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2012
2012x1
Non-Newtonian Fluids & A Bulletproof Hoodie
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Hank describes how non-Newtonian fluids can save lives - and dreams of a bulletproof hoodie.
2012x2
Quantum Fishing for the Higgs Boson
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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 .. show full overview
2012x3
Electric Airplanes for the Future!
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Hank tells us the outcome of the 2011 Green Flight Challenge and tells us why electric airplanes are the future of air travel.
2012x4
Solar Energy
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Hank explains the power of solar energy and describes how it may fit into our diversified energy future.
2012x5
Tardigrades: Adorable Extremophiles
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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.
2012x6
So what IS the Higgs boson?
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Hank responds to viewer questions, and explains what the Higgs boson particle actually IS.
2012x7
Tatooine Discovered?
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Hank tells us about NASAs discovery of the 1st planet ever discovered to be orbiting a binary star.
2012x8
Foldit Gamers FTW
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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.
2012x9
Epigenetics
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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.
2012x10
Mind Reading
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Hank describes some scientific advances in the field of mind reading.
2012x11
Solar Storms
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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.
2012x12
Yellowstone Supercomputer
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Ever notice how adding "super" in front of something makes it way more awesome? Hank gives us the rundown on the Yellowstone SUPERcomputer.
2012x13
Curiosity: Mars' Next Visitor
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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 .. show full overview
2012x14
Climate Change
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In which Hank details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change.
2012x15
Cavitation
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Hank tells you about cavitation - the power of tiny bubbles to weaken metal, kill fish & maybe even cure cancer.
2012x16
Ancient Lake in Antarctica Reached!
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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 .. show full overview
2012x17
The Mayan Calendar & 2012
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Hank tells us about the Mayan calendar & why December 21, 2012 will not be the end of the world.
2012x18
Football Disease, Moon Base Dreams, and the Deepest Vents Ever!
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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.
2012x19
Gold: The Big Bling
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Hank talks about a shiny element that has fascinated humans for millenia.
2012x20
GRACE Mission Data Informs Climate Science: Getting Beyond the Spin About Sea-Level Rise
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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.
2012x21
Cloaking Devices!
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Hank pretends he has an invisibility cloak, and describes how some enterprising scientists are working towards making things invisible using nanotechnology and mirages.
2012x22
Wheezy Waiter on Movie Science, Mutant Flu Facts, and 2 Sounds You've Never Heard!
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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.
2012x23
Helium
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Hank talks about everyone's favorite squeaky-voice gas and why it's important for more than party balloons.
2012x24
Awesome Inventions by African Americans
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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.
2012x25
Filippo Brunelleschi: Great Minds
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Hank talks about Renaissance architect, engineer, and professional cranky guy Filippo Brunelleschi in this "Great Minds" dose.
2012x26
Google Street View in the Great Barrier Reef
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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 .. show full overview
2012x27
Obesity
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Hank tells us some of the surprising things that could be causing or contributing to the obesity epidemic.
2012x28
Rare Earth Elements
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Hank reveals why our love affair with the rare earth elements has a dark side.
2012x29
The Mysterious Leap Second
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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.
2012x30
Europa
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Hank tells us four incredible things about Jupiter's sixth moon, Europa.
2012x31
Faster Than Light Facts, Horny Little Man, and Worst Science Movie Winner!
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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.
2012x32
Earth's Not-So-Juicy Center
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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.
2012x33
Inside the Ice Man, Dark Matter Mystery, and Fukushima Cleanup
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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.
2012x34
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
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Hank tells us about the awesomeness of the periodic table and the genius of the man who invented it.
2012x35
The Science of Overpopulation
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Hank talks about the issues of rising global population.
2012x36
Why We Love Sugar
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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.
2012x37
More Higgs boson news!
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Hank brings us up to date on the latest in the search for the Higgs boson and interviews Fermilab physicist Rob Roser.
2012x38
The Sex Lives of Early Humans
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Hank talks about ancient sexy times, and how we know that early humans were getting it on with all kinds of folks.
2012x39
Laser Fusion, Gaming Revolution, and 5 Awesome Irish Scientists
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Hank tells us about laser fusion, the sequencing of the gorilla genome, some evidence of life elsewhere in the universe, a revolution in gaming, and his top five Irish scientists.
