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- The Freshwater Paradox
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- Speciation: The formation of new and distinct species.
- Sympatric speciation: The evolution of new species from ancestral species while both continue to inhabit the same geographic region.
- Allopatric speciation: Speciation that occurs when a population becomes separated by a geographic barrier.
- Adaptive radiation: The diversification of a group of organisms into forms filling different ecological niches.
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5 min - Why Do Humans Vomit So Much? 🤮
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- Emesis: The act of vomiting
- Vomiting: The oral eviction of gastrointestinal contents due to contractions in the gut and stomach.
- Nausea: A diffuse sensation of uneasiness and discomfort often felt as the need to vomit.
- Vomiting Center: An area in the brain’s medulla oblongata that initiates and controls emesis.
- Chemoreceptor Trigger Zone: An area in the area postrema of the medulla oblongata that is sensitive to certain toxic chemicals in the blood.
- Nucleus Tractus Solitarius: A region in the medulla oblongata that receives input from the cardiovascular, respiratory and GI systems.
- Vagus Nerve: A cranial nerve that regulates internal organ functions, including vomiting.
- Vestibular System: A Sensory system that provides our brain with information about motion, head position, and spatial positioning for balance.
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4 min - Is Soil Alive?
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- Soil health: the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living system, within ecosystem and land-use boundaries, to sustain biological productivity, promote the quality of air and water environments, and maintain plant, animal, and human health
- Living system: an open self-organizing life form that interacts with its environment
- Ecosystem services: varied benefits to humans provided by the natural environment and from healthy ecosystems
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4 min - Disasters Price
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2 min - Cheaper Alternatives
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2 min - Bitcoin mining is a lot like reindeer mating 🪙💖🦌
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- Bitcoin: a digital currency known as a cryptocurrency, which uses a proof-of-work consensus to validate transactions and create new units of Bitcoin.
- Proof-of-work: a decentralized consensus mechanism that requires members of a network to expend effort solving an arbitrary mathematical puzzle to prevent malicious activity
- Blockchain: a record of transactions made in Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency maintained across several linked computers, which can also be used in non-cryptocurrency applications
- Mining: the process of validating transactions and creating new Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies
- Sexual selection: a form of natural selection driven by competition between members of a species of one sex for access to mating partners of another sex that favors certain characteristics
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4 min - The Cheapest Way To Save A Life
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- Vitamin A: A group of nutrients called retinoids used in several different processes in the human body.
- Malaria: A serious disease carried by parasites in a certain type of mosquito that feeds on humans.
- Value of Life: The economic value used to quantify the benefit of avoiding a fatality
- Upstream interventions: Approaches to healthcare that address root causes rather than symptoms.
- Night Blindness: An early symptom of Vitamin A deficiency in which the eye is unable to process low levels of light.
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4 min - Which is Worse?
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- Aqueous humour: The clear fluid filling the space in the front of the eyeball between the lens and the cornea.
- Bone remodeling: The continuous process of synthesis and destruction that gives bone its mature structure and maintains normal calcium levels in the body.
- Ligament: A short band of tough, flexible fibrous connective tissue which connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint.
- Sprain: A stretching or tearing of ligaments.
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4 min - Why The Ocean Needs Salt
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- Salt: chemical compounds made of positively- and negatively-charged particles called “ions” like sodium and chloride
- Convection current: the movement of fluid, like water, due to a difference in temperature and/or density
- Hydrothermal vent: a fissure on the seafloor that takes in dense ocean water and discharges water heated by volcanic activity below the seafloor.
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4 min - Why The Weather Is Worse At The Mall
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- Evapotranspiration: the return of water to the atmosphere from the ground surface.
- Troposphere: The lowest region of the Earth’s atmosphere, extending usually to around 10 km above the Earth’s surface.
- Tropopause: The top-most boundary of the troposphere.
- Low Pressure System: An area of relatively low pressure that draws air into it, causing converging winds.
- Micro-climate: The climate of a very small or restricted area.
- Heat Island: An urban area that has higher average temperatures than its surrounding due to the heat absorption of materials like concrete and asphalt.
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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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