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- The Hurricane Category Scale Is Broken
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Storm surge: a sea level rise caused by strong winds pushing the water and a change in atmospheric pressure of a storm.
- Hurricane: a tropical cyclone occurring in the Atlantic Ocean or northeastern Pacific Ocean
- Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale: the current scale used to categorize hurricanes from 1 to 5 based on the hurricane’s maximum sustained wind speed.
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5 min - How To Solve Every Global Crisis
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- Ozone layer: A thin layer of ozone concentrated in the Earth’s stratosphere roughly 10 kilometers above that absorbs most of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation before it hits the Earth’s surface.
- Ultraviolet radiation: Invisible rays of energy that come from the sun that can be harmful to humans and other lifeforms.
- Chlorofluorocarbons: Also known as CFCs, these long man-made molecules used to be widely used refrigerants and solvents before it was discovered that - when exposed to ultraviolet radiation - their chlorine atoms would break off and combine with ozone molecules.
- Smallpox: A virus that killed more than half a billion humans before being eradicated in 1980.
- Disease Surveillance: A practice by which disease progressions are closely monitored in order to minimize the harm caused by outbreaks.
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5 min - The Place Where Time Flows Backwards
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5 min - The Science of Hobbit Gluttony
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- Metabolism: The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- Square-cube Law: A mathematical principle which describes the relationship between the volume and the surface area as a shape's size increases or decreases.
- Kleiber’s Law: The observation that, for the vast majority of animals, an animal's metabolic rate scales to the 3⁄4 power of the animal's mass.
- Calorie: Unit of energy. One food calorie equals 1 kilocalorie.
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4 min - Sinking Plates
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2 min - Convection Currents
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2 min - Why Sharks Are Covered In Teeth
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- Dermal denticles: also called placoid scales, they’re the most primitive form of fish scales that are structurally similar to teeth and are today found only in sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
- Outside-in theory: The strongest theory for the evolution of teeth, which are thought to have evolved from dermal denticle scales.
- Ostracoderms: Extinct armored jawless fish that lived in the Paleozoic Era
- Thelodonts: Extinct jawless fish that had individual scales as opposed to plates of armor
- Placoderms: Now extinct, they were some of the first jawed fish and lived from the Silurian through the Devonian era.
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4 min - How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System
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- Megafauna: Large animals, usually over 45 Kgs.
- Anthropocene era: A proposed time period delineated the age during which human activity has been the dominant force on the environment and the climate.
- Holocene Extinction: An ongoing extinction event of species due to human activity.
- Fertility Rate: The number of babies an organism has in its lifetime.
- Omnivory: The ability to eat food from two different trophic levels.
- Bubble-Net Feeding: A cooperative hunting technique where groups of whales use bubbles to disorient fish prey.
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4 min - How To Survive Poison
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- Poison: A substance that is capable of causing illness or death when introduced or absorbed.
- Overdose: A dangerously large dose of a substance.
- Biotransformation: The process by which foreign chemicals are transformed by the body into less toxic substances.
- Polydipsia: The medical term for feelings of extreme thirst that can lead to hyponatremia.
- Hyponatremia: Abnormally low sodium in the blood often caused by excessive water consumption.
- Lethal Concentration - The concentration a substance needs to be in the bloodstream to kill 50% of subjects.
- Metabolism - the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
- Toxicity - the quality of being toxic or poisonous.
- Excretion - the process of eliminating or expelling waste matter.
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3 min - Why These Bears “Waste” Food
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- Foraging: to search widely for food.
- Optimal Foraging Theory: A behavioral model that describes how an animal should behave when searching for food.
- Surplus Killing: a common behavior exhibited by predators, in which they kill more prey than they can immediately eat and then cache or abandon the remainder.
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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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