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- We're Oversalting Our Food, And It's Not What You Think
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4 min - Why Are There Dangerous Ingredients In Vaccines?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- adjuvant: substance added to a vaccine to enhance the body's immune response and increase the vaccine's efficacy
- attenuation: altering a pathogen to make it less virulent (or even harmless)
- acquired immunity: components of the immune system that are developed via exposure to pathogens or other sources of infection
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4 min - “emoticon” vs. “emoji”
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2 min - Porcupines!
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2 min - Do We Have to Get Old and Die?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- negligible senescence: not showing signs of age-related progression
- biological immortality: having a mortality rate that does not increase with increasing age
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4 min - Is Climate Change Just A Lot Of Hot Air?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Extreme weather: Conditions and events that occur with low frequency, but which often have significant impact on people and nature; e.g., heat waves, droughts, heavy downpours, floods, blizzards, windstorms, hurricanes
- Ocean heat content: the energy stored as heat in the ocean
- Evapotranspiration: the movement of water vapor from land, water, plant, or animal surface into the atmosphere, driven by the drying power of the air
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3 min - Are We Really 99% Chimp?
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4 min - Rain's Dirty Little Secret
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Condensation: the process of water molecules glomming together into visible droplets
- Condensation nuclei: tiny solid particles that water vapor condenses onto (also called aerosols)
- Homogeneous condensation: condensation without any kind of condensation nuclei
- Dew point: the temperature below which water vapor starts to condense into droplets
- Heterogeneous condensation: condensation that happens with the help of condensation nuclei
- Critical Embryo: a cluster of water molecules big enough to easily gain more molecules
- Cloud chamber: a cool thing to check out if you want to build a particle detector at home (it involves pumping a bunch of water vapor into pure air; when a particle passes through, it leaves a streak of ionized water molecules that, in super-saturated air, can act as condensation nuclei!)
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3 min - Should We Let Pandas Go Extinct?
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Keystone species: a species that plays a crucial role in the functioning of an ecosystem
- Flagship species: species used as an icon for an environmental cause
- Threatened species: species assessed by the IUCN as critically endangered, endangered, or vulnerable
- Triage: assigning degrees of urgency to a large number of patients to determine the order of treatment
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4 min - Bamboo is a grass
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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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