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- Bald Vultures
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2 min - Why Some Molecules Have Evil Twins
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Enantiomers: Molecules that are mirror images of each other.
- Chirality: A geometric property that makes a molecule non-superimposable on its mirror image.
- Methamphetamine: A central nervous system stimulant.
- Levmetamfetamine: The new name for the left-handed version of methamphetamine, which acts as a vasoconstrictor.
- Carvone: A terpenoid found in many essential oils.
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4 min - How Cats Became our Feline Overlords (ft. It's Okay To Be Smart)
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Puma: The big cat with the largest home range.
- Felix silvestris: The wildcat that is the direct ancestor to all modern house cats.
- Bastet: Egyptian cat goddess.
- Pseudaelurus: A prehistoric cat that is the common ancestor to all modern felines.
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4 min - What Makes A Dinosaur?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Systema Naturae: A 1735 book by Carl Linnaeus that outlined his hierarchical classification of animals.
- Plagiuri: an early,now disused, biological subclassification of fish used by Linnaeus that also included dolphins and whales.
- Anthropomorpha: a defunct taxon established by Linnaeus for genera Homo (humans), Simia (monkeys and apes in general) and Bradypus (sloths).
- Cladogram: A branching diagram showing the evolutionary relationship between species.
- Dimetrodon: An extinct carnivorous synapsid related to early mammals.
- Plesiosaur: An extinct marine reptile with a long neck related to modern snakes.
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3 min - Why Is A Group Of Crows Called A “Murder”?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Collective Noun: A noun that denotes a group of individuals.
- Terms of Venery: Collective nouns specific to certain groups of animals.
- Clowder: A term for a group of cats that means roughly, huddle, and comes from the same root as clot.
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3 min - Ambergris: Why Perfume Makers Love Constipated Whales
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- Sperm Whale: (Physeter macrocephalus) The largest toothed-whale, found in oceans all around the world, and likely the only whale besides the Pygmy Sperm Whale to produce ambergris.
- Cephalopod: An active predatory mollusk like an octopus or a squid.
- Cetacean: A marine mammal like a porpoise, dolphin or whale.
- Colon: The part of the large intestine that goes from the cecum to the rectum.
- Rectum: The last part of the intestine that ends in the anus.
- Eau de toilette: A dilute form of perfume
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3 min - Oxbow Lake
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2 min - Square Cube
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2 min - Why Are Snakes So Creepy?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Ophidiophobia: The abnormal fear of snakes
- Lateral Undulation: Waves of lateral bending through the body that propel the snake forward.
- Trichromatic Vision: Three color receptors in the eye that allow the animal to see a wider spectrum of colors.
- Electroencephalogram: A non-invasive method of measuring electrical activity in the brain.
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3 min - Why Did T Rex Have Such Tiny Arms?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Evolutionary Mechanisms: Forces that change the frequency of genes in populations.
- Natural Selection: The process whereby traits that make animals more likely to survive and reproduce take hold in a population.
- Vestigiality: The process by which a genetically-determined structure loses some or all of its functionality.
- Genetic Drift: A change in the frequency of an allele due to random sampling.
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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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