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Your Salad Is Trying To Kill You

Your Salad Is Trying To Kill You

Season 3 Episode 36
6:03
Why Are Cicadas So Good At Math?

Why Are Cicadas So Good At Math?

Season 3 Episode 37
5:32
Why Do We Laugh?

Why Do We Laugh?

Season 3 Episode 38
6:03
Ebola Explained

Ebola Explained

Season 3 Episode 1
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Understanding Climate Science

Understanding Climate Science

Season 3 Episode 8
6:00
Do Other Animals Mourn Their Dead?

Do Other Animals Mourn Their Dead?

Season 3 Episode 52
4:59
Is Santa Real? (A Scientific Analysis)

Is Santa Real? (A Scientific Analysis)

Season 3 Episode 10
5:35
Does My Dog Know What I’m Thinking?

Does My Dog Know What I’m Thinking?

Season 3 Episode 11
6:14
How Many Smells Can You Smell?

How Many Smells Can You Smell?

Season 3 Episode 12
4:13
What is Deja Vu?!

What is Deja Vu?!

Season 3 Episode 15
3:43
Zombie Parasites!

Zombie Parasites!

Season 3 Episode 19
6:01
How Many Stars Are There?

How Many Stars Are There?

Season 3 Episode 22
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It's Okay to Be Smart

How Does A Canyon Become Grand?

Season 3 Episode 35

How do you make a Grand Canyon? I was in Arizona recently for Phoenix Comic-Con, and had the amazing pleasure of seeing one of Earth's greatest natural wonders… the Grand Canyon. More than a mile deep, and several miles across, it just defies belief. But I couldn't help but think, the Colorado River down at the bottom isn't that big. How did it cut a canyon so massive? How old is the Grand Canyon?

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Why You See Faces in Things
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The Real (Weird) Way We See Numbers
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Our animal brains deal with quantities in very specific, and fascinating, ways.
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Can AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
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Measuring the Universe With a 14-Billion Light-Year Ruler
10:40
The cosmic distance ladder is the world’s longest ruler, built to measure the universe.
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