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How Do Bees Make Honey?

How Do Bees Make Honey?

Season 4 Episode 26
5:15
Is Epigenetic Inheritance Real?

Is Epigenetic Inheritance Real?

Season 4 Episode 27
4:51
Are You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?

Are You Smarter Than A Slime Mold?

Season 4 Episode 28
4:39
Why Are You Multicellular?

Why Are You Multicellular?

Season 4 Episode 29
4:41
The Cosmic Afterglow

The Cosmic Afterglow

Season 4 Episode 31
3:27
Is Your Brain Too Old For Video Games?

Is Your Brain Too Old For Video Games?

Season 4 Episode 33
6:25
How These Ants Took Over the U.S

How These Ants Took Over the U.S

Season 4 Episode 34
6:32
Where Did Zika Come From?

Where Did Zika Come From?

Season 4 Episode 37
5:45
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How Many Trees Are There?

Season 4 Episode 25

It may be an impossible questions, but we can at least get close.

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Why Don’t Humans Hibernate?
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Nature has had to come up with some crazy ways to survive winter. None are weirder than hibernation.
The Paradox of Voting
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16:27
Why do certain sounds make some of us so upset?!
The Sun is NOT the Center of the Solar System
11:43
Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system.
Why You See Faces in Things
10:23
People see faces everywhere thanks to a quirk of the brain called visual pareidolia.
Why trees look like rivers and also blood vessels and also lightning…
10:00
Why do the same, self-repeating patterns appear in trees, rivers, lightning, and even our bodies?
The Real (Weird) Way We See Numbers
15:25
Our animal brains deal with quantities in very specific, and fascinating, ways.
Computers Can Predict When You're Going to Die… Here's How
12:54
Can new technologies make death prediction even more accurate?
Can AI Help Us Talk to Whales?
21:33
AI may help us talk to whales soon. But should we?!
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