2012x40
How to Live Forever? Be a Jellyfish
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Hank introduces us to another amazing organism - the "immortal jellyfish," Turritopsis dohrnii - and explains how it can extend its life cycle indefinitely through a process known as transdifferentiation.
2012x41
Glowing Rats and Extreme Genetic Engineering
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Hank discusses some of the recent developments in synthetic biology, and why some advocacy groups are calling for a moratorium on those developments.
2012x42
Sun VS. Atomic Bomb
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Hank puts the immense power of the sun into perspective through comparison with the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated.
2012x43
Invasive Species: The Story of Bunny
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Hank tells us the story of bunny and planet Wonderful, and the impacts of exotic invasive species on ecosystems while introducing us to a couple interesting individuals.
2012x44
Caffeine!
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Hank delves into the details about that very popular substance: caffeine.
2012x45
Visiting The Abyss!
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Hank talks about James Cameron's visit to the very deepest part of the ocean, the Challenger deep of the Mariana Trench.
2012x46
Vestigial Structures
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Hank talks about some of the structures in our bodies that are "leftover" from previous evolutionary phases of humanity.
2012x47
Apocalypse Averted, Colossal Squid, & Rocket to the Sun?
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Hank tells us about near-earth objects & primordial black holes; new developments in evolutionary genetics; a giant squid & a giant radio telescope; & answers viewer questions about disposing of nuclear waste in space.
2012x48
Alfred Wegener: Great Minds
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Hank introduces us to Alfred Wegener, a voraciously curious guy who proposed the original theory of continental drift - and was laughed at for it.
2012x49
Apocalypse? How?!
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Hank debunks several apocalypse theories that predict Earth's demise in 2012.
2012x50
Marie Curie: Great Minds
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Hank tells us the story of his favorite genius lady scientist and radioactive superhero, Marie Curie.
2012x51
High-Fructose Corn Syrup: The Dark Lord of Nutrition
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Hank takes on high fructose corn syrup - the new "dark lord of nutrition" - to help explain the ambiguities around all the claims being made about it.
2012x52
Indonesian Earthquakes
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Hank briefs us on the news of earthquakes in Indonesia and helps us understand why these had less impact than earthquakes which hit the area in 2004.
2012x53
Homophobia and Consumerism
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Hank discusses some new research that studied what makes us unhappy with ourselves and with other people, focusing on homophobia and consumerism.
2012x54
Man Made Earthquakes and More
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Hank hits you with a ton of news this time - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has plans to retrieve Saturn V rocket engines from the bottom of the Atlantic; new research on the impacts from the .. show full overview
2012x55
How Weed Works: THC
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Hank explains the science behind the effects of that wackiest of weeds, cannabis sativa - aka marijuana.
2012x56
Life on Mars?
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Hank reports on some new discoveries: one which points towards the existence of dark matter with the "majorana particle" and another, which points towards the existence of life on Mars. Exciting stuff!
2012x57
Mind-controlling Parasites!
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Hank introduces us to some freaky parasites that use mind control to hijack the brains of their hosts.
2012x58
Let's Go To Mars
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Hank discusses the challenges involved in manned space travel to Mars, and sends us a message from his 17-year-old self.
2012x59
Yellowstone Super Volcano
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Hank reveals the details about the giant volcano in Yellowstone National Park.
2012x60
Space Mining
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Hank summarizes the exciting news about Planetary Resources, a company with plans to mine near-earth asteroids for precious metals and water, and what these plans might mean for humanity's future in space.
2012x61
Dmitri Mendeleev: Great Minds
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Hank introduces us to the man behind the periodic table - the brilliant Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.
2012x62
Your Brain on Porn
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Hank talks about space shuttle Discovery's retirement, a private space "taxi cab" service, a breakthrough with man-made DNA, and the similarities between religion and pornography in your brain.
2012x63
Why Sex?
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Hank gets into why sex is the preferred method of reproduction for most species - and it's not for the reasons you're thinking.
2012x64
Brain vs. Computer
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The brain of luchador Hanko wants to take on the worlds fastest supercomputer, "K," in a cage match for bragging rights - which one is the most impressive information processor?
