- 1 minute 59 secondsTrash vs. Garbage
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24 May 2026, 8:10 am - 1 minute 53 secondsFrozen food
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23 May 2026, 8:10 am - 3 minutes 20 secondsWhy Don't Blue Whales Eat Fish?
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- Jarman-Bell Principle: As herbivore species get bigger in size, they tend to eat less nutritious food, but more of it, thanks to increased gut efficiency.
- Klieber’s Law: As an animal gets bigger, it needs less energy per unit mass. (Specifically, an animal's basal metabolic rate scales to the 3/4 power of the animal's mass.)
- Phytoplankton: A diverse group of small organisms that float on water and photosynthesize.
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18 May 2026, 8:10 am - 1 minute 59 secondsSuburbs vs Cities
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16 May 2026, 8:10 am - 3 minutes 50 secondsWhy Bees Mostly Ignore The Waggle Dance
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- Choreography: The sequence of steps and movements in a dance or other performance.
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11 May 2026, 8:10 am - 2 minutes 14 secondsFetus Poop
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10 May 2026, 8:10 am - 1 minute 41 secondsBiological Control
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9 May 2026, 8:10 am - 4 minutes 23 secondsThere’s Really Only One Way To Die
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- Adenosine triphosphate (ATP): the principal molecule for storing and transferring energy in cells.
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4 May 2026, 8:10 am - 1 minute 57 secondsyellow crazy ants
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3 May 2026, 8:10 am - 1 minute 57 secondsInvasive species
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2 May 2026, 3:22 pm - 4 minutes 1 secondCould This Thing *Really* Fly?
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- Pterosaurs: are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria and are the earliest vertebrates known to have evolved powered flight.
- Quetzalcoatlus: is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur. Quetzalcoatlus northropi has gained fame as a candidate for the largest flying animal ever discovered.
- Deltopectoral crest: is a forward directed bony flange on the upper part of the humerus. It provided insertion surfaces for muscles of the shoulder and chest.
- Postcranial pneumaticity: is the presence of air-filled cavities inside bones of the body (everything except the skull) that are connected to the respiratory system.
- Quad Launch (also Quadrupedal launch): is a takeoff method where an animal launches into the air using all four limbs—both the hind legs and the forelimbs.
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