Metamorphic Rocks
Metamorphic rocks, one of the three rocks that make up the Rock Cycle. The others are sedimentary and igneous rocks. Metamorphic means...
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Thor
- Apr 7, 2022
- 1 min
Physics and the Law of Conservation of Energy
Let’s talk about physics and the law of conservation of energy. The main goal of physics is to understand how the universe behaves. It...
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Thor
- Mar 10, 2022
- 1 min
Interpreting Archaeology
I am a trained archaeologist, but archaeology is not at all what most people make it out to be. Yes, it’s about digging up cool stuff...
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Thor
- Aug 5, 2021
- 1 min
Genghis Khan
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! The only thing that has decreased carbon emissions in the last 13,000 years since the dawn of agriculture...
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Thor
- Jul 29, 2021
- 1 min
Mammoths and Cyclops
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! It is thought ancient people found fossils of long extinct creatures such as dinosaurs from millions of...
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Thor
- Jul 15, 2021
- 1 min
Ancient Archaeologists
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Even ancient peoples practiced archaeology, in ancient Persia it was commonplace for kings to fund...
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Thor
- Jun 24, 2021
- 1 min
Cloud Seeding
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Cloud seeding is a thing, in which silver iodide is released into the air to create cloud condensation in...
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Thor
- Jun 17, 2021
- 1 min
Cattle and Bison
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! Cattle and bison are actually fairly closely related genetically, so much so they can interbreed. Many of...
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Thor
- May 27, 2021
- 1 min
Horses, Donkeys and Mules
It's Thor's Outdoor Thorsday! There are actually 14 different definitions for what a species is in biology. A horse and a donkey can mate...
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Thor
- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
Pronghorn Antelopes
Pronghorn antelopes of the western US, Mexico and Canada are not an antelope, their closest relatives are actually giraffes. They are...
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Thor
- May 6, 2021
- 1 min
Have you ever seen a Vampire Deer?
There is a species of deer indigenous to East Asia that has vampire fangs, called the water deer, or vampire deer, it truly looks...
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Thor
- Apr 29, 2021
- 1 min
Drunk Wild Animals?
Every year in southern Africa the fruit from the marula falls and ferments on the ground turning into alcohol. The wild animals have...
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Thor
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
Environmental Renewal
We in the United States are experts on both environmental degradation and environmental renewal. Bad farming and hunting habits almost...
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Thor
- Apr 15, 2021
- 1 min
Pollution
Less than 10,000 people have died from accidents from nuclear energy, by comparison over 300,000 people die every year from pollution...
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Thor
- Apr 1, 2021
- 1 min
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear energy and nuclear bombs are not the same thing at all. Nuclear energy is extremely clean, the white smoke coming from nuclear...
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Thor
- Mar 25, 2021
- 1 min
The Fermi Paradox
The Fermi Paradox is named after the physicist Enrico Fermi, the “architect of the nuclear age.” It refers to the possibility of...
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Thor
- Mar 18, 2021
- 1 min
Human Fossils
Human fossils and ancient human remains are extremely rare, like we get really excited when we find a single tooth; human remains only...
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Thor
- Mar 11, 2021
- 1 min
Forest Fires
As much as 90% of forest fires are caused by humans today.
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Thor
- Mar 4, 2021
- 1 min
Oxygen and Dinosaurs
Oxygen levels were much higher during the time of the dinosaurs than today, that is one of the reasons of their large size and also why...
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Thor
- Feb 25, 2021
- 1 min
Fitness in Biology
Fitness in biology does not refer to how strong or large or intimidating or predatory a certain species is, it refers to how a species...
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