How Science Defines A Year

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Premiered January 27, 2014

How Science Defines A Year

It's been one (tropical/sidereal/anomalous) year since I uploaded the very first It's Okay To Be Smart. Here's everything that's happened since!

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Be Smart: Season 2

Bats: Guardians of the Night: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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Bats: Guardians of the Night

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The Science of Beer

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The Real "Doctor Frankenstein"

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The Science of Goats!

What’s the Deadliest Animal in the World?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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What’s the Deadliest Animal in the World?

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Where Does the Smell of Rain Come From?

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We look at ecosystems at their largest and smallest scales of time and size.

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These Death-Eating Scavengers Are Real Life-Savers

Seemingly distant ecosystems, even half a world apart, are connected in surprising ways.

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Elephant Moms Carry the Wisdom of Generations

Seemingly distant ecosystems, even half a world apart, are connected in surprising ways.

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The Surprising Species That Everything Else Depends On

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