Cold Sap
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Frozen Trees
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40 Years Without A New Antibiotic. Why?
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Antibiotics: a medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms.
Petri dish: a shallow, circular, transparent dish with a flat lid, used for the culture of microorganisms.
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Before rainforests
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Rainforests
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Why Hives Turn Against Their Queens
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Haplodiploidy: is a sex-determination system in which males develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid.
Sex determination in honeybees: In honeybees, the drones (males) are entirely derived from the queen, their mother. The diploid queen has 32 chromosomes a
Garbage again
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Garbage
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Why Haven't We Domesticated Monkeys?
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Domestication: The long term, multi-generational process of selectively breeding animals to modify their traits to make them more useful to humans.
Zoonosis: An infection spread between animals and humans.
Domestication, monkeys, capuchin, primate, zoonosis, pet monkey.
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Deep Sea Fish
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Metal Hoarders
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There’s no such thing as a fake feather
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Feather: the light, flat, and waterproof structure on a bird's body, essential for flight, insulation, and waterproofing.
Keratin: a tough, fibrous protein that is a key structural component of hair, nails, feathers, horns, and the outer layer of skin.
Plumage: the entire set of feathers covering a bird, including t
Metal Hoarders
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Metal Plants
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Why is it always males that get eaten during sex?
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Sexual cannibalism: the practice of consuming a mate directly before, during, or after mating
Aggressive spillover: the idea that aggression that's favored for early in life can be maladaptive in a mating situation
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Turbines
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Dog Breeds
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ALL THE CATS, EXPLAINED
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Nefarious Plants
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Plant Gossip
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Why Don't Our Bones Keep Growing Forever?
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Cartilage: firm, whitish, flexible connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It is more widespread in the infant skeleton, being replaced by bone during growth.
Estrogen: any of a group of steroid hor
Teamwork
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Plant Injury
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Do Mushrooms Benefit from Being Hallucinogenic?
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Psilocybin: a hallucinogenic alkaloid, found in some toadstools.
Psychedelic: relating to or denoting drugs (especially LSD) that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness.
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Weight Dispute
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Tallest Organism
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Three Specific Ways AI Could Kill Us All
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Superintelligence: Any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest.
Misaligned AI: Artificial intelligence systems whose goals, behaviors, or outcomes do not match human intentions or ethical principles.
AI Value Alignment: The process of designing and deve
Immortal Jellyfish
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Telomeres
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How Deep Can Caves Get?
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Karst: landscape underlain by limestone which has been eroded by dissolution, producing ridges, towers, fissures, sinkholes and other characteristic landforms.
Solutional cave: a cave usually formed in a soluble rock like limestone
Water table: the upper surface of the saturated zone underground, where all the pores
Scavenging Hyenas
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Hyena Families
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Why Grass Grows Better Under Trampolines
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Agrivoltaics: the process of agricultural production (such as growing crops and/or raising livestock) underneath or adjacent to solar panels
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Hyena Poop
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Young Earth
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What Happens When Scientists Work With Unexpected Experts
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Core Rope Memory: a type of read-only memory (ROM) that was used in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC).
Transdisciplinary: an approach that integrates knowledge and perspectives from various disciplines and sectors, including non-academic stakeholders, to address complex real-world problems.
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You've Been Misled About The Water Cycle
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Aquifer: a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
Confined aquifer: an aquifer below the land surface that is saturated with water. Layers of impermeable material are both above and below the aquifer.
Freshwater: naturally occurring water that is not salty, and is suitable for consumption
What I Learned on Monkey Island
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Excess mortality: deaths that occur above and beyond what would have been expected in the absence of the disaster, extending beyond the immediate impact of the event itself.
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Bats and Viruses
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Sugar Dust
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ALL THE DOGS, EXPLAINED
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Why Coyotes Are IMPOSSIBLE To Exterminate
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Pseudopregnancy: the development of signs of pregnancy without the presence of an implanted embryo or fetus.
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The Problem with Antivenom
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Envenomation: The process by which venom is injected by a venomous animal.
Antivenom: Purified antibodies against specific venom components.
Tropical zone: The area of the Earth between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Toxicofera: The clade of snakes and lizards that first evolved venom more tha
TNT vs Dynamite
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The Norway rat
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This Video Took Us 8 Years To Make
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Species concept: A methodology for determining whether two organisms are members of the same species.
Speciation: The evolutionary process by which new species arise.
Polyploid speciation: Speciation that occurs due to a change in the number of chromosomes.
Allopatric speciation: Speciation that occurs due to geo
When Evolution Glitches Out
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Evolutionary trap: a situation where an organism, due to a change in its environment (often human-induced), makes a decision that was once adaptive but now leads to a maladaptive outcome, even though better alternatives exist.
Stimulus: a detectable change in an organism's internal or external environment that triggers
Why The Frequency Illusion Is Everywhere Now
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Frequency Illusion: a cognitive bias where a recently learned or noticed phenomenon seems to appear more frequently than it actually does.
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Bulbasaur’s Feet
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Opportunistic Researchers
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Another Ancestor Paradox
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Identical ancestors point: the most recent point in a population's past where each individual alive then is either the ancestor of every individual alive now or has no currently living descendants.
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Which Planet Has The Strongest Quakes?
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Cryovolcano: a type of volcano that erupts gases and volatile material such as liquid water, ammonia, and hydrocarbons.
Helioseismology: the study of the Sun's interior structure and dynamics by analyzing the propagation of sound waves (or pressure waves) and oscillations on its surface.
Ring Seismology: a field t
The Science Of Slipperiness
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Surface tension: tendency of fluid surfaces to shrink into the minimum surface area possible
Surfactants: chemical compounds that decrease the surface tension or interfacial tension between two liquids, a liquid and a gas, or a liquid and a solid
Amphiphilic: having both hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts
Hydrophi
Pollen Is Not Plant Sperm (It’s MUCH Weirder)
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Alternation of generations: a life cycle in plants where an organism alternates between two distinct multicellular stages.
Gametophyte: the gamete-producing and usually haploid phase, producing the zygote from which the sporophyte arises. It is the dominant form in bryophytes.
Pollination: the transfer of pollen to
Your Favorite YouTube Channels Might Not Survive This
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Could Pikachu exist in real life?
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Could Charmander exist in real life?
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How do fish get into isolated mountain lakes?
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Aerial stocking: The practice of releasing hatchery fish into a natural body of water from airplanes.
Panspermia: The theory that life on Earth may have come from other parts of the universe.
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The Ancestor Paradox
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Genealogy: a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor.
Genetic ancestor: a person from whom an individual is biologically descended
Genetic ancestry: the genetic origin of a person's population, and the specific lines of descent through which they inherited DNA from their ancestors.
Pedigree: the reco
inside of your body is REALLY LOUD
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Otoacoustic emissions: sounds given off by the inner ear when responding to a sound
Ear rumbling: a dull sound that occurs when the tensor tympani muscle in the middle ear contracts
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Are Scientists Going Extinct?
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AI: the general ability of computers to emulate human thought and perform tasks in real-world environments
Machine learning: a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows systems to learn and improve from data without being explicitly programmed
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Why Don’t All Rivers Make Canyons?
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Canyon: a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it.
River equilibrium: a state in which a river's water flow and sediment transport are balanced.
River incision: a natural process where a river cuts downward into its bed, deepening the channel
Tectonic uplift: the geological process that occurs w
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