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We live in the most peaceful time in human history. Wait, what? Seriously? That can’t be right, there are more wars than ever! Well, no and they’re killing fewer and fewer people, even though the world population is at an all-time high…and the numbers prove it! We explain how we came to this conclusion, and

Have you checked out our Patreon page? https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-don-t-poisonous-animals-poison-themselves-rebecca-d-tarvin Thousands of animal species use toxic chemicals to defend themselves from predators. Snakes have blood clotting compounds in their fangs, the bombardier beetle has corrosive liquid in its abdomen and jellyfish have venomous, harpoon-like structures in their tentacles. But how do these animals

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TWEET IT – http://clicktotweet.com/p7MYc Is male pattern baldness really passed down from your mother’s father? Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz). TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/AsapSCIENCE FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/AsapSCIENCE Mitchell Moffit http://www.mitchellmoffit.com Tweets by mitchellmoffit http://www.facebook.com/mitchellmoffit Gregory Brown http://www.gregorybrownart.tumblr.com Tweets by Whalewatchmeplz Further Reading — Hair Loss Risk: 1) http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/78584 2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16172040

Nuclear energy might be a failed experiment. In over sixty years the technology has not only failed to keep its promise of cheap, clean and safe energy, it also caused major catastrophes and enabled more nuclear weapons while the nuclear waste problem is still not solved. Why nuclear energy is awesome: http://bit.ly/1F1V8Mc Brief Introduction into

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-ketchup-so-hard-to-pour-george-zaidan Ever go to pour ketchup on your fries…and nothing comes out? Or the opposite happens, and your plate is suddenly swimming in a sea of red? George Zaidan describes the physics behind this frustrating phenomenon, explaining how ketchup and other non-Newtonian fluids can suddenly transition from solid to liquid and back

Go read The Diamond Age: http://goo.gl/jO8MY It’s pretty great. SciShow on the Mayan Calendar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjKUqQ2uSzg The National Geographic Style Guide on Maya vs Mayan: http://stylemanual.ngs.org/home/M/maya The Sun Stone: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberlyeternal/6377784239/in/photostream/ Music is from: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free/Something_EP/ If you would like to help me make more videos please join the discussion on: Google+: http://plus.google.com/115415241633901418932/posts Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/cgpgrey Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greys-Blog/193301110697381 Or

How do you know what you’re seeing is real? These Illusions bring about the truth! SUBSCRIBE (it’s free!): http://bit.ly/10kWnZ7 Follow us!! FACEBOOK: http://on.fb.me/12fEcFg TWITTER: http://bit.ly/16mYsWW Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz).

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Why do medical implants like insulin pumps and prosthetic knees need replacement? Explore how the immune system fights implants and how new devices are trying to help. — Insulin pumps improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes around the world by monitoring blood sugar, delivering insulin, and preventing the need for constant finger-pricking.

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Is there a border we will never cross? Are there places we will never be able to reach, no matter what? It turns out there are. Far, far more than you might have thought… Check out Ethan Siegels Astronomy blog, “starts with a bang”: http://onforb.es/1THyMGT OUR CHANNELS ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ German Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeDE Spanish Channel: https://kgs.link/youtubeES HOW

A lot of things can kill you – but here are some surprising ones! This Much Will Kill You pt 1: https://youtu.be/vPszR0-vTqc WHEN SCIENTISTS GO TO MUSIC FESTIVALS: https://youtu.be/jnlNMNHCRDE SUBSCRIBE (it’s free): http://bit.ly/asapsci GET THE ASAPSCIENCE BOOK: http://asapscience.com/book/ Created by: Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown Written by: Rachel Salt & Mitchell Moffit Illustrated by: Max

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Dig into the science of touchscreens, and find out the difference between the two most common types: capacitive and resistive. — In 2010, South Korea experienced a particularly cold winter. People couldn’t activate their smartphones while wearing gloves, so they began wielding snack sausages— causing one company to see a 40% rise in sausage sales.

Check out 23andMe: http://bit.ly/13zNPet TWEET VIDEO – http://clicktotweet.com/bc6i5 Millions of people around the world suffer from MS, but what is it? Lets shine a light on this disease in an effort to increase awareness. Please share, if you can 🙂 Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz). TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/AsapSCIENCE

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/biodiesel-the-afterlife-of-oil-natascia-radice How could you dispose of your cooking oil when you’re done cooking? The easiest thing to do might be to pour it down your drain — but if you save it up and send it to a processing plant, it can gain useful new life as biodiesel, a biodegradable energy source

Get your Moon Poster and Baby Duck Plushie here: https://shop.kurzgesagt.org/ Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-nukethemoon/ What would happen if we were to detonate a very very powerful nuclear weapon on the moon? Would the explosion knock its orbit towards earth, causing tidal waves and misery? Could the moon be destroyed, showering the earth in a

Time for some more amazing facts to turn your brain to mush! Subscribe – http://bit.ly/10kWnZ7 Follow us! (Links below) TWITTER – http://bit.ly/16mYsWW FACEBOOK – http://on.fb.me/1fjWszw Instagram and Twitter: @mitchellmoffit and @whalewatchmeplz Clickable: http://bit.ly/15J7ube and http://bit.ly/16F1jeC Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz).