2012x65
Human Parasites
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Hank tells us about all of the things that live on us or in us - the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly.
2012x66
IDTIMWYTIM: Schrodinger's Cat
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"I Don't Think It Means What You Think It Means" examines scientific theories that have taken on a life of their own in popular culture & we help you understand what they really mean in .. show full overview
2012x67
Meteor Explosion!
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Hank talks about the search for pieces of a special meteoroid that exploded over California & Nevada last month.
2012x68
Weird Diagnostics
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Hank goes over some of the more interesting ways that doctors can use to tell what might be wrong with you.
2012x69
The Evolution of Male Homosexuality
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Hank goes from space to sex and then to motherhood, covering the SpaceX launch, a mission to the moons of Jupiter, intersexual workplace rivalries, the evolution of male homosexuality, .. show full overview
2012x70
Tractor Beams: Almost Real!
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Hank tells us about some developments that are being made in the dramatic area of laser tractor beams.
2012x71
"Flesh-Eating" Bacteria
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Hank gets straight to the facts in the unfortunate case of Aimee Copeland, who was injured during a zip-lining accident and subsequently contracted a rare disease.
2012x72
IDTIMWYTIM: Radiation
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Hank explains the whole story about radiation - the good, the extremely helpful, and the bad.
2012x73
Mass Extinctions
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Hank takes us on a trip through time to revisit the 5 major mass extinction events that have impacted species over the Earth's history, and leaves us with some thoughts about what could .. show full overview
2012x74
Strong Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #1a
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Part one of a four part series on the fundamental forces (or interactions) of physics begins with the strong force or strong interaction - which on the small scale holds quarks together to form protons, neutrons and other hadron particles.
2012x75
Transit of Venus 2012: A Viewer's Guide
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Hank briefs us on the upcoming planetary transit of Venus, which will be observable June 5th and 6th of 2012.
2012x76
Strong Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #1b
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Hank continues his primer on the strongest of the four fundamental interactions of physics, the strong interaction. Today he talks about the nuclear force and a force carrier called a pion.
2012x77
Origins of Intolerance
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Hank's news this week informs us on a couple of crazy science experiments, updates us on some earlier topics (dangerous asteroids and ancient phallic rock art), and briefs us on a new study that seeks to find the evolutionary origins of intolerance.
2012x78
Asteroids to Watch Out For
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Hank tells us about NASA's Near-Earth Object Program, which tracks the paths of asteroids and categorizes them according to the likelihood that they will strike the Earth at some point .. show full overview
2012x79
Barbara McClintock: Great Minds
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Hank tells us about another great mind in science - Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize in Physiology for her discovery of mobile genetic elements and remains the only woman to receive an unshared prize in that category.
2012x80
Monogamy
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Hank examines the zoological definition of monogamy, as well as some other breeding strategies that animals use.
2012x81
IDTIMWYTIM: Centrifugal Force
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In this edition of IDTIMWYTIM, Hank addresses the so-called centrifugal force, and explains why you really mean centripetal force.
2012x82
Zombie Apocalypse?
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Hank addresses recent news items that point toward a so-called "zombie apocalypse," and introduces us to some new additions to the periodic table.
2012x83
Weak Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #2
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Hank continues our series on the four fundamental forces of physics by describing the weak interaction, which operates at an infinitesimally small scale to cause particle decay.
2012x84
More on Mating & Monogamy
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Hank clarifies the misconceptions about Chagus disease, discusses a couple of interesting celestial events - one that happened in the past and one that will happen in the distant future, and sheds more light on the benefits of sexual reproduction.
2012x85
Gravitation: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #3
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Hank continues our series on the four fundamental forces of physics with a description of gravitation - the interaction by which physical bodies attract with a force proportional to .. show full overview
2012x86
Your Brain Makes Its Own Pot
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Hank tells us about two interesting new studies that explore the brain and its interaction with drugs, investigating how cannabinoids can repress fear, and bringing forth a possible vaccine for cocaine addiction.
2012x87
IDTIMWYTIM: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle might not mean what you think it means: Hank clears things up for us in this edition of IDTIMWYTIM, by distinguishing between the Uncertainty Principle and the Observer Effect, which are often conflated.
