Primitive Technology: Downdraft Kiln
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Nutritionist Answers Health Questions From Twitter
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0:12 / 12:36 The Future of Botany: Crash Course Botany #15
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What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole?
Adults EnvironmentBlack holes can destroy everything – but can they be destroyed? What happens if we push physics to the absolute limits, maybe even break it and the universe in the process?
Bear Grylls shows Bradley Cooper how to cross a ravine | Running Wild with Bear Grylls
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The First-Ever Cargo Ship Powered By Green Fuel | Morten Bo Christiansen | TED
Adults EnvironmentThe shipping industry is vital to the global economy, but it's also a huge contributor to the climate crisis.
The Future Of Trees Is Liquid
Adults EnvironmentWe love trees, but the main problem is that they aren't exactly travel-sized. However, new technology wants to bring the fresh-air benefits of trees to places that the real deal just can't thrive, like dense urban areas!
Are Life-Saving Medicines Hiding in the World’s Coldest Places?
Adults EnvironmentCould the next wonder drug be somewhere in Canada's snowy north? Take a trip to this beautiful, frigid landscape as chemist Normand Voyer explores the mysterious molecular treasures found in plants thriving in the cold.
Can We Capture Greenhouse Gases?
Adults EnvironmentIt’s one thing to say a business is carbon neutral. It’s another to be able to truly account for that carbon at all stages of the production process.
The continents are moving. When will they collide?
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4 Plants that Hunt Underground
Adults EnvironmentCarnivorous plants tend to live in environments where the soil can’t provide enough of the nutrients they need to survive, so they have developed all sorts of methods to trap and consume the critters of the area, including hunting underground!
Change Your Life – One Tiny Step at a Time
Adults EnvironmentChange Your Life – One Tiny Step at a Time
The Department of Redundancy Department
Adults EnvironmentWho needs redundancy? Well, everyone, it turns out.
Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything
Adults EnvironmentWater can dissolve more substances than anything else on earth...so why doesn't it dissolve everything away?
Is Soil Alive?
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Can YOU Fix Climate Change?
Adults EnvironmentThis video was supported by Gates Notes, the personal blog of Bill Gates, where he writes about global health, climate change, and more.
What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse
Adults EnvironmentThe Map of Evolution and other sciency posters, researched and designed with love, are now available on the kurzgesagt shop.
How Wildfires Generate "Never-Ending" Storms
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How Many People Did Nuclear Energy Kill? Nuclear Death Toll
Adults EnvironmentNuclear energy creates an uneasy feeling of danger for many people: ancient and dangerous minerals are concentrated to awaken seemingly unnatural powers, creating toxic elements that, if they escape, can and have killed people in horrible ways. How many people has nuclear energy killed and how?