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How Do We Keep Life's Jenga Tower From Toppling?

YouthEcologyNatureWorldScienceBiologyEnvironment
In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll see how conservation biology aims to restore habitat and preserve biodiversity.
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Do Gut Microbes Control Your Personality? | Kathleen McAuliffe | TED

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Biologist Kathleen McAuliffe dives into new research that suggests certain bacteria in your gut can influence major parts of who you are, from your personality to life-changing neurological disorders.
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Plant Your Pants?!?

YouthHow-toNatureScienceBiology
Shanequa went to meet some young science investigators to find out how a big pair of pants has been used for an experiment to check the quality of soil at a farm.
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How Do We Get Energy? (Chemical Reactions): Crash Course Biology #26

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Cells need energy to power the chemical reactions that keep their microscopic cities running, and most of that energy comes from a chemical called ATP.
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Why Does A Disco Clam Light Up?

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Our curator of benthic molluscs Dr. Katie Collins explains this clam’s clever party trick.
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What Is A Core Sample?

YouthHistoryLifeScienceBiology
Have you ever wanted to go back in time— just to see what it was like? Well, scientists have figured out how …sort of…
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Intro To Nutrition

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The goal for today's lesson is to explain the role of nutrition in leading a healthy lifestyle.
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Can a Simple Brick Be the Next Great Battery?

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The world relies on manufacturing, and manufacturing relies on heat — a massive contributor to global carbon emissions, responsible for a quarter of the world's fossil fuel use.
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Can you trust your memory? This neuroscientist isn’t so sure | André Fenton

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There are three kinds of memory that all work together to shape your reality. Neuroscientist André Fenton explains.
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Why Are Frogs So Colourful?

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Join Squeaks as he learns about some of the most colourful animals ever: poison dart frogs!
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A Tour of the Cell: Crash Course Biology #23

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The cell is the basic unit of life, and our understanding of it has advanced as science, and the tools available to scientists, has advanced.
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Everyone Was Wrong About Avocados - Including Us

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If you’re a fan of avocados, you might have heard that they only exist thanks to prehistoric creatures called giant ground sloths.
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You Are Your Microbes

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Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin emphasize the importance of understanding the many organisms that make up each and every organism.
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Diplocaulus: An Ancient Animal

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Squeaks and Jessi discover an animal with a head that reminds them of a boomerang.
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How Did Humans Evolve? Crash Course Biology #19

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What’s a human? And how did we become humans, anyway?
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A Lot About Axolotls

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Join Jessi and Squeaks as they learn about why axolotls have feathery gills and live in water, and how to protect their natural habitat.
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How Did Life Begin? (Evolutionary History): Crash Course Biology #16

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Humans may have been around for a long time, but life has existed for way longer. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll journey through deep time to uncover the history of life on Earth.
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Why Did It Take Us So Long?

AdultsLifeNatureScienceBiologyEcology
We've long known that animal pollination is an important way plants reproduce on land, but we're only JUST finding out animals also pollinate plants underwater.
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The best pregnancy test used to be this frog ... no, really - Carly Anne York

AdultsAnimalsNatureScienceBiologyHealth
Dig into how African clawed frogs can help detect human pregnancy, and how their use in experiments had unintended consequences.
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CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think

AdultsBiologyScienceTechnologyBiotechnology
You've probably heard of CRISPR, the revolutionary technology that allows us to edit the DNA in living organisms.
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Why Do Giraffes Have Long Necks?

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Why do giraffes have such long necks?