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Why Do Manatees Die When Power Plants Shut Down?
While the Florida manatee is threatened by human activity in a myriad of ways, perhaps the most surprising among those threats is the closing of aging power plants.
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Why Do We Have Such Crooked Teeth?
A lot of humans need or want braces to fix their crooked teeth, but why do you never see a dog walking down the street with headgear? Our ancient ancestors and mac and cheese may be to blame!
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SciShow Quiz Show: With the SciShow Space Reid Reimers!
Welcome to SciShow Quiz Show, where SciShow Space co-hosts Hank and Reid are back for another round!
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Secrets of the Vampire Squid
This week in SciShow News, Hank tells us about some weird science, including a squid that's not a squid, animals that can talk, and new insights into how you can mess up your body much faster and for much longer than you ever thought...
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TED: How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee
AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee details how the US and China are driving a deep learning revolution -- and shares a blueprint for how...
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Susan Blackmore: Memes and "temes"
Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to...
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Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human
In this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (and controversial) technologies, like customizable babies, whose adoption might drive...
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TED: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI | Maurice Conti
What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more...
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Does Your Cockatiel Have an Accent?
Dialects are a part of how we communicate, but it also turns out that many animals have dialects depending on what part of the world they live in.
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What We Know About the New Coronavirus January 2020
The WHO has declared the new coronavirus a global public health emergency—but that doesn't mean you should panic.
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Why Do Humans Have Butts?
If you've been wondering why we have butts, wonder no more! We have an answer for you.
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SciShow Talk Show: Dr. Amanda Duley, Brains, & Joy the Macaw
Dr. Amanda Duley of the spectrUM Discovery Area's BrainLab joins the show to share some of the activities that visitors of the lab get to experience and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings on Joy the blue-and-gold macaw.
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Kelsey Leonard: Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans
Water is essential to life. Yet in the eyes of the law, it remains largely unprotected -- leaving many communities without access to safe drinking water, says legal scholar Kelsey Leonard. In this powerful talk, she shows why granting...
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Juan Enriquez: The life code that will reshape the future
Scientific discoveries, futurist Juan Enriquez notes, demand a shift in code, and our ability to thrive depends on our mastery of that code. Here, he applies this notion to the field of genomics.
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The Amazing Humanoid Diving Robot
Today on SciShow we bring you a cool humanoid diving robot and insight into the evolution of the venus flytrap.
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The Science of Screaming, And What Was the Biggest Dinosaur?
Scientists dissect the human scream for the first time, and also re-think what was thought to be the biggest dinosaur in the world.
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How Much Humanity Weighs
Hank gives us a summary of a strange new calculation, which estimates the total body mass of all the humans on earth.
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Should You Worry About Antarctica's New, Massive Iceberg?
How concerned are scientists about the Larson C ice shelf calving its most recent iceberg? Archeologists have also found new evidence that confirms earlier dates for the existence of ancient Australian humans.
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Can This AI Hear Alzheimer’s on the Phone?
It can be tough to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, but a team of researchers believes that artificial intelligence might be able to do it just by listening.
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Steven Wise: Chimps have feelings and thoughts. They should also have rights
Chimpanzees are people too, you know. Ok, not exactly. But lawyer Steven Wise has spent the last 30 years working to change these animals' status from "things" to "persons." It's not a matter of legal semantics; as he describes in this...
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The People Who Lived in Denisova Cave | SciShow News
Once upon a time, we coexisted with other human species. And there’s one place on Earth that may have taught us more about that than any other single site.
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The Science of Dreaming
Dreaming is one of the weirdest things we do & in this SciShow infusion Hank talks about how science is helping us understand why we dream, what our brains are up to when they're doing it, and why dreaming may be critically important to...
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6 Surprising Blood-Drinking Animals
Hank introduces us to 6 blood-drinking (or otherwise consuming) animals that you may not be aware of. Don't freak out... Chapters VAMPIRE BAT 1:35 LAMPREY 1:52 HOOD MOCKING BIRD 2:20 THE VAMPIRE FINCH 2:46 BUTTERFLIES 2:56 HUMANS 3:22
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The Fish With Human Teeth
A fish with eerily human-like teeth was caught in a New Jersey lake. And scientists have learned to speak Bird!