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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May 03, 2025 Four-limbed dragons
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May 02, 2025How We Evolved To Browse The Web
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Optimality models: tools used to evaluate the costs and benefits of different organismal features, traits, and characteristics, including behavior, in the natural world.

Optimal foraging theory: a behavioral ecology model that helps predict how an animal behaves when searching for food.

Marginal value theorem: an optimality model that describes the strategy that maximizes gain per unit time in systems where resources, and thus rate of returns, decrease with time.

Central place foraging: a model for analyzing how an organism traveling from a home base to a distant foraging location can maximize foraging rates.
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May 01, 2025Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!
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Microbe - an organism (such as a bacterium or protozoan) of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size.

Remote sensing - the scanning of the earth , especially by satellite or high-flying aircraft, in order to obtain information about it.

Pathogen - a bacterium, virus, or other microbe that can cause disease.

Chlorophyll - a green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.

Phytoplankton - photosynthesizing microscopic biotic organisms that inhabit the upper sunlit layer of almost all oceans and bodies of fresh water on Earth.

Cholera - an infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine, typically contracted from infected water supplies and causing severe vomiting and diarrhea.

Evaporite - a natural salt or mineral deposit left after the evaporation of a body of water.

Microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) - primary sedimentary structures formed by the interaction of microbes with sediment and physical agents of erosion, deposition, and transportation.
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April 30, 2025The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Is Now Killing Us
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Cyanobacteria: aquatic photosynthesizing bacteria often erroneously call blue-green algae

Blue-green algae: incorrect name often used for cyanobacteria because they are blue-green in appearance and can be confused with algae

Dead zone: coastal area where cyanobacteria blooms lead to anaerobic conditions, killing fish and other organisms

Mycrosystins: a class of toxic compounds released by certain cyanobacteria

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April 29, 2025The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning
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Refrigerant - a substance used in air conditioners & refrigerators for its ability to change phases and transfer heat
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April 28, 2025 Why We Should Invest In Rat Massage
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April 27, 2025 Baloo
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April 26, 2025 Wood Lignin
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April 25, 2025Monoclonal Antibodies | How to Turn Cancer Against Itself
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Monoclonal antibodies: antibodies that are made by identical immune cells that are all clones of a unique parent cell
Hybridoma: a hybrid cell used as the basis for the production of antibodies in large amounts for diagnostic or therapeutic use

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April 24, 2025Why you should abandon some of your dreams
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action crisis: part of the process of disengaging from a goal, once difficulties and setbacks accumulate

MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
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FAQs about MinuteEarth:

How many episodes does MinuteEarth have?

The podcast currently has 496 episodes available.

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