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**MinuteEarth – Minute Earth**

From the creators of the popular science show with millions of YouTube subscribers comes the MinuteEarth podcast. Every episode of the show dives deep into a science question you might not even know you had – but once you hear the answer, you’ll want to share it with everyone you know. Our team of scientists digs into the research and breaks it down into a short, entertaining explanation jam-packed with science facts and terrible puns. We’ll tell the incredible story of how monkeys crossed the Atlantic ocean on natural rafts, and we’ll explain why it gets hotter the deeper you dig underground.

Latest Episodes:

Why Are There So Many Tigers In Texas? Jan 21, 2025

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Crypsis: An animal’s ability to avoid detection by other animals. Tigers use camouflage crypsis as part of their predation strategy.
Apex Predator: An animal on top of the food chain with no natural predator in its ecosystem.
Camera Trap: A motion-sensor activated camera to capture images of animals in the wild with as little human interference as possible.
Cultural Climate: Shared perceptions and attitudes in a particular area.

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Why Do Animals Eat Their Babies? Jan 20, 2025

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Filial cannibalism: is a form of infanticide that occurs when an adult individual of a species consumes all or part of the young of its own species or immediate offspring.

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Arctic Colors Jan 19, 2025

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Coyotes are very closely related to wolves and dogs Jan 18, 2025

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Why Biodiversity Is Good For The Economy Jan 17, 2025

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Biodiversity - the variety of genes, species, and ecosystems
Conservation - ethical use and protection of valuable natural resources (e.g. trees, minerals, wildlife, water)
Ecosystem - a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
Ecosystem services - benefits people obtain from ecosystems (four categories: supporting, provisioning, regulating, and cultural)
Richness - the number of species in an ecological community, landscape, or region
Pollinators - animals that help plants reproduce by moving pollen from male flowers to female flowers
Pollution - the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment (e.g. chemicals, particles, noise, heat, light)

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How Different Are Different Types of Dogs? Jan 16, 2025

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Breed group: A grouping of dog breeds based on their historical jobs.
Dog personality traits: Levels of playfulness, curiosity, sociability, and aggressiveness that dogs exhibit based on testing.
Animal Cognition: The study of the mental capacities of animals.
Confirmation bias: The tendency to interpret evidence in favor of one’s existing beliefs.

MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC

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Which Parts Of The Brain Do What? Jan 15, 2025

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Brain lesion: Damage to the brain caused by disease or injury.
Broca’s area: Region in the frontal lobe associated with speech production.
Fusiform face area: Structure near the back of the brain associated with facial recognition.
Hippocampus: Seahorse-shaped brain structure associated with memory formation.
Amygdala: Small brain structure associated with emotions and memories.
fMRI: An imaging procedure that measures brain activity by tracking changes associated with blood flow.

MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC

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The Faint Young Sun Paradox! Jan 14, 2025

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Abiogenesis – the process of life arising from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds.
Amino Acids – a class of organic compounds. Twenty of the roughly 500 known amino acids appear in the genetic code, and, when strung together into long chains, form the basic building blocks of proteins.
Faint Young Sun Paradox – describes the apparent contradiction between evidence for a warm ancient Earth, and stellar models, which predict that the young Sun was 25% dimmer than today's Sun. First described by Carl Sagan and George Mullen in 1972.
The Miller–Urey experiment – a landmark experiment in the 1950s in which scientists demonstrated that amino acids could form spontaneously from inorganic gases present in Earth's early atmosphere
Snowball Earth – a climatic state of Earth in which the entire surface becomes frozen over.

MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC

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How To (Literally) Save Earth Jan 13, 2025

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