Why You Are Alive: ATP, Life, and Energy
You are perched on a precarious precipice between life and death right now. There is a tremendous amount of activity going on inside of you, even if you probably can't feel it. And this action is unstoppable.
Imagine yourself as a slinky that is traveling upward while falling down an escalator; the escalator represents the rules of physics that are pushing you forward, and the falling section represents the self-replicating processes of your cells. Being alive means constantly moving forward but never arriving somewhere. The escalator's peak is the point at which there is no more falling conceivable and you are permanently dead.
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Let's Go to the Universe's Most Extreme Location
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Brain-eating Amoeba, The Most Horrific Parasite
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Do Nuclear Power Plants Help Combat Climate Change?
Does stopping climate change require nuclear energy? But, this comes as a shock to those who are battling against nuclear energy and the issues that it brings with it. More and more voices from the scientific community, environmental activists, and the media have been stating as much in recent years. So who is right? It is complicated, I suppose.
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What Takes Place if a Supervolcano Explodes?
The Earth is a massive sphere of partially molten rock, with an iron core that is as hot as the Sun's surface. There is only one way for the titanic heat that remains from its creation and the radioactive decay of trillions of tons of radioactive materials to leave. This energy travels thousands of kilometers through rock currents before reaching the surface. The sole obstacle to them is the crust of the Earth. Although it appears sturdy to us, it is merely a thin wall—an apple skin protecting a raging beast. The climate can undergo millennia' worth of change in a single year as true apocalypses can break through and unleash eruptions ten times more powerful than all of our nuclear weapons combined, drowning continents in toxic waste.
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What Suppose You Stopped Blinking? (Minute by Minute)
You perform hundreds of thousands of repetitions of it every day without ever realizing it, yet if you stopped, you might go blind in a matter of hours. See this crazy new video to see what would happen to your eyes if you stopped blinking!
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What if Earth were to be expelled from the Solar System? Unruly Earth
The night sky appears calm and organized. Yet, in truth, stars are actually traveling across the galaxy at a rate of up to a hundred thousand kilometers per hour. not constrained by static forms but continually shifting neighborhoods. Thankfully, space is vast, making it extremely unlikely that the Milky Way's stars will collide with humanity. Sadly, they don't even need to impact anything to cause us serious harm here on earth. And stars have already begun to approach closely.
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Special Preview of Our Upcoming Book's First Two Chapters!
We'll hear the introduction and the first two chapters of Philipp Dettmer, the company's founder and head writer, and author of the Kurzgesagt book "Immune: A Journey Into the Mystery System That Keeps You Alive." today as part of a special preview. It tells the epic tale of the immune system, which is the most crucial aspect of your body that you still don't fully understand and which will permanently alter the way you view it. You can preorder "Immune," which will be released on November 2nd, right now.
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The Black Forest: Arguments Against Looking for Extraterrestrial Life
With billions of habitable planets, the universe is enormous and appears to be ripe with the possibility of supporting life. A technologically evolved civilisation could populate our galaxy in about 100 million years if it has the ability to travel between stars at just 0.1% the speed of light. Given the billions of years the milky way has been around, which is not very long, any spacefaring civilization should theoretically be able to spread quickly over vast areas of the galaxy. Despite this, the cosmos appears to be empty as we cannot see it or hear it. without any others. The Fermi Paradox, which we went into more detail about in prior videos, is this.
Humanity is faced with a conundrum when it encounters the seemingly empty universe. We are desperate to find out if
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One Little Move Can Transform Your Life
If you are like the majority of individuals, there is a disconnect between who you are and who you want to be. There are small things you feel you should accomplish and significant goals you should pursue.
Whether it's exercising frequently, maintaining a good diet, learning a new language, developing a novel, reading more, or simply engaging in your interest instead than just perusing Reddit.
However, it could appear like you need to change who you are in order to accomplish your objectives. Someone who is reliable, makes a greater effort, is disciplined, and is strong-willed. Perhaps you made a concerted effort to adopt that behavior. And it succeeded! for some time. till you catch yourself reverting to your old habits. You always seem to fall short in the end.
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Do Nuclear Power Plants Help Combat Climate Change?
