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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:

The Energy Cost of a YouTube Video Jan 01, 2025

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:

Data: information, typically stored on computers via electrical signals
Electrons: small elementary particles that flow through wires to transmit power and data
Photons: small elementary particles of light that carry information from screens to your face
Local Metro Network: computer network on the scale of a city, town, neighborhood, etc
Live action video: a video recording of the real world (people, scenery, etc) created using a camera
Data compression: storing data (pictures, video, text files, etc) in less space than the way it’s normally displayed. Kind of like a modern version of microfilm. Or words.
Illustrated video: video created using computer software to generate still images, kind of like a fancy powerpoint slideshow

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Should We Contact Uncontacted Peoples? Dec 31, 2024

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Who Are Flowers Trying To Seduce? Dec 30, 2024

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The cat’s meow is only for humans Dec 29, 2024

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Ichthyology is all Greek to me! Dec 28, 2024

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How Much Does Meat Actually Cost? Dec 27, 2024

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Externality: a cost or benefit caused by an activity that affects other parties but is not taken into consideration (e.g. by being reflected in purchase prices)
Hidden cost: a cost not included in the purchase price, such as additional expenses, opportunity costs, or externalities
Social Cost: an expense to society that is the sum of the private costs paid by a firm or individual, and the externalities paid by other parties
Reducetarianism: the practice of eating less meat (& dairy, eggs, & other animal products), which may be appealing because not everyone is able or willing to follow a completely meat-free diet.

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How Mushrooms Make It Rain Dec 26, 2024

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Males vs. Females: Sexual Conflict Dec 25, 2024

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Sexual conflict: an evolutionary mismatch between the interests of males and females, especially concerning mating strategies

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Which Fish Did We Evolve From? Dec 24, 2024

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How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been? Dec 23, 2024

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Mass Extinction Event: a significant, global decrease in the diversity of life
"Big 5": The five biggest mass extinction events since the Cambrian explosion of Life 550 million years ago
Biodiversity Crisis: Like a mass extinction, a biodiversity crisis is a marked depletion in diversity in the fossil record. Some scientists prefer to call the late-Devonian extinction a "biodiversity crisis" because a lack of speciation contributed to the loss in diversity just as much as extinction did.
Diversity curve: A line chart that shows the diversity of life (usually by genera, but sometimes by species or family) over time
Lagerstatte: a deposit of sedimentary rock that contains a profound number of fossils, often with excellent preservation
Shareholder Quorum Subsampling: A statistical method that corrects for some of the biases in the fossil record, allowing scientists to generate more accurate diversity curves

MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC

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If you like what we do, you can help us!

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