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How Do Rainbows Form?

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SciShow explains how three important ingredients -- sunlight, water, and you -- interact to create the illusion of a rainbow. The colorful details are inside!
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How Do Rainbows Form?
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SciShow explains how three important ingredients -- sunlight, water, and you -- interact to create the illusion of a rainbow. The colorful details are inside!
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Chemistry & Corpses: The Science of Bog Bodies
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SciShow explains the chemistry, archaeology and history of bog bodies -- naturally mummified corpses (and other fun things!) that have been discovered in Europe's peat bogs.

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SciShow Talk Show: John Roach on Ecology & Freckles the Leopard Gecko
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Dr. John Roach joins the Talk Show to talk about his ecological studies and then Jessi brings on Freckles the leopard gecko.

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New Elements, and Exploding Whales
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Hank introduces you to the latest element to be created -- and explains why we make them in the first place -- plus the science of exploding whales. It's a thing, people.
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Why Do Stars Twinkle?
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SciShow explains why stars do that twinkling that all the kids are singing about, and explains how astronomers can get around it to make observations, and why it can be kinda useful.
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Great Minds Play

SciShow delves into the minds of some of humanity's greatest scientists.

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Filippo Brunelleschi: Great Minds
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Hank talks about Renaissance architect, engineer, and professional cranky guy Filippo Brunelleschi in this "Great Minds" dose.

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Hank introduces us to Alfred Wegener, a voraciously curious guy who proposed the original theory of continental drift - and was laughed at for it.

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Hank tells us the story of his favorite genius lady scientist and radioactive superhero, Marie Curie.

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Dmitri Mendeleev: Great Minds
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Hank introduces us to the man behind the periodic table - the brilliant Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.

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Barbara McClintock: Great Minds
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Hank tells us about another great mind in science - Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize in Physiology for her discovery of mobile genetic elements and remains the only woman to receive an unshar...
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Gregor Mendel: Great Minds
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Guests visit Hank in the SciShow studio to talk about interesting science news, to try to stump Hank with challenging questions, and to meet special animal guests. Fun is had by all.

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SciShow's series on the four fundamental interactions in physics.

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Strong Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #1a
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Strong Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #1b
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Hank continues his primer on the strongest of the four fundamental interactions of physics, the strong interaction. Today he talks about the nuclear force and a force carrier called a pion.

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Weak Interaction: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #2
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Hank continues our series on the four fundamental forces of physics by describing the weak interaction, which operates at an infinitesimally small scale to cause particle decay.

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Gravitation: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #3
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Hank reaches the fourth and final of the four fundamental interactions in physics: electromagnetism. In this part, he teaches us about the electrostatic force, which builds up a charge in an object...
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Electromagnetism - Magnetic Force: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physics #4b
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In this final segment on the four fundamental forces of physics, Hank tackles the magnetic force, the second of the two ways in which electromagnetism is apparent in the universe.

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