Scientific history
Natural history illustration is a wonderful art. It can really kind of very subtly highlight the features that are very important for particular species in a way that a photograph can't...
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(Music) One of the great things about science is that when scientists make a discovery, it's not always in a prescribed manner, as in, only in a laboratory under strict settings, with white...
(Music) One of the funny things about owning a brain is that you have no control over the things that it gathers and holds onto, the facts and the stories. And as you get older, it only gets worse....
So you have heard many of life's curiosities, but did you know that cashews grow on apples? In this case the apple is simple an accessory fruit, with the cashew growing on top. Or how about...
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alone my name is darlene cheryl and i've been involved with reading writing and talking about fluoride for more than thirty years this is a message about new sources of fluoride in both food...
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What if we could tell you everything, the entire history of the world? Now, what if we told you we could do it in just two hours? We're going to tell the whole story, from the Big Bang to the...
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Chapter 1: Astronomy. Astronomy is the oldest science. For example, Stonehenge has many astronomical alignments, But nobody agrees on its purpose, or who built it. One theory by Fred Hoyle says that...
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In his excellent BBC lecture, the science of Dr Who, presented at the royal institution London. Professor Brian Cox Discusses his wish to travel back into the past, so he could be present at Michael...
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Previously, Risk Bites covered the basics of dose-response, and how this helps translate what we know about the potential of the something cause harm, to the probability of harm occuring. In a couple...
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Narrator: Albany, New York, December 1779. Born to a family of Scottish immigrants, Joseph Henry would grow to become one of the greatest scientific minds in American history. Along with his...
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