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How To Make Carnitas | Recipe
Here's how to make carnitas, a delicious braised pork, as demonstrated by Elias Silva Resinas, head chef of Mexican restaurant Ella Canta.
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The 2019 Surfer Awards Trophies Are Bronzed Works of Art
When fine artist Alrik Yuill was only 5 years old, he would collect discarded surf wax he'd find in the sand at his local beach, warmed malleable by the relentless heat of Southern California. With his sand-caked medium, he would sculpt...
The Daily Conversation
We've Disrupted the All-Important ‘Ocean Conveyor Belt’
Warming ocean water is weakening a major current system called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which helps regulate global weather. Melting ice in Greenland and freshwater from rivers are making the ocean less...
The Daily Conversation
Arctic Warming: A Very Bad Positive Feedback Loop
The oceans are very important in climate change because they take in almost 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases and a lot of carbon dioxide. This makes the oceans warmer and more acidic, which has led to record-low sea ice,...
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Fridge Car
On a hot summer day, the cars eagerly await cold lemonade and ice cream, but the delivery truck arrives with melted ice cream and just water! Leo and Lea come up with a plan to convert the truck into a refrigerated vehicle using parts...
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Only In Cuba 13 - Cuba's First Short-lived Art Festival
Cuba's First Short-lived Art Festival:Cuba's first short-lived art festival lasts barely an hour and a half as the works of art melt, go up in flames, or are eaten by children.
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Creating Biodegradable Chewing Gum from Chicle Paste
The Serial Testers venture into the jungle to find chicle paste, a natural gum, and attempt to make biodegradable chewing gum. With the help of an organic gum specialist, they compare its properties to traditional chewing gum and test...
ATHS Engineering
Meet Your New 3D Printer
3D Printers are useful tools in engineering. Today, we're going to talk about each of the types of 3D printers we have, their components, and more. Make sure you take some basic notes.
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What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit?
A “tipping point” is when a system, with just a small amount of additional energy, is pushed from one stable state to another suddenly and dramatically. This can be a chair falling backwards. Or it can be a major earth system collapsing....
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Ice On A String
Dr. Boyd demonstrates how to pick up ice with string
Minute 0:31 – Introduction
Minute 0:43 – What you need
Minute 1:00 – Explanation
Minute 1:38 – Safety
Minute 1:42 – Demonstration
Minute 2:33 – Explanation
Minute 3:01 – Follow-up...
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Homemade Ice Cream
Along with guest co-host Sarita, Dr. Boyd shows you how to make homemade ice cream while explaining endothermic processes.
0:00 – Introduction
0:22 – What you’ll need
0:47 – Explanation of endothermic & exothermic processes
1:45 –...
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Edible Marshmallow Slime
Join the delicious fun as Dr. Boyd makes Edible Marshmallow Slime!
0:00 – Introduction
0:42 – What you need
1:00 – Safety
1:23 – Making Edible Marshmallow Slime
4:35 – Dr. Boyd eats the Marshmallow Slime
Veritasium
3 Perplexing Physics Problems
This video explores three intriguing physics problems: why shaken carbonated drinks explode, why ice melts differently in fresh water versus salt water, and how a metal ring can lock onto a chain unexpectedly. Demonstrations and...
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Difference between acids and bases. And why supervillains love them.
What is the difference between acids and bases? This is a commonly asked question in both chemistry and biology classes. In this video, we will go through the definition of acid and base, and why they are so important to us, and, uh,...
Astrum
The Crater on Mercury That Defied Conventional Models: MESSENGER Images part 2
When something is as incredibly difficult to get to as Mercury, it is extremely tricky to study. Which is one of the reasons why in all of human history, there have only ever been 2 missions to Mercury, with just one more on the way....
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Mantle
The middle portion of the Earth's interior, between the outer crust and the core. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary...
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How Hot Is the Earth's Core?
Unreachable by man, scientists have developed a complex experiment to demonstrate the heat and pressure at the centre of the Earth. Earth Science - Geology - Learning Points. The Earth's core is a dense ball of iron and nickel. To...
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State of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Laser technology aboard aircraft has allowed scientists to measure the Greenland Ice Sheet, one of the largest bodies of ice in the world. Is it growing or shrinking? Earth Science - Human Impacts - Learning Points. NASA scientists...
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Changing States of Matter
Water can either be a solid, a liquid or a gas. How does matter change state? Chemistry - Atoms And Bonding - Learning Points. Ice, liquid water and steam all consist of exactly the same molecules. Evaporation occurs when the temperature...
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Secret of the Sahara
It may be dry and sandy now, but the Sahara desert used to look very different. Evidence buried deep beneath the dunes reveals that the landscape has been changing naturally over thousands of years. Earth Science - Weather - Learning...
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Recycling Plastics
The differences between thermosetting, thermosoftening and partially biodegradable plastics, and how they can be recycled. Chemistry - Chemical Industries - Learning Points. We throw away a lot of plastic and most is non-biodegradable....
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The Power of the Sun
How do we know how powerful the Sun's energy is from here on Earth? Measuring the surface area of an imaginary giant sphere holds the answer. Maths - Shape A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum....
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Next Stop Mars
The Sun is dying, and getting hotter as it does. As life on Earth becomes unsustainable, could we move to Mars? Physics - Universe - Learning Points. The Sun will die in approximately 5 billion years. As the Sun ages, it will get hotter,...
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Cloud Seeding
Scientists have found a way to make it rain. But weather modification has its critics, and there may be unforeseen consequences surrounding the "cloud seeding" process. Earth Science - Weather - Learning Points. When silver iodide is...