2012x88
Gregor Mendel: Great Minds
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Hank brings us the story of Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk who, with the help of a garden full of pea plants, discovered the fundamental properties of inheritance and paved the way for .. show full overview
2012x89
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR): Energy for the Future?
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Hank addresses a highly requested topic - liquid fluoride thorium reactors - and tells us how LFTR might be the future of energy in ... China?
2012x90
How Much Humanity Weighs
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Hank gives us a summary of a strange new calculation, which estimates the total body mass of all the humans on earth.
2012x91
Absolute Zero: Absolute Awesome
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Hank explains absolute zero: -273.15 degrees Celsius - and the coldest place in the known universe may surprise you.
2012x92
How To Make a Mutant Flu
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Hank dishes out updates on the mutant flu virus and the James Webb Space Telescope, and gives us some new bits about new exoplanets, secret space planes, and a study that shows that music evolves according to Darwin's rules.
2012x93
Electromagnetism - Electrostatic Force: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #4a
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Hank reaches the fourth and final of the four fundamental interactions in physics: electromagnetism. In this part, he teaches us about the electrostatic force, which builds up a charge .. show full overview
2012x94
Electromagnetism - Magnetic Force: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #4b
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In this final segment on the four fundamental forces of physics, Hank tackles the magnetic force, the second of the two ways in which electromagnetism is apparent in the universe.
2012x95
The Science of Lying
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Hank gets into the dirty details behind our lying ways - how such behavior evolved, how pathological liars are different from the rest of us, and how scientists are getting better at spotting lies in many situations.
2012x96
Altruism
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Hank explains the evolutionary basis for altruistic behavior in animals, including vampire bats!
2012x97
5 Weird Reasons Not to Smoke
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Hank gives you five MORE reasons why you should probably avoid smoking, or quit if you already smoke - in addition to those big ones you already know about. These are the weird reasons.
2012x98
5 Reasons Breastfeeding is Awesome
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Hank gives us the top 5 scientifically documented reasons why breastfeeding is awesome - for both mom and baby.
2012x99
Higgs Boson Discovery! We think?
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Hank gives us the specifics on the "discovery" of the elusive Higgs boson. It is, at the very least, a victory for the scientific method!
2012x100
Space Elevators
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Hank talks about space elevators, and why we shouldn't expect to see one any time soon.
2012x101
This Is What Climate Change Feels Like
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Hank brings you the SciShow news of the week. Recent record high temperatures and other extreme weather events around the world are climate change in action; a new fossil of an ancient .. show full overview
2012x102
A Brief History of Birth Control
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Gym teacher Hank gives us the full story of the past, present, and future of birth control.
2012x103
Alan Turing: Great Minds
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Hank introduces us to that great mathematical mind, Alan Turing, who, as an openly gay man in the early 20th century faced brutal prejudice that eventually led to his suicide, despite being a genius war hero who helped the Allies defeat the Nazis.
2012x104
Official Government Statement on Mermaids
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Today from SciShow World News Headquarters (Hank's office) - news about radiation risks, the most hi-def astronomy ever, and the truth about aquatic humanoids.
2012x105
Terminal Velocity
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The terminal velocity of an object is the speed at which the force of drag equals the force of gravity on that object.
2012x106
3 Sad Surprises: The Human Genome Project
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Hank tells us three surprises about human DNA which we learned because of the Human Genome Project.
2012x107
Synthetic Jellyfish
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Hank tells us of a fascinating new experiment in synthetic biology - scientists have created a jellyfish out of silicone and rat heart cells.
2012x108
Why Sexy Is Sexy
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Hank delves into the scientific reasons behind why we are attracted to the people we're attracted to. It's complicated.
2012x109
When The Universe Will End
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Hank serves up a buffet of news items that includes an approximate date for the end of everything, scientific proof that when it comes to sex bigger IS better, and a look behind how the London Olympics are going green. Bon appetit!
2012x110
Taboos of Science
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Hank discusses some of the taboos which have plagued scientific inquiry in the past and a few that still exist today.
2012x111
Hearing Colors, Seeing Sounds: Synesthesia
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Hank explains the little we know about the perceptual condition known as synesthesia, where a person involuntary associates one sensation or experience with another sensation.
