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MinuteEarth — 514 episodes

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Title
1

Why Bees Mostly Ignore The Waggle Dance

2

Fetus Poop

3

Biological Control

4

There’s Really Only One Way To Die

5

yellow crazy ants

6

Invasive species

7

Could This Thing *Really* Fly?

8

Delta Works

9

Hottest Place

10

When Does It Make Sense To Kill Your Sibling?

11

Cold Sap

12

Frozen Trees

13

40 Years Without A New Antibiotic. Why?

14

Before rainforests

15

Rainforests

16

Why Hives Turn Against Their Queens

17

Garbage again

18

Garbage

19

Why Haven't We Domesticated Monkeys?

20

Deep Sea Fish

21

Metal Hoarders

22

There’s no such thing as a fake feather

23

Metal Hoarders

24

Metal Plants

25

Why is it always males that get eaten during sex?

26

Turbines

27

Dog Breeds

28

ALL THE CATS, EXPLAINED

29

Nefarious Plants

30

Plant Gossip

31

Why Don't Our Bones Keep Growing Forever?

32

Teamwork

33

Plant Injury

34

Do Mushrooms Benefit from Being Hallucinogenic?

35

Weight Dispute

36

Tallest Organism

37

Three Specific Ways AI Could Kill Us All

38

Immortal Jellyfish

39

Telomeres

40

How Deep Can Caves Get?

41

Scavenging Hyenas

42

Hyena Families

43

Why Grass Grows Better Under Trampolines

44

Hyena Poop

45

Young Earth

46

What Happens When Scientists Work With Unexpected Experts

47

You've Been Misled About The Water Cycle

48

What I Learned on Monkey Island

49

Bats and Viruses

50

Sugar Dust

51

ALL THE DOGS, EXPLAINED

52

Why Coyotes Are IMPOSSIBLE To Exterminate

53

The Problem with Antivenom

54

TNT vs Dynamite

55

The Norway rat

56

This Video Took Us 8 Years To Make

57

When Evolution Glitches Out

58

Why The Frequency Illusion Is Everywhere Now

59

Bulbasaur’s Feet

60

Opportunistic Researchers

61

Another Ancestor Paradox

62

Which Planet Has The Strongest Quakes?

63

The Science Of Slipperiness

64

Pollen Is Not Plant Sperm (It’s MUCH Weirder)

65

Your Favorite YouTube Channels Might Not Survive This

66

Could Pikachu exist in real life?

67

Could Charmander exist in real life?

68

How do fish get into isolated mountain lakes?

69

The Ancestor Paradox

70

inside of your body is REALLY LOUD

71

Are Scientists Going Extinct?

72

Why Don’t All Rivers Make Canyons?

73

Smallest Rodent

74

Lemmings Suicide

75

Why Haven't We Cured Cancer?

76

Electrical Wires Made Of Bacteria?!

77

What Happens When Predators Disappear?

78

Why Don't Snakes Poison Themselves?

79

Why Do Butterflies Bother Being Caterpillars?

80

Hamsters vs Gerbil

81

Categorize Mice

82

How To Take A Dinosaur's Temperature

83

The Species That Broke Evolution?

84

Why There Are No King Bees

85

The Deadliest Thing At The Beach

86

ALL Plants Have Color Vision?!

87

Frogger

88

Plowed Owls

89

Why Monkeys Can Only Count To Four

90

The Truth About Petri Dishes 🧫

91

memes go viral cuz they're so sick

92

How Does Birth Control Work?

93

Why is the number of languages "increasing"?

94

Invasive Pythons

95

Smooshed Snakes

96

Why Don't We Eat Carnivores?

97

Why does the north get more total eclipses?

98

What’s Eating The Titanic?

99

Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?

100

Who’s Eating All The Spiders?

101

Hedgehogs Survey

102

Perfect Predator

103

Weird Things Animals Do During Eclipses

104

How Much Gold is in Our Poop?

105

Inside The Sunny Center of a Hurricane

106

The Never Ending Lightning Storm

107

Identify Antibodies

108

Capillary Action

109

Why Don't Electric Eels Shock Themselves?

