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- Why We Faint (When Other Animals Don't)
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- "Fight or flight": an instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation that readies animals (including humans) to either resist forcibly or escape
- Fainting: loss of consciousness caused by a temporary lack of oxygen to the brain, also known as “syncope.”
- Vasovagal syncope: a type of fainting that happens when your body overreacts to an emotional trigger like being in danger, seeing blood, or even just hearing some shocking news.
- Tonic immobility: an instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation that causes some animals to relax their muscles and “freeze” in place, sometimes causing them to fall over
- Jump scare: a technique often used in horror films meant to scare the audience with a sudden change on screen, usually paired with a loud sound
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4 min - How Do Some Waves Get SO Big?
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- Amplitude - The distance between the crest and trough of a wave.
- Bathymetry - The measurement of depth of water in oceans, seas, or lakes.
- Nazaré Canyon - An undersea canyon just off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal, in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. It is the largest submarine canyon in Europe, reaching depths of about 5,000 meters (16,000 ft) deep and a length of about 230 kilometers (140 mi).
- Plunging Breaker - Occurs when there are rapid depth changes. The crest of the wave becomes very steep, and the rear of the wave violently plunges over the front.
- Reef Break - A location where waves break over a reef, often amplifying them.
- Spilling Breaker - Occurs when the seafloor slopes gradually. As the wave becomes unstable, energy is dissipated by water spilling over the crest of the wave.
- Swell - a slow, regular movement of the sea in rolling waves that do not break.
- Wave period - The time between waves.
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4 min - The Ecology of Superheroes
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- carbon sequestration: the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide
- productivity: the rate of generation of biomass (and therefore carbon storage) in an ecosystem
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5 min - Proteins: Explained
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- Amino acids: are organic compounds that contain amino (–NH2) and carboxyl (–COOH) functional groups, along with a side chain specific to each amino acid.
- Proteins: are macromolecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acid residues. Most proteins fold into unique 3D structures. The shape into which a protein naturally folds is known as its native conformation.
- Alpha helix (α-helix): is a common motif in the secondary structure of proteins and is a right hand-helix conformation in which every backbone N−H group hydrogen bonds to the backbone C=O group of the amino acid located four residues earlier along the protein sequence.
- Beta sheet (β-sheet): is a common motif of the regular protein secondary structure and consists of beta strands (β-strands) connected laterally by at least two or three backbone hydrogen bonds, forming a generally twisted, pleated sheet.
- Ribbon diagrams: are 3D schematic representations of protein structure that shows the overall path and organization of the protein backbone in 3D. Ribbon diagrams are generated by interpolating a smooth curve through the polypeptide backbone. α-helices are shown as coiled ribbons or thick tubes, β-strands as arrows, and non-repetitive coils or loops as lines or thin tubes.
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5 min - Which Will Kill You First?
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- Hyperthermia: a medical condition where an individual's body temperature is elevated beyond normal
- Hypothermia: a medical doncition that occurs when an individual's body loses heat faster than it can produce heat, causing a dangerously low body temperature
- Thermoregulation is the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries, even when the surrounding temperature is very different
- Denaturation: the alteration of a protein shape through some form of external stress (for example, heat), so that it can no longer carry out its cellular function
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4 min - Subterranean River
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2 min - Chimps and Bonobos
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2 min - Why "Nothing" Matters in Science
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- Null result: a result in a scientific study that doesn’t support the hypothesis
- Premature birth: also known as preterm birth, is a birth that occurs before the 37th week of pregnancy
- XENON1T: a highly sensitive experiment to search for direct interactions of dark matter particles. It’s located deep under Italy’s Gran Sasso mountain at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory.
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4 min - The Problem With Life Expectancy
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- Life Expectancy At Birth: The average number of years a newborn in a particular group could expect to live.
- Life Expectancy After Babyhood: The average number of years a member of a particular group could expect to live given that they had survived their first year.
- Maximum Life Expectancy: The age at which the oldest known member of a particular group died.
- 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.
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5 min - I found the BEST coronavirus depiction (+ explanation)
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- Virus: a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. The study of viruses is known as virology.
- Virion: a complete virus particle, and consists of nucleic acid surrounded by a protective coat of protein called a capsid.
- Coronaviruses: a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, they cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal and include some cases of the common cold, SARS, MERS, and COVID-19.
- SARS-CoV-2: the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the respiratory illness responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Class I fusion proteins: resemble influenza virus hemagglutinin in their structure. Post-fusion, the active site has a trimer of α-helical coiled-coils
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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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