2012x112
The Curiosity Rover Landing
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The Mars Science Laboratory or Curiosity Rover is the largest payload ever delivered to the surface of a planet and it has a terrifyingly complicated descent and landing strategy. First, .. show full overview
2012x113
Concerning Hobbits
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Hank takes us to the island of Flores, where a race of wee people walked beside pygmy elephants, dragons and giant tortoises; they lived underground and had simple lives...
2012x114
Top 5 Coolest Things about Curiosity
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In which Hank celebrates the landing of the Mars Curiosity Rover, which, if you were following SciShow on Twitter, you know was pretty freaking cool. So here are the Top Five Coolest Things about the Mars Curiosity Rover!
2012x115
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Hank tells us about the enormous concentrations of plastic debris floating around in the Pacific Ocean, why they're there and why they're a problem.
2012x116
The Latest From Mars: Day 2
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Hank briefs us on the current status of the Mars Science Laboratory, and gives us a taste of what we can hope to see coming from it in the next few months, and during the rest of its two year mission.
2012x117
Human Connectome
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Hank briefs us on a fascinating project that aims to map the anatomical and functional pathways of the brain - a neural network called the human connectome.
2012x118
Cheating Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
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Hank brings you news from around the universe, including what you can't blame on global warming, why being unfaithful is hazardous to your health, and how to watch a particularly awesome spectacle coming to a sky near you.
2012x119
Fritz Haber: Great Minds
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Hank introduces us to the brilliant and heartless Fritz Haber, a great mind who is considered "the father chemical warfare," but who also made discoveries and innovations that helped .. show full overview
2012x120
Why Our Brains Love Junk Food
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Hank explains the scientific reasons behind why we humans generally prefer to eat donut hamburgers to carrots.
2012x121
Finally, A Male Pill?
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Hank briefs us on the news that a team of biologists has developed the first contraceptive for males that is totally effective, easily reversible and doesn't mess with your hormones!
2012x122
The Fibonacci Sequence: Nature's Code
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Hank introduces us to the most beautiful numbers in nature - the Fibonacci sequence.
2012x123
Déjà Vu
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Hank describes some of the best explanations that neurologists have come up with to account for the strange sensation we know as déjà vu.
2012x124
More Space Exploration Missions!
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Hank updates us on two new missions that will help us learn more about some of the fascinating things in our space neighborhood.
2012x125
3 Things You Didn't Know About Voyager
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Hank tells us three things we probably didn't know about the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
2012x126
Save Tesla!
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Hank comes to you from his inner sanctum of science news to bring you a couple of things you never knew about human origins, the latest from his best friend on Mars, and what you can do .. show full overview
2012x127
Neil Armstrong Tribute
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Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on a world that was not Earth, has died. Getting his pilot's license before his driver's license probably didn't hurt when it came to becoming one .. show full overview
2012x128
Top 5 Deadliest Diseases
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Hank scares our pants off with a tale of the five deadliest infectious diseases in the world.
2012x129
Lab-Grown Meat
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Hank brings us the strange story of in vitro meat - muscle tissue grown in laboratories with the hope that someday we will eat it.
2012x130
3 New Facts About Denisovans
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Hank brings us some late-breaking news from the genus Homo - a team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the Denisova hominin, the latest member to be added to the human family tree.
2012x131
Bath Salts
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Hank talks about the scary new drug that's led to some recent incidences of goat stabbing, as well as other tragedies - bath salts. We learn how it works and ask the important question: why?
2012x132
The Origins of Cute
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Hank talks about three scientific reasons why cute things make us a special kind of crazy.
2012x133
The Secret of Your "Junk," Revealed!
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Hank brings us breaking news from a team of geneticists working on figuring out what all that "junk DNA" in the human genome really is - turns out it's not junk after all.
2012x134
IDTIMWYTIM: Bird or Dinosaur?
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Hank fixes those of us who are probably wrong about what is and is not a dinosaur... and gives a refresher to those of us who do know this already.
2012x135
When Athletes Dope ... & Einstein FTW
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This week's SciShow news has Hank bringing us a primer on the science behind various illegal and illicit ways in which athletes "improve" their bodies, proof of general relativity that .. show full overview
2012x136
Space Tourism
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Hank takes on the role of our personal space travel agent, giving us the dirt on the various ways in which the exceptionally wealthy will be able to travel to space in the next few decades.
