The weirdness of youtube's algorithm

So, do thousands of fundamentalists watch plate tectonics videos and then want to listen to hymns? WTF?

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Last month was the planet's hottest June on record by a huge margin

June was the hottest such month on record for the planet by a “substantial margin,” the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service reported Thursday.

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The Surprisingly Sinister History Behind Texass Cliff Chirping Frog

It’s named for frontier naturalist Gabriel Marnoch, who led a life of crime while discovering new species.

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Watch Baby Octopuses Hatch from a Surprising Deep-Sea Nursery

The tiny baby octopuses—each about the size of a nickel—emerged from soft, membranous eggs, clutched in their mothers’ protective embrace. One by one the hatchlings gracefully unfurled their delicate tentacles and floated away into the abyss.

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Joshua trees are dying. This new legislation hopes to tackle that

The iconic spindly plants are under threat from a variety of factors, including climate change and development, and the California legislature is stepping in to help.

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The Illusion of Lab-Grown Meat: Ethical and Environmental Concerns

Lab-grown meat, hailed as a more ethical and eco-friendly alternative to factory-farmed meat, has gained recent approval for sale in the US.

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All animal intelligence was shaped by just 5 leaps in brain evolution

From jellyfish to genius, the amazing diversity of animal minds around us evolved through five major changes in the computational capacity of brains.

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