110

The time I was a human incubator

111

Why Flushing Isn't For Everyone

112

Why Hurricane Paths Are WEIRD

113

The Antarctic Ocean is WEIRD

114

Plague Test

115

False Results

116

Why Did It Take Us So Long?

117

Eclipses Used To Be Terrifying

118

Apparently tree FINGERPRINTS are a thing

119

How eclipses proved that the Earth is slowing down

120

Why Do Weeping Willows Weep?

121

Naming COVID-19

122

Swine Flu

123

This Chemical Does Nothing, But It's Still Bad For You

124

Is Bigger Better?

125

The WEIRD Way Monkeys Got to America

126

In The Future, Death Will Be Different

127

Why Do People Hate Koalas? (ft. @tibees )

128

Micro Extinction

129

Softwood Pollination

130

Why Are They All In Antarctica?

131

Should More Species Be Extinct?

132

These Countries Are Cheating

133

How Fish Get Away With Being Colorful

134

Why Most Fossils Are Incomplete

135

Softwood Hardness

136

Janka Scale

137

Ancient Humans Made Millions Of These - We Don’t Know Why

138

Why We Haven’t Learned More In 101 Years Of Trying

139

This Is Not A Bug

140

How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World

141

Is Pregnancy A Disease?

142

Softwood Evolution

143

Colloquial and Taxonomic

144

You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age

145

The Weird Sex Lives of Bluegills

146

The Disease You Will Never Survive

147

Why Do Heart Attacks Cause *Arm* Pain?

148

What Is The Best Shape For A Farm?

149

Angiosperms and Gymnosperms

150

Hardwoods and Softwoods

151

When Was The Worst Time In History To Die?

152

The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years

153

Why It's Impossible To Win a Nuclear War

154

When Tree Planting Goes Wrong

155

Which Is Worse: Underpopulation Or Overpopulation?

156

Balsa Hardwood

157

Dog Years

158

What if We Replaced Nuclear With Potatoes

159

How We Learned That Water Isn't An Element

160

There’s No Such Thing As “Warm-” Or “Cold-” Blooded

161

Mushroom Wars

162

The Couch Candy Protocol

163

Different Thunders

164

Thunder Shockwave

165

The Plant You Don’t Have To Water

166

We Have No Idea Why

167

When 90dB is LOUDER than 120dB

168

Why Weather Forecasts Suck

169

What Happens When A Volcano Meets a Glacier?

170

Shock wave

171

What’s Thunder

172

How Do Abortion Pills Work?

173

Why Continents Are High

174

Our Lungs Have A Fatal Flaw

175

Vampire Life is Hard

176

Do Other Diseases Have "Long" Versions?

177

Whale Sounds

178

Stable Stations

179

The Actual Reason Men Die First

180

Why Is There So Much Land In The North?

181

The Super Secrets of Sewage

182

They all do the same, but we still need them

183

Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From?

184

Bertha Benz

185

Favorite Green

186

Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything

187

Screens are NOT the reason kids need glasses 👀

188

The Freshwater Paradox

189

Why Do Humans Vomit So Much? 🤮

190

Is Soil Alive?

191

Disasters Price

192

Cheaper Alternatives

193

Bitcoin mining is a lot like reindeer mating 🪙💖🦌

194

The Cheapest Way To Save A Life

195

Which is Worse?

196

Why The Ocean Needs Salt

197

Why The Weather Is Worse At The Mall

198

Coal Harm

199

Specific Energy

200

How Birds Fooled Military Radar

201

The Most Common Allergy In The World

202

Why The Shortest Day Of The Year Isn't The Coldest

203

The Plankton Paradox

204

Why Some Fruits Won’t Ripen On Your Counter

205

Jet Fuel

206

Visible Plates

207

Hyena Butter: Everything You Did And Didn't Want To Know

208

The Hurricane Category Scale Is Broken

209

How To Solve Every Global Crisis

210

The Place Where Time Flows Backwards

211

The Science of Hobbit Gluttony

212

Sinking Plates

213

Convection Currents

214

Why Sharks Are Covered In Teeth

215

How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System

216

How To Survive Poison

217

Why These Bears “Waste” Food

218

How Fevers REALLY Work

219

Moving Plates

220

Plate Tectonics

221

How Long Did People Use To Live?

