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What Mud From Glacial Lakes Can Tell Us About Our History | National Geographic

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See what challenges face a team of scientists gathering core sediment samples from a glacial lake in the Himalayas.

How To Turn Poop Into Power

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We could generate a lot of usable energy from human and animal poop through greater adoption of a process for using microbes to break down poop into methane gas.

How Could We Get To Mars In Only 28 Hours?

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There's a cheat code to getting to Mars. Can humans handle the harsh conditions that space will throw at them?

Can You Survive A Nuclear Blast In A Fridge? DEBUNKED

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f you were seconds away from a nuclear blast, where would you hide? Indiana Jones opted for the fridge and survived, but just how safe would it be?

Harvesting Mussels In Ireland | National Geographic

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How to Move the Sun: Stellar Engines

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Nothing in the Universe is static. In the milky way, billions of stars orbit the galactic center. Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230 million years.

Why Most Resolutions Fail & How To Succeed

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Common pitfalls of New Year's resolutions and how I plan to avoid them.

The philosophy of cynicism

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Explore the ancient Greek philosophy of cynicism, which calls for the rejection of materialism and conformity in favor of a simple life.

The Mysterious Event That Made Venus A Death Trap

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At one time long ago, the planet Venus had some similarities in its climate to that of Earth, and having the potential to be habitable for the existence of life, but something happened that made Venus an uninhabitable, rocky, desolate planet, but what?

The Great Acceleration

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We’re in the middle of a rapid, unprecedented, and world-changing increase in the intensity and scale of human activity on this planet.

The Science of the Butterfly Effect

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Chaos theory means deterministic systems can be unpredictable. Thanks to LastPass for sponsoring this video.

Why doesn’t the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over?

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Dig into the 800 year history and architecture of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and find out what gives the tower its infamous tilt.

3 Perplexing Physics Problems

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Why does shaken soda explode? Does ice melt first in fresh or salt water?

1,000km Cable to the Stars - The Skyhook

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Getting to space is incredibly hard, expensive and needs a lot of resources.

Game theory challenge: Can you predict human behavior?

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Solve this classic game theory challenge: given integers from 0 to 100, what would the whole number closest to ⅔ of the average of all numbers guessed be?

Underwater Lost City in England

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Albert Lin and a maritime archaeologist dive underwater in the Isle of Wight to see a lost city.

The Best Dragon

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We ranked dragons based on how biologically and evolutionarily plausible they are.

Why haven’t we cured arthritis?

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Get to know the science behind what causes the stiff, creaky joints of the most common forms of arthritis and what you can do to prevent it.

How to STEAL Elon Musk’s Space Car

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What would it take to steal the only road car currently crossing the cosmos? Kyle outlines a villainous plan that he totally doesn’t approve of.

Why Don't We Have Water Powered Cars Yet?

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Today we're dipping our toes into the engineering and physics behind water-powered cars!

Engineering with Origami

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Origami is inspiring a plethora of new engineering designs.