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It's Okay to Be Smart
How to be Crushed by the Atmosphere!
Season 7
Episode 6
Air. I bet you never even notice that it’s there. Yet you are swimming in an ocean of it every day. If there’s a literal ton of air pressing down on you all the time, so why don’t we feel it? We look back at the history of physics to learn how we figured out air pressure, why vacuums don’t suck.
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How science unraveled one of the biggest myths in modern medicine...HIV's true origins.
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I pushed my body in a climate & sports research lab to discover what extreme heat really does to us.
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If everything around us is made of atoms, why can’t we actually see them?
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This video explores the bizarre mathematics that show how infinity is far stranger than a number.
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How Gerardus Mercator later created a map that transformed navigation forever.
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DNA solves crimes, but what happens when it sends innocent people to prison?
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How thousands of tiny brains, obeying simple rules, solve problems no individual can understand.
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Joe visits a flavor lab to uncover how our senses shape our taste.
