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- How Fevers REALLY Work
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Fever: a rise in body temperature, usually caused by infection
- Heat shock proteins (HSP): a family of proteins that are produced by cells in response to exposure to stressful conditions
- Neutrophils: white blood cells that play an important role in inflammation and are early responders to pathogens.
- T cells: major components of the adaptive immune system whose roles include regulating the immune response to pathogens.
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4 min - Moving Plates
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2 min - Plate Tectonics
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2 min - How Long Did People Use To Live?
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- Life Expectancy At Birth: The average number of years a newborn in a particular group could expect to live.
- Mortality Rate: The frequency of occurrence of death within a particular group during a particular time period.
- Life Table: A table that shows the number of individuals within a group that survive from one year to the next until they are all dead.
- Survivorship Curve: A plot of the data in a particular life table that shows the years on the x-axis and the number or percent of survivors on the y-axis.
- Infant Mortality: The death of an infant before his or her first birthday.
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4 min - We don't know what a tree is (and this video won't tell you)
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- Wood: A bunch of cellulose fibers intertwined with lignin usually found in the trunk of a tree.
- Trunk: A wooden stem that thickens over time.
- Bonsai: An ornamental tree or shrub that is artificially prevented from reaching its normal size.
- Shrub: A woody plant that is smaller than a tree.
- Gymnosperm: A group of plants, including conifers, that have naked seeds.
- Angiosperm: A group of plants, including lots of other “trees” that have enclosed seeds.
- Monocots: A group of flowering plants - mostly angiosperms - with a single embryonic leaf that includes palm trees.
- Dicots: A group of flowering plants - mostly angiosperms - with two embryonic leaves that includes oak trees.
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4 min - Why It's Good To Have A Weak Hand
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- Handedness: the tendency to use one hand more than the other for specific tasks
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4 min - An Unexpected Consequence of COVID
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- Particulate matter: often abbreviated PM, it is the sum of all the tiny particles and drops of liquid suspended in the air including soil, soot, dust, metals, and acids like nitrates.
- Air quality: a measurement of how polluted the air is, judged by the level of known pollutants in the air like NO2 and particulate matter like soot.
- Ozonolysis: an organic chemical reaction wherein ozone cleaves a carbon-carbon bond in unsaturated compounds.
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4 min - The Lost Penis Enigma
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- Amniote: Vertebrates whose embryos are enclosed in a thin sac.
- Cloaca: A posterior orifice used for excretion and reproduction.
- Cloacal Kiss: A method that penisless amniotes use to mate, which involves males and females momentarily pressing their cloacae together.
- Tuatara: Reptiles endemic to New Zealand that are the only surviving members of their ancient amniote group.
- Hemipenis: One of the paired copulatory organs of lizards and snakes.
- Bmp4: A protein that, when present, stifles the growth of penises in chick embryos.
- Convergent Evolution: The independent evolution of similar features in different species.
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4 min - Mountain weather
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2 min - Soil creep
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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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