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How Does Cooking Affect Nutrients in Veggies?
https://youtu.be/6hFxSJcq-KU Vegetables are chock-full of essential vitamins and minerals, but how should you eat them to get the most nutritious bang for your buck? Raw? Sauteed? Frozen? You might want to eat those fresh green beans right away, for one — flash-frozen...
Children React To Strange Animals – Real Happiness Project – Earth Unplugged
https://youtu.be/jqCuYye-wdM The children's expressions are so cute that I couldn't resist including this post. How do we retain this playful enthusiasm for science as they get older? - STAO Blogster. Background info from BBC Earth Unplugged: We're on a mission to...
Fish Market Survey Action Project – Curiocity
PROJECT DETAILS Is the fish on your plate what you think it is? Food is an extremely important part of our lives. People are concerned about the rising cost of food and where their food comes from. Consumers want to know if they are getting what they pay for....
How to practice effectively…for just about anything – TED-Ed
https://youtu.be/f2O6mQkFiiw Mastering any physical skill takes practice. Practice is the repetition of an action with the goal of improvement, and it helps us perform with more ease, speed, and confidence. But what does practice actually do to make us better at...
The High Cost of Dropping Science and Math – Let’s Talk Science
Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are vital to Canada’s economic well-being and quality of life. Our students show strong ability in these areas. We see that in national and international tests. The bad news: most students drop math and science courses...
The Secret to the Stickiness of Frog Spit
https://youtu.be/cFWIrfzYVV0 A frog’s tongue can get prey into its mouth in less time than it takes for you to blink - just seven hundredths of a second. The bug is whipped through the air with a peak acceleration of around 12Gs, way more than astronauts experience...
This Is Not What an Atom Looks Like
https://youtu.be/1StzvGFX4_c What does an atom look like? Throughout history scientists and philosophers have attempted to answer this question. As a result, they've come up with some useful models for understanding the building blocks of our universe. Learn more...
How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease
https://youtu.be/N9LC-3ZKiok For several centuries, people though diseases were caused by wandering clouds of poisonous vapor. We now know that this theory is pretty ridiculous, and that diseases are caused by specific bacteria. But how did we get to this new idea of...
Zealandia – 8th Continent?
By most standards, Earth has seven continents – Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America. A group of geologists believes we should recognize an eighth. Earth’s “hidden” continent, they say, is a mostly submerged land mass...
Moon Close to Mars on March 1
Tonight – March 1, 2017 – look in your western sky for the waxing crescent moon and the dazzling planet Venus some 20 minutes (or less) after sunset. These two luminaries will pop out almost immediately after sunset because the moon and Venus rank as the brightest and...
Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?
https://youtu.be/SkH2iX0rx8U Observations over millenia and numerous experiments claim that warmer water freezes faster than cold water under identical conditions. Supported by Google Making & Science #ScienceGoals http://youtube.com/makingscience References:...
New robot flies just like a bat
https://youtu.be/6Brs6lWBvSE Bat-bot could one day aid in search and rescue operations. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2jVvS7V Read the research (free): http://robotics.sciencemag.org/lookup...