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There was a time when traveling circuses and freak shows were the preeminent form of entertainment of the day. Some people made a great living as human oddities, showing...
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70,000 years ago, the human population hit a major bottleneck, and scientists aren’t exactly sure why. One of the more popular explanations has been the Toba...
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We’ve put a lot of things in space over the last 60 years. It’s time we got some of that down.
To celebrate hitting the 20 million view milestone, I asked viewers to vote on their favorite questions and I picked the 20 most-upvoted questions and answering them...
To celebrate hitting the 20 million view milestone, I asked viewers to vote on their favorite questions and I picked the 20 most-upvoted questions and answering them...