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Why Isn’t Heart Cancer a Thing?

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Learnathon is a celebration of learning, of our free content here at SciShow and all of Complexly! We’re doing activities and videos and livestream Nov 9-20 at https://www.complexly.org/LEARNATHON/ Most people know someone who’s faced a cancer diagnosis. But ask yourself: Have you ever met anyone with /heart/ cancer? Probably not, because that type of cancer is very rare. And it’s taken scientists years to finally figure out why. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://c

5 Species That Love Fire

Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started with Brilliant’s tutor for free and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. Generally speaking, plants and animals aren’t huge fans of fire. B

4 Supervolcanoes You’ve Never Heard Of

Learnathon is a celebration of learning, of our free content here at SciShow and all of Complexly! We’re doing activities and videos and livestream Nov 3-21 at complexly.org/LEARNATHON Depending on wh

The Man O' War Is Scarier Than You Think

You may have heard of an ocean creature called a Portuguese man o' war. They're far more fascinating that a blob of ocean jelly has a right to be, but they're also terrifying. And more than that, they

Why Is There No Vitamin F?

To get 15% off your next gift, go to https://www.uncommongoods.com/scishow. We’re all out of the ordinary. At some point in our lives, we've all been hounded to eat our veggies to get our vitamins. Bu

What Was the First Alcohol?

Alcoholic drinks are nearly ubiquitous across ancient human cultures, with many independently developing them at some point in time. But which one was oldest? Let’s take a journey through the archaeol

This Rock Was Supposed to Be from Space

Check out the Rocks Box store and subscribe here: https://complexly.info/rocks These lumpy, bumpy stones have a lot of legends connected to them, but their actual origin story is way cooler. Even thou

5 Maps That Changed History

Maps are amazing tools for navigation, but that's not /all/ they are. Maps can change how we view the world, and can tell us how it /was/ viewed and what we understood at the time the map was made. To

Two Different Things Are Killing Sharks

There isn't a more iconic, powerful oceanic predator than the great white shark. But while researchers have been studying them for decades, they've found that white shark populations are threatened, i

How To Hold Something That's 10,000,000 Degrees

Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started with Brilliant’s tutor for free and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. How do you trap something that dissolves its container? Or is too

How Many Times Can You Clone Your Clone?

How many times can you clone a clone (and then clone THAT clone) before some kind of genetic disaster strikes? If you watch a movie like The Prestige, you might think you could do it forever. If you w