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Your Brain Probably has a "Pokemon Region" | SciShow News
If you're a Pokémon super-fan seeing Detective Pikachu this weekend, a little bit of your brain might light up that won’t light up in the brains of those that didn’t try to catch 'em all! Find out why that's important to understanding...
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Where did Teeth Come From??
Everywhere in the animal kingdom you can find teeth in all sorts of shapes and sizes, so you probably think you have a pretty good idea where they came from. But in reality, this debate is still a hot one, and it may have something to do...
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How Climate Change Helped Dinosaurs Take Over
New research suggests climate change in the past might have helped dinosaurs spread across the world. And modern climate change is revealing some of the things they left behind.
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Astrobiology & the Search for Alien Life
Hank talks about astrobiology - the study of and search for life in the universe off Earth. Right now, the field has more questions than answers, but all they all seek to answer that one fundamental query: are we alone in the universe?
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We Might Be Totally Wrong About Alzheimer’s
Scientists found that the prevailing hypothesis of how the Alzheimer’s disease starts might be wrong, and some viruses could be the culprit.
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The Mysterious Origins of the Nucleus
The cell nucleus is crucial to multicellular life, so you think science would have a good idea how it evolved. The truth is, we don't, but Scientists do have some theories, including invading giant viruses!
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The Most Brilliant Scientists (Who No One Believed)
Did you know that the scientist who invented germ theory was disbelieved for over a decade? There are many brilliant scientists who's genius wasn't believed until many years later. Join Hank Green for a new episode of SciShow and learn...
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6 Mysteries Geologists Can't Solve
There are some geological areas on the planet that scientists still don't understand. For most things it's pretty clear—combine a volcanic eruption a dash of erosion, and boom, you’ve got a striking cliff! But not all the features on...
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Can You Solve These Dinosaur Mysteries?
We can learn a lot from dinosaur fossils, but figuring how they behaved is a real challenge.
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An Alzheimer’s Drug That Doesn’t Treat Alzheimer’s?
In 2021, the FDA approved a treatment that claims to stop Alzheimer's at the source, removing the plaques in the brain long thought to cause the symptoms of the disease. But, as is often the case, things are more complicated than they...
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How Tongues Helped Vertebrates Conquer Land
You might not think much of your tongue, but without it, we may have never conquered dry land and the world as we know it.
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How to Predict the Odds of Anything
Statistics! They're every scientist's friend. But they can be easy to misinterpret. Check out this thought exercise with Hank to understand how some mental kung fu known as Bayesian reasoning can use stats to draw some downright...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why do we have crooked teeth when our ancestors didn't? | G. Richard Scott
According to the fossil record, ancient humans usually had straight teeth, complete with wisdom teeth. In fact, the dental dilemmas that fuel the demand for braces and wisdom teeth extractions today appear to be recent developments. So,...
PBS
Finding the Connection Between Prosperity, Compassion & Happiness
Usually, as a country's GDP goes up, that nation's well-being tends to rise as well. But for the last 35 years, as GDP has grown in the United States, Americans' average happiness hasn't increased. Economics correspondent Paul Solman...
PBS
Why The Midwest's Deep Freeze May Be A Consequence Of Climate Change
More than a quarter of the U.S. population is expected to deal with sub-zero temperatures this week. The extreme cold has sparked some public skepticism over global warming, but scientists actually believe it is a consequence of climate...
Bozeman Science
Practice 6 - Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Paul Andersen explains how scientists modify theories by constructing explanations. He also discusses the cycle of design used by engineers to solve problems. He starts by defining a theory as a well-established explanation of a...
Be Smart
Theory vs Hypothesis vs Law
Some people try to attack things like evolution by natural selection and man-made climate change by saying "Oh, that's just a THEORY!" Yes, they are both theories. Stop saying it like it's a bad thing! It's time we learn the difference...
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Agriculture May Have Changed How People Speak | SciShow News
The development of agriculture was a huge game changer for human beings and it may have even changed the way we speak.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Einstein's miracle year - Larry Lagerstrom
As the year 1905 began, Albert Einstein faced life as a "failed" academic. Yet within the next twelve months, he would publish four extraordinary papers, each on a different topic, that were destined to radically transform our...
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Do Animals Appreciate Music?
Animals might be music lovers, but how can we know? Is the ability to perceive and appreciate music a shared human and animal experience?
PBS
When Birds Stopped Flying
Ratites have spread to Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. And there are fossils of Ratites in Europe, Asia, and North America too. That's a lot of ground to cover for birds that can't fly. So how did Ratites end up all...
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Higgs Boson Discovery! We think?
Hank gives us the specifics on the "discovery" of the elusive Higgs boson. It is, at the very least, a victory for the scientific method!
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5 Scientists with Ideas That Nobody Believed ... Who Were Right
People have struggled to understand some hypotheses scientists had, which are correct but were disclaimed back then. So here’s the 5 scientists and their ideas that nobody believed. Chapters 0:00 0:07 0:15 0:23 0:30 0:38
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The Evolution of Male Homosexuality
Hank goes from space to sex and then to motherhood, covering the SpaceX launch, a mission to the moons of Jupiter, intersexual workplace rivalries, the evolution of male homosexuality, the fossil evidence of squishy baby skulls, toddler...