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Photographing the world with Google Street View
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- Photographing the world with Google Street View
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Jacqui Kenny is a travel photographer who doesn't travel. Because she's agoraphobic, she found an alternative way to explore the world: Google Street View.
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- This lamp is made of fungus
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Designers in London are growing eco-friendly furniture using fungus.
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- The best photos taken through a microscope
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- An octopus egg hatching, a glistening fingerprint, and fungus attacking a mosquito: this is the best microscopic photography of the year.
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- Korea's daily, multi-step skincare routine for men
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- 3:40
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Male grooming is a billion-dollar industry in South Korea. And David Yi wants to bring Korea's daily, multi-step skincare routines to American men.
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- Title
- How binge watching TV affects your sleep
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- 3:03
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- In the first study of its kind, researchers looked at how binge watching affects sleep. They found that it can lead to insomnia and fatigue. But they also don't necessarily think people should stop. Here's why.
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- South Korean survival bags for nuclear war
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- As the war of words between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have ratcheted up in recent weeks, some South Koreans are taking measures into their own hands by packing survival bags.
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- Africa's largest modern art museum
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The just-opened Zeith Museum of Contemporary Art Africa is in a repurposed grain silo.
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- A robot conducts an orchestra
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A robot called YuMi conducted the Lucca Philharmonic orchestra at a robotics showcase in Pisa, Italy.
- Title
- Could a T. rex beat an elephant in a race?
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- 3:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A new equation enables scientists to compare the top speeds of any animals, living or extinct, knowing only their mass. It could have a huge impact on evolutionary research.
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- Indivisible's plan to stop Trump with protests
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- 8:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Yelling at politicians isn't just cathartic. It's also part of a strategy that some liberal activists think could throw a wrench into Trump's agenda.
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Since Donald Trump became president, liberal social media has been filled with viral videos of people yelling at their members of Congress. Those scenes, it turns out, are part of a larger strategy by a group called Indivisible. Indivisible’s plan is to derail Trump’s legislative agenda using tactics they gleaned from the Tea Party. And its founders are experts in those tactics — they were some of the Tea Party’s earliest victims. Read more: https://goo.gl/j2Tkk6
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- China's billion-dollar livestreaming industry
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- 4:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Livestreaming in China is a big industry and it's getting bigger. It's estimated to reach $5 billion in 2017. Next, it's going global.
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This video is part of the Quartz Index, a series about how the global economy is fundamentally changing.
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- Cassini: The NASA mission so successful it had to be destroyed
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- NASA killed a $3 billion spacecraft to find alien life.
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- Everything new about Apple's iPhone X
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Apple announced the iPhone X, which costs $1000 and has three key features no other iPhone has ever had.
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- Over-the-top Chinese wedding photos
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Chinese couples are going underwater and traveling around the world for their wedding photos. It's an $11 billion dollar industry in China.
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- Chocolate's newest color
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- There's milk, dark, white, and now, ruby chocolate. It's made naturally from ruby cocoa beans and tastes sour.
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- Title
- A soft robot that heals itself
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Researchers are building robots out of a material called elastomer. When heat is applied it heals itself, reforming broken bonds.
Robots with soft exoskeletons might more easily grip terrain or objects, but they are also easily punctured or torn. For a soft robot made of elastomer, that type of damage can be repaired with the simple application of heat.
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- A drone that can track packages
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- MIT Media Lab scientists created a way for drones to locate and catalogue items in warehouses instantly as they fly up and down the aisle.
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- What Rockport, Texas looked like after Hurricane Harvey
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- New aerial footage from the US National Guard shows the utter devastation of Rockford, TX left in Harvey's wake.
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- A robot that can conduct Buddhist funerals
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The Japanese robot Pepper has worked in hospitals, as a receptionist and in restaurants as a waiter. Now it's been programmed to conduct Buddhist funerals.
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- Why men and women take selfies differently
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- 4:18
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- How you take selfies is all to do with evolution, according to a study by an evolutionary psychologist.
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- The physics of boob armor
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- 3:57
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Wonder woman, Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones, Xena Warrior Princess; one of these armors is not like the others. "Boob Armor" is a breastplate with actual breasts in it. It might look great, but it could actually kill its wearer.
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- Hurricane Harvey from space
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are looking at Hurricane Harvey with more detail than ever. Read more: https://qz.com/1064281
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- A drone that prevents shark attacks
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Australia is testing out a drone with shark-spotting software to keep swimmers and sharks out of danger.
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- A 360 tour of a giant Chinese bitcoin mine
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- One of the world's biggest bitcoin mines is in Inner Mongolia, China. Quartz Tech Reporter Joon Ian Wong describes his rare trip inside.
The mine is operated by Bitmain, a company headquartered in Beijing, and one of the world’s leading bitcoin miners. Read more about Bitmain's story and bitcoin mining in China: https://goo.gl/qbxFH2
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- Holograms of the Syrian war
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Artist Aasd J. Malik used augmented reality to make the Syrian war feel real to people living in the US.
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- Why do we take pictures of our food?
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- 1:46
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A recent study in the Journal of Consumer Marketing found that people who take pictures of indulgent foods before taking the first bite tend to enjoy their meal more than those who just ate.
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- Title
- The solar eclipse that gave us the light bulb
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- 3:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- In 1878, Thomas Edison went on a solar eclipse expedition to prove he could be a scientist. He ended up changing America forever.
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- Drones you can dance with
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The exhibition +/- Human, at London’s Roundhouse incorporates drones with motion sensors that “dance” with humans around them.
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- Inside a giant bitcoin mine
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- China is home to most of the world's bitcoin mines. This one, in Inner Mongolia is one of the world's largest. It has 25,000 servers and spends nearly $40,000 per day on electricity. Read more: https://goo.gl/rW5Brj
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- All the science we've learned from solar eclipses
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- 2:55
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- 9 years ago
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- From the dawn of astronomy to a critical test of Einstein's general theory of relativity, solar eclipses have revolutionized how we look at the sky.
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- A first aid kit for stress
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Designer Rui Sun created an "Emotional First Aid Kit" to help you deal with daily stressors.
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- A cotton candy machine that could heal wounds
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- 1:20
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- 9 years ago
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- Scientists are using cotton candy machines to spin polymers that could be used in healing wounds or creating lighter bulletproof military vests.
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- The world's fastest Rubik's Cube solvers
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- 1:10
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- 9 years ago
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- Speedcubers from 67 countries came to Paris for this year's Rubik's Cube Championship.
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- The way a baby fish exercises changes the shape of its face
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- 1:23
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- 9 years ago
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- This fish's jaw shape is determined by how quickly it moves its mouth. The discovery suggests our environment can affect our bodies just as much as our genes.
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- Poop is helping people cook and heat their homes
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- 1:26
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- 9 years ago
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- A Kenyan company has developed a method for transforming poop into a new fuel source.
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- Oysters from a vending machine
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- 1:38
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- 9 years ago
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- French vacationers can buy fresh oysters any time they want from a vending machine.
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- MIT scientists created "living" jewelry that moves
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- 1:01
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- 9 years ago
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- Scientists from MIT Media Lab have created jewelry that can change shape, create new patterns, react to weather, and turn into a bluetooth microphone and speaker.
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- Fighting tuberculosis with sea sponges
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- 1:25
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- 9 years ago
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- Sponges might contain the cure to one of the world's deadliest diseases. Researchers at the University of Central Florida are working to isolate chemical extracts in sea sponges that could kill tuberculosis bacteria.
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- Robots that annoy you
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Designer Nicole Pérez created a series of misbehaving robots just to annoy you. She believes flaws make robots more humanlike.
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- Why do Koreans have two different ages?
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- 1:56
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- 9 years ago
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- A Korean baby born on Dec. 31 turns two years old the next day. Here's why.
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- A cardboard robot that could end up on Mars
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Researchers have created a new robot called the C Turtle. Using just cardboard and a Raspberry Pi Zero, it mimic's a sea turtle's crawling movements through sandy and pebbly environments.
To learn more about the project visit their website: https://sites.google.com/view/c-turtle/
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- Sunscreen from Antarctic plants
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Researchers in Chile discovered that two Antarctic plants contain molecules that could one day protect humans from UV radiation.
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- Title
- Solar panels that look like pandas
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- 1:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- China is building a hundred new solar energy farms with a cute twist - the solar panels are arranged to look like pandas.
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- Title
- This guy is mashing-up Drake and Tchaikovsky
- Runtime
- 6:18
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Composer Steve Hackman is creating mash-ups, like Drake & Tchaikovsky or Radiohead & Brahms, so more people will learn to love classical music.
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- Title
- Training kids with cerebral palsy to walk better
- Runtime
- 2:40
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Researchers at Columbia University are helping kids with cerebral palsy walk with less pain. It could maintain their ability to walk for decades longer than existing treatments.
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- Title
- How the "Most Human Human" passed the Turing Test
- Runtime
- 4:50
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- To prove he was human, Brian Christian competed against some of the world's most advanced AI.
Brian Christian competed in an annual Turing Test competition as part of the Loebner Prize, in which he had to convince a group of judges that he was a human, not a computer program. He won, and was named the "Most Human Human."
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- Title
- The Third Thumb
- Runtime
- 1:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Third Thumb is a prosthetic extra thumb that you control with your feet. It was created by a product designer at the Royal College of Art in London.
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- Title
- Kat Thek bakes cakes for trolls
- Runtime
- 3:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- When you order a cake from Kat Thek, she'll decorate it with a troll's mean comment about you, track down the troll's address, and send them the cake. She's part baker, part detective, part internet vigilante.
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- Title
- This robot can spray paint giant murals
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- An Estonian inventor programmed a robot to spray paint 30-meter-high murals. Now he wants to paint the largest one in the world.
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- Title
- Why are we obsessed with movies about robots?
- Runtime
- 3:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Robots are often some of the most compelling and beloved film characters. Why?
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From Wall-E to Westworld, some of the most captivating films and TV shows feature robots in main roles. Despina Kakoudaki, a professor at American University, says that in many of those movies, the robots are actually the most human characters.
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