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How Teenagers' Lack of Sleep is Taking a Toll on Their Mental Health
Research has found that teenagers should be getting eight to ten hours of sleep every night. But many are sleeping far less than that and nearly one in four also suffer from insomnia. William Brangham reports on why it's so hard for so...
SciShow
To Save Sinking Cities, Just Add Water
It's more than climate change putting coastal cities at risk of catastrophic flooding. Subsidence, or sinking, affects cities as they pump out groundwater to use. The solution might be as simple as putting it back.
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The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time
The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America, a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time, out of place...
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How the Walrus Got Its Tusks
The rise and fall of ancient walruses, and how modern ones got their tusks, is a story that spans almost 20 million years. And while there are parts of the story that we’re still trying to figure out, it looks like tusks didn’t have...
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The Island of Shrinking Mammoths
The mammoths fossils found on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California are much smaller than their relatives found on the mainland. They were so small that they came to be seen as their own species. How did they get...
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How Plate Tectonics Transformed Los Angeles
Despite the profound changes we’ve made here in recent history, the epic saga of Los Angeles' natural history is still visible - and even striking - if you know where and how to look for it.
SciShow
Wildfires Make Their Own Weather, Including...
Climate change is causing wildfire season to get worse every year. And our models of wildfires can't keep up with the things fires can do... like spawn devastating fire tornadoes.
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The Little Lobster That Reveals Climate
Pelagic red crabs are actually lobsters - and that’s not even the weirdest thing about them! They sometimes wash up on shore in droves, signaling large scale climate events like El Niños and serving as a warning to marine biologists of...
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Ballot Design Has a Sneaky Influence on Your Vote
In elections, your vote may be influenced by design of the ballot itself, especially when you don’t have strong feelings about which candidate to elect.
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4 High-Tech Ways To Stop Wildfires (And 1 Low-Tech One)
Thanks to climate change, many regions are experiencing longer and more dangerous wildfire seasons. Here are 4 high-tech ways we are trying to stop these fires in there tracks, as well as one that’s a bit simpler.
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The Science of Hyperloop
Michael Aranda explains the nuts and bolts of Hyperloop, the new magnet-driven, solar-powered transit system proposed by Spacex genius Elon Musk. Learn how Musk answered three vexing questions to create the transportation of the future...
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The Engineering Secrets of the World's Toughest Beetle
This arthropod may look modest, but it actually used brilliant engineering to become the world’s most resilient beetle - and we might be able to use its design for our own engineering purposes.
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41% Of Surveyed LGBTQ+ Youth Considered Suicide In The Past Year
As conservative lawmakers push anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, new data from The Trevor Project underscores the mental toll on LGBTQ+ youth. We hear from young people around the country about the challenges they face and their hopes, and John...
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Why Doctors Are Increasingly Prescribing Nature
As rates of chronic disease among children have skyrocketed over the past few decades, pediatricians have increasingly looked for solutions beyond the clinic. Sometimes that means actually prescribing time outside. Special correspondent...
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National parks turn into classrooms for a new generation
At the Muir Woods National Monument just north of San Francisco, students learning by seeing, touching and smelling. The education program is administered by the National Park Service in an attempt to expose the next generation to the...
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NASA scientists hold presser about successful Mars rover landing
1. Wide shot of NASA press conference
2. Reporters at conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator:
"We now know with great certainty that we are at the place where we wanted to be at Gusev crater. There is a...
Associated Press
Activists upset over wildfires, protest PG&E bailout
California regulators have approved a measure allowing Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. to immediately obtain credit and loans while the company is under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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University makes major push for diversity without considering race, gender in admissions
Past Supreme Court rulings have allowed colleges to consider race in their admissions processes and about 40 percent do. But the justices will soon revisit the issue and could overturn years of precedent. John Yang visited a university...
Associated Press
Nunes decries impeachment as smear campaign
The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee says Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is “a carefully orchestrated media smear campaign.”
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Port workers start clearing backlog
1. Wide shot of trucks moving past docks Port of Long Beach
2. Close shot of cargo container being lifted
3. Close shot of Port of Long Beach sign on crane
4. Wide shot of container being moved
5. Close shot of trucks carrying...
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Analysts surprised by Amazon's decision to buy Washington Post
Washington DC - 6 August 2013
1. Washington Post building exterior wide
2. Washington Post building exterior close
3. Building's news ticker announces sale
Berkeley, California - 6 August 2013
5. Cutaway of Dean of the UC Berkeley...
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Thousands of mourners gathered with the families of four slain Oakland police officers for a joint funeral that drew law enforcement officers from around the world and a bevy of elected officials.
HEADLINE: Oakland officers died 'Doing what they Loved'
CAPTION: Thousands of mourners gathered with the families of four slain Oakland police officers for a joint funeral that drew law enforcement officers from around the world and a...
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SOUTH KOREA: BUDDHIST MONKS INPUT ANCIENT SCRIPTURES ON INTERNET
English/Nat
Buddhist monks in a mountain monastery may seem incompatible with computers.
But in one South Korean temple the ancient scriptures that have for centuries been carved on wooden blocks are now being inputted on the...
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Mourners pay last respects to presidential sister
AP Television
1. Wide of St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church with hearse outside
2. Tight of cross
3. Musician Stevie Wonder arriving for funeral service
4. Maria Shriver, daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and others carrying...