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How does my satnav know where I am? A cheap off the peg sat nav makes you a better navigator than anyone in the world fifty years ago. It can tell you exactly where you are, which was a subject of...
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Should you need a government permission slip before you can earn an honest living? It's called occupational licensing, and a new national report released by the Institute for Justice shows...
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[MUSIC PLAYING] Hey. This is Robert Lamb from Stuff to Blow Your Mind, and I'm here to talk to you about spacesuits. Now everybody wants to go on a space walk, but you cannot do it naked. I...
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Gene therapy has the potential to save millions of lives if we can just figure out how to make it work. Hey peeps, thanks for tuning in to Dnews. I'm Trace. Gene therapy sounds like a nice...
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Hey, everybody. It's me, Ben. And today's question is specific to the United States. How does the Affordable Care Act work, and what does it do? Although its full name is the Patient...
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One of the grandest scientific tools ever made by mankind is called an atom smasher. And I mean literally grand. The biggest one ever built, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, is a ring with a...
There's a myth that Grandmasters can see ten, fifteen, twenty moves ahead. And it's a great myth because I'm a Grandmaster and it makes me look like a super freaking genius....
In Physics, the concepts of work and power help us understand and explain lots of things in our universe. Let's start with work. Positive work is the energy we put into a system, and negative...
Today we're talking about weird materials that we use in space, in robots and in your mouth. I'm talking about shape memory alloys. Like the name says, these are metals that remember...
How do nerves work? Are nerves simply the wires in the body that conduct electricity, like the wires in the walls of your home or in your computer? This is an analogy often made, but the reality is...
