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How Do White Walkers Shatter Swords?

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For Game of Thrones fans winter is finally here, and with it comes the long foreshadowed White Walkers. These foes have proven to be a dangerous threat for many reasons, but one of the biggest is their seeming imperviousness to the average weapons of the Seven Kingdoms.

Under the Dark Skies

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National Geographic partnered with the International Dark-Sky Association to provide families with a true ‘dark sky’ observatory experience, free from the artificial light prevalent in city and suburban communities.

Amphibians Face Mass Extinction as Fungus Spreads Across the World

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Results from a recent global survey of amphibians shows that chytrid fungus has threatened twice as many species than previously thought.

How to grow your own glacier

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Explore the ancient methods of growing glaciers, the homemade bodies of ice used as water sources, and how they can be used to combat climate change.

Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?

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Take a look at the theories behind why earthquakes occur, what makes them so hard to predict and the warning system technologies we rely on today.

What Happens When You Go To Sleep High?

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Dude. Sleeping high does what?

What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?

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What happens if we make a huge pile from all 15,000 nuclear bombs and pull the trigger? And what happens if we make an even bigger pile?

Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm

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My first video of a 3 part series on "coordinated inauthentic behavior". Thanks to ExpressVPN for sponsoring this series.

Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?

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Wave power hasn’t yet made a splash because it’s hard to use waves to spin turbines, and because the sea is a harsh place to build things.

The History of Video

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I always wanted to know why film looked better than video. Moving electronic images have as long a history but were invented for a different purpose.

How Do You Survive Being Trapped In Space? ft. William Osman

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William Osman and Blocko are trapped on the international space station for this episode of Deblocked! How do you survive trapped in space?

Why Planes Sometimes Crash

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Could you survive a plane crash?

You Are A Fish

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With our current understanding of evolutionary history and our strategy of cladistic naming, if we wanted to have both goldfish and sharks under a single group called "fish", then mammals must also be called fish.

Can Humans Sense Magnetic Fields?

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Research has found some human brains can pick up on rotations of geomagnetic-strength fields as evidenced by drops in alpha wave power following stimulus.

100 Gallons of Spider Silk | Because Science Footnotes

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Kyle discusses exactly how much spider silk Peter Parker would need to stop that train, responds to your comments, and more!

Can You Survive An Elevator Fall By Jumping?

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Your monthly dose of hypothetical physics scenarios is here, and today we’re dropping Stu, several times, from the top of skyscraper.

What Eating Rotten Food Really Does To Your Body

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Food poisoning is awful, but what's actually happening inside your body when you eat rotten food?

The Origin of Consciousness

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Consciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a closer look on how unaware things became aware.

The Biggest Lie About Climate Change

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You were lied to about climate change.

The physics of surfing - Nick Pizzo

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Wondering how you can catch the perfect wave? Dive into the fascinating and complex physics of surfing.

Why Machines That Bend Are Better

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Compliant mechanisms have lots of advantages over traditional devices. SimpliSafe is awesome security. It's really effective, easy to use, and the price is great.