SciShow
The Sex Lives of Early Humans
- Title
- The Sex Lives of Early Humans
- Runtime
- 3:58
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- From biological reproduction to seeking pleasure, have you ever wondered about the sex lives of ancient humans? There's a lot more that happened than what you'd expect, and some things are pretty shocking. Join Hank Green for a fun and surprising episode of SciShow—you've been warned!
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Sources:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111101-humans-mating-denisovans-neanderthals-southeast-asia-science/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/05/100506-science-neanderthals-humans-mated-interbred-dna-gene/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070116-neanderthals.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070316-gorilla-lice.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080812-neandertal-dna.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8660940.stm
- Title
- More Higgs boson news!
- Runtime
- 3:20
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank brings us up to date on the latest in the search for the Higgs boson and interviews Fermilab physicist Rob Roser.
Newest info (June 20th, 2012): http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/latest-higgs-rumors/
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Previous SciShow episodes on the Higgs boson:
"Quantum fishing for the Higgs boson" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzahpuwKt_U
"So what IS the Higgs boson?" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUnDsNL_5nk
Sources:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/science/higgs-boson-may-be-indicated-in-new-data.html?ref=science
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0307/Higgs-boson-hunt-approaching-end-game-say-scientists-video
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2012/03/07/tevatron-experiments-see-possible-signs-of-the-higgs-boson-in-favored-region/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
- Title
- Why We Love Sugar
- Runtime
- 4:12
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank talks about a sweet-tasting substance we humans just love - where it comes from, why we need it and how we could maybe stand to love it a little less.
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CrashCourse Biology Photosynthesis episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQK3Yr4Sc_k
Sources:
http://www.sugar.org/images/docs/about-sugar.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis
http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/blogs/healthy-food/types-of-sugar-0921
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/kling/energyflow/psn_primer.html
- Title
- The Risks of Overpopulation
- Runtime
- 10:18
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- With our population hitting 7 billion people, what does this mean for the health of our planet? Are we at risk of running out of resources? Join us for a new episode of SciShow where Hank talks about the issues of rising global population and what it means for our planet. Let's go!
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Sources:
Life Expectancy: http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=195
Demographics: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2011/07/28/333.6042.649-b.DC1/SciencePodcast_110729.pdf
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/a-fresh-look-at-population-bombs-and-bulges/
http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/29/sex-deficit-bad-for-japans-bottom-line/
Environment: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2097720_2097782_2097814,00.html
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/10/26/wildlife-biodiversity-i...
- Title
- Mendeleev's Periodic Table
- Runtime
- 3:52
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells us about the awesomeness of the periodic table and the genius of the man who invented it.
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References and citations for this dose can be found in the Google document here: http://dft.ba/-23D-
- Title
- Inside the Ice Man, Dark Matter Mystery, and Fukushima Cleanup
- Runtime
- 3:35
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank throws three bite-sized stories at ya: the sequencing of 5300-year-old ice man Oetzi's genome; a confusing mass of dark matter; and how the cleanup of the Fukushima disaster is going one year later.
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Sources:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/28/icemans-genome-furnishes-clues-to-his-ailments-and-ancestry/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17191398
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/10/full/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-decontaminates-towns-near-tsunami-hit-nuclear-plant-unsure-costly-effort-will-succeed/2012/03/05/gIQAQ0VHsR_print.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17213965
Images:
http://today.lbl.gov/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/fukushima.png
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/186515main_abe...
- Title
- Earth's Not-So-Juicy Center
- Runtime
- 4:36
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank takes us on a journey to center of the Earth to explain both how the solid core formed and why it is so important for life as we know it.
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Sources:
http://www.ordons.com/asia/far-east/9976-sakhalin-1-project-drills-worlds-longest-extended-reach-well.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/inside.html
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/Particle/solwind.html
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Journey_to_the_Center_of_the_Earth%27_by_%C3%89douard_Riou_41.jpg
- Title
- Faster Than Light Facts, Horny Little Man, and Worst Science Movie Winner!
- Runtime
- 9:03
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank gets to the bottom of this "faster-than-the-speed-of-light-neutrino" kerfuffle, discusses some ancient stuff, and announces the winner of the award for worst science in a film.
