MinuteEarth

By Minute Earth

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 y... more

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The podcast currently has 496 episodes available.

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May 23, 2025How This River Made Chimps Violent
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Chimpanzee: A great ape native to tropical Africa that is one of humanity’s closest living relatives.

Bonobo: A slightly smaller great ape native to tropical Africa that is one of humanity’s closest living relatives.

Speciation: A lineage-splitting event in which a population of the same species becomes two different species.

Allopatric speciation: Speciation that occurs when populations of the same species get isolated geographically.

Hominini: The taxonomical classification that includes humans, chimps, and bonobos.

Pan: The taxonomical classification that includes chimps and bonobos.

Chimpobo: A name we just made up to identify the common ancestor of the chimpanzee and bonobo.

Congo river: The deepest river in the world and the second largest (behind the Amazon) in discharge volume.

G-G Rubbing: A form of genital to genital contact bonobos sometimes use to form social bonds.
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May 22, 2025The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
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Rhizome: a continuously growing horizontal underground stem which puts out lateral shoots and roots at intervals

Vacuole: an organelle within the cytoplasm of a cell, enclosed by a membrane and typically containing fluid, whose main purpose in plants is to maintain pressure against the cell wall

Microfibrils: fiber-like strands consisting of glycoproteins and cellulose that make up the cell wall structure

Auxin: a plant hormone which causes the elongation of cells in shoots and is involved in regulating plant growth
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
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May 21, 2025How To Turn Poop Into Power
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Anaerobic digestion: a sequence of processes by which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen

Methanogens: a methane-producing bacterium, especially an archaean which reduces carbon dioxide to methane

Wastewater treatment: a process used to remove contaminants from wastewater or sewage and convert it into an effluent that can be returned to the water cycle with minimum impact on the environment, or directly reused

Biogas: the mixture of gases produced by anaerobic digestion of organic matter, primarily consisting of methane and carbon dioxide, which can be used as a renewable energy source
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
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If you like what we do, you can help us!
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May 20, 2025You Have More Bones Than You Think
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Cartilage: The flexible connective tissue that is turned to bone by osteoblasts.

Osteoblasts: Cells that control calcium and mineral deposition to turn cartilage into bone.

Sesamoids: Bones embedded in tendons or muscles.

Fabella: A large sesamoid bone occasionally found behind the knee joint.

Coccyx: The small set of semi-fused triangular bones at the end of the vertebral column.
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
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May 19, 2025Why It’s HARD To Bring A New Apple To Market
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grafting: joining together a cut branch with a cut root of the same species to produce a new individual.
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May 18, 2025 Most realistic dragon
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May 17, 2025 Proportional dragons
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May 16, 2025Nobody Really Knows What A Concussion Is
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in people with a history of repetitive brain trauma (often athletes)
Traumatic brain injury (TBI): a disruption in the normal function of the brain that can be caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head, or penetrating head injury
Subdural hematoma: a collection of blood between the layers of tissue that surround the brain
Cerebral microbleeding: small chronic brain hemorrhages which are likely caused by structural abnormalities of the small vessels of the brain
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
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If you like what we do, you can help us!
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4min
May 15, 2025The Great Acceleration
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The Great Acceleration - the dramatic increase in human activity, largely since 1950, that is evident across a variety of socio-economic and biophysical measures, and that has made humans into a planetary scale force
The Anthropocene - our current geological epoch (contested), beginning when humans first had significant impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems
Hockey stick graph - typically refers to the Mann et al 1999 graph of Earth’s temperature, but can also refer to any trend that's roughly constant for a long duration and then has a drastic upwards shift
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
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May 14, 2025Can AI Help Us Identify Animals?
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Deep learning: a subset of machine learning in artificial intelligence that can learning from data that is unstructured or unlabeled
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
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If you like what we do, you can help us!
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How many episodes does MinuteEarth have?

The podcast currently has 496 episodes available.

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