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Our brains can interpret an image just 13 milliseconds after we see it, but we still don’t catch everything. For our visual system to correctly process everything we see, our brains would have to be the size of houses!
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Is Seeing Really Believing?
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When we feel extreme emotions or temperature, our sympathetic nervous system releases a chemical called norepinephrine. Adrenaline floods the body and stimulates tiny muscles in the skin called arrectores pilorum.
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Why Do We Get Goosebumps?
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Flies view the world in a different way than humans, allowing them to easily dodge your fly swatter.
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Why is it Hard to Swat a Fly?
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Space junk, of any size, is no joke. Paint flecks can travel eight times the speed of a bullet through space!
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Tiny Flecks of Paint Can Hurt Astronauts
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Light moves fastest in a vacuum where nothing is impeding its travel. Once light hits a dense medium, it changes speed and direction.
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Can Light Turn Objects Invisible?
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Cara Santa Maria conducts a simple experiment to see how our brains can be manipulated to eat less. Ever heard the phrase "your eyes are bigger than your stomach?" There's a bit of truth to that.
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How Can You Trick Your Brain into Eating Less?
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The Thatcher effect is a phenomenon where it becomes more difficult to detect emotions and features in an upside-down face. Can you guess if this man is happy, sad, or angry?
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What is the Thatcher Effect?
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When two books are interlaced they can lift two tons!
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Paper Can Be As Strong As Steel
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What’s the trick to winning five dollars? You have treat the dollar bill like a band aid.
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Newton’s First Law Bar Trick
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Cats may help save us from nuclear Armageddon.
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Kitty Litter Can Help Clean Up Nuclear Waste
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Is there a way to tell how old someone is without asking? One key indicator is a person's hearing abilities.
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The Science of Aging
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Despite their fluffy, light appearances, clouds actually weigh quite a bit.
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How Much Do Clouds Weigh?
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The keratin in our hands and feet expand when we spend time in the water, but why?
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Why Do Our Hands and Feet Wrinkle?
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Screams activate the portion of our brain that houses our fear circuits.
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Why Do Screams Get Our Attention So Quickly?
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When you walk on ice, it melts a little bit and becomes more slippery. After you walk away, the ice refreezes in a proess called regelation.
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Why Do We Slip On Ice?
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Here's the answer to the age old question: are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?!
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Southeast of Mexico City, hundreds goats are found dead and completely drained of blood. Is this the work of the legendary chupacabra?
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A fireball in the sky over Sri Lanka in 2012 is followed days later by a mysterious downpour of red rain. During the search for a rational explanation, investigators find evidence of strange living cells with no earthly comparison.
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On March 24, 1967, men see an unidentified object hovering over Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base, home to nuclear weapons, which are all disabled simultaneously.
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Bizarre, hairless, blue-eyed and hunch-backed creatures have invaded Texas, attacking and mutilating livestock. Now there is evidence they are breeding and their population is set to explode. Scientists are mystified, the authorities are in denia ...
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Pilot Fred Valentich's last words were "its above me and its not an aircraft." Then a mysterious metallic sounded through the radio just before the pilot and his plane vanished without a trace. Is this evidence of UFO contact?
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Area 51 in Nevada is America's most secret air base. State-of-the-art aircraft have been developed here for decades, but does it also hold clues to UFOs?
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Mysterious phenomena and bizarre sightings seems to follow one distinct geographic line across America: a paranormal highway.
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The 37th Parallel
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A strange dog-like predator has been spotted in Texas and believed to be responsible for slaughtering livestock and draining the corpses of blood. Could it be related to the chupucabra?
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A Chupacabra Cousin?
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Hear from Director Sean Smith and go behind the filming of Fred Valentich's story - the pilot who mysteriously vanished along with his plane over Australia in 1978.
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In 1980, a British police officer claimed he saw a UFO. Was the sighting linked to a dead body found “as if dropped from the sky”? Was there a cover-up?
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Britain’s First Alien Abduction?
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Cusco was the capital of the ancient Inca civilization and home to some of the Incas' most sacred sites. Is this skeleton from a human sacrifice or something extraterrestrial?
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The Flannan Isles is a desolate place, home to one of Scotlands greatest mysteries: three lighthouse keepers who vanished without a trace. Was it a rogue wave or something more sinister?
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In 1996, a startling find in Russia raised many questions. Is this a tiny, deformed baby or a creature from out of this world?
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