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Bald Vultures

08 Feb 2025

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Why Some Molecules Have Evil Twins

07 Feb 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Enantiomers: Molecules that are mirror images of each other. Chirality: A g...

How Cats Became our Feline Overlords (ft. It's Okay To Be Smart)

06 Feb 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Puma: The big cat with the largest home range. Felix silvestris: The wildca...

What Makes A Dinosaur?

05 Feb 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Systema Naturae: A 1735 book by Carl Linnaeus that outlined his hierarchical...

Why Is A Group Of Crows Called A “Murder”?

04 Feb 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Collective Noun: A noun that denotes a group of individuals. Terms of Vener...

Ambergris: Why Perfume Makers Love Constipated Whales

03 Feb 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Sperm Whale: (Physeter macrocephalus) The largest toothed-whale, found in oc...

Oxbow Lake

02 Feb 2025

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Square Cube

01 Feb 2025

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Why Are Snakes So Creepy?

31 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Ophidiophobia: The abnormal fear of snakes Lateral Undulation: Waves of lat...

Why Did T Rex Have Such Tiny Arms?

30 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Evolutionary Mechanisms: Forces that change the frequency of genes in popula...

Why Is Poop Brown And Pee Yellow?

29 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Red blood cells (RBCs), also called erythrocytes, are the most common type o...

Should We Grow Human Organs In Pigs?

28 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Organ transplantation - surgically transferring an organ from one person int...

Why Don't Americans Eat Reindeer?

27 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Reindeer - the smaller, (semi-)domesticated version/subspecies of reinde...

Cannibal Hamsters

26 Jan 2025

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Air Conditioners

25 Jan 2025

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How These Sea Shells Know the Weather in Greenland

24 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Foraminifera: a class of single-celled marine organisms – protists, not ...

How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly

23 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Malaria - a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transm...

Why Only Some Monkeys Have Awesome Tails

22 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Prehensile Tail: An animal tail that can grasp or hold objects. A wide ran...

Why Are There So Many Tigers In Texas?

21 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Crypsis: An animal’s ability to avoid detection by other animals. Tigers...

Why Do Animals Eat Their Babies?

20 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Filial cannibalism: is a form of infanticide that occurs when an adult indi...

Arctic Colors

19 Jan 2025

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Coyotes are very closely related to wolves and dogs

18 Jan 2025

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Why Biodiversity Is Good For The Economy

17 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Biodiversity - the variety of genes, species, and ecosystems Conservation...

How Different Are Different Types of Dogs?

16 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Breed group: A grouping of dog breeds based on their historical jobs. Do...

Which Parts Of The Brain Do What?

15 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Brain lesion: Damage to the brain caused by disease or injury. Broca’s ...

The Faint Young Sun Paradox!

14 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Abiogenesis – the process of life arising from non-living matter, such a...

How To (Literally) Save Earth

13 Jan 2025

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Let’s categorize dogs!

12 Jan 2025

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Caffeinated Bees

11 Jan 2025

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Can Math Explain How Animals Get Their Patterns?

10 Jan 2025

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Null Island: The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist

09 Jan 2025

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Which Bear Is Best?

08 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Bering land bridge: an ancient land bridge that connected Asia and North A...

Would You Drink Water Made From Sewage?

07 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Disgust: A feeling of revulsion at something unpleasant Emotion: A mental...

Orchids: The Masters Of Lying, Cheating & Stealing

06 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Mycelium Mycorrizhae: a fungus that grows in association with the roots o...

Grass is the ultimate comeback kid

05 Jan 2025

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Measuring the speed of light in your microwave

04 Jan 2025

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How We Make MinuteEarth Videos (Behind the Scenes)

03 Jan 2025

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Why We Sucked At Counting Fish (Until Now)

02 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Milky Way: Earth's home galaxy The Malaspina Expedition 2010: A research ...

The Energy Cost of a YouTube Video

01 Jan 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Data: information, typically stored on computers via electrical signals E...

Should We Contact Uncontacted Peoples?

31 Dec 2024

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Who Are Flowers Trying To Seduce?

30 Dec 2024

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The cat’s meow is only for humans

29 Dec 2024

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Ichthyology is all Greek to me!

