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January 09, 2025 Null Island: The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist
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January 08, 2025Which Bear Is Best?
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Bering land bridge: an ancient land bridge that connected Asia and North America at various times during the Quaternary glaciation, allowing Homo sapiens and other species migrations.
The Holocene extinction: (also referred to as the Sixth extinction or Anthropocene extinction) is the ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (since around 10,000 BCE) mainly due to human activity. The Holocene extinction includes the disappearance of large land animals known as megafauna, starting between 9,000 and 13,000 years ago, the end of the last Ice Age.
Atlatl (spear-thrower): is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart-throwing.
Bile bears: sometimes called battery bears, are bears kept in captivity to harvest their bile, a digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, which is used by some traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, though there is no evidence that bear bile has any medicinal effect, and no plausible mechanism by which it might work.

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January 07, 2025Would You Drink Water Made From Sewage?
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Disgust: A feeling of revulsion at something unpleasant
Emotion: A mental state that arises spontaneously.
Pathogen: A tiny living organism that can cause disease.
Reverse Osmosis: A way to purify water by pushing it through a semipermeable membrane.
Toilet-to-tap: A framing device used by recycled water opponents to cause people to think of sewage.
NEWater: The brand name given to recycled water in Singapore.

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January 06, 2025Orchids: The Masters Of Lying, Cheating & Stealing
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Mycelium
Mycorrizhae: a fungus that grows in association with the roots of a plant in a symbiotic or mildly pathogenic relationship.
Mycoheterotroph: A plant that is completely reliant on fungus for all of its nutrition.
Sexual deception: A trick used by numerous orchid species of looking and/or smelling like female insects in order to draw male insects to their flowers (for pollination)
Food deception: Rather than offering pollinators real food rewards (such as nectar or pollen), some orchids merely mimic the looks and smells of other, nearby flowers that offer such rewards.
Pollinia: In most flowering plants, pollen is a powdery substance made up of tons of individual pollen grains. But orchids pack their grains into a couple of sticky sacks (pollinia) instead.
Epiphyte: A plant that grows harmlessly upon another plant. Lots of tropical orchids are epiphytes
Lithophyte: A plant that grows on rocks

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January 05, 2025 Grass is the ultimate comeback kid
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January 04, 2025 Measuring the speed of light in your microwave
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January 03, 2025 How We Make MinuteEarth Videos (Behind the Scenes)
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4 min
January 02, 2025Why We Sucked At Counting Fish (Until Now)
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Milky Way: Earth's home galaxy
The Malaspina Expedition 2010: A research project to explore ocean biodiversity by recreating the path of a late 18th Century scientific expedition.
Sonar: A technique that uses soundwaves to map out underwater objects.
Avoidance of Trawl: A behavior in which fish move out of the way of an incoming net, perhaps through bioluminescent signalling.
Bioluminescence: Light produced by a living organism.
Deep water fish: Fish who live more than 500m below the ocean surface in the Mesopelagic, Epipelagic, and Bathypelagic zones.

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January 01, 2025The Energy Cost of a YouTube Video
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Data: information, typically stored on computers via electrical signals
Electrons: small elementary particles that flow through wires to transmit power and data
Photons: small elementary particles of light that carry information from screens to your face
Local Metro Network: computer network on the scale of a city, town, neighborhood, etc
Live action video: a video recording of the real world (people, scenery, etc) created using a camera
Data compression: storing data (pictures, video, text files, etc) in less space than the way it’s normally displayed. Kind of like a modern version of microfilm. Or words.
Illustrated video: video created using computer software to generate still images, kind of like a fancy powerpoint slideshow

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3 min
December 31, 2024 Should We Contact Uncontacted Peoples?
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