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- How do fish get into isolated mountain lakes?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- 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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4 min - 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 recorded ancestry, especially upper-class ancestry, of a person or family.
- Pedigree collapse: a term used in genealogy to describe when the number of distinct ancestors in a family tree is smaller than it would be otherwise.
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5 min - 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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4 min - 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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6 min - 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 when the Earth's surface rises due to tectonic forces, such as plate movements or volcanic activity.
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5 min - Smallest Rodent
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2 min - Lemmings Suicide
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2 min - Why Haven't We Cured Cancer?
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- Precision Medicine: A medical model that tailors specific drugs to specific patients based on genetic profiling.
- Functional Precision Medicine: A medical model that involves directly treating live tumor cells with drugs to gain information about a patient's tumor.
- HER2-positive cancer: A type of cancer caused by a specific excess growth factor protein that has been shown to be treatable by specific medications.
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4 min - Electrical Wires Made Of Bacteria?!
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- Bacterium: a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some that can cause disease.
- Electron: a stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity in solids.
- Metabolism: the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- Respiration: a process in living organisms involving the production of energy, typically with the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide from the oxidation of complex organic substances.
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4 min - What Happens When Predators Disappear?
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- Ecosystem: a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- Herbivore: an animal that feeds on plants.
- Top predator: a predator without natural predators of its own.
- Trophic cascade: an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators.
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About MinuteEarth
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From the creators of the popular science show with millions of YouTube subscribers comes the MinuteEarth podcast. Every episode of the show 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. Our team of scientists digs into the research and breaks it down into a short, entertaining explanation jam-packed with science facts and terrible puns. We’ll tell the incredible story of how monkeys crossed the Atlantic ocean on natural rafts, and we’ll explain why it gets hotter the deeper you dig underground.
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