2017-08-17

SciShow (videos of June 2017)

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4:46 The Science of a Selfie Taking photos used to require technical knowledge and time in a lab, but now we have electronic devices in our pockets that do all of the work for us. How do these miracle devices do it?
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4:45 Wallace, Darwin's Forgotten Frenemy Everyone knows the name Charles Darwin, but his lesser known frenemy, Alfred Russel Wallace, was developing a lot of the same ideas around the same time.
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10:28 7 Animals with Super Weird (and Sometimes Horrifying) Teeth Humans don't have interconnected teeth for slicing, or a secondary set of jaws to clamp down on prey already in our mouths, however, the rest of our animal kingdom is full of strange and awesome ad...
2:49 Is Premium Gasoline Really Better for Your Car? Are you slowly killing your car by using below average gas? Olivia talks about octane ratings and how your vehicle is designed to handle them.
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4:27 Why Can't My Cat Roar? Only four species in the cat family can roar: lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars. And zoologists are pretty sure those four species can’t purr. But why?
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4:21 How Apple Flies Changed the Way We Think of Evolution How does one species evolve into two within the same habitat? Discover the details behind a rare type of evolution: sympatric evolution.
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2:33 Why Do Glue Labels Warn Not to Sniff It? Abusing inhalants, like glue, can cause serious health problems, and you shouldn't need a video on the internet to tell you that. But let's take a deeper look at why these chemicals are so dangerou...
4:54 French Fries Aren't Really Going To Kill You If you use the internet, you may have read about a nutritional study about the deadliness of fried potatoes. It's a little more complex than that, though. Even if you haven't heard of that one, we'...
16:08 SciShow Quiz Show: Weird Animal Parenting How do adult strawberry poison frogs pass on toxins to their tadpoles? What happens when scientists add iodine to axolotl tanks? Find out, as our How To Adult hosts Rachel Calderon-Navarro, Project...
2:33 How Do Those Rock Sculptures Stay Up? You may have seen rock sculptures seemingly defying physics in your newsfeed, but what's actually happening?
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4:17 The Man Who Tried to Give Himself An Ulcer... For Science In 1984, Dr. Barry Marshall had a theory about ulcers that he couldn't convince the science community of. So, he took matters into his own hands... or stomach, and infected himself with a potential...
4:31 How "Flying Death" Has Saved Hundreds of Lives Curare, known as "flying death," was used for centuries to make poisoned arrows. Scientists discovered how to use it to create life saving medical treatments that we still use today.
2:47 Can You Be Allergic To Sunlight? For you, going outside might mean a sunburn if you're out there too long without enough sunscreen, but for some people, any sun exposure can lead to hives and rashes within minutes!
5:42 Are Modern Humans Really Older Than We Thought? Until recently, fossil evidence for modern humans has only gone back 200,000 years. A new discovery in Morocco and thermoluminescence dating may help extend that beyond 300,000 years.
10:10 Your Microbiome and Your Brain We've talked about the trillions of microbes inside you before, but we're learning that these little creatures may have more influence than you thought!
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3:03 Can Hot Tubs Make You Sick? Soaking in a hot tub is a great way to relax your tired body, but it also comes with some microbial risks.
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5:36 Why Is My Pee Green? How worried should you be when your urine isn't yellow, but instead it's green, red, or even black?
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5:10 3 Mind-Blowing Recent Dinosaur Discoveries From new insights into how we classify dinosaurs, to the structure of their feathers, to the timeline of their embryonic development, paleontologists are still making cool discoveries all the time!...
2:56 What Causes Runner's High? After a good distance of running, you might have felt a sensation of happiness. That is the runner's high and some chemicals in your body cause it.
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4:50 The Mystery of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Death Trap Paleontologists think they've solved part of the mystery of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, a dense bed of Jurassic dinosaur fossils. Also, electron microscope images reveal new, mucus-drenche...
20:38 5 Undervalued Scientists: Great Minds Compilation Take some time with us to look back on a few of our episodes about scientists who deserve a little more recognition than they got.
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3:20 Why Are So Many Pro Athletes Lefties? Only 10% of the world is left handed, so why are so many athletes lefties?
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3:33 Is Sugar Alcohol as Awesome as It Sounds? Sugar alcohol sounds like a fun adult dessert, but what is it really?
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2:56 Can You Learn Perfect Pitch? Some people can identify a pitch without even looking at sheet music. Is it something they're born with or can it be learned?
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5:43 6 of the Coolest New Species Discovered in the Last Year Check out Ms. Spider Hat and five other new species scientists have discovered and classified in the last year!
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9:23 7 Amazing Origami-Inspired Inventions Scientists and engineers are taking folding into the future!
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SciShow (videos of July 2017)