2012x137
IDTIMWYTIM: Equinox (Stupid Latin!)
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In this edition of IDTIMWYTIM, Hank explains why the common understanding of "equinox" is wrong, what the equinox actually is, and then rages a little against astronomers and their stupid confusing Latin terms.
2012x138
Good News, & Drinking Pigs
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The SciShow Science News Bureau brings us some GOOD news this week - Hank tells us about a newly developed vaccine for dengue fever, a newly discovered monkey species in the Democratic .. show full overview
2012x139
Oxygen is Killing You
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Hank introduces us to oxygen - the element that makes it possible for most animals to live, but which is simultaneously responsible for a lot of bad things going on in our bodies.
2012x140
3 Ways to Save Earth from an Asteroid
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Hank gives us the skinny on three plans NASA scientists have come up with to save Earth from an asteroid impact. Hopefully we'll never have to use any of them.
2012x141
Dark Energy Camera
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Hank brings us news of the most sensitive digital camera in the universe, poised to help astronomers explain the mystery of why the universe is speeding up instead of slowing down as Einstein's theory of General Relativity would predict.
2012x142
Animal Magnetism: How Animals Navigate
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Hank tells us about new research into the question of how animals navigate from place to place - while the problem is still unresolved, we do have some hypotheses, and they all involve something called "magnetoreception."
2012x143
The Science of Dreaming
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Dreaming is one of the weirdest things we do & in this SciShow infusion Hank talks about how science is helping us understand why we dream, what our brains are up to when they're doing .. show full overview
2012x144
The Science of the Cinnamon Challenge
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Hank explains the science behind the "cinnamon challenge," and reveals why it is nearly impossible to complete. Do not attempt the cinnamon challenge! Instead, why not just watch some .. show full overview
2012x145
Chimera Cats and Your Mom
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Hank talks about chimeras, and why Venus the cat probably isn't one - but your mom might be!
2012x146
Elizabeth Blackburn: Great Minds
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Hank brings us the story of Elizabeth Blackburn, the Nobel Prize-winning Australian woman who discovered telomeres and telomerase, and helped scientists begin to understand the process of aging at a genetic level.
2012x147
3 World-Changing Biology Experiments
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Hank tells us the stories of three experiments in biology that, with creativity and luck, changed science & the world with it in their work to solve the mysteries of the universe.
2012x148
The Bacon Hoax & the Next REAL Food Shortage
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Hank eases our minds about the alleged bacon shortage, and informs us of some actual meat shortages we may see the effects of in the coming years.
2012x149
The World's 5 Rarest Animals
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Today's extraordinarily depressing dose comes to you in honor of Lonesome George, the world's last Pinta Island tortoise, who passed away earlier this summer - Hank brings us the stories .. show full overview
2012x150
Supersonic Free Fall and the New Element: Hankium?
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Hank brings you the news of a newly discovered dinosaur he is kind of afraid to look at, a way to sequence your genome in less time than it takes to get your clothes dry cleaned, & two .. show full overview
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Nikola Tesla: Great Minds
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Hank brings us the tale of the bizarre and eccentric genius with the crazy eyes who spent his life increasing awesome wherever he went, and contributed in some way to pretty much every .. show full overview
2012x152
Why Aren't There Giant Insects?
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Hank and physiologist Jon Harrison discuss the question of insect size and major theories that attempt to explain why there is a limit to how large insects can get with current conditions on Earth.
2012x153
Nobel News: Capturing Photons, Cloning Frogs
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Hank brings us the news about the new Nobel Prize winners in the sciences, what they won for and what it all means.
2012x154
What Honeybees Can Teach Us About Democracy
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Hank fills us in on the democratic ways of the honeybee and makes a request for more interpretive dance in our own political systems.
2012x155
Baumgartner's Super Sonic Dive
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Hank acknowledges the amazing feat performed by Felix Baumgartner and answers many of your questions about why it is so amazing.
2012x156
IDTIMWYTIM: Stochasticity - THAT'S Random
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Hank helps us understand the difference between the colloquial meaning of randomness, and the scientific meaning, which is also known as stochasticity. We will learn how, in fact, randomness is surprisingly predictable.