Does stopping climate change require nuclear energy? But, this comes as a shock to those who are battling against nuclear energy and the issues that it brings with it. More and more voices from the scientific community, environmental activists, and the media have been stating as much in recent years. So who is right? It is complicated, I suppose.
Is civilization in danger of extinction?
is ......................... Rome was a hub of legal, economic, and technological advancement and the first city in history to have one million inhabitants. a powerful, prosperous, and stable empire that is impossible to topple.
until it was no longer. The most advanced society on earth fell, first gradually and then abruptly. What about us today if this is how things have always been? Will we lose industrial technology and, with it, our greatest accomplishments, such as cellphones, laser eye surgery, and pizza for a dollar? Will all of this also disappear?
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Brain-eating Amoeba, The Most Horrific Parasite
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Explaining Wormholes: Breaking Spacetime
Are wormholes real, or are they merely sorcery that passes for science and mathematics? If they do exist, how do they function and where can we locate them?
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How Humans Are Making the Planet Plastic: Plastic Pollution
Without plastic, modern life would not be possible, but we have long since lost control of our innovation. What do we know about the dangers of plastic and why has it become such a problem?
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Loneliness
Everyone experiences loneliness at times. Only a small percentage of us, however, are aware of how significant this emotion was for our ancestors and how our contemporary environment may transform it into something that truly harms us. What can we do to change how we feel and why?
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The Great Filter: Why Alien Life Would Be Our Downfall
It would be incredible news to discover extraterrestrial life on a far-off planet, or would it? If there is sentient life elsewhere in the universe outside us, we are likely doomed and our days are numbered.
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Is civilization in danger of extinction?
The Roman Empire, which at its height housed nearly 30% of the world's population, was in many ways the zenith of human development. Rome was a hub of legal, economic, and technological advancement and the first city in history to have one million inhabitants. a powerful, prosperous, and stable empire that is impossible to topple.
until it was no longer. The most advanced society on earth fell, first gradually and then abruptly. What about us today if this is how things have always been? Will we lose industrial technology and, with it, our greatest accomplishments, such as cellphones, laser eye surgery, and pizza for a dollar? Will all of this also disappear?
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The Star That Shouldn't Exist: Black Hole Star
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The Horror of the Slaver Ant
When the slaver country attacked, everything was altered. What was once a prosperous colony is now a conquered nation. Work is performed by slaves who labour for their new owners until they pass away and are then replaced by fresh victims taken in ruthless raids.
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Brain-eating Amoeba, The Most Horrific Parasite
the amoeba that eats brains
Over billions of years, there has been a conflict that produces well-armed creatures that compete with other monsters for existence. Since they are not very interested in us, the majority of them are fairly harmless because our immune systems easily neutralize their weaponry. Yet there are few outliers.
The amoeba Naegleria fowleri not only has a lethal thirst for human brains, but it is also a match for our defenses and frequently appears in sensational headlines. ........ what happens if this monster.
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Mars Terraforming Using Lasers
Mars is a disappointing wasteland that is devoid of almost everything humans require to survive. It seems unlikely that we'll ever have more than a few tiny crews suffer in isolation underground. But, we could terraform it to create a lush new planet. Nevertheless, in order to address the Earth's issues, we must first use enormous lasers to exacerbate them and transform the planet into lava oceans.
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Peto's Paradox: The Reason Blue Whales Avoid Cancer
Cancer is a frightening and enigmatic condition. Large animals appear to be immune to cancer, which raises a biological conundrum that hasn't been fully explained despite our best efforts to comprehend it and improve our ability to eradicate it. Which is absurd because a larger being should have more cancer than smaller ones. First, we must examine the nature of cancer in order to comprehend why.
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You Are Immune to Every Illness
You are a planet made up of about 40 trillion cells, not a person. You are so large that even if all of your cells were human size, you would still be larger than 20 Mount Everests. This transforms your body into an environment for your creepy-crawly occupants, one that is full of supplies, warm, and space. a wonderful spot to settle down and start a family. Some of these visitors are permitted, but the majority are not. Your immune system is responsible for defending you from the ongoing threat of invasion, acting as the planet's defender.
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