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How to Work From Home as a Team

Dear patrons, we've worked as a team - remotely - for seven years, and we're sharing some of our favorite tips for making it work.You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/0h8WwIUt74YSince this is a very relevant topic, we're publishing right away. We're also postponing the Caption Contest (which means you still can participate here!)Thank you for your support! <3-Ever

MinuteEarth Explains: Size (Classics Compilation)

In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we tackle the science of size.You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/DME1vicSb1MStarting this week, we're going to be releasing compilations of classic MinuteEarth videos every Monday focused on particular subjects. We will not be charging patrons for these videos, since they're not new content. Whether you've seen these before or they're brand new to you, we hope you enjoy...

NEW VIDEO: How To Name A Disease (Like COVID-19) [+ new caption contest!]

We’ve changed - and standardized - the way diseases get named because the old way was often stigmatizing and confusing.You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/6xsQwTgwcFMPlus, congratulations to Valentin on winning this video's caption contest! 🎉Make sure to stick around to the end of the video to see it.Below is the image for the next contest. To play, comment with a caption. (Propose as many captions as you’d like, but one cap...

NEW VIDEO: Why Don't More Animals Eat Wood? (+ new caption contest!)

Wood is abundant and full of energy, but outside of some insects, almost no animals eat it because the stuff it's made of is hard to break down.You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/vgRDaemJA1oPlus, congratulations to Maarten Daalder on winning our first caption contest! 🎉Make sure to stick around to the end of this video to see it.Below is the image for the next contest. To play, comment with a caption. (Propose as many captions ...

Patreon-Only Caption Contest!

Hi Patrons!As you know, we’re suckers for good jokes, puns, and one-liners. And now we want to check out your skills in the silliness department. Welcome to the beta test of our Patreon-only caption contest. Check out the image below and - if you’re inspired - comment with a caption. (Propose as many captions as you’d like, but one caption per comment please.)We’ll pick our favorite caption and show it at the end of an upcoming MinuteEart...

NEW VIDEO: Where Does One Ocean End And Another Begin?

Earth's ocean water is continuous. How can we divide it into sections that are more useful?You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jPSdDSNSnoThanks for your support! 🌊-Julián

Help us choose a title and thumbnail!

We've got a new video coming your way on Monday and we'd like your help choosing the title and thumbnail for it. Let us know which combination below you'd be most likely to click on by choosing "Option 1" or "Option 2" in the poll.Thank you!Option 1:Title: Where Does One Ocean End And Another Begin?Thumbnail:Option 2:Title: How Do We Split Up The Oceans?Thumbnail:

NEW VIDEO: How This River Made Chimps Violent

When a group of apes got split apart, slight differences in their new environments led to big differences in future generations.You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Ko0Hzi47UThanks for your support! 🐵-Julián

NEW VIDEO: The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World

Bamboo is the world’s fastest growing plant thanks to the cell elongation process it shares with all grasses and its unique cell wall layering adaptation, allowing it to shoot up to 100 ft (30 m) in just 8 weeks.You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUcn9CQv3_AThanks for your support! 🎋-Julián

NEW VIDEO: How To Turn Poop Into Power

We could generate a lot of usable energy from human and animal poop through greater adoption of a process for using microbes to break down poop into methane gas.You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/JYda2v94dgcThanks for your support!💩 Julián

Beta-test our next lab! (Flight Speed) - SECRET

We'd love your help and feedback to beta-test our next MinuteLab. (It's a quick little thing we're planning to release sometime in January before our next big release.) The "about" section will explain our motivation and how to use the lab.Please keep this SECRET link to yourself and don’t share it yet. Just visit the link and let us know if anything looks weird:https://labs.minutelabs.io/flight-speed/We’re relying on you ...

