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5:07
John Varney
A different way to visualize rhythm
4:22
Chad Orzel
Schrödinger's cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics
5:39
Alex Gendler
History vs. Christopher Columbus
5:14
Courtney Stephens
A brief history of melancholy
4:29
Chad Orzel
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
4:16
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis
Why we love repetition in music
5:10
Sam Kean
What happens when you remove the hippocampus?
5:08
Josh Samani
What can Schrödinger's cat teach us about quantum mechanics?
2:47
James Zucker
How do you know you exist?
5:03
Nathan S. Jacobs
How optical illusions trick your brain
4:29
Anita Collins
How playing an instrument benefits your brain
4:45
Lieven Scheire
How quantum mechanics explains global warming
4:10
Claudia Aguirre
What makes tattoos permanent?
4:30
Deborah Gordon
Inside the ant colony
3:23
Kenneth C. Davis
What you might not know about the Declaration of Independence
3:36
Doug Levinson
What gives a dollar bill its value?
4:27
Alexandros Charalambides
Why aren't we only using solar power?
4:32
Damon Brown
How to choose your news
4:43
Karen D. Davis
How does your brain respond to pain?
4:12
Edmond Hui
How the heart actually pumps blood
4:53
Colm Kelleher
The science of symmetry
4:19
Dawn Maslar
The science of attraction
4:35
Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie
The fundamentals of space-time: Part 2
4:37
Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
The case of the missing fractals
4:11
David Schwartz
Not all scientific studies are created equal
3:21
Alex Gendler
How tsunamis work
4:14
George Zaidan
Why is ketchup so hard to pour?
3:48
Robert Lustig
Sugar: Hiding in plain sight
3:27
Yannay Khaikin
How many ways can you arrange a deck of cards?
3:36
John C. Moore and Eric Berlow
Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain
5:06
Janet Iwasa
How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis
3:33
Emma Bryce
The case of the vanishing honeybees
3:39
Rose Eveleth
The science of spiciness
3:43
Alex Gendler
Why do we cry? The three types of tears
3:50
Dennis Wildfogel
What is the universe made of?
3:35
Asaf Bar-Yosef
An athlete uses physics to shatter world records
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