2012x157
How Science Solved the Giant Eyeball Mystery
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Hank combines two of his favorite things - talking to scientists and strange things washing up on the beach - to bring you the Mystery of the Giant Eyeball.
2012x158
Blazars Are A Thing
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Hank explains how quasars and blazars are both the same thing - just oriented differently in respect to us - and how that impacts the way we perceive them and how it also effects the ways we can study them.
2012x159
Venomous Mammals, Sensory Receptors & the Moon's True Origin Story
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Hank describes to us some news stories that illustrate how science is continually changing the things we think we "know" - from the status of various animals species, to the way our .. show full overview
2012x160
Why We Age - And How We Can Stop It
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Hank hates death, so he helps us understand the process of aging, informs us of how scientists are studying ways to prevent it and brings us the exciting news of current research in longevity... for mice.
2012x161
Prions: The Real Zombie-Makers
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Hank is tired of zombies in popular culture, and while acknowledging that dead people are scary (especially if they start moving around), he brings us some information on prions - .. show full overview
2012x162
Science on Trial in Italy
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Hank has some thoughts on the news that several Italian scientists who were convicted of 29 counts manslaughter for making an "inadequate risk-assessment" before an earthquake.
2012x163
Antarctica's Weird Warming
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Hank gets to the bottom of two studies reporting high sea ice coverage and snowmass in Antarctica in the same year that the Arctic has reported a record low of sea ice. What is going on here?
2012x164
Astrobiology & the Search for Alien Life
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Hank talks about astrobiology - the study of and search for life in the universe off Earth. Right now, the field has more questions than answers, but all they all seek to answer that one fundamental query: are we alone in the universe?
2012x165
Hurricane Sandy FAQs
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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Hank answers some frequently asked questions about it, and how it got to be so crazy. What is up with this storm? Has this ever happened before? This is global warming right?
2012x166
Litmus Test: SciShow Experiments
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Do science at home with Hank in this episode of SciShow - you'll learn how to make your own litmus paper, what it's good for, and how it works.
2012x167
Secrets of the Vampire Squid
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This week in SciShow News, Hank tells us about some weird science, including a squid that's not a squid, animals that can talk, and new insights into how you can mess up your body much .. show full overview
2012x168
Facts about Human Evolution
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Hank brings you the facts, as they are understood by scientists today, about the evolution of humans from our humble primate ancestors. On the way to becoming Homo sapiens, game-changing .. show full overview
2012x169
How to Make a Lemon Battery
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Hank shows us another SciShow: Experiment! This time he's tackling what may be the most cliche, well-known and misunderstood experiment of all time: the lemon battery. The take home .. show full overview
2012x170
The Real Mayan Apocalypse
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There are just six weeks left until the celestial odometer that is the Mayan calendar clicks over to the next b'akt'un, but in the meantime, scientists have been trying to solve the .. show full overview
2012x171
The Alien Egg Experiment
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Hank brings us another simple experiment that demonstrates the important biochemical process of osmosis by turning a chicken egg into a frightening alien-looking thing.
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4 Awesome Future Space Missions
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Hank fills us in on the four exploratory missions to space that he is most excited about - New Horizons is going to Pluto and the Kuiper belt; Juno is on it's way to Jupiter; Dawn is exploring two large asteroids; Rosetta will land on a comet!
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Rogue Planet Discovered!
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Today Hank brings us the news of a unique astronomical discovery - a rogue planet. He also allays our fears of an apocalyptic collision with Earth. So, this new planet is awesome, but it .. show full overview
2012x174
3 Amazing Photosynthetic Animals
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Hank's love affair with plants takes a slight hit now that he's learned about several animal species that can photosynthesize. Fortunately, he's excited enough about these animals to .. show full overview
2012x175
Fidelity Hormones, Contagious Behavior, and the Meat-Allergy Plague
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This week's SciShow News finds Hank up to his elbows in weird disorders and strange behaviors, including a chemical that makes men stay faithful, new insights into what makes some .. show full overview
2012x176
The Chemistry of Addiction
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Hank describes how our brains respond biochemically to various addictive substances and behaviors and where those responses have come from, evolutionarily speaking.
