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The HUGE Problem with ChatGPT

AdultsHistoryScienceTechnologyArtificial Intelligence
Free-to-use, exceptionally powerful artificial intelligences are available to more people than ever, seemingly making some kind of news every day.
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The “afterlife” according to Einstein’s special relativity

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Sabine Hossenfelder discusses the physics of… dead grandmothers?
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How to Make Money on YouTube with 20M Subs

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In 2023, Kurzgesagt has existed for 10 years (which is insanely long in internet years).
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How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World

AdultsFoodHistoryHumanScienceCulture
Plants don't make caffeine just for us, so what DO they make it for?
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Explaining concrete while getting buried in it

AdultsConstructionHistoryScienceEngineering
Concrete = cement + sand + gravel. Cement is the most important man-made material on Earth.
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You’re Not a Lab Mouse, but You Might Be a Wild Mouse

AdultsAnimalsNatureScienceBiology
The lab mice we use for genetic studies are not only closely related, but live out their whole lives in a sterile environment, so they don’t tell us everything we need to know about actual humans.
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Why We Haven’t Learned More In 101 Years Of Trying

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Almost everything we know about the reproductive practices of European eels comes from a genius study conducted more than 100 years ago.
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The man who lost his sense of touch

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Explore the science behind how your body and brain process different sensations like touch, pain, temperature, and spatial awareness.
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How Quantum Computers Break The Internet

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A quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm.
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How Wildfires Spawn Deadly Firenadoes

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Climate change is causing wildfire season to get worse every year. And our models of wildfires can't keep up with the things fires can do... like spawn devastating fire tornadoes.
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Porcelain in the Wreckage | Drain the Oceans

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Vanessa Litzenberg discusses the porcelain from the wreck. Drain the Oceans dives deep into the unknown; a truly epic, original series that takes underwater adventure and earth science illustration into a whole new era.
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Primitive Technology: Iron Bacteria Cement

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I developed a cement made from iron bacteria, then made pots from it to test its ability to set and not dissolve in water.
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You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age

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Despite centuries of death records to the contrary, “dying of old age” is not medically possible; instead, it’s just a convenient catch-all.
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World's Strongest Magnet!

AdultsDesignEducationScienceTechnologyEnvironment
The world's strongest magnet is a million times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. Learn more about sustainability and Google’s efforts at sustainability.google. Part of this video was sponsored by Google.
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How Smart Are Crows Actually?

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Have you seen that adorable clip of a raven sledding down a snowy roof? We have, so we took a deep dive into how crows and other corvids exhibit tool use, intelligence, and maybe even consciousness.
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The Biology Behind The Last of Us | WIRED

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The infection from HBO's The Last of Us is actually based on a real parasitic fungus. This fungus turns insects into zombies. The creators of the game and the show were inspired by zombie carpenter ants.
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Your Immune System is More Dangerous than You Think

AdultsBiologyEducationScienceHealth
There is this idea floating around that what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. That surviving a disease leaves you better off. And it seems to make sense because we have all experienced this.
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The Disease You Will Never Survive

AdultsBiologyGeneticsHumanHealthScienceNeuroscience
A simple mis-folding in a certain brain protein causes a disease for which we have no cure.
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Why Is Our Moon Two-Faced?

AdultsLifeScienceSpaceAstronomy
The near side of the Moon has a thin crust and is covered in maria. The far side has a thick crust and almost no maria.
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Can We Capture Greenhouse Gases?

AdultsEnvironmentNatureWorldScienceEconomy
It’s one thing to say a business is carbon neutral. It’s another to be able to truly account for that carbon at all stages of the production process.
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rimitive Technology: Decarburization of iron and forging experiments

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I took a brittle, high carbon/iron alloy (cast iron) made from local ore and used a decarburization method to reduce it's carbon content making it malleable and forged it flat by hammering.