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- Dogs vs Cats: The Diversity Paradox
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- phenotypic diversity - the range of different observable traits in a certain organism - for example, size, color, strength, and friendliness.
- genetic diversity - the variation in the genetic information within and among individuals of a population or species
- artificial selection (or selective breeding) - a process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics
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5 min - Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics
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- Pandemic: A disease outbreak that spreads across the world.
- Exponential Growth: Growth that occurs when a value increases in proportion to its current value.
- Exponential Growth Prediction Bias: An error in prediction that occurs when people underestimate how quickly numbers rise in an exponential system.
- Optimism Bias: An error that occurs when people underestimate their personal likelihood of experiencing a negative event.
- Hyperbolic Time Discounting Bias: An error that occurs when people choose smaller rewards in the present over larger awards in the future.
- Reactance Psychology: An unpleasant motivational state that occurs when a freedom is threatened with elimination.
- Individualism: The principle of being independent and self-reliant.
- Collectivism: The principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it.
- Disinformation: Deliberately false information designed to deceive.
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4 min - Gigantopithecus
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2 min - Categorize Apes
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2 min - How Firestorms Form
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- Pyrocumulonimbus cloud - a type of cumulonimbus cloud that forms that forms above wildfires and even volcanic eruptions, which can create thunderstorms
- Virga - rain that evaporates before it hits the ground
- Updraft - upward moving air in a thunderstorm
- Downdraft - downward moving air in a thunderstorm
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4 min - Why Most New Species Are Discovered By Amateurs
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- Taxonomy: The branch of science concerned with classifying organisms
- Taxonomic Impediment: The gaps in our taxonomic knowledge and the shortage of trained taxonomists and curators.
- Amateur Taxonomist: Someone who classifies organisms but is not paid to do so.
- Malacology: The study of mollusks, including snails and slugs.
- Type Specimen: The specimen used to officially describe a new species.
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4 min - Does It Pay To Cheat?
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- Life history strategy: How organisms allocate energy usage to maximize offspring.
- Parental Investment: Any non-genetic contributions by parents to help their offspring survive.
- Brood Parasites: Organisms that rely on others to raise their young.
- Mafia Behavior: The practice of repeatedly visiting victims to make sure they are complying.
- Fecundity: The number of offspring produced by an individual over time.
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4 min - The Plant That’s Full Of Metal
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- Hyperaccumulator: a plant capable of growing in metalliferous soils and to accumulate extraordinarily high amounts of heavy metals, far in excess of the levels found in the majority of species, without suffering toxic effects
- Phytoremediation: the treatment of pollutants or waste (as in contaminated soil or groundwater) by the use of green plants that remove, degrade, or stabilize the undesirable substances (such as toxic metals)
- Phytomining: the planting (and subsequent harvesting) of vegetation that will selectively concentrate specific metals from the soil into their tissues
- Euhalophytes: highly salt-tolerant plants capable of diluting salt within their succulent leaves or stems
- Active transport: the process of transferring substances against a concentration gradient into, out of, and between cells, using energy
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4 min - The Best Pokémon (According to Science)
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- Convergent evolution: the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches.
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5 min - Cow Fences
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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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