NEW VIDEO: You Have More Bones Than You Think

Because the ossification process can differ so much from human to human, we have a wide range of potential bone numbers.You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNswt6rIBG4Thanks for your support!🦴 Arcadi

NEW VIDEO: Why It’s HARD To Bring A New Apple To Market

Fruit trees are unpredictable and grow slowly, and consumer tastes are fickle, so successful new varieties of fruit are rare.You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIajCqcvTg8Thank you for your support! 🍎-Julián

NEW VIDEO: Nobody Really Knows What A Concussion Is

Experts can't agree on the definition of the term "concussion," which makes it difficult to diagnose, treat, and research this important brain injury. You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzabxoFUUMwThank you for your support! <3-Julián

New Video: The Great Acceleration

We’re in the middle of a rapid, unprecedented, and world-changing increase in the intensity and scale of human activity on this planet.You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JAOXTOwjdYThanks for your support! <3-Ever

NEW VIDEO: How Many Zebras Are In This Photo?

New technology has revolutionized how we study wild animals, but it has also bogged down scientists with data...luckily, there's an *intelligent* solution.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSoqJpisKIg

Help Us Count The Zebras

Hi Patrons,We’re going to launch a new video soon, but we need your help. Below is the thumbnail we’re thinking about using, and we want to make sure we’ve correctly counted the number of zebras in the photo. (The actual video is about how we can get computers to do this for us.) Can you take a minute to count them and let us know what number you come up with in the comments? No worries if you get a number that’s different from what other...

NEW VIDEO: The iPhone: A Model for Fighting Climate Change?

The way smartphones made many devices nonessential is a model for a new way to think about improving energy efficiency.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-35s4C3q-s

NEW VIDEO: The Best Dragon (According to Science)

There are many different depictions of dragons throughout popular media, but some are more biologically and evolutionarily plausible than others, so we decided to rank them!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n1DC_Q-2Ng

POLL! Which title would you be most likely to click on?

We'd love to get your thoughts on the title of our next video!

NEW VIDEO: How Much Air Can A Tree Hold?

Dear patrons,This is special.Starting today, across YouTube and other platforms on the social internet, hundreds of creators are releasing videos as part of a huge creator-led campaign to plant trees and send a message to politicians that we care about the earth and that it's time for them to get serious about climate change. The goal is to plant 20 million trees by 2020, which means raising $20 million. That's a lot of money. We're g...

Why Are Adults Bad At New Languages?

Learning a new language as an adult is harder than doing so as a child because adults usually aren’t as invested and often use the wrong strategies.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTgbDXYG_OY

NEW VIDEO: Why Our Bodies Are Hurting Us

Watch our latest video before anyone else here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUsZu54dnI It turns out that the same enzyme that used to save us is now killing us because the body reactions it catalyzes now cause more harm than good.Hope you enjoy. Thanks for your support!- Ever

NEW VIDEO: Why Exercise Is Hard

Because exercise isn't essential for short-term survival, we don't exercise enough, so we need to reincorporate purposeful physical activity into our lives.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFoCGlhLkJYThanks for your support! It's essential for OUR short-term survival! <3

NEW VIDEO: The Secret Global Sewer System

Ditches and drain pipes help certain crops survive but can negatively impact the broader landscape in ways that affect human and ecosystem health.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJi-fdFvNHQThanks for your support! It's the water we need for the crops of our videos! <3

NEW VIDEO: The Optimal Way To Browse The Internet (Updated URL)

The decisions we make while we browse the internet are suprisingly similar to the ones animals make as they forage for food...here's why.Now with the correct URL!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUJqot6fY-U

NEW VID: How To See Microbes From Space

Observing the effects of microbes using satellites can give us all sorts of useful information about life on Earth ... and other planets too.Thank you for your support! We don't need to go to space to see it <3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQgq8gJ4EpE

NEW VIDEO: The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Is Now Killing Us

Aquatic cyanobacteria first oxygenated earth’s air, making human life possible; now, due to our actions, cyanobacteria are madly blooming once more, poisoning our coasts in the process.Watch by clicking on the title/thumbnail, or click here: https://youtu.be/CfNsGppB1Yw

NEW VIDEO! The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning

Dear patrons, we have a new video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhLBBcm2Fgand you can take a look before everyone else.It's about how the technology we use to keep cool is heating the world in a vicious feedback cycle. We need to improve it and use it less.Thank you for your support!- Ever

NEW VIDEO! Why We Should Invest In Rat Massages

Basic research can seem wasteful, but it's actually a great economic investment.Watch by clicking on the title/thumbnail, or click here: https://youtu.be/nDU3i2VWdTQThank you for your investment in MinuteEarth!