And check out YouTube EDU's Pop Quiz, featuring questions from some of it's newest educational channels, including CrashCourse and SciShow!
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/03/are-you-brainiac-take-youtube-edu-pop.html
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Citations:
http://www.quantumdiaries.org/author/seth-zenz/
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/PR19.11E.html
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/2012/02/22/superluminal-neutrino-result-caused-by-faulty-connection/
http://www.nature.com/news/flaws-found-in-faster-than-light-neutrino-measurement-1.10099
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/02/offic...
- Title
- Europa
- Runtime
- 4:11
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells us four incredible things about Jupiter's sixth moon, Europa.
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References:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/11/111116-lake-europa-jupiter-moons-earth-space-science-nasa/
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10608.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/scienceshot-icy-europa-looking.html?ref=em&elq=8f42909034db42aab865178f232755e9
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081210-europa-oceans.html
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=39004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)#cite_note-Budget-78
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_europa.html
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/galileo/
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/289/5483/1340.abstract
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Objec...
- Title
- The Mysterious Leap Second
- Runtime
- 4:32
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Leap Day's got nothing on the Leap SECOND! Hank explains why a second is being added to 2012 and why some are upset about it.
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- Title
- Rare Earth Elements
- Runtime
- 4:16
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank reveals why our love affair with the rare earth elements has a dark side.
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References:
http://washingtonindependent.com/101462/california-mine-represents-hope-...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/business/energy-environment/09rare.htm...
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/rare_earths/
- Title
- Obesity
- Runtime
- 11:59
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells us some of the surprising things that could be causing or contributing to the obesity epidemic.
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References:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_118194.html
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7151813.stm
http://news.discovery.com/human/gut-bacteria-obesity-111026.html
- Title
- Google Street View in the Great Barrier Reef
- Runtime
- 2:31
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Subscribe to the Catlin Seaview Survey here:
http://www.youtube.com/catlinseaviewsurvey
The Catlin Seaview Survey will be taking thousands of 360 degree panoramas of the Great Barrier Reef, not just for science, but so that every person with an internet connection can experience the world's largest structure...at least virtually.
The partnership with Google will bring these images into Google Maps, Google Earth, Panoramio and, of course, YouTube.
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Citations in Google Document here: http://dft.ba/-1Vrf
- Title
- Filippo Brunelleschi: Great Minds
- Runtime
- 4:44
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank talks about Renaissance architect, engineer, and professional cranky guy Filippo Brunelleschi in this "Great Minds" dose.
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More on Brunelleschi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Brunelleschi
http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/renaissance/brunelleschi.html
http://www.gap-system.org/~history/Biographies/Brunelleschi.html
- Title
- Awesome Inventions by African Americans
- Runtime
- 3:41
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Who invented microphones, PCs, and video game consoles? In honor of Black History Month, Hank talks about some African Americans scientist/inventors who've helped make all our lives more awesome.
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Sources:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/000103/archive_034033.htm
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/computer-science/dean_mark.html
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/38.html
http://www.black-inventor.com/Dr-Mark-Dean.asp
http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0903web/west.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/technology/personaltech/14lawson.html?_r=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lawson_(engineer)
Images:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_West.JPG
http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/dean.index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fairchild-Ch...
- Title
- Helium
- Runtime
- 3:53
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank talks about everyone's favorite squeaky-voice gas and why it's important for more than party balloons.
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For further reading:
"U.S. government agencies work to minimize damage due to helium-3 shortfall," Toni Feder, Physics Today October 2009, page 21
http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v62/i10/p21_s1?isAuthorize...
"Nation's helium reserve running on empty?" Leslie Tamura, Washington Post, Oct.11, 2010
http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele002.html
- Title
- Wheezy Waiter on Movie Science, Mutant Flu Facts, and 2 Sounds You've Never Heard!
- Runtime
- 10:35
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- UPDATE ON H5N1 FLU RESEARCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls-6KOwPRX0
Wheezy Waiter announces the SciShow nominees for "Worst Science in a Film," & Hank talks about the bird flu and shares two sounds that had never been heard by human ears until very recently.
