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(1:07) Manipulating reality - Neuroscientist Rafael Yuste could play your brain like an instrument

(1:58) Right from the source - Is raw milk safe?

(2:54) He’s Batman - Teach Yourself to Echolocate

(3:51) Wiki Rabbit Hole - November 19, 1995 - Toy Story - First entirely computer-animated feature film

(5:09) More crayons in the box - The red and green specialists: why human colour vision is so odd

(6:02) Not all bad luck - Discover 10 ways the Titanic could have avoided sinking

(6:56) Giving the Platypus competition - Tapirs

“If we want peace, we have to be peace. Peace is a practice, not a hope.” Thich Nhat Hahn

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(1:04) Villains and their enemies - Whistleblower: Definition and Examples

(2:05) Not what it seems - Optical illusions and why they trick your brain

(2:48) Working together - Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto Mount St Helens For 1 Day. 40 Years Later, The Effect Is Astonishing

(3:28) Wiki Rabbit Hole - November 14, 1889 - Nellie Bly - Around the world in 80 (72) days

(4:20) Insect imitation - Functioning ‘mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time

(5:00) Evolving language - English Words with Interesting Origins

(5:40) An alternative to starvation - Bugs to Eat in a Survival Situation (And 4 You Want to Avoid)

"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable." Aldous Huxley

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(1:05) Nowhere to park - How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths

(1:59) Has to be haunted by now - This Istanbul house was built in four historical eras

(3:00) It would do just fine - Without humans, what would happen to Earth?

(3:54) Wiki Rabbit Hole - November 8, 1895 - X-rays - Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

(4:48)Tell yourself the truth - A Psychologist Explains Why We Lie To Ourselves—And Offers 2 Fixes

(5:38) In praise of weirdness - How They Think: The Dark Whimsy Of Tim Burton ( Strange Alchemy)

(6:27) Larson works on in spirit - One-Panel Comics About Funny Everyday Situations

"Courage is what others can't see, what is never affirmed. It is made of what you have thrown away and then come back for." Leonard Cohen

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