222

We don't know what a tree is (and this video won't tell you)

223

Why It's Good To Have A Weak Hand

224

An Unexpected Consequence of COVID

225

The Lost Penis Enigma

226

Mountain weather

227

Soil creep

228

Why We Faint (When Other Animals Don't)

229

How Do Some Waves Get SO Big?

230

The Ecology of Superheroes

231

Proteins: Explained

232

Which Will Kill You First?

233

Subterranean River

234

Chimps and Bonobos

235

Why "Nothing" Matters in Science

236

The Problem With Life Expectancy

237

I found the BEST coronavirus depiction (+ explanation)

238

Dogs vs Cats: The Diversity Paradox

239

Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics

240

Gigantopithecus

241

Categorize Apes

242

How Firestorms Form

243

Why Most New Species Are Discovered By Amateurs

244

Does It Pay To Cheat?

245

The Plant That’s Full Of Metal

246

The Best Pokémon (According to Science)

247

Cow Fences

248

Wolf Fences

249

Dangerous Marshmallows?!

250

The Science of Roadkill

251

Why Doesn't All Thunder Sound The Same?

252

Can Pregnancy Tests Help Beat COVID-19?

253

Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods

254

Beehive Fences

255

Orange Roughy

256

How To Hear Halfway Around The World

257

Why You’re More Likely To Die In Winter

258

Why Does This Shrimp Cost More Than A Car?

259

Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing

260

How To Go Extinct

261

Underdog Species

262

Kangaroo Etymology

263

Why People Hate Hyenas

264

Will Gas Stations Survive?

265

*If We Aren't Too Late

266

YouTube Is Misleading You. Help Us Make It Better.

267

The Best Worst Energy Source

268

Tasmanian Tumors

269

Wallaby Milk

270

Is There A Better Way To Power Airplanes?

271

Why You Can't Build A Clone Army... (Yet)

272

Why Wolves Don't Chirp

273

Why Do We STILL Use Lead Pipes?!

274

This Atom Can Predict The Future

275

Poop vs. Pap

276

Opossum vs. Possum

277

The Extinction Happening Inside You

278

How to Work From Home as a Team

279

How To Name A Disease (Like COVID-19)

280

Why Don't More Animals Eat Wood?

281

Where Does One Ocean End And Another Begin?

282

Categorize Marsupials

283

Vulture Food

284

How This River Made Chimps Violent

285

The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World

286

How To Turn Poop Into Power

287

You Have More Bones Than You Think

288

Why It’s HARD To Bring A New Apple To Market

289

Most realistic dragon

290

Proportional dragons

291

Nobody Really Knows What A Concussion Is

292

The Great Acceleration

293

Can AI Help Us Identify Animals?

294

Smartphones: A New Model for Energy Efficiency?

295

The Best Dragon (According to Science)

296

Sex Ratios

297

Asparagus Pee

298

How Much Air Can A Tree Hold?

299

Why Are Adults So Bad At New Languages?

300

How The Modern World Tricks Our Bodies Into Hurting Themselves

301

Why Exercise Is Hard

302

The Secret Global Sewer System

303

Keeled dragons

304

Four-limbed dragons

305

How We Evolved To Browse The Web

306

Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!

307

The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Is Now Killing Us

308

The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning

309

Why We Should Invest In Rat Massage

310

Baloo

311

Wood Lignin

312

Monoclonal Antibodies | How to Turn Cancer Against Itself

313

Why you should abandon some of your dreams

314

Why kids skip school (& what to do about it)

315

This Country Has Something Everyone Else Wants

316

The Secrets of Extreme Breath Holding

317

Panda Coloring

318

Grolar Bears

319

Why Is Lyme Disease Getting Worse?

320

Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?