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Special thanks to Craig Benzine AKA Wheezy Waiter: http://www.youtube.com/wheezywaiter
Sources:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2011/01/nasa-picks-best-worst-sci-fi-movies-what-are-yours/
http://www.mikebrotherton.com/2008/02/08/the-worst-science-fiction-movie-ever/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/07/10/meloncholia/
http://thesciencebit.net/2011/08/11/shock-rise-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-is-scientifically-implausible/
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2011/11/lars_von_trier_...
- Title
- Cloaking Devices!
- Runtime
- 4:00
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank pretends he has an invisibility cloak, and describes how some enterprising scientists are working towards making things invisible using nanotechnology and mirages.
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Sources:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090506-cloaking-device-star-trek.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060525-invisibile.html
http://nanotech.utdallas.edu/documents/Mirage.pdf
http://geekout.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/17/cloaking-experiment-draws-comparisons-to-harry-potter/
http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-4484/22/43/435704
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YO4TTpYg7g
- Title
- GRACE Mission Data Informs Climate Science: Getting Beyond the Spin About Sea-Level Rise
- Runtime
- 3:13
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank sets the record straight on some of the findings of NASA's GRACE mission and how they relate to predictions about sea level rise and climate change.
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More on NASA's GRACE mission: http://science.nasa.gov/missions/grace/
Sources:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10847.html#/ref6
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-036#1
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/what-do-new-findings-on-ice-melt-and-sea-level-rise-mean/2012/02/12/gIQAL56KBR_blog.html
Images: [All Public Domain]
http://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/images/Grace/On%20Orbit%20Rendering.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/grace20120208bot.html
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/grace20120208mid.html
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1062
- Title
- Gold: The Big Bling
- Runtime
- 3:31
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank talks about a shiny element that has fascinated humans for millenia.
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For more:
http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/NatSci102/lectures/supernovae.htm
http://www.valdosta.edu/~cbarnbau/astro_demos/stellar_evol/evol_3.html
- Title
- Football Disease, Moon Base Dreams, and the Deepest Vents Ever!
- Runtime
- 10:12
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank breaks the news to you about your brain on football, the reality behind the latest moon-base plan, and an epic win -- and fail -- in the animal kingdom.
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Sources:
http://www.wired.com/playbook/2011/02/duerson-suicide-brain-study/
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v306/n2/full/scientificamerican0212-66.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-08/opinion/nfl.life.after.the.game_1_nfl-player-football-career-big-time-college-football/3?_s=PM:OPINION
http://gamesover.org/retirement/when_the_cheering_stops
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/01/26/is_there_anything_we_need_on_the_moon
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/pdf/wcsar9201-2.pdf
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/27/pf/newt_gingrich_moon_colony/?hpt=hp_t2
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/289775/mars-prize-robert-zubrin
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- Title
- The Mayan Calendar & 2012
- Runtime
- 4:45
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells us about the Mayan calendar & why December 21, 2012 will not be the end of the world.
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Sources:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2011/09/14/2012-truth-about-end-of-world/
http://books.google.com/books?id=n3MPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA602&lpg=PA602&dq=september+18,+1618&source=bl&ots=LiBCNNljG9&sig=hkaRUYLo3z0EXW7iHOFVza36EYs&hl=en&ei=PWDZTomFGtDMiQKWruWBCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCUQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=september%2018%2C%201618&f=false
http://www.pauahtun.org/cgi-bin/mayagreg.py
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_Long_Count_calendar
http://users.hartwick.edu/hartleyc/mayacalendar/mayacalendar.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091106-2012-end-of-world-myths.html
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2011/09/14/2012-truth-about-end-of-world/
- Title
- Ancient Lake in Antarctica Reached!
- Runtime
- 4:32
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank gets to the bottom of an exciting, and kinda weird, announcement from Russian scientists at the Vostok Research Station in Antarctica. Have they reached a 20-million-year old underground lake? Maybe! Is there a hoard of Nazi secrets down there too? No!
**EDIT** Confirmation of reaching the lake came this morning! For more check out the article from the New York Times: http://dft.ba/-vostok
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- Title
- Cavitation
- Runtime
- 3:02
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells you about cavitation - the power of tiny bubbles to weaken metal, kill fish & maybe even cure cancer.
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- Title
- Climate Change
- Runtime
- 10:52
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- In which Hank details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change.