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The Physics of "Punkin Chunkin"
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"Punkin Chunkin" is the United State's annual contest to see whose homemade machine can hurl a pumpkin the farthest (without explosives!). Every November, thousands of amateur engineers .. show full overview
2012x178
The Oldest, Most Distant Object in the Universe Discovered
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Hank reports on the discovery by NASA scientists of the most distant, oldest galaxy ever observed.
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Dark Energy
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The universe is huge and getting bigger all the time, and we have we have dark energy - the most mysterious force in the universe - to blame/thank for it. Thought to make up more than .. show full overview
2012x180
3 Chemistry Experiments That Changed the World
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Chemistry is the study of matter - stuff, and how it interacts with other stuff. Even though chemistry doesn't make a lot of news these days, chemists are making discoveries that change .. show full overview
2012x181
Mars Colony Plans?
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Hank is all about Mars, and Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has some plans for colonizing the Red Planet that have got Hank very excited.
2012x182
From Kepler to Webb: The History of the Telescope
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Hank regales us with the history of the telescope, and then introduces us to some folks from the team who are working on the newest telescope in the chronology - the James Webb Space .. show full overview
2012x183
Mysterious Mars News
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Hank brings us news from planets all around the solar system: Mars, Mercury, and even planet Earth have been in the news lately. A retraction from NASA about the Curiosity mission; the .. show full overview
2012x184
The End of Everything
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Hank gives us an inclusive overview of how everything in the universe is thought to have begun, and how cosmologists predict it will all come to an end. Now get happy!
2012x185
The Most Sophisticated Mirror in the Universe
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Hank summarizes the five reasons why infrared telescopes were supposed to be impossible to build, and then describes how a team of scientists and engineers overcame those obstacles to .. show full overview
2012x186
News Bummers: Poison Fog, Sad Sperm & SAM
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Hank loves science because it helps us appreciate the world more, but not everything that science does makes him happy - reports of poison fog on the West coast of the United States; .. show full overview
2012x187
3 Physics Experiments that Changed the World
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Physics investigates why the universe behaves the way that it does, and today, Hank tells us about the three physics experiments that he thinks were the most awesome at helping us understand how the universe works.
2012x188
Biofilm: A New (Gross) Thing to Worry About
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Slime can be great, but when it's the wrong kind of slime (you know, the kind that can kill you?), it gets added to the list of things Hank wishes he didn't have to worry about. .. show full overview
2012x189
Lunar Impact!
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Hank tells us about the planned demise of two lunar satellites that have been collecting data for NASA, and have now reached the end of their mission.
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Calendars, Codes & Virgins: 3 Myths About the Maya
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Hank talks about the Maya, and helps dispel some myths about their historic civilization, revealing how, ultimately, they were just like us: smart, flawed, and awesome.
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Great Minds We Lost in 2012
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Hank pays tribute to some of the great scientific minds we lost in 2012, and then apologizes for some mistakes made in recent SciShow episodes.
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Eat Off Your Toilet Seat
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Hank talks about how your toilet is actually one of the cleanest places in your house, despite its function. Research has shown that cutting boards, dish towels and sponges have FAR more .. show full overview
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Science and Gun Violence
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Hank looks for some things science can add to the conversation about guns and gun violence in the wake of the tragedy last week in Newtown, Connecticut. Our deepest sympathies are .. show full overview
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3 Extreme Climate Fixes
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Hank talks about a few - maybe crazy, maybe reasonable - geoengineering schemes that some scientists have come up with in order to "fix" climate change, including designer clouds, ocean fertilization, and stratospheric shading with sulfur dioxide.
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Great Minds: Henrietta Leavitt & the Human Computers
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Henrietta Swan Leavitt was one of a number of volunteer women astronomers who were allowed to serve as "computers" at Harvard College Observatory, doing tedious work male scientists .. show full overview
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10 Science Superlatives of 2012
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This year's end News episode wraps up with nothing but superlatives: the biggest, oldest, first, last, smallest and hottest developments in science from 2012.
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Dark Matter
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Physicists estimate that dark matter accounts for about twenty three percent of the known universe - the only problem is that no one really knows what it is...