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What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse

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The Map of Evolution and other sciency posters, researched and designed with love, are now available on the kurzgesagt shop.

Illusions of Time

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Your brain is a time machine!

Can loud music damage your hearing?

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Dig into the properties of sound to find out just how bad loud music is for your hearing.

Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics

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You can read Bill & Melinda Gates' 2021 letter at http://gatesnot.es/3opAPWK​ Certain cognitive biases cause humans to make unsafe decisions in a pandemic, making a terrible disease even worse.

The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine - Melanie E. Peffer

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Explore how a scientist and artist discovered how our brains transmit signals throughout the body, and laid the foundation for modern neuroscience.

How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll

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Nuclear energy creates an uneasy feeling of danger for many people: ancient and dangerous minerals are concentrated to awaken seemingly unnatural powers, creating toxic elements that, if they escape, can and have killed people in horrible ways. How many people has nuclear energy killed and how?

The Illusion Only Some Can See

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Ames window illusion illustrates how we don't directly perceive external reality.

The Plant That’s Full Of Metal

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The amount of metal some special plants are able to take up from the soil would be toxic enough to an average plant to kill it several times over.

These SCP’s Could End The World

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The SCP Foundation has been responsible for keeping not only our world, but our universe safe. They contain some of the most deadly SCPs known to man, because if just one of these vicious SCPs got loose, it could spell the end of the world!

The most colorful gemstones on Earth - Jeff Dekofsky

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What gives opals their signature shimmering colors? Dig into the science of the gemstone’s formation, millions of years in the making.

What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth

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How fast is the speed of thought? - Seena Mathew

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Travel into the brain to see how its network of neurons transmit your thoughts and what factors determine how quickly you think.

How Large Can a Bacteria get? Life & Size 3

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In and out, in and out. Staying alive is about doing things. This very second, your cells are combusting glucose molecules with oxygen to make energy available, which keeps you alive for another precious moment. To get the oxygen to your cells you are breathing.

Why no one has measured the speed of light

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Physics students learn the speed of light, c, is the same for all inertial observers but no one has ever actually measured it in one direction.

Can we build a "perfect" forest? - Jean-François Bastin

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How can trees help in the fight against climate change? Dig into the efforts to rebuild damaged ecosystems and reduce carbon emissions.

Among Us Science - When Does Lying Go Too Far? ft. TheAmaazing

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Gaslighting in Among Us? Probably okay. Gaslighting in a real relationship. Not so much!

Do You Expand With The Universe?

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As the universe expands, is said to "stretch" photons. But if it stretches photons, does it also stretch molecules, galaxies and you? A portion of this video was sponsored by Salesforce.