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2:17 What Does "A 50% Chance of Rain" Actually Mean? Your friendly local weather person says there's a 10% chance it will rain today, so you throw on your flip-flops and head out to enjoy a beautiful day. Next thing you know, you're running through p...
4:50 More Clues to the Oldest Fossils Ever New evidence suggests some fossils as the oldest known sign of life on Earth, and scientists may have a way to speed up the process of carbon neutralization in the ocean!
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4:41 Slime Mold: A Brainless Blob that Seems Smart Slime molds look gross and... not smart, but they definitely seem to communicate and plan even without neurons. Michael explains the science behind these clever eukaryotes.
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4:53 The Invisible Line in the Indian Ocean There’s an invisible line between two groups of islands in the Indian Ocean with two totally different animal populations. It took three branches of science to figure out why it exists.
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2:46 Why do we Have Earwax? No Judging: At one point you've probably put a finger in your ear and dug out some rather unsightly ear wax, but why does your body produce this yellowy substance in the first place?
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4:16 Lime Disease: How a Fruity Drink Can Give You a Rash Furanocoumarins, the evolutionary weapons of certain plants (including limes), can ruin your vacation, or cause caterpillars to curl leaves. Find out why in this episode of SciShow!
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5:19 Terpenes: The Most Common Language in the World The most popular language on earth isn’t spoken, it’s smelled. Those smells are made up of terpenes, a multipurpose class of chemical compounds. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon
3:03 Why Do Earthworms Come Out After It Rains? Scientists come up with lots of possible reasons why rain triggers earthworms mysterious behavior: popping out of the soil and getting stranded on the ground.
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5:32 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 Austra...
26:08 Conservation Genomics and Kizmit the Porcupine: SciShow Talk Show Brit Garner, host of SciShow Psych, talks about the research she's doing in conservation genetics/genomics, and Jessi from Animal Wonders shows off an African crested porcupine!
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2:13 Why Are Belly Flops So Painful? You botched your forward double somersault and biffed it hard on the water. Why does it have to hurt so bad?
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5:18 The Fog That Killed 12,000 People How can smog affect the life expectancy of people? Scientists have investigated the causes and repercussions of The Great Smog of London in 1952, and continue to study the effects of air pollution ...
4:14 Viroids: Possibly the Smallest Pathogens on Earth Potato spindle tuber disease wasn't a life-or-death situation, but it led to the discovery of viroids: infectious, replicating bits of RNA
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2:15 Why Do Cat Eyes Glow in the Dark? Those eerie shining orbs staring at you from the bushes when you take the trash out at night could be any number of animals, but why do their eyes glow like that?
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5:50 Meet CERN's New Particle: A Double-Charm Baryon! This week, CERN announced a new particle that will help further understanding of the fundamental forces, and a simulation of ancient creatures may give us a clue as to how life grew beyond the micr...
8:41 4 Buildings Too Awesome to Be Real (For Now) Humans take up a lot of space, but engineers are already coming up with some amazing solutions for the future.
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3:22 Can Plants Get Sunburned? Plants need sunlight to live, but they also need to block the sun's more harmful rays. Plants can't put on sunscreen or find shade, so how do they avoid getting a gnarly sunburn?
4:01 3 Ways Your Sun Protection Can Backfire People have a lot of ideas about how they can protect themselves from the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, but many of those ideas just don’t hold up, and some make things worse!
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3:49 Why Peeing in the Pool Could Be Dangerous | Disinfection By-Products It’s kind of a pain to get out of the pool just to use the bathroom, plus chlorine is a disinfectant so it is fine to pee in the pool, right? Well, it turns out that might give you some health issu...
3:15 What Does SPF Mean? Sunscreen comes in different levels of SPF, or sun protection factor, but what does that mean for your skin and the ultraviolet radiation hitting it? Olivia explains the science of SPF.
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4:24 An Update on Boaty McBoatface! It turns out the name Boaty McBoatface didn't go to waste, and the submersible now bearing the name has returned from its first mission! Also, the diversity of frogs we see today may have arisen mo...
15:17 Sunburns, Sunbeams, and Sunspots: A Summer Compilation We're enjoying the summer here in Montana, and to help celebrate we thought we'd put together a compilation of our favorite sun-related episodes from our past. Don't worry, you won't need sunglasse...
2:44 White Sand Beaches: You're Sunbathing on Fish Poop Find out how parrotfish, zooxanthellae, calcium carbonate (aragonite), and poop combine to make the white sandy beach sunbathers love.
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2:39 Why Do Your Eyes Get Red in the Pool? It's not just chlorine that irritates your eyes in a pool. It's actually something a lot more disgusting
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2:50 What Did Dinosaurs Really Sound Like? You probably remember the T.rex’s iconic roar from Jurassic Park, but it turns out that dinosaurs actually didn't sound that ferocious.
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