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Fixing Daylight Saving Time Is THIS Easy

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I'm Uncertain How to Feel About 2023

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Where Did Life Come From? (feat. PBS Space Time and Eons!)

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Reasons to be Upbeat (Thanks to Science!)

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Which Came First - Blossoms or Bees?

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Ask Joe Matters #6

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Are You Afraid of Holes?

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How Bees Can Observe the Invisible

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How Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Route Home

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Why Does Music Captivate Us?

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What's The Most Accomplished Species on Earth?

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My Afternoon With A Giant Pacific Octopus!

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What’s The Hottest Hot and Coldest Cold?

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Mindfulness in the Digital Age

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Why Deadly Viral Pandemics Are Becoming More Common

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The Strange Science of Why We Dream

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How Your Brain Makes Time Pass Fast or Slow

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Are You Sharing a Breath From Isaac Newton?

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Why Do More Species Concentrate Near the Equator?

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Space is Overflowing with Junk. Here's How to Clean It Up…

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Scientists Finally Figured Out What Love Is For

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Why Do Clouds Hover Aloft?

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Why People Don't Trust Climate Science

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How the CIA Secretly Surveilled Climate Change

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Antibiotic Resistance and the Ascent of Superbugs

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97% of Climate Scientists Really Do Agree

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How Do We Measure How Vast the Universe Is?

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Glass is Solid… So Why Is It Clear?

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Could We Recreate Ourselves?

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The Transcontinental Burrito Hypertunnel (is it Possible?)

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How These Ants Swept Across the U.S. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Ask Joe Matters #1

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How Many Stars Can We Count?

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The Secret To Life…

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Building Music From Space!

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Ask Joe Anything #5

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Can You Crush a Human Using the Atmosphere?

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The History of Money (From Barter To Bitcoin)

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How a Planet-Sized Telescope Took the First Picture of a Black Hole | STELLAR

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Where Do Teeth Come From?

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You've Been Lied to About DNA Evidence

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Why Does February Have Just 28 Days?

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Why Dung Beetles Stare At the Stars | IN OUR NATURE

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What Makes Luck?

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Sunlight Is Way Older Than You Think. Here’s Why…

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Chemical Reactions That Revolutionized History

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Can Life Really Be Explained By Physics? (featuring Prof. Brian Cox)

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Do You Really Have Two Brains?

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The Strange Evolutionary Story of the Thylacine

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You Are Chiefly Microbe!

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What's The Most Lethal Creature On Earth?

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Inside the Lab That Invented the COVID-19 Vaccine

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There Are Millions of Skeletons Lying Beneath Washington, DC

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Why Do We All Hate Pigeons?

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Bizarre Involuntary Behaviors Explained!

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What's REALLY Making Earth Hotter?

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Where Do Birds Go During Winter?

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Where On Earth Do You Weigh The Least?

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The Science and Grace of Auroras

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The Dimensions of the Universe

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What is Déjà Vu?!

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Evolution FAILS in the Human Body

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The Most Unbelievable Image Ever Captured by Hubble Space Telescope

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Why Do We Cook?

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DNA Doesn’t Look Like What You Think!

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How Many Species are in Your Backyard?

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How Did We Work Out What Light Is?

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Why Do You Love Your Family?

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How Vaccines Function

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Why It Took Scientists So Long To Adopt This Very Clear Idea

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Climate Science: What You Need To Grasp

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What Colour is the Universe?

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Why Contacting Extraterrestrials Could Be Risky (Dark Forest Hypothesis)

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What Are The Most Influential Science Images Ever?

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Does My Dog Perceive What I'm Thinking?

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Why Do We Venture to Space?

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Ebola Explored

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Could You Be a Chimera?

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The Science Behind A Game of Thrones

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Why Does The Earth Have Levels?

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The Sun Is A Magnet!

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The Reason COVID-19 Is Our Perfect Enemy (and Why We’ll Beat It)

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The Stunning Cycles of Carbon and Oxygen In Your Body

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What Is Nothing?

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360˚ Inside an ICE CAVE!!

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Why Are Some Folk Left-Handed?

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How Scientists Produced the Hottest Thing Ever

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A Slice of Pizza Knowledge!

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Using Gene Editing To Repaint Butterfly Wings

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The TRUE Story of Ben Franklin & His Kite

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How To Process Science News

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ЩΉӨ BЦIᄂƬ ƬΉΣ PYЯΛMIDƧ

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How Do Tesla Coils Work? Musical Tesla Coils in SLOW MOTION! (Guest: @physicsgirl)

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The Universe in a Chalice of Wine (Richard Feynman Remixed)

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Inside the Lab That Protects You From Your Car

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Why Don't Big Animals Get More Cancer?

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The Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time

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Is There Sentient Life On Other Worlds?

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The Foundations of Energy

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There's Proof of Evolution Hiding in Your DNA