-ZRwlYtAMps killer-patents-secret-science-free-energy-anti-gravity-cover-ups Killer Patents and Secret Science | Free Energy and Anti-Gravity For decades, we've heard about the catastrophic effects of fossil fuel pollution. For just as long, I've been hearing that global warming is a myth. ZJqmyLCfA-I pbs-eons-the-hazy-evolution-of-cannabis PBS Eons | The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis How did such a strange plant like cannabis come to be in the first place? When and where did we first domesticate it? And why oh why does it get us high? mH2aE0lk2XM pbs-terra-why-its-time-to-stop-saving-the-planet PBS Terra | Why It's Time to Stop Saving the Planet We care about the planet. But what if it's time to stop "saving it"? kauDsIeIMxs pbs-eons-when-did-we-start-practicing-medicine PBS Eons | When Did We Start Practicing Medicine? When did practicing medicine - in its varied, complex forms (from sharing medicinal plants to the earliest surgeries) - become something that we actually started doing? uMItdDUYAeA pbs-eons-animals-might-be-much-older-than-we-thought PBS Eons | Animals Might Be Much Older Than We Thought What are animal-like fossils doing in rocks a billion years old, and what does that mean for our understanding of their evolution and geologic time itself? HE2MmAGUgnw pbs-eons-our-most-mysterious-extinct-cousins PBS Eons | Our Most Mysterious Extinct Cousins There was a group of hominins, those creatures more closely related to us than to chimpanzees, that did take a different, parallel journey from our ancestors. viTE77xIji0 pbs-eons-beans-and-bees-not-bats-gave-us-butterflies PBS Eons | Beans and Bees, Not Bats, Gave Us Butterflies Turns out, instead of having bats to thank for the existence of butterflies, the groups we should actually be thanking are…bees and beans. 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The journey the thunder beasts took to reach such mega proportions from such humble beginnings forces us to ask an important question, one that paleontologists have been asking for more than a century: from an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better? eIgbsZ05O2A gravity-is-a-lie-light-speed-is-slow-nothing-is-real Gravity is a Lie | Light Speed is Slow | Nothing is Real Since grade school, we’ve been taught that gravity is what keeps our feet firmly planted on the ground, but what if that’s all been a lie? ZLrMwDD8u_Q pbs-space-time-the-farthest-star-ever-seen PBS Space Time | The Farthest Star Ever Seen! To understand where we came from, how earth, the solar system, the galaxy became what they are today, we need to understand the beginning of time. 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What happened to the piece of prime prehistoric real estate known as Doggerland? aYH-KYdgXag pbs-eons-we-helped-make-mosquitoes-a-problem PBS Eons | We Helped Make Mosquitoes A Problem Around 6,000 years ago, in the Sahel region of Africa, a lone female mosquito buzzed through the lush, green savannah. ng1hVUozyuQ pbs-eons-how-the-giraffe-got-its-neck PBS Eons | How The Giraffe Got Its Neck How and why the giraffe's neck emerged in the first place has been a mystery that generations of biologists have argued over – one that has made us reconsider our understanding of how evolution actually works over and over again. DkRbNXILroI quanta-magazine-a-bet-against-quantum-gravity Quanta Magazine | A Bet Against Quantum Gravity Is gravity quantum in nature, just like all the other particles and forces? Or is it fundamentally different? For nearly a century, physicists have attempted to define gravity using the framework of quantum mechanics. But it turns out that “quantizing” gravity leads to some thorny dead ends. Q0CE7qDQYpA discovery-of-new-gravity-waves-is-going-to-rewrite-physics Discovery of New Gravity Waves is Going to Rewrite Physics Astronomers have finally discovered the gravitational-wave background, the faint hum of the cosmos. 70Qi4Nk3aJc pbs-eons-a-natural-history-of-mars PBS Eons | A Natural History of Mars While Earth’s natural history has been playing out over the last few billion years, another epic planetary saga has also been unfolding right next door. QTK_bC00ilg pbs-eons-the-invisible-barrier-keeping-two-worlds-apart PBS Eons | The Invisible Barrier Keeping Two Worlds Apart In between two of the islands of Indonesia, there’s an ancient line that is both real and…not real. 4XmFUWdgKWk pbs-eons-how-some-plants-survived-the-k-pg-extinction PBS Eons | How Some Plants Survived The K-Pg Extinction Perhaps for plants in times of great stress and ecological upheaval, the more DNA the better. 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It endowed animals with unique abilities that help them survive in their habitat. pbXPqWGGQ5U pbs-frontline-911-the-man-who-knew PBS Frontline | 911 | The Man Who Knew When the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, among the thousands killed was the one man who may have known more about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than any other person in America: John O'Neill. yUgEtEIr_Gk pbs-survivor-full-special PBS SURVIVOR | Full Special SURVIVOR is more than the saga of a perilous journey. It’s a story of a mother’s bond, a species’ endurance, and one extraordinary calf’s breath-taking survival.