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From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. Conventional wisdom holds that the huge variety of dogs is just the result of humans breeding them to be that way. But new research suggests that dogs have been weird from the…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. You might think your risk of cancer goes up as you get older, but that’s not completely true. Among the very oldest people, the risk of cancer actually goes down. Scientists…
From SciShow. Subscribe to the SciShow Rocks Box this month to get 20% off your first Rocks Box for May to receive your own Fulgarite here! https://complexly.store/collections/frontpage Although they form in an instant when lightning strikes, fulgurites are critical clues to how the world changed over thousands of years. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ———-…
From SciShow. Smoking is bad. We know this. But… there’s one disease that seems to like it. As in, smokers are way less likely to get it. Here’s the weird story about why smoking can keep ulcerative colitis at bay, and how we’re using that knowledge to make a smoke-free treatment plan for UC. Hosted…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. The island of Madagascar is one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. But is isn’t just because it’s isolated. All that diversity also stems from its unique geological past, including…
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From SciShow. We all know that roses are red and violets are blue. But how come you never see blue roses, too? Turns out, there’s been over forty years of research into breeding genetically blue roses, and the results are…. a bit disappointing. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon…
From SciShow. Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/SCISHOW and use code SCISHOW to protect your privacy! Invasive species have a bad reputation for disrupting delicate ecosystems and generally causing mayhem. And it’s a reputation they’ve rightfully earned! But every once in a while a new species has moved to town and actually kinda…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. We all know the story. Dinosaurs were roaming the earth, happy as could be, and then our planet met a big asteroid. Thus ended the dinosaurs. But that fast forwards through…
From SciShow. Some beaches are known for being legendary surf spots. They get their status thanks to bathymetry and the physics of waves. And recently a team of physicists used math to decode the secret formula behind those gnarly waves. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow…
From SciShow. Some beaches are known for being legendary surf spots. They get their status thanks to bathymetry and the physics of waves. And recently a team of physicists used math to decode the secret formula behind those gnarly waves. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow…
From SciShow. Kratom, tianeptine, phenibut, synthetic THC, and tadalafil may seem harmless since you can buy them at your local gas station. But sometimes the consequences are deadly. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list…
From SciShow. January 1925 was a scary time to be alive in the remote Alaskan town of Nome. An outbreak of diphtheria had quickly killed two small children, and an untold number would follow if the local doctor couldn’t get his hands on a particular antitoxin. The US government had an emergency supply in Anchorage,…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Money makes the world go round. But did you ever think about what those coins in your cup holder might tell future researchers about you? Turns out, the change in our…
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From SciShow. We’ve all got that one cousin who doesn’t look like the rest of the family, and our ancestors were no exception. Meet Paranthropus, the group of hominins so strange that researchers nicknamed one of them Nutcracker Man. Here’s the whole story of our weirdest looking ancestors. Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them) ———- Support…
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From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Death Cap mushrooms are notoriously poisonous. But now they’re colonizing new homes and evolving new toxins! Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow…
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From SciShow. If you’ve ever done a personality test or read a horoscope and thought, it seemed scary accurate, you may have fallen for something called a Barnum Profile. There’s a psychological trick that makes us all vulnerable to personality tests, so let’s get into the real science behind personality testing. Hosted by: Madelyn Leembruggen…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Accents: Everybody has one. They usually tell us something about where a person is from, or what languages they speak. But there’s one accent that is so new that nobody really…
From SciShow. Learn more about the past, present and future of Earth with Crash Course Geology, premiering 4/2 on CrashCourse: http://youtube.com/crashcourse Fossilized poop might seem gross, but coprolites give us critical information about how animals lived millions of years ago. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ———- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow…
From SciShow. Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/SCISHOW and use code SCISHOW to protect your privacy! At 80 million years old (give or take), the Rockies are relatively young as far as mountain ranges go. But they’re not the Earth’s first attempt at piling up a bunch of rocks in that part of…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Admit it: we all love reality TV. But the phenomenon of social curiosity, or people-watching, may have evolved long before humans did, and that tells us a lot about our social…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Tattoos produce an immune response when you get them. But it turns out they keep affecting your immune system after that — and it might affect how effective your shots for…
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From SciShow. Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/SCISHOW and use code SCISHOW to protect your privacy! Are you a supervillian who likes to collect super impressive lasers? Are you a normal human being who just really likes superlatives to do with human innovation and technology? Are you a cat? Here are some of…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. For generations, Reishi mushrooms have been used to treat a variety of ailments. But a new line of research is testing their viability in the fight against cancer. Hosted by: Hank Green…
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From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. From water, to very hot salt, to water (this time, solid), to microbe-filled soil, let’s unpack five ways to store energy that aren’t your typical, sometimes lickable, electrochemical battery. Hosted by:…
From SciShow. Head to https://www.squarespace.com/scishow to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using SCISHOW ! People all around the world, from North America to Australia, tell the story of a star in the Pleiades disappearing. There’s some evidence to believe this could be a memory of a real astronomical event.…
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From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. If you ever complained about having nothing to do as a kid, our mom may have told you that being bored is good for you. And it turns out, she was…
From SciShow. JMP offers a 30-day free trial for anyone, anywhere. Go to https://www.jmp.com/scishow to see the benefits of visual statistics for yourself. If you’re old enough to remember the Concorde (whether or not you ever flew in one), you might also be wondering why engineers haven’t gotten around to developing an even *faster* commercial…
From SciShow. Head to https://www.squarespace.com/scishow to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using SCISHOW ! From the non-bubonic plague that killed a Welsh king, to the deadliest pestilence in 16th century Mexico, to a pandemic we’re currently in the middle of (No, it’s not coronavirus), here are 7 disease outbreaks…
From SciShow. Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free for a full 30 days and get 20% off their annual premium subscription. Mendeleev’s original, 1869 version of the Periodic Table featured 63 elements. Now, there are 118. But as scientists worked to extend the Table (and fill in a bunch of holes), not…