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London Bridge Was Sold to the US!?

London Bridge has already been rebuilt twice! But what happened to the bridges that came down?

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Why Are Leaves Green? Part 2

Still wondering why leaves are green and not purple or even black? CHLOROPHYLL! It’s how leaves work.

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Papers referred to in the making of this video:
Blankenship, Robert E. 2010. Early evolution of photosynthesis. Plant physiology 154(2): 434-438. http://www.plantphysiology.org/content/154/2/434.full.pdf+html

Hohmann-Marriott, M. F., & Blankenship, R. E. 2011. Evolution of photosynthesis. Annual review of plant biology 62: 515-548. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103811

Raven, J. A. 2009. Functional evolution of photochemical energy transformations in oxygen-producing organisms. Functional Plant Biology 36(6): 505-515. http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=FP09087.pdf

Geysers: When Water Erupts!

Geysers are amazing natural formations that shoot magma-heated water from deep below the Earth’s surface! What could possibly be cooler than that?!

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The Weirdest New Battery is… Rust

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A reliable grid powered by green energy is going to need batteries, too. Not just electric cars—think solar power on a cloudy day. Lucky for us, there’s an old battery showing new promise for long-duration energy storage. And its secret is rust.

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Open Letter to the Universe

My open letter to the universe.

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What is Touch?

In this quantum world, what does it mean to touch something?
Do we really hover above the chairs we’re sitting in?

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How to Count Infinity

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities” – Hazel Grace Lancaster, in “The Fault in Our Stars,” by John Green

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How far is a second?

The moon may be 1.3 light-seconds away, but why on earth do we measure distances using time?

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The Tacoma Narrows Fallacy

Teach your teacher: the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge WASN’T resonance.

And I defer all arguments to the elocution of Profs. Billah and Scanlon: http://www.ketchum.org/billah/Billah-Scanlan.pdf

Vortex shedding video: http://youtu.be/JI0M1gVNhbw?t=2m12s
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Einstein and The Special Theory of Relativity

How Einstein (& others) discovered Special Relativity.

Pi day (3.14) is Albert Einstein’s Birthday! To celebrate, we’ll explain 4 of his most groundbreaking papers from 1905, when he was just 26 years old.

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The Tides

Bad tidings – the tides are slowing down the earth!

For more detail about the tides: http://www.jal.cc.il.us/~mikolajsawicki/Tides_new2.pdf

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