How Do Greenhouse Gases Actually Work?
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How This River Made Chimps Violent
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Which Is Worse: Underpopulation Or Overpopulation?
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Why Bird Penises Are So Weird
Male birds have the largest genital diversity of any class of animals because their sex chromosomes make it easy to pass male-helping mutations down the line.
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MinuteEarth Explains: Cats vs Dogs
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Denizens of the Deep
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MinuteEarth Explains: Battle of the Sexes
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Is it a bee, a wasp, a fly, or a moth?
It can be hard to distinguish bees from all the other insects out there that look like bees.
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Which Came First — the Rain or Rainforests?
Without the forest pumping so much water into the air, rainforests wouldn't be as rainy. And without so much rain, the forest couldn't pump so much water into the air.
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The Freshwater Paradox
Watch the new season of MinuteBody - and get access to both CuriosityStream and Nebula - at curiositystream.com/minuteearth Even though less than 1% of Earth's water is freshwater, it's the
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Orchids: The Masters Of Lying, Cheating & Stealing
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MinuteEarth Explains: Stuff That...Isn’t
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Why You Shouldn't Give Ginger To Monkeys (and other animal sayings)
Humans from different cultures anthropomorphize different animals to represent the same human traits.
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Garbage Doesn't Lie
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Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?
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Poop Transplants!
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How do Trees Survive Winter?
Humans can go inside or put on clothes, but trees spend winter naked in the cold. Why don't they all die?
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Why do Some Species Thrive in Cities?
Urban development can be tough on wildlife. But some plants and animals are adapting to our cities in surprising ways. Thanks to squarespace.com for supporting this video. Go build a website!
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Mushroom Wars
To learn more about the research behind this video, visit Peter Kennedy's lab at cbs.umn.edu/kennedy-lab Two mushroom guilds with vastly different strategies are locked in competition for
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The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
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Our Lungs Have A Fatal Flaw
Get started mitigating your carbon footprint with Wren at wren.co/start/minuteearth Our respiratory systems do a great job of protecting us, but they are no match for the smallest
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How the little guy can compete against the big guy
How microbreweries are like shrubs and ferns.
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Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought
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Why Some Fruits Won’t Ripen On Your Counter
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This Country Has Something Everyone Else Wants
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The Secret Social Life of Plants
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How Long Can We Live?
The human lifespan might be limited, in part, because natural selection just stops working late in life.
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How to Build a Better City
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