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- Why We Haven’t Learned More In 101 Years Of Trying
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- European Eel: A long-lived, snakelike fish native to the rivers of Europe.
- Eel, Pie, and Mash: A common meal of poorer Englishmen for the last several centuries.
- Spontaneous Generation: The hypothetical process by which organisms would generate from non-living matter.
- The Eel Question: A matter of great debate for millenia - specifically: how do eels reproduce and where do they come from?
- Sargasso Sea: A region of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bermuda bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre that is recognizable by the large presence of Sargassum seaweed.
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5 min - This Is Not A Bug
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- Bug: a small insect, or an insect of a large order distinguished by having mouthparts that are modified for piercing and sucking.
- Entomology: the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects.
- Etymology: the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
- Insect: a small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings.
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5 min - How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World
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- Alkaloid: any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds of plant origin which have pronounced physiological actions on humans.
- Allelopathy: the chemical inhibition of one plant (or other organism) by another, due to the release into the environment of substances acting as germination or growth inhibitors.
- Caffeine: a crystalline compound that is found especially in tea and coffee plants and is a stimulant of the central nervous system.
- Pesticide: a substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to plants or to animals.
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5 min - Is Pregnancy A Disease?
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6 min - Softwood Evolution
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2 min - Colloquial and Taxonomic
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2 min - You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age
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- Cause of death: the specific injury or disease that leads to death.
- Death certificate: an official statement, signed by a physician, of the cause, date, and place of a person's death.
- Geriatrics: a medical specialty focused on providing care for the unique health needs of older adults.
- Old age: the range of ages nearing and surpassing the life expectancy of human beings
- Senescence: the condition or process of deterioration with age.
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4 min - The Weird Sex Lives of Bluegills
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- Alternative mating strategy: a strategy used by male or female animals, often with distinct phenotypes, that differs from the prevailing mating strategy.
- Dependent selection: an evolutionary process by which the fitness of a phenotype or genotype depends on the phenotype or genotype composition of a given population.
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4 min - The Disease You Will Never Survive
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- Prion: an abnormal pathogenic agent that is transmissible and able to induce abnormal folding of specific normal cellular proteins called prion proteins that are found most abundantly in the brain.
- Spongiform encephalopathies: a group of rare degenerative brain disorders caused by prions and characterized by tiny holes that give the brain a “spongy” appearance.
- Amyloid: an abnormal aggregate of protein.
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is an invariably fatal degenerative brain disorder. Early symptoms include memory problems, behavioral changes, poor coordination, and visual disturbances. Later symptoms include dementia, involuntary movements, blindness, weakness, and coma. About 70% of people die within a year of diagnosis.
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5 min - Why Do Heart Attacks Cause *Arm* Pain?
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- Nerve: a whitish fiber or bundle of fibers that transmits impulses of sensation to the brain or spinal cord, and impulses from these to the muscles and organs.
- Nerve impulse: a signal transmitted along a nerve fiber. It consists of a wave of electrical depolarization that reverses the potential difference across the nerve cell membranes.
- Referred pain: pain perceived at a location other than the site of the painful stimulus/origin. It is the result of a network of interconnecting sensory nerves that supplies many different tissues.
- Sensory cortex: the region of the brain that deals with sensory information.
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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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