28 Dec 2024

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How Much Does Meat Actually Cost?

27 Dec 2024

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Externality: a cost or benefit caused by an activity that affects other pa...

How Mushrooms Make It Rain

26 Dec 2024

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Males vs. Females: Sexual Conflict

25 Dec 2024

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Sexual conflict: an evolutionary mismatch between the interests of males an...

Which Fish Did We Evolve From?

24 Dec 2024

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How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been?

23 Dec 2024

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Mass Extinction Event: a significant, global decrease in the diversity of ...

The black panther isn’t a species of cat

22 Dec 2024

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Jaguars and Leopards: how to tell them apart

21 Dec 2024

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This is Not A Pine Tree

20 Dec 2024

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Why Do Rivers Have Deltas?

19 Dec 2024

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Climate Change: The View From MinuteEarth

18 Dec 2024

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Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought

17 Dec 2024

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How To Avoid The Next Atlantis

16 Dec 2024

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Let’s categorize cats!

15 Dec 2024

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Orchids are liars, impostors and moochers, but the Australian Hammer Orchid is the worst

14 Dec 2024

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The Real Reason Leaves Change Color In the Fall

13 Dec 2024

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Leaf senescence Chlorophyll Carotenoid Anthocyanin  MinuteEarth is ...

How Risky Are Vaccines?

12 Dec 2024

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How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse

11 Dec 2024

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We're Oversalting Our Food, And It's Not What You Think

10 Dec 2024

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Why Are There Dangerous Ingredients In Vaccines?

09 Dec 2024

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  adjuvant: substance added to a vaccine to enhance the body's immune respon...

“emoticon” vs. “emoji”

08 Dec 2024

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Porcupines!

07 Dec 2024

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Do We Have to Get Old and Die?

06 Dec 2024

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  negligible senescence: not showing signs of age-related progression biolo...

Is Climate Change Just A Lot Of Hot Air?

05 Dec 2024

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Extreme weather: Conditions and events that occur with low frequency, but...

Are We Really 99% Chimp?

04 Dec 2024

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Rain's Dirty Little Secret

03 Dec 2024

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Condensation: the process of water molecules glomming together into visibl...

Should We Let Pandas Go Extinct?

02 Dec 2024

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:  Keystone species: a species that plays a crucial role in the functioning o...

Bamboo is a grass

01 Dec 2024

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Life sucks if you’re a male - hyena, that is

30 Nov 2024

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Why Are There Clouds?

29 Nov 2024

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Why Don't Scavengers Get Sick?

28 Nov 2024

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Why do Some Species Thrive in Cities?

27 Nov 2024

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Tidal Locking | Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon?

26 Nov 2024

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This Is Your Brain On Extreme Weather

25 Nov 2024

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You can’t judge a bark by its cover

24 Nov 2024

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The real kids meal

23 Nov 2024

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Why Poor Places Are More Diverse

22 Nov 2024

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Plate Tectonics Explained

21 Nov 2024

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Why Do Rivers Curve?

20 Nov 2024

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How two butterflies became one

19 Nov 2024

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How to Build a Better City

18 Nov 2024

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This duck is screwed up

17 Nov 2024

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Smaller brains, better pets

16 Nov 2024

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Why Do Bats Carry So Many Diseases? (like Coronavirus)

15 Nov 2024

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Why is it Hot Underground?

14 Nov 2024

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The Secret Social Life of Plants

13 Nov 2024

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Invasion of the Yellow Crazy Ants!

12 Nov 2024

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Ocean Confetti!

11 Nov 2024

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Microbes...ughhh...right?

10 Nov 2024

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Which of these is a bee?

09 Nov 2024

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How To Date A Planet

08 Nov 2024

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Poop Transplants!

07 Nov 2024

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Are any Animals Truly Monogamous?

06 Nov 2024

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Where Did Earth's Water Come From?

05 Nov 2024

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How do Trees Survive Winter?

04 Nov 2024

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How Your Dog Can Protect You Before You're Born

04 Nov 2024

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Birds that Hibernate in Lakes?!

04 Nov 2024

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What Happened To This Car?

04 Nov 2024

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