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Solar Energy Infusion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPVZUTLAvA
Epigenetics Infusion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1bZEUgqVI
- Title
- Curiosity: Mars' Next Visitor
- Runtime
- 4:38
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Plutonium powered robot car! With a laser gun! That's (kind of) what's hurtling through space right now as part of NASA Mars Science Laboratory heads for the Red Planet. Hank walks you through this historic mission, with the help of some kick ass animations (thanks NASA!).
Mars Science Laboratory
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
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- Title
- Yellowstone Supercomputer
- Runtime
- 3:41
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Ever notice how adding "super" in front of something makes it way more awesome? Hank gives us the rundown on the Yellowstone SUPERcomputer.
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- Title
- Solar Storms
- Runtime
- 4:15
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Solar Storms! Moaning Myrtle! Wondering what the frick is behind the solar flares that slammed Earth earlier this week? Hank lays out how that juicy ball of plasma we call the sun causes us trouble from time to time.
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References:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/14dec_mslrad/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/19sep_secretlives/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/18aug_cmemovie/
http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/solar_chat.html
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/X-class-flares.html
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/coronalweather/CMEsFlares/index.html
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06may_carringtonflare/
- Title
- Mind Reading
- Runtime
- 3:03
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank describes some scientific advances in the field of mind reading.
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Read more:
"Scientists Can (Almost) Read Your Mind" - http://dft.ba/-1Es9
http://gallantlab.org/
- Title
- Can Your Environment Affect Your DNA? | Epigenetics Explained
- Runtime
- 9:29
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Did you know that your environment and lived experiences can actually affect your DNA? Welcome to the world of epigenetics! In this fun episode of SciShow, Hank & his clone Circus Hank explain the power of epigenetics, which studies the factors that determine how much or whether some genes are expressed in your body. Let's go!
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More SciShow!
Solar Energy - http://youtu.be/4uPVZUTLAvA
Foldit Gamers FTW - http://youtu.be/JdBcpdH_ptA
- Title
- Foldit Gamers FTW
- Runtime
- 4:34
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells us how some gamers are outperforming sophisticated computer programs to help solve the puzzle of protein folding and to assist scientists in finding better treatments for HIV/AIDS, cancer, and Alzheimer's.
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Play Foldit! http://fold.it/portal/
Read more about the Foldit project:
Foldit Gamers Solve AIDS Puzzle That Baffled Scientists for a Decade - http://techland.time.com/2011/09/19/foldit-gamers-solve-aids-puzzle-that-baffled-scientists-for-decade/
Foldit Gamers Solve Riddle of HIV Enzyme within 3 weeks - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/
- Title
- Tatooine Discovered?
- Runtime
- 3:24
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank tells us about NASAs discovery of the 1st planet ever discovered to be orbiting a binary star.
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Read more about NASAs Kepler Mission: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-16b.html
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- Title
- So what IS the Higgs boson?
- Runtime
- 5:17
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank responds to viewer questions, and explains what the Higgs boson particle actually IS.
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- Title
- Tardigrades: Adorable Extremophiles
- Runtime
- 4:20
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank explains why NASA and the European Space Agency are in love with tardigrades and how these extremophiles are helping us study the panspermia hypothesis.
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- Solar Energy
- Runtime
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- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
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- Title
- Electric Airplanes for the Future!
- Runtime
- 2:13
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
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- Title
- Quantum Fishing for the Higgs Boson
- Runtime
- 4:37
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank talks to some VIPs from CERN about the question on everyone's mind: does the Higgs Boson particle exist? And describes how CERN is going about finding the answer.
Hank interviewed Sergio Bertolucci on October 11, 2011 and Rolf Heuer on October 25, 2011. In the time since then, CERN researchers have gotten some tantalizing clues, but the Higgs boson has yet to be found.
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For more on the search for the Higgs-Boson, watch Hank's full interview with Joe Incandella, the deputy spokesperson for the CMS detector at CERN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWEOUgMq88o
- Title
- Non-Newtonian Fluids & A Bulletproof Hoodie
- Runtime
- 3:32
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank describes how non-Newtonian fluids can save lives - and dreams of a bulletproof hoodie.
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- Title
- SciShow Preview
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 15 years ago
- Description
- Hank gives you a sneak peek into SciShow - a new YouTube program that just might change the way you look at your planet, your universe, and even yourself.
New episodes coming early January 2012!
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