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- Why Does This Shrimp Cost More Than A Car?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Chromatophores: pigment-containing cells in the deeper layers of the skin of animals like shrimp
- Restricted availability theory: a commodity is available or perceived to be available only for certain individuals
- Reactance theory: unavailability of a commodity is perceived as a threat to an individual’s freedom to posses that commodity, making it more desirable.
- Scarcity heuristic: a mental shortcut that places value on items based on how easy it is to miss out on them.
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4 min - Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing
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- Combined Sewer System: Sewers designed to collect domestic sewage and storm runoff in the same wastewater pipe.
- Wastewater Treatment Plant: A facility that filters and cleans wastewater before sending it into nearby waterways.
- Combined Sewer Overflow: When the wastewater in a combined sewer system exceeds a certain limit, it bypasses the wastewater treatment plant and goes directly into nearby waterways.
- Extreme Rainfall: Storms that cause the wettest days of the year in a particular geographic area.
- Invasive Species: Any kind of organism that gets introduced to a new environment and causes harm.
- Deep Tunnel Project: A $3 billion civil engineering megaproject designed to reduce flooding in the metropolitan Chicago area.
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4 min - How To Go Extinct
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- Extinction: The moment when the last individual of a particular species dies.
- Interspecific Competition: When individuals of different species compete for the same resources or habitats.
- Thylacine: The so-called Tasmanian Tiger, it is one of the largest predatory marsupials; the last known individual was captured in 1933.
- Invasive Species: Any kind of organism that gets introduced to a new environment and causes harm.
- Holocene Extinction: The so-called sixth mass extinction, mostly involving larger animals, that started at the end of the last Ice Age, mostly due to human activity. Extinction rates during this time are 100-1000 times higher than usual.
- Anagenesis: The gradual evolution of a species over time.
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10 min - Underdog Species
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2 min - Kangaroo Etymology
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2 min - Why People Hate Hyenas
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5 min - Will Gas Stations Survive?
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- Gas station - a roadside establishment that sells gasoline, and diesel (AKA petrol station, service station, garage, filling station)
- Convenience store - a store selling a limited range of household goods and groceries, often functioning simultaneously as a gas station
- Stable - a building for keeping horses
- Livery stable - a building where horse owners can/could pay a fee to have their horses fed and kept
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4 min - *If We Aren't Too Late
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- climate change damages, greenhouse gas emissions, climate mitigation
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4 min - YouTube Is Misleading You. Help Us Make It Better.
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- Misinformation: false information that is spread, regardless of intent to mislead
- Disinformation: deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated narrative or facts
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5 min - The Best Worst Energy Source
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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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