Check out Alan Stern’s “Chasing New Horizons”: https://shop.ed.ted.com/collections/ted-ed-book-recommendations/products/chasing-new-horizons View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-journey-to-pluto-the-farthest-world-ever-explored-alan-stern As of 1989, mankind had successfully sent craft to every known planet in the solar system except one: Pluto. Located in an mysterious region called the Kuiper Belt, Pluto is a scientific goldmine, and could hold clues to the formation of our solar

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Our bodies are pretty incredible, here’s why! Your Body Is Amazing Pt. 3 https://youtu.be/6_Qnc_P1xMQ Your Body Is Amazing Pt. 2 https://youtu.be/g9oCOSvYkWc SUBSCRIBE! It’s free: http://bit.ly/asapsci Follow us @whalewatchmeplz & @mitchellmoffit SHARE on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1LSruiE SHARE on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1NSpYh2 Written by Rachel Salt, Gregory Brown and Mitchell Moffit GET THE ASAPSCIENCE BOOK: http://asapscience.com/book/ FOLLOW US! Instagram

Dig into the Egyptian myth of Osiris, trapped by his brother, the warrior god Set, in a coffin and tossed into the Nile to die. — Long jealous of his older brother Osiris, the god who ruled all of Egypt, the warrior god Set plotted to overthrow him. Hosting an extravagant party as a ruse,

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What will humanity look like in 1000 years? Watch as we cover some cutting-edge innovations happening today. Thanks to the National Geographic Channel for sponsoring this video! Check out Breakthrough on Nov 1st at 9/8c (new episodes on Sundays) http://bit.ly/1LMOXOZ SUBSCRIBE (it’s free): http://bit.ly/asapsci Written by: Anthony Morgan, Annik Carson, Gregory Brown and Mitchell Moffit

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-spot-a-misleading-graph-lea-gaslowitz When they’re used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual software has enabled more usage of graphs throughout all media, it has also made them easier to use in a careless or dishonest way — and as it turns out, there are plenty of ways graphs

How much time do you have left? Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it’s almost impossible to wrap your head around things. So we teamed up with the awesome blog “Wait but Why” and made this video to help you putting things in perspective with some

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TWEET IT: http://clicktotweet.com/ksnr5 We’ve all been there before – a seemingly innocent night with some friends, ending in a morning from Hell. Why must it be like this? Find out what causes the notorious hangover, and share the truth with the world! Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz).

Because of the potential size of the future, the most important thing about our actions today might be their impact on future generations. This simple-sounding idea has some surprising moral implications: https://80000hours.org/kurzgesagt-last-human Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-last-human/ This video was created in partnership with the Open Philanthropy Project Kurzgesagt in 8 languages: https://linktr.ee/kgs_international The future

A shooting star crashes onto Earth and unleashes a hideous, rampaging blob. Can you stop it from destroying the planet? — A shooting star crashes onto Earth and a hideous blob emerges. It creeps and leaps, it glides and slides. It’s also unstoppable: no matter what you throw at it, it just re-grows and continues

Your eyes aren’t always telling the truth. MORE ILLUSIONS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhZrU6g9seg&list=PLvFsG9gYFxY_lAm8jnex08LeiGMTiZQOW&index=1 Subscribe: http://bit.ly/asapsci Written by Mitchell Moffit and Rachel Salt GET THE ASAPSCIENCE BOOK: http://asapscience.com/book/ FOLLOW US! Instagram and Twitter: @whalewatchmeplz and @mitchellmoffit Clickable: http://bit.ly/16F1jeC and http://bit.ly/15J7ube AsapINSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/asapscience/ Snapchat: realasapscience Facebook: http://facebook.com/AsapSCIENCE Twitter: http://twitter.com/AsapSCIENCE Tumblr: http://asapscience.tumblr.com Vine: Search “AsapSCIENCE” on vine! SNAPCHAT US ‘whalewatchmeplz’ and

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Dig into the myth of the Green Knight, who comes to King Arthur’s court to challenge the honor and bravery of Camelot’s knights. — It was Christmas in Camelot and King Arthur was throwing a party. In the midst of the revelry, a towering knight proposed a game. He challenged the warriors present to attack

TWEET IT – http://clicktotweet.com/JVi57 Why do we age, from a biological perspective? Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz). TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/AsapSCIENCE FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/AsapSCIENCE Mitchell Moffit http://www.mitchellmoffit.com Tweets by mitchellmoffit http://www.facebook.com/mitchellmoffit Gregory Brown http://www.gregorybrownart.tumblr.com Tweets by Whalewatchmeplz Further Reading — Senesence: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7372/full/nature10600.html Aging Factors: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0027510711002223 Telomeres: http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v12/n10/full/nm1006-1133.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6286143 Telomeres and

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Download a free audiobook version of “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring“ and support TED-Ed’s nonprofit mission: https://www.audible.com/ted-ed — The dwarves were master craftspeople. One dwarf, Andvari, forged marvelous creations. He often took the form of a fish and, one day, he swam to the land of the water nymphs, who

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The earth has been through some major changes! Animals we wish still existed: http://youtu.be/wutj5z1lElU SUBSCRIBE (it’s free): http://bit.ly/10kWnZ7 GET THE BOOK: http://asapscience.com/book/ Written by Tyler Irving (@tylereirving), Mitchell Moffit and Greg Brown Instagram and Twitter: @whalewatchmeplz and @mitchellmoffit Clickable: http://bit.ly/16F1jeC and http://bit.ly/15J7ube AsapINSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/asapscience/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/AsapSCIENCE Twitter: http://twitter.com/AsapSCIENCE Tumblr: http://asapscience.tumblr.com Vine: Search “AsapSCIENCE” on vine!