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The science behind the Impossible Burger

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The Impossible Burger is meatless, but it tastes, smells, and bleeds like the real thing. The secret ingredient? Neuroscience.

Why Chinese Manufacturing Wins

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This video explains why Chinese manufacturing takes the first place worldwide.

How to practice effectively...for just about anything - Annie Bosler and Don Greene

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Mastering any physical skill takes practice. Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement, and it helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence. But what does practice actually do to make us better at things? Annie Bosler and Don Greene explain how practice affects the inner workings of our brains.

The Clowns Helping Refugee Children To Laugh Through Play | Amazing Humans

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Ash and his team of clowns, musicians and dancers are 'play specialists' who work with children in refugee camps across Europe. The aim is to allow the kids "to feel good, feel daft, and feel playful".

Binging with Babish: Puerco Pibil from Once Upon a Time in Mexico

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Once Upon a Time in Mexico, against all odds, played a large role in the creation of BwB - my first-ever DVD, its special features showed me that I could one day be a filmmaker *and* a chef. In this 2003 Banderas action-comedy, Johnny Depp inexplicably caps a cook for making this Yucatanian special a bit too perfectly; as director Robert Rodriguez says, make at your own peril.

MIT's self-folding origami technology

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MIT's self-folding origami technology that could change how we design everything from airbags to wearables.

You Might Get Fat Just By Smelling Your Food

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The nose's olfactory receptors are stimulated when we smell food and other odors. But could the process of smelling cause weight gain?

The power of creative constraints - Brandon Rodriguez

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Imagine you were asked to invent something new. It could be whatever you want, made from anything you choose, in any shape or size. That kind of creative freedom sounds so liberating, doesn't it? Or ... does it? if you're like most people you'd probably be paralyzed by this task. Why? Brandon Rodriguez explains how creative constraints actually help drive discovery and innovation.

How Airlines Schedule Flights

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With so many destinations all across the world, it's just natural that most routes require connections. So airlines need to attract connecting passengers in order to stay in business.

The Man Who Has Inseminated Over 1,000 Honeybees | Amazing Humans

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The bee population has dropped dramatically and Michael Waite is taking matters into his own hands with a scheme to inseminate Queen bees.

The real reason streetcars are making a comeback

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It's mostly about economic development.

Swimming vs. Running: Which Is The Best For You?

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There has always been a constant debate as to which is the best form of exercise, so it's time science finds the answer.

China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2

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South-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North.

GoPro: Best of Tour de France 2017

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The 104th Tour de France ended with Chris Froome wearing the yellow jersey and logging fastest overall time. Check out some of the best moments from cycling's greatest race with GoPro who was in the middle of it all.

Croque Madame: The Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich

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Special thanks to SCJ for shooting - the ultimate breakfast sandwich for hangovers, one-night-stands, or both. This video was made in response to a Reddit AMA question: What's your favorite breakfast sandwich?

100 Years of Family Dinners ? Mode.com

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Foodie fans, this one's for you! Whether you lean toward 1915-style roast beef and franconia potatoes, or if 2015's kale craze suits your taste, this look at food over the past century will satiate your palate.

100 Years of Male Pop Stars | Vanity Fair

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How have music icons changed over the last century? We look at how the styles of male icons have evolved over the years, from Duke Ellington and Bing Crosby to Michael Jackson and Prince.

Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 1

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Jing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world's largest supercity, by merging three provinces into one continuous megalopolis of 130 million people.

Why We Are All Addicts

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We tend to imagine that we can only become addicted to a few sorts of things. But real addiction is about using something, anything, to keep our real emotions, fears and hopes at bay. There are many more addicts among us than we think.

Is There an Alternative to Political Correctness?

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Political correctness aims for some very nice results, but its means have a habit of upsetting a lot of people. Might there be an alternative to it? We think there is, and it's called Politeness.

Why It's HARD To Land on Mars

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This video is about why it's harder to successfully land spacecraft and landers and rovers on Mars than on Earth, or Venus, or the Moon, or Titan, or asteroids. It all comes down to atmospheric density! When there's no atmosphere, you can do a powered descent in a flimsy tinfoil spacecraft like the Lunar Module, and when there's plenty of atmosphere you can do an unpowered descent via heat shield and parachutes like the space shuttle, Apollo command module, Soyuz, Huygens, etc. But on Mars with its thin air, you have to do both powered & unpowered descent, getting the worst of both worlds.