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CurioCity2 February 2017

Acids are widely considered to be the scariest chemical compounds of all, but bases can be just as powerful. Most powerful of all are a special class of bases called superbases! (4:28 min.)

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CurioCity30 January 2017

What do gray wolves, elephants, and parrotfish have in common? They're all keystone species, which means they have an especially large impact on their habitat. (5:07 min.)

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CurioCity19 January 2017

How can we learn about the galaxies beyond our own? It all begins with light - the kind we see and the kind we can’t. (4:45 min.)

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CurioCity16 January 2017

There's a saying that "it's not the volts that kills you, it's the amps" and while that's true in a way, you can't have amps without volts and skin resistance plays a big part too. (5:15 min.)

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CurioCity11 January 2017

Most people know that dogs and wolves have a lot of the same genes.But did you know that Pekingese dogs are the most genetically similar to wolves of all dog breeds? Learn how artificial selection processes created the dog breeds we see today. (3:41 min.)

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CurioCity29 December 2016

The stethoscope is the single most widely used medical instrument in the world. But where did the idea come from? (1:48 min.)

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CurioCity22 December 2016

Go to any paint store or nail-polish shelf and you’ll see a dozen or so variations of the color black. Even inside a crayon box, there are a lot of shades. But what is the blackest black out there? (3:22 min.)

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CurioCity15 December 2016

When we look at the sky, we have a flat, two-dimensional view. So how do astronomers figure the distances of stars and galaxies from Earth? (5:29 min.)

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CurioCity5 December 2016

In this winning entry for the 2014 Flame Challenge Physics Girl explains the mystery of color. How we see colour is very complicated and involves wavelength, reflection, signals and perception (3:50 min.)

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CurioCity1 December 2016

What you see is not always what you get! Sometimes this is caused by the physical structure of the eye while at other times it is your brain that is editing out (or adding) as it tries to make sense of the world. (2:54 min.)

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