321

You Are A Fish

322

The Problem With Concrete

323

Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict

324

Black Bears

325

Let’s Categorize Bears

326

Why Are Your Fingerprints Unique?

327

The Bird Poop That Changed The World

328

These Names Can Kill Animals

329

Why Are Fewer People Getting Appendicitis?

330

Why Do You Make So Many Poop Videos? (& Other Questions)

331

Lion’s Mane

332

River Timelapse

333

The Secret Weapon That Could Help Save Bees

334

Why Malaria Isn’t Just A Tropical Disease

335

Why Do Some Animals Eat Poop?

336

Why Are There Penguins At The Equator?

337

Why Earth Has Two Levels | Hypsometric Curve

338

Carbonaceous Chondrite

339

Planet Formation

340

The Similarity Trap

341

Rise Of The Mesopredator🎵

342

How Long Can We Live?

343

When Trees Go Nuts

344

Why You Shouldn't Give Ginger To Monkeys (and other animal sayings)

345

Mountain Sink

346

Mars River

347

Milk Is Just Filtered Blood

348

Are Plastics Too Strong?

349

How Much Food Is There On Earth?

350

Is It Safe To Get Your DNA Tested?

351

Why Electroshock Therapy Is Back

352

Animal Behavior

353

Colliding Plates

354

Why Our Favorite Crops Live Fast and Die Young

355

A Disease's Guide to World Domination

356

Why Do Birds Migrate Like This?

357

Are "Acts of God" Disappearing?

358

Why Pets Have Surprisingly Small Brains

359

Tongue Tanning

360

Leather Making

361

Why Do Some Animals Get Gigantic?

362

Why Bird Penises Are So Weird

363

Where Do Our Drugs Come From?

364

Why Do Female Hyenas Have Pseudo-Penises?!

365

Why Farming is Broken (And Always Has Been)

366

Avoid Tannins

367

Rabbit Poop

368

Why Do India And China Have So Many People?

369

Why Is Syrup Sticky?

370

Our Definition For “Moon” Is Broken (Collab. w/ MinutePhysics)

371

UPSIDE-DOWN Rivers On Mars?! (Response to MinutePhysics)

372

TRANSPARENT Solar Panels?!

373

Cassowary Poop

374

Gorilla Poop

375

Why It Sucks to Be a Male Hyena

376

Invasion Of The Earthworms!

377

Why So Many Meteorites Come From The Same Place

378

What Nuclear Bombs Taught Us About Whales

379

Why Does Wine Make Your Mouth Feel Dry?

380

Poop Composition

381

Quokka Mom

382

Is it a bee, a wasp, a fly, or a moth?

383

Why Apple Pie Isn't American

384

Why Most Rain Never Reaches The Ground

385

Why Don't Sled Dogs Ever Get Tired?

386

Why Don’t Sheep Shrink In The Rain?

387

Nutritious Poop

388

Bald Vultures

389

Why Some Molecules Have Evil Twins

390

How Cats Became our Feline Overlords (ft. It's Okay To Be Smart)

391

What Makes A Dinosaur?

392

Why Is A Group Of Crows Called A “Murder”?

393

Ambergris: Why Perfume Makers Love Constipated Whales

394

Oxbow Lake

395

Square Cube

396

Why Are Snakes So Creepy?

397

Why Did T Rex Have Such Tiny Arms?

398

Why Is Poop Brown And Pee Yellow?

399

Should We Grow Human Organs In Pigs?

400

Why Don't Americans Eat Reindeer?

401

Cannibal Hamsters

402

Air Conditioners

403

How These Sea Shells Know the Weather in Greenland

404

How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly

405

Why Only Some Monkeys Have Awesome Tails

406

Why Are There So Many Tigers In Texas?

407

Why Do Animals Eat Their Babies?

408

Arctic Colors

409

Coyotes are very closely related to wolves and dogs

410

Why Biodiversity Is Good For The Economy

411

How Different Are Different Types of Dogs?

412

Which Parts Of The Brain Do What?

413

The Faint Young Sun Paradox!

414

How To (Literally) Save Earth

415

Let’s categorize dogs!

