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What Could Survive An Atomic Bomb?

AdultsGlobal WarmingLifeWorld
Modern weapons are vastly more powerful than the relatively small bomb, so fewer cockroaches would survive today's nukes.

What Happens In One Lifetime?

AdultsHumanLife
A lot can happen during your trips around the sun!

The Girl Who's Allergic To Everything | Living Differently

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British Championship disability gymnast, Natasha Coates, 22, is allergic to everything. She has won 19 British titles and placed first in the British Disability Championships.

Ugly history: The 1937 Haitian Massacre - Edward Paulino

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When historians talk about the atrocities of the 20th century, we often think of those that took place during and between the two World Wars. But two months before the Rape of Nanking in China, and a year before Kristallnacht in Germany, a horrific ethnic cleansing campaign occurred on an island between the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Edward Paulino details the 1937 Haitian Massacre.

I Got Popular...And It Changed Me

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Isaiah had never been cool or popular. He was known as strange, the weird kid - the weirdo - and he stuck to himself. The mean girls and popular kids didn't help his shyness, really hurt his self-esteem, and so, after middle school, he was determined to make high school different.

If The Sun Goes Out For 24 Hours

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What will happen to the planet Earth?

What Are The Chances You'll Die In A Plane Crash?

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Planes are incredibly safe, so these are the reasons you shouldn't worry next time you fly.

How to survive if you get stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere

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What is one supposed to do, if you find yourself in the middle of nowhere? Here are some tips and advice on how to stay alive in the most deserted places.

Optimistic Nihilism

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The philosophy of Kurzgesagt.

The best way to save a choking victim is no longer 'the Heimlich'

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Many people believe the "Heimlich maneuver" is the only viable option to help save a choking victim. Turns out, that's not really the case. Following is a transcript of the video.

Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes

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For the microscopic lab worm C. elegans, life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth. The bowhead whale, on the other hand, can live over two hundred years. Why are these lifespans so different? And what does it really mean to 'age' anyway? Joao Pedro de Magalhaes explains why the pace of aging varies greatly across animals.

Are You Alone? (In The Universe)

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Are you alone? To answer this question we have to take a look what "you" are first. What are you made of and where you stand in this universe. Are you your body? Your atoms? And how are your parts connected to the big picture?

5-Yr-Old Pool Prodigy

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Meet Keith O'Dell, a bonafide pool playing prodigy. At just five years old, Keith pockets balls like a pro. The sport is in Keith's genes - his parents play pool, his grandparents play pool, the family even eats dinner on the pool table. His father says Keith was "born to play pool." The question is, how will his incredible talent effect the life ahead of him?

We Found New Planets. No, You Can't Live There

AdultsLifeSpaceScience
Everyone is freaking out about the discovery of 7 new potentially-habitable exoplanets, but is Trappist-1 really as good as it sounds?

How Should We Define Intelligent Life?

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We've been searching for intelligent life in the universe for decades, but have we been doing it all wrong?

Virtual reality gave this couple the ability to relive their past experiences.

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For Laura and Leo, virtual reality became a doorway to their past lives of experience and travel.

Would you sacrifice one person to save five?

AdultsLifePhilosophySociety
Imagine you're watching a runaway trolley barreling down the tracks, straight towards five workers. You happen to be standing next to a switch that will divert the trolley onto a second track.

How Will You Die?

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Science, statistics and lifestyle can help predict how you will die!

How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth

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There's an organism that changed the world. It caused the first mass extinction in Earth's history

What Is Life? Is Death Real?

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So what is the difference between you and a rock? This seems like an easy, even stupid question. But even the smartest people on earth have no idea where to draw the line between living and dead things.

The Death Of Bees Explained

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In 2015 the bees are still dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappear with them. Millions could starve.