Re-reading is inefficient. Here are 5 tips for studying smarter.

Up your study game with pointers from top memory researchers. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

source https://earthonsight.org/society/global/re-reading-is-inefficient-here-are-5-tips-for-studying-smarter/

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Why your laptop charger is so hot

Turns out, Nikola Tesla is partly to blame. Liz Scheltens explains, with a little help from NPR’s Planet Money. Subscribe to their awesome podcast here: http://n.pr/1RZaOeT Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

source https://earthonsight.org/society/global/why-your-laptop-charger-is-so-hot/

source https://earthonsight1.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-your-laptop-charger-is-so-hot.html

Turkeys have gotten ridiculously large since the 1940s

The Thanksgiving turkey on your table looks nothing like the one your grandparents ate as kids. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

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The hotline Hollywood calls for science advice

There’s a consulting service that helped Arrival’s filmmakers get their science right — and it’s changing what science looks like onscreen. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Hollywood hasn’t always done a great job of representing the science community onscreen. On one hand, there’s cinema bogus like The Core’s premise that nuking the center of the Earth could reboot our magnetic field (it couldn’t), or the idea on NCIS that two heroes would fight hackers faster by both typing on the keyboard at the same time (they wouldn’t). On the other, there are broader problems with negative representations of science — scientists have been disproportionately written as film villains, and those media depictions have shaped historically negative perceptions of science as a career path. When children are asked to draw images of scientists, they predominantly depict old white men, and typically cite media depictions as their main source of inspiration. But since 2008, access to a scientist script adviser has been one toll-free phone call away for Hollywood professionals. Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

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source https://earthonsight1.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-hotline-hollywood-calls-for-science.html

What people get wrong about climate change

When discussing climate change, it’s not about saving the planet. 195 countries just made a historic agreement to battle climate change. But it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the politics and details. Here we zoom out from the present moment, taking a look at where we came from to get a new perspective on where we’re headed. Learn all about the Paris climate change deal here: http://www.vox.com/2015/12/12/9981020/paris-climate-deal Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

source https://earthonsight.org/society/global/what-people-get-wrong-about-climate-change/

source https://earthonsight1.blogspot.com/2020/02/what-people-get-wrong-about-climate.html

El Niño is back. Here’s how it works.

Update at 2:23 – 2015 was the hottest year on record, until 2016. Which broke the record again. El Niño is a weather phenomenon that occurs irregularly in the eastern tropical Pacific every two to seven years. When the trade winds that usually blow from east to west weaken, sea surface temperatures start rising, setting off a chain of atmospheric impacts. El Niños can be strong or weak. Strong events can temporarily disrupt weather patterns around the world, typically making certain regions wetter (Peru or California, say) and others drier (Southeast Asia). Some countries suffer major damage as a result. El Niños also transfer heat stored in the deeper layers of the ocean to the surface. When combined with global warming, that can lead to record hot years, as in 1998. Countries across the globe will have to brace themselves as this event peaks this winter and lasts through the spring. El Niño has already triggered longer droughts in Indonesia, enabling massive man-made peatland fires to rage out of control, creating toxic haze that has spread as far as Singapore. Warmer ocean temperatures have also caused a major coral bleaching event, harming reefs around the world. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

source https://earthonsight.org/society/global/el-nino-is-back-heres-how-it-works/

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Why the ocean is getting louder

What the world sounds like underwater. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO We often think of the ocean as a quiet, peaceful place, filled with animals that don’t make much noise. So when I went diving in the ocean for the first time, I was surprised at how rich the soundscape around me was: you could hear fish nibbling on coral and squid swimming past you. But more than anything, you could almost always hear the hum of a boat engine. It’s part of a big problem in the ocean right now. Ship traffic noise has doubled every decade since the 1960s — and it’s wreaking havoc on marine life. This video was made in collaboration with Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast that dives deep into all kinds of stories about sound. Everything from “who’s the person behind the voice on your phone,” to “what do other planets sound like to our ears?” To hear more stories like this, subscribe at http://applepodcasts.com/20k, or learn more at http://www.20k.org Marine life photographs courtesy of NOAA, STRI Office of Bioinformatics, and Richard Bejarano. Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

source https://earthonsight.org/society/global/why-the-ocean-is-getting-louder/

source https://earthonsight1.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-ocean-is-getting-louder.html

Animal Battles Wildebeest vs. Crocodile vs. Hippo

Wildebeest vs. Crocodile vs. Hippo, See Hippos Save a Wildebeest From Crocodile’s Jaws Hippos are the tanks of the animal world. The massive “river horses” are not the kind of mammals you want to mess with. In this video, a crocodile learns that firsthand. It starts out with what looks like your average predator-prey relationship with a meat-eating croc about to make a meal out of a harmless wildebeest. For eight minutes, the wildebeest struggles to free itself from its attacker’s powerful jaws. Just when it seems the mammal has exhausted itself and is ready to give up, in come a pair of hippos, who drive the croc off.

source https://earthonsight.org/earth/wildlife/animal-battles-wildebeest-vs-crocodile-vs-hippo/

source https://earthonsight1.blogspot.com/2020/02/animal-battles-wildebeest-vs-crocodile.html

How reliable is fingerprint analysis?

Fingerprinting is used by law enforcement all over the world, but it may not be as reliable as you think. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Fingerprinting has been a vital tool in forensic science since 1911 when the first conviction was handed out based on fingerprint evidence. It’s been used in countless investigations to help convict or rule out suspects, but is it as reliable as we think? According to one study, researchers found that fingerprint analysts had a false positive rate (i.e. when they incorrectly conclude two prints are a match) of 0.1%. That may seem low, but that percentage reveals that innocent people are still being implicated in crimes. Brandon Mayfield is one of the most famous examples of a false positive identification. The FBI arrested him for the 2004 Madrid train bombing based on a wrongful fingerprint match. Most people agree that it’s a useful tool, but we might want to exercise a bit more skepticism when it comes to trusting fingerprints. Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com. Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Or Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H

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Why some Asian accents swap Ls and Rs in English

A linguistic stereotype, explained. This video is presented by Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/Vox/ Thank you the Video Lab members (Janet, Martian, and Mariko) who helped me with this video. To learn more about the Video Lab and sign up, visit http://bit.ly/video-lab Check out Yuta’s Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/YPlusShow And browse Dr. Lawson’s ultrasound examples here: https://www.seeingspeech.ac.uk/r-and-l-in-english/ A foreign accent is when someone speaks a second language with the rules of their first language, and one of the most persistent and well-studied foreign-accent features is a lack of L/R contrast among native Japanese speakers learning English. It’s so well-known that American soldiers in World War II reportedly used codewords like “lallapalooza” to distinguish Japanese spies from Chinese allies. But American movies and TV shows have applied this linguistic stereotype to Korean and Chinese characters too, like Kim Jong Il in Team America: World Police, or Chinese restaurant employees singing “fa ra ra ra ra” in A Christmas Story. However, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese are completely different languages that each handle L-sound and R-sounds differently. In this episode of Vox Observatory, we take a look at each language and how it affects pronunciation for English-language learners. Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com. Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o Or Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H

source https://earthonsight.org/society/global/why-some-asian-accents-swap-ls-and-rs-in-english/

source https://earthonsight1.blogspot.com/2020/02/why-some-asian-accents-swap-ls-and-rs.html