416

Caffeinated Bees

417

Can Math Explain How Animals Get Their Patterns?

418

Null Island: The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist

419

Which Bear Is Best?

420

Would You Drink Water Made From Sewage?

421

Orchids: The Masters Of Lying, Cheating & Stealing

422

Grass is the ultimate comeback kid

423

Measuring the speed of light in your microwave

424

How We Make MinuteEarth Videos (Behind the Scenes)

425

Why We Sucked At Counting Fish (Until Now)

426

The Energy Cost of a YouTube Video

427

Should We Contact Uncontacted Peoples?

428

Who Are Flowers Trying To Seduce?

429

The cat’s meow is only for humans

430

Ichthyology is all Greek to me!

431

How Much Does Meat Actually Cost?

432

How Mushrooms Make It Rain

433

Males vs. Females: Sexual Conflict

434

Which Fish Did We Evolve From?

435

How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been?

436

The black panther isn’t a species of cat

437

Jaguars and Leopards: how to tell them apart

438

This is Not A Pine Tree

439

Why Do Rivers Have Deltas?

440

Climate Change: The View From MinuteEarth

441

Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought

442

How To Avoid The Next Atlantis

443

Let’s categorize cats!

444

Orchids are liars, impostors and moochers, but the Australian Hammer Orchid is the worst

445

The Real Reason Leaves Change Color In the Fall

446

How Risky Are Vaccines?

447

How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse

448

We're Oversalting Our Food, And It's Not What You Think

449

Why Are There Dangerous Ingredients In Vaccines?

450

“emoticon” vs. “emoji”

451

Porcupines!

452

Do We Have to Get Old and Die?

453

Is Climate Change Just A Lot Of Hot Air?

454

Are We Really 99% Chimp?

455

Rain's Dirty Little Secret

456

Should We Let Pandas Go Extinct?

457

Bamboo is a grass

458

Life sucks if you’re a male - hyena, that is

459

Why Are There Clouds?

460

Why Don't Scavengers Get Sick?

461

Why do Some Species Thrive in Cities?

462

Tidal Locking | Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon?

463

This Is Your Brain On Extreme Weather

464

You can’t judge a bark by its cover

465

The real kids meal

466

Why Poor Places Are More Diverse

467

Plate Tectonics Explained

468

Why Do Rivers Curve?

469

How two butterflies became one

470

How to Build a Better City

471

This duck is screwed up

472

Smaller brains, better pets

473

Why Do Bats Carry So Many Diseases? (like Coronavirus)

474

Why is it Hot Underground?

475

The Secret Social Life of Plants

476

Invasion of the Yellow Crazy Ants!

477

Ocean Confetti!

478

Microbes...ughhh...right?

479

Which of these is a bee?

480

How To Date A Planet

481

Poop Transplants!

482

Are any Animals Truly Monogamous?

483

Where Did Earth's Water Come From?

484

How do Trees Survive Winter?

485

How Your Dog Can Protect You Before You're Born

486

Birds that Hibernate in Lakes?!

487

What Happened To This Car?

488

How to Make a Seashell - Just Add Water!

489

Why is All Sand the Same?

490

How Our Honey is Made

491

What is Skin For?

492

Which Came First — the Rain or Rainforests?

493

The One That Got Away (Size Matters)

494

The Biggest Organism on Earth

495

How to Survive a Lightning Strike

496

Denizens of the Deep

497

Trash vs. Garbage

498

Garbage Doesn't Lie

499

The Hottest Place on Earth

500

The Great North American Locust Plague

501

Do Fetuses Poop?

502

How the little guy can compete against the big guy

503

Left vs Right

504

Our Atmosphere is Escaping!

505

400 Parts in a Million: The World's Biggest Experiment

506

What is Freezer Burn?

507

The Return of the Bedbugs: They Won't Go Away

508

The Surprising History of Frozen Food

509

Why Does Earth Have Deserts?

510

How Tall Can Mountains Be?

511

Why Are Leaves Green? Part 2

512

Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1

513

MinuteEarth: The Story of Our Planet

514

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