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Four inventions that might change the world

Title: Four inventions that might change the world
Runtime: 1:39
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Tiny lab-grown organs. A spongy cloth that absorbs oil spills. Sure, why not. These are some of the finalists for the European Inventor Award.

Are machines better at investing than humans?

Title: Are machines better at investing than humans?
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Kai-fu Lee is China's most famous venture capitalist, and the former CEO of Google China. He says he's so confident in AI's ability to make better investment decisions than people that he's moving all his money to be managed by machines.

Title: The weird clothes of Rei Kawakubo
Runtime: 1:49
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Rei Kawakubo started the fashion label Comme des Garçons. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the spring 2017 exhibition is exclusively dedicated to her work. So does she make art? Or does she make clothes?

Title: Japan's robot volleyball team
Runtime: 1:12
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: One thing stands between Japan and the Volleyball World Cup: a team of robot jocks.

Title: China's "boy" band
Runtime: 2:05
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In the increasingly crowded universe of Chinese pop groups, FFC-Acrush stands out for one reason: it's a boy band with no boys in it.

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Your Trump jokes are changing the English language

Title: Your Trump jokes are changing the English language
Runtime: 3:09
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Donald Trump is an easy target for liberal jokes. His gestures, speaking style, and tweets are irresistible subjects of mockery for his critics. But according to a lexicography expert, when we imitate Trump, we're actually amplifying the effect his presidency will leave on the English language.

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Stunning deep-sea creatures that fight climate change

Title: Stunning deep-sea creatures that fight climate change
Runtime: 2:08
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: This is the first time scientists have managed to see inside the creature that has a huge impact on the Earth's climate, and could inspire new technological innovations. Read more: https://qz.com/978689/

"We’re the future of Communism": Meet China's favorite boy band

Title: "We’re the future of Communism": Meet China's favorite boy band
Runtime: 2:38
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Fighting Boys are China's first successful home-grown boy band. They sing about homework, winning a Nobel Prize, and communism.

Title: When wildlife photos are fake
Runtime: 1:53
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Your favorite animal calendar could have staged scenes in it. Welcome to the world of "game farm" photography.

What Western fast food chains serve in China

Title: What Western fast food chains serve in China
Runtime: 2:06
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Pizza Hut, KFC, and Starbucks are super successful in China, partly because of their localized menu items. These are some of their exclusive-to-the-mainland offerings.

Title: Sergi built a sex doll
Runtime: 1:17
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Samantha is a “smart” sex doll that responds to human touch. Her creator says that “if you engage with her romantically, you can get her to actually be interested in sex with you.”

Title: Ms. Yeah: China's office supply chef
Runtime: 3:21
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Ms. Yeah cooks elaborate meals at her desk. She's a Chinese internet celebrity. In her creative design agency office in China, Yeah often finds an unlikely alternative to traditional cookware to create her meals.

Miss Yeah's cooking hacks are inspired by the office supplies and objects that surround her; a desk fan mixer, an empty water bottle egg beater, a soda can popcorn maker. Most unbelievably an oven made out of a desk drawer. She usually finds an unlikely alternative to traditional cookware.

She is a foodie and a DIY cooking MacGyver — her life hacks are next level.

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How to trick yourself into eating better

Title: How to trick yourself into eating better
Runtime: 3:18
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Dr. Aner Tal, a researcher at the Cornell Food Lab, studies ways we can "trick" ourselves into healthier eating habits. These are his tips.

Title: How do you eat dim sum? By drinking tea
Runtime: 2:45
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Dim sum is one of the most popular styles of Chinese food. But to do it right, you have to learn how to drink tea. Here's a guide.

Some think Turkish citizens voted “yes” to a dictatorship. This is their side of the story

Title: Some think Turkish citizens voted “yes” to a dictatorship. This is their side of the story
Runtime: 3:31
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Some think these Turkish citizens voted “yes” to a dictatorship. We asked them why they supported a referendum that grants the president more powers.

Saturn's moon Enceladus has the ingredients to host life

Title: Saturn's moon Enceladus has the ingredients to host life
Runtime: 2:24
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Saturn's sixth-largest moon is incredibly far from the sun, but new research shows that it could probably sustain life. Read more: https://qz.com/957409/

How mosquitoes overcome their lousy wings to fly

Title: How mosquitoes overcome their lousy wings to fly
Runtime: 1:54
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Mosquitoes can't flap their wings nearly as far as other animals. Scientists just discovered how they compensate for that evolutionary flaw: https://qz.com/943245/

Title: Never drip wine again
Runtime: 1:36
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A biophysicist studied wine bottles for three years to make sure you can drink ever last drop of wine.

Title: This robot burns Donald Trump's tweets
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: This guy built a robot that prints out Donald Trump's tweets and sets them on fire.

https://qz.com/945394/

The gravity-defying physics of figure skater Nathan Chen

Title: The gravity-defying physics of figure skater Nathan Chen
Runtime: 4:01
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: This video has been updated in a later version to reflect the controversy surrounding the quads in Nathan Chen’s 2018 Pyeongchang Olympic routine.

17-year-old Nathan Chen is on the verge of becoming the world figure skating champion. We break down the gravity-defying physics behind his record-breaking moves.

Nathan Chen is on the verge of becoming the best figure skater alive. But the stresses on the 17-year-old American aren't just psychological. Chen is known for doing more quadruple jumps in a single program than any other figure skater in the world. But the moves are incredibly taxing on the human body. These are the physics behind figure skating's most difficult jump.

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Title: Hallmark's art collection
Runtime: 3:23
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The corporate office where your birthday cards are designed also houses some of the greatest art in the world—from Picasso to Dali.

Title: Nike Air Max turns 30
Runtime: 1:55
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Nike’s multi-billion-dollar empire is built on air, or to be really technical, compressed nitrogen. Happy birthday to the Air Max bubble!

Nowruz: How millions celebrate the Persian New Year

Title: Nowruz: How millions celebrate the Persian New Year
Runtime: 2:11
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: During Nowruz, the Persian New Year celebration, each vibrant item on the haftseen table has its own symbolic meaning.

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Title: Six steps to charm
Runtime: 3:23
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Meet the charm expert whose classical etiquette tips are in high demand with millennials and business people.

Title: The 24-year-old "Luxury Foods Google"
Runtime: 2:30
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Meet the 24-year-old "Luxury Foods Google" who supplies 80% of the Michelin-starred restaurants in NYC with the world’s most exotic foods.

The science behind the Impossible Burger

Title: The science behind the Impossible Burger
Runtime: 3:50
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: The Impossible Burger is a meatless hamburger, but it tastes, smells, and bleeds like a real beef patty. The secret ingredient? Neuroscience.

Flavor scientist Celeste Holz-Schietinger asks "What makes meat, meat?" and interrogates how the brain associates a food with the eating of actual meat. Impossible burger set out to create this meat-eating sensory experience.

Is this the future of meat. Impossible foods is now a vegan option at the White Castle fast-food chain. Are we ready for 100% plant-based, lab-grown food to be a staple of our diets?

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Why wild African elephants get by with hardly any sleep

Title: Why wild African elephants get by with hardly any sleep
Runtime: 3:07
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Scientists tracked elephants with devices like Fitbits, and discovered African elephants in the wild sleep far less than anyone expected. It proves there's a huge gap in what we know about how and why animals sleep.

Indigenous Panamanians protect their forests with drones

Title: Indigenous Panamanians protect their forests with drones
Runtime: 2:30
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Settlers are illegally clearing trees on their land. So indigenous people are employing modern technology to stop them.

Making the largest single stained glass window in the world

Title: Making the largest single stained glass window in the world
Runtime: 4:16
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Judson Studios and acclaimed glass artist Narcissus Quagliata are using a new, beautiful way to make glass. The result is one of the biggest stained-glass windows in the world at the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas.

The first-ever genetically modified ants are outcasts

Title: The first-ever genetically modified ants are outcasts
Runtime: 2:25
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: This could pave the way for future evolutionary biology research using CRISPR.

Title: The films of Steve Bannon
Runtime: 8:47
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Steve Bannon is one of Trump's closest advisors. But he's also a filmmaker. And if you watch his movies closely, they reveal a unique vision for America's future.

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Before Steve Bannon got to the White House, before he ran Breitbart, he made movies. And those movies say a lot about what’s on Bannon's mind. But the key to reading them is actually to ignore the familiar Republican and conservative narratives they use as starting points, and to pay attention to his unique worldview around history. It's in Bannon's movies about history where you see a vision of America's future unlike that of almost anyone else in politics.

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Title: Meet Cassie The Bipedal Robot
Runtime: 0:59
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Cassie is a robot that can walk on uneven terrain, balance, and get up. No small feat since bipedal robots are very difficult to make.

Women's Day: How effective are women's strikes in achieving gender equality?

Title: Women's Day: How effective are women's strikes in achieving gender equality?
Runtime: 3:07
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: March 8th is International Women's Day, and U.S. women have a strike planned. But exactly how effective are women's strikes in achieving equality?

Scientists invented a camera to see from a dolphin's perspective

Title: Scientists invented a camera to see from a dolphin's perspective
Runtime: 1:52
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: It’s the first time researchers have attached cameras to dolphins or whales less than 5 meters long. Read more: https://qz.com/925576/

Scientists just discovered the oldest fossils ever found

Title: Scientists just discovered the oldest fossils ever found
Runtime: 2:08
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: They may hold remains of the earliest life on Earth. Read more: https://qz.com/921969/

These bees taught their friends to play bee soccer

Title: These bees taught their friends to play bee soccer
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: And they did it with a 99% success rate. Read the full report: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6327/833

Scientists discovered a solar system with seven Earth-sized planets

Title: Scientists discovered a solar system with seven Earth-sized planets
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Within a decade, we could know if there's life on any one of them. Read more: https://qz.com/916558

Bill Gates thinks we should tax the robot that takes your job

Title: Bill Gates thinks we should tax the robot that takes your job
Runtime: 1:44
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In an interview with Quartz, Bill Gates explains why robots that take jobs away from people shouldn't get a free pass when it comes to income tax.

As robots take over jobs, humans are freed up for more forms of labor that involve empathy and connection — leading, for example, to better elder care and smaller classroom sizes.

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Title: Professional cuddling: a client's story
Runtime: 1:52
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Heather is a professional cuddler. This is the story of one of her clients. "He cares about me, and I care about him."

The American government knows more about me than anyone else in the world

Title: The American government knows more about me than anyone else in the world
Runtime: 3:21
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: "Seriously, the American government knows more about me than anyone else in the world, than my mom, my dad, my closest friends." Here's how a refugee gets vetted to enter the United States.

How NASA's planetary defense officer defends us from asteroids

Title: How NASA's planetary defense officer defends us from asteroids
Runtime: 3:24
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: At the helm of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office, Lindley Johnson is helping prepare the Earth for the next catastrophic asteroid impact. Here's what that involves.

A 10-year-old Iraqi refugee's new life in the US

Title: A 10-year-old Iraqi refugee's new life in the US
Runtime: 2:57
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: In 2014, Ahmed Al-Zubidi and his family moved to Beaverton, a quiet suburb of Portland, Oregon. Ahmed had applied for for refugee status in 2007 after several of his colleagues were killed by terrorists. The approval process had taken seven years.

Ahmed’s son Mustafa remembers watching news reports on Iraqi television when his father’s boss was killed. “I got used to it,” he says. But after two years in Oregon, Mustafa seems like a normal American 10-year-old. He collects Pokemon cards. He says he lives a life that’s “two times better than my dream.”

Four planets orbit a star 129 lightyears away

Title: Four planets orbit a star 129 lightyears away
Runtime: 1:10
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Back in 2008, scientists took direct images of planets orbiting a star outside our solar system. After seven years of taking more images of the planets, we can watch their orbits like never before.

Scientists discovered why modern tomatoes have no taste

Title: Scientists discovered why modern tomatoes have no taste
Runtime: 2:39
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Over the past few decades, commercially grown tomatoes have gradually lost almost all their flavor. And scientists can now prove that’s no accident.

This robot is learning how not to be awkward in public

Title: This robot is learning how not to be awkward in public
Runtime: 0:59
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Robots don’t do well in crowds. But Stanford scientists are trying to change that.

Title: The soft exosuit
Runtime: 1:10
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: This could be the first step towards a real-life, better version of Iron Man.

Title: The women who voted for Donald Trump
Runtime: 2:05
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: We asked women at US President Donald Trump's inauguration why they voted for him, and what they hope he can accomplish.

Title: The price of an inauguration
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Trump's inauguration might have been the most expensive US inauguration ever. And taxpayers paid for a good chunk of it.

Mohamed Zakariya: The American master of Islamic calligraphy

Title: Mohamed Zakariya: The American master of Islamic calligraphy
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: Mohamed Zakariya grew up in California, dropped out of high school, and started his career working with factory machines. Now he's the preeminent American master of a disappearing art form: handwritten Islamic calligraphy.

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Watch NASA’s amazing visualization of global CO2

Title: Watch NASA’s amazing visualization of global CO2
Runtime: 0:59
Date posted: 10 years ago
Description: A new NASA supercomputer project uses satellite measurements of CO2 to model how this critical greenhouse gas moves through the atmosphere.

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