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From MinuteEarth. Our newsletter: https://news.minuteearth.com/subscribe Earthling Pride Tee: https://store.dftba.com/collections/minuteearth/products/earthling-pride-tee You might think the most dangerous thing that can happen at a beach is a shark attack, or that the scariest thing might be a tsunami – but instead, rip currents kill more beachgoers than all other causes combined. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about…
From MinuteEarth. It looks SO gross (and IS kinda gross) but some animals need to digest their food twice to get all the nutrients out of their meal.
From MinuteEarth. Thanks to the ASCEND project for partnering with us on this video! Plants can tell when competitors are nearby because they can *see* them. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: – Shade avoidance: changes in plant body form and function that occur in response…
From MinuteEarth. To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/minuteearth . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. There’s an island in the Caribbean where David used to perform magic tricks for monkeys. And it was super cool because it suggested that they have the…
From MinuteEarth. One of the best ways of studying bacteria is to grow them on a petri dish, but only a tiny percentage of bacterial species will grow on them. The other 98% of them simply refuse to. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: – Petri…
From MinuteEarth. When we say a meme goes “viral,” we aren’t actually saying it’s making people sick. But the math behind a meme’s spread suggests it’s actually a pretty spot-on analogy. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: – Basic reproduction number: a figure expressing the average…
From MinuteEarth. To download a free hi-res version of the birth control chart, go to https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth There are huge varieties of birth control methods because there are lots of different ways to disrupt the process of sperm-egg fertilization. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: – Contraception:…
From MinuteEarth. Honeybees are dying from parasites, pesticides, and poor nutrition, but we can help them in a number of ways. One of them is by encouraging them to make their own antibiotic: propolis!
From MinuteEarth. To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/minuteearth . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. Lots of languages and species are going extinct, but because others keep getting found or described, the official counts of languages and species are still increasing. LEARN…
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From MinuteEarth. They say you eat with your eyes first. And they (whoever ‘they’ are) seem to be right. Would you eat a poop-shaped treat or do you save things like that for Halloween?
From MinuteEarth. Who will win? Jasper from @Minutelabsio or Asa Stahl from @planetarysociety ?
From MinuteEarth. Check out our new Eclipse Explorer app, where you can watch solar eclipses across the solar system! https://labs.minutelabs.io/eclipses And get your own Solar Eclipses Across the Solar System Tee here: https://store.dftba.com/collections/minuteearth/products/solar-eclipses-across-the-solar-system-tee Over the last year, we at MinuteEarth and MinutePhysics have had the privilege of working with NASA’s Heliophysics Education Activation Team make…
From MinuteEarth. Black bears in North America are actually doing pretty well! However, the same thing is not the case for their Asian cousins. So why do some species thrive while others falter? The cause, as you might expect, is humans.
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From MinuteEarth. Download the Tab For A Cause browser extension at https://tab.gladly.io/global-health/minuteearth2/ When a ship sinks, lots of factors, like the ship’s materials, the water quality, and the depth of the seafloor all play a role in determining how long the ship will last down there – as a result, the Titanic will be gone…
From MinuteEarth. Don’t make us crabby! Join our Patreon at https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth Many crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. That’s sort of like what happens with YouTube videos. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: –…
From MinuteEarth. Start learning with your free 30-day trial of Brilliant at https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth The average human, in theory, eats 3 spiders a year. If you’re not eating them and I’m not eating them, who is? LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: – Probability distribution: A function…
From MinuteEarth. Cement is responsible for 8% of humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions, which is a problem if we want to build more cities. To reduce the carbon dioxide emitted by the production of cement, people are trying to replace limestone with other types of materials.
From MinuteEarth. This Product is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), part of NASA’s Science Activation portfolio. The material contained in this document is based upon work supported by a National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA) grant or cooperative